- Have you found that no matter how many times
you post on Instagram
your follower count just doesn't go up?
Hey everyone, I'm Neil Patel
and today I'm going to share with you
the best way to get more Instagram followers.
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Quick question for you, how many followers do you have?
Leave a comment below with the number.
I'm gonna go check out your profile, make sure you also
include your handle, and I'm gonna see that if you're
following these tips, and if you do your count should go up
and I'm gonna keep track of it.
So let's go over the main ways
to grow your Instagram follower account.
Number 1.
Stop stressing out about what you're posting
This is the most important thing. If you can't get this
through your head and change your mindset, you're not
going to do well. Everyone's like oh my God the lighting
has to be perfect, I've gotta have makeup on.
Who cares, just post! What you think will do well may not
do well and unless you get that out of your head that
everything isn't going to be perfect. The moment you think
it all has to be perfect, nothing is going to happen,
you're barely going to post. But the moment your okay
with posting whatever, you'll post six, seven, eight
different things and you'll find out what's working.
The second strategy that I want you to follow is
stop posting the stuff that's not working. You're in a rut.
in which you keep posting the same type of stuff,
it's not getting traction, but yet you keep posting it.
If the same stuff isn't working to grow your follower count
you shouldn't post it.
Third, I want you to start posting videos.
We found that whether it's a story or you're just
posting on your wall or in your feed, a video always
does better than text. Creates way more engagement.
Stop posting just text based images. You can still do them
every once in a while, but videos are the key
both in your stories and in your feed. And what you'll find
is the more videos you post, the better off you're gonna
end up doing. Instagram and Facebook, Facebook which is
Instagram's parent company, they're all about videos
these days. If you go on any fan page you see someone post
a video versus someone posting an image, you'll notice that
the video gets way more traction. It's because Facebook
prefers videos right now and so does Instagram because
they're trying to crush every other video platform
out there. For that reason you need to be posting videos.
The next tip I have for you is to get creative.
I did an image on my Instagram telling people double tap
this if you're going to hit your goals or crush your goals
in 2019. Did extremely well. Why did it do so well?
It's because I got creative and you can do the same thing.
Doing clever things like telling people to double tap
if they're going to achieve this or do that or
telling people to comment below, that'll boost your
engagement and spread your content out so more people
start seeing it. The fifth tip I have for you is to care
about your audience. Instagram is a social network.
Why aren't you responding to every single comment?
That shows you care. Why should someone follow you
if you're too lazy to respond to their comments?
So care about your audience. If you don't care you shouldn't
be on the social web. The sixth tip I have for you is to
post more frequently. When it comes to images or on your
main feed, post at least once every three hours.
Ideally you shouldn't be posting every hour, every two
roughly once every three hours is the right amount.
You can even do once every six hours, that's fine
but one every three to six hours is a sweet spot.
When it comes to stories, you should be pushing out at least
nine stories a day. I know that sounds crazy but if you do
that you're gonna get way more engagement.
And my last tip for you, it's all about the micro content.
What I mean by micro content is everyone's trying to
like stage their photo shoots, their Instagram videos
all this kind of stuff. Just be yourself!
Bust out your phone, talk for 20-30 minutes and chop that up
into little bite size clips and put that over your Instagram
over time. You give a speech at a conference, chop that up
and put that on Instagram five or six or seven times.
Take the big piece of content that you have, again chop
it up and put that all over Instagram. People love
micro content and when you're creating it try to be
realistic and be more like your real self,
not the Instagram or the Photoshop version of yourself.
People want to connect with humans, they don't want
to connect with other perfect people they can't relate to.
If you follow those tips, you'll notice that your Instagram
following count will start growing up.
If you follow them and it doesn't, put a comment below
with your screen name, I'll check you out, I'll tell you
what you're doing wrong, we'll fix it
so that way it starts going up.
That's how confident I am that these tips
will work. And if you need help growing your business,
your traffic, your social profiles, check out my ad agency
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