How I went from 0 -> 1k ig followers in less than a month (2021)
How to grow any ig account to 1000+ followers in under a month:
Pick something your interested in (what do you spend your time doing? Watching a certain tv show - make an account about it, same for a sport or hobbie u do
Get a unique profile picture and account name immediately identifying what your about
Make your bio something unique and memorable
If you’re good at sport as narsasitic as it sounds list your best achievements
Obviously if there is space chuck in a witty self deprecating comment
Post 10 bits of decent content asap (in the space of an hour this should be done) (because of your interest this shouldn’t be to difficult)
Your captions should be the best you can come up with - not just saying what’s in the picture - unless it’s a cool word or something eg. Exploring, dog
Add relevant hashtags in a single comment and keep them all in a notes file so you can copy and paste them into comments on every post
Also tag other accounts you would like to be featured on in the post and comments
Follow up to 150 people a day (min 100)
Find these ppl by going to accounts with similar content to yourself and following those who liked their most recent posts
Post at least once a day (preferably something unique, interesting or funny)
People won’t do the penultimate step because they want to grow “organically” your being lazy/ afraid of being made fun of by others
You won’t grow unless your posts show up on hastags, or explore and this generally only happens once your posts are getting a certain number of likes
So by definition to get a certain number of likes you need a certain number of followers - to get followers people need to see your account - which won’t happen in explore or hastags because your posts aren’t getting enough likes
So what to do? Well when you follow someone especially when you request to follow smaller private accounts (who make up the majority of ig) they will be notified about your follower request - when deciding whether they are going to let you follow them they will look at your account
Bam! Even if it’s your first day you have 10 good posts a profile pic and bio with usp and witty comment letting them know u aren’t a creep
They see u make content similar to stuff they like already (u found them by going through this type of content remember)
They might let you follow them, but that doesn’t matter
Even more likely is they will follow you
Quickly you will gain followers - to get true fans respond to dms and comments as well
If you really care about your following to follow ratio then after a few months just unfollow 150 people a day for the same amount of time
- more than this and your account may be suspended as ig will think your a bot
Content
Pictures: utilise the tilt shift filter in edit and learn from a 5 minute yt tutorial about rule of threes
Videos: watch it - did u watch the whole thing ? if you didn’t watch your whole thing then no one else will. Figure out what part of it bored u - cut it down, add music or a filter
Repeat until your addicted to your own video and actually really want to share your artwork
Tldr
Notes on how to grow ig
Make first 6 posts - with hashtags
First 6 posts can be anything just do them so people have a reason to follow u - these can be bad posts just fill up your feed so it looks like your active
Put hastags and @‘s in notes file and put in comments under every post (copy and paste)
Then
Follow 100 people a day(any more than 150 and account may be suspended as ig will think your a bot)
Try and post as often as possible
Keep using hastags and stuff
Content:
Look up rule of threes in photography
Make videos short and sweet
If it’s the capsize make it be just a capsize
If it’s 50 seconds of sailing followed by a 2 second capsize not as many people will watch