Are you feeling like having 10K followers on Instagram would be like
boom, I'm legit, buy my stuff, hire me? Well in today's video I'm gonna share with
you how you can actually reach 10k followers on Instagram and stay tuned
for step number 4 where I'm gonna share something that you can try that so few
marketers are doing on Instagram it's insane
Reaching 10k followers has worked for my client Erica who is a realtor in
Pennsylvania and with two clients booked in from Instagram, she's made over
$10,000 to her business so let's dive into how you can get 10K
followers on Instagram. So story time. Back in 2018 I was at an event
called Funnel Hacking Live hosted by Russell Brunson
Shoutout to Russell he's helped me so much in my business. Russell is one of
the top marketers in the online space today and I watched him, I witnessed him
get up in front of the crowd and he literally said Instagram is the most
important platform for you to grow today in your business. I was shell-shocked
this was the first time that I'd ever heard a marketer actually say this
Everyone was talking about messenger bots and YouTube, but Russell said
Instagram is number one. Why is that? Well, Russell went on to say that Instagram is
so good for your business because of Instagram stories. Instagram stories are
hugely powerful. They show the behind the scenes of your business, you can tease
upcoming products and most of all with Instagram stories you can get the swipe
out feature. "Swipe up, swipe up!" You see people doing this all the time but how
do you get the swipe up feature? Well here's the catch.
Instagram gives you the swipe up feature once you reach 10,000 followers so how
do you reach 10k followers that's why we're here today let's dive in step one
is start collaborating one of my favorite things about Instagram has been
the community of people that I've met through the app I've literally traveled
with Instagram friends around Bali around Portugal we
you have helped each other grower counts we have done photo shoots with each
other we've given each other advice so my first tip for you is to actually
reach out to people in your niche now I know you might be feeling like um at
least they're competitors but I would ask you to change your mindset around
this if you feel like someone's a competitor I think that's a good sign
that you should actually send them a DM and say hey what's up how's your
business going for you because once you've developed that connection with
someone in your industry in your niche you can team up with them in really cool
ways inside my program insta growth boss we talked about how you can create
private groups so that you can help each other out with your posts and with your
engagement but if that sounds too complicated you can even just start with
Instagram story shoutouts so once you have your community of people in your
business or in your niche you can actually shout each other out in your
stories now the great thing is is when you team up with someone who they have
an audience that's similar to yours but they offer something totally different
that's the best partnership because you're both trying to reach the same
people in a non competing way so go ahead and search out people in your
industry send them a DM say hi and start collaborating step two is to DM your
followers or your potential followers so with step one you've already started to
build a community of influencers but you can't forget about the people who are
already following you you can even seek out new followers so
people who aren't following you yet and start a DM thread with them now I'm not
saying to pitch them I'm not saying to send them a copy and paste message and
spam people with no none of that I'm just saying find accounts of people
who would be your ideal follower and send them a message you could even just
reply to their Instagram story and that will automatically create a private DM
thread between the two of you the key here is to be human simple but a lot of
people don't do it on Instagram so ask them the questions
a compliment use this as a way to really get to know what makes them tick and
what keeps them up at night and maybe you could even help them out PS these
conversations are gold for getting to know your actual target customer so all
of us are constantly learning about our target customer and who they are what
they need how we can help them these conversations they have nuggets that you
can actually bring back to your overall business so that you're offering the
best services or the best product for your target customer step three is to
level up your Instagram stories game now if you've been slippin on posting on
your feed I'll forgive you but with Instagram stories you want to post here
every single day this is where users are most engaged and if you're not showing
up at the top of your followers feeds every single day they're gonna forget
about you really quickly so like I mentioned stories are a great way to
share behind the scenes and sneak peeks of your business but they really help to
boost your visibility and your overall engagement here's a few ways you can do
that my favorite way is to actually look at your own notifications look at all
those people who have just engaged with your account then take a really good
close look at their profile picture is there a ring around it a colored ring
that means they've just posted to their Instagram stories so those are the
people that you want to click on over to head on over to their profile look at
their stories and engage with them reply to their stories a lot of times
Instagram users complain about lack of engagement but when is the first time
that you engaged first I promise you that if you start with engaging first to
other accounts that engagement is going to come back to your own account tenfold
the other thing you can do to boost your Instagram stories engagement is to use
all the features that you're given in Instagram stories so go ahead open up
your Instagram stories app and check out all the stickers the gifts the question
stickers the pull options that you can use
in your stories to ask your viewers to engage this is a little secret
but instagrams algorithm loves it loves it when you use Instagram story features
that get your followers to take some sort of action it could be as simple as
answering your poll they literally just tap on your story but when Instagram
sees that your followers are feeling motivated to take that action it's
actually gonna show your story to more of your followers and lastly this is a
bit of a ninja trick but if you're handy with canva what I like to do is go ahead
and create an Instagram story template so you can ask for people to fill in
their favorite foods or whatever leave some spaces for people to fill in the
blanks and share that template in your stories what this allows people to do is
actually save and screenshot that template so they can post it to their
stories and answer your questions but if you did your branding correctly your
handles gonna be in that story so now their followers are seeing you and maybe
they'll use your template too so it just kind of passes along step for not a lot
of people are doing this but if reaching 10k followers is top priority for you I
recommend to set some budget aside and experiment with running Instagram ads
ads can be hugely beneficial to get your account in front of more targeted people
and it's crazy how few businesses have even started to try running ads on
Instagram now Instagram ads are different than Facebook ads you can't
run campaigns to boost the number of followers on your account like you can
do with a Facebook page but that's not a big deal you can simply boost a post in
your feed and run that as an ad or you can even run conversion ads where you
can choose a landing page to lead people to so in this case you can literally
just lead people to your Instagram profile page you don't have to stop at
just promoting your posts you can boost your Instagram stories you can even
boost the videos in your feed which I like to do every now and then and the
results are pretty fantastic the best part about running Instagram ads is you
don't need money to do so you could start with five
or ten dollars a day and in the big picture of running a business that's not
that much money you just need a small investment in some creative strategy to
see if those ads help you boost your followers do you want even more
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