hey what's going on guys welcome back to the channel if you guys are checking out this channel
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on a weekly basis that you guys are going to love all right guys so in my last video i talked about
how you can get noticed by modeling agency and one way to do that is to really beef up your
instagram and use that as a platform a lot of you guys commented that you would love to learn how to
increase your following on instagram so that's what i want to show you guys in this video i have
my cell phone out and i'm going to walk you guys through some steps that actually helps increase
the amount of following you have and also increase the engagement that you're getting on your post
all right guys so i'm going to give you guys seven tips plus one bonus tip at the end of this video
on how you guys can increase your following on instagram so check it out you have to do
a combination of these tips to increase your following you can just do one of these tips
and expect your following to increase overnight okay so one tip that you guys are not going to
hear anywhere else and this is a tip that not a lot of people know about and so many people are
out there making this mistake on instagram when you make an instagram post do not edit that post
don't edit the caption don't edit the hashtags just leave it post it once and don't edit it
the reason is because once you make an edit to your post the algorithm flags it as inauthentic
because they think that you're trying to game the system and get more likes and get more engagements
even if there's a typo in your caption leave it as is don't edit the caption don't edit your post
just leave it as is and then the algorithm would favor that post because here's how instagram works
when you make a post they show it to a small subset of your followers so let's say like 20
of your followers if 20 of your followers engage with that posted at high rates they show it to a
little bit more of your followers and if more of your followers engage with that post then they're
showing it to similar audiences so people who like posts that are similar to yours so this is how
you get more engagements more eyes on your page from people who don't already follow your account
however if you edit your posts you're taking it out of this streamline flow that the algorithm has
built so that way you're really not helping your channel at all if you keep going back to change
the hashtags or whatnots so once you make a post leave it as is don't edit it this is a tip that
not a lot of people know about and now my next tip is to go into the advanced setting when you're
making your post and use the alt text so let's go through it actually so here i'm going to open
up instagram and then i'm going to let's say i'm just going to do like i'm making a new post right
so there we go if you hit next and then hit next so now this is a place where you have to write
your caption right so if you scroll down to the bottom there's a tiny little gray area that says
advanced settings click on advanced settings and then right at the bottom it says write alt text
think about this as keywords for your picture so in this image i'm going to just write fashion
menswear outfit of the day so chances are if i do make this post and this post has a good
engagement rate this post is going to show up on the discovery feed for a lot of people who
search for fashion who search for menswear leather jackets shoes nike things like that
so this is a trick that helps you get more viewers on your page and then chances are the more views
you have on your page the more followers you're gonna get and then my next tip is to promote your
post so obviously you guys have seen this little blue promotes button that shows up
um at the bottom of your post so if you click that it's actually via facebook
and one thing that you want to do is make sure that you target your audience so target audience
that you feel will be most interested in your post don't target everybody because if you target
everybody you're really wasting your spend and you're not going to get a high enough engagement
to make it worthwhile so what you want to do is to really target it and this is where you're going to
get your most engagement and this is where most people are going to follow you go ahead and um
follow through is very easy select where you want to send people you want to send people to your
website to your website or your profile in this case i'm going to select profile because i want
them to see what my feed looks like and hopefully they find it visually appealing and inspirational
and they decide to follow so i'm going to click next here's where you select your audience
so i'm just going to create a brand new audience and call it whatever then you can set the age demo
let's say i want younger people to engage with my post the most done interest here you can put like
several interest fashion modeling etc here i'm going to set my location to the united states
or i can set it to Nigeria and i'm going to give this a name um test group 1
right and then you hit next you choose how much you want to spend and then you can stop this at
any time so this is actually a really inexpensive way for you guys to boost your following and get
more engagements is to use that promote feature a lot of people don't use it because they think it's
expensive but it actually isn't expensive at all and you review and then you create the promotion
so that's how you promote your post with instagram doing this will get more eyes on your post it will
get more eyes on your profile and this is how you can increase your following on instagram another
tip to increasing your following is to engage and be active as much as possible so for instance drop
comments um get into people's DMs ask questions um if you like a picture that someone has posted
um write a comment send them a dm and say hey i really love that picture you shot
who is the photographer how did you guys shoot it are you with an agency start a conversation
make friends and follow people and this is how you get following as well my next tip is to post
frequently so try to have a schedule don't be that guy that posts once a month and disappears
i feel like that's me right now but don't be that guy that posts once a month and then disappears
try to post frequently at least twice a week stay active on the stories stay active on instagram
this is how the algorithm is going to favor your accounts and promote you to more people that are
not following you and then you can get more engagement and more traffic to your profile
my next tip is to try to get featured so there's certain accounts like magazine accounts or just
big accounts that really feature other models and other people on their page so try to tag those
accounts see what kind of posts they engage with see what kind of posts they re-share on their page
see what you need to do to get featured if you can get featured or get a shout out
this will help your account especially if it's from a larger account so this would definitely
help you follow in so another tip is to cross promote so if you're big on twitter share your
instagram page on twitter ask your followers on twitter to follow you on instagram same
with facebook and sing with other platforms it's also a good idea to collab with other models and
other accounts that have large following because then again you guys can cross promote you post
their picture on your story or your page um they post yours and then you guys are cross promoting
and exposing each other to your own audiences and this will be great for you guys alright
guys so my bonus tip is to follow each other on instagram obviously we're a growing community
on this channel there are about 149,000 aspiring models or working models um here so if you guys
can follow each other this will be definitely huge for you guys you guys can help each other grow
on instagram and help each other reach your goals whether it's to get discovered by an agency or to
get more attention or whatnot so go ahead and drop your username in the comment box down below and i
encourage you guys to follow at least five people from the comment box and don't just follow each
other also try to engage with each other's posts you guys can send each other a message you can dm
and say hey i found your username on freshpepper's page how long have you been a subscriber etc and
start a conversation from there and finally i get so many DMs on my instagram and i know that there
are so many questions pending i try to respond to at least three per day if you guys look at
my instagram account right now it's literally flooded with questions and there's no possible
way that i could physically get through all of them so i try to respond to at least three so if
um if you've written me if you sent me a message and i didn't respond i sincerely apologize i'm not
trying to be a snob i'm not ignoring you guys i'm just overwhelmed with so many messages and
i'm trying to get through it all so once i figure out a better way and a better system
to get through and answer some of these questions i would definitely love to do that
if you guys like this video hit me with a thumbs up always appreciate it again don't forget to sub
follow each other help each other out i'll see you guys in my next one
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