How To Get Your First 10,000 Instagram Followers (Without Buying Them), John Lincoln

okay so today I'm talking to you about how to get your first 10,000 Instagram followers I've been doing this over the last six or seven months I'm now up to about 16,000 Instagram followers on my account and I want to teach you how to get them without buying them it's been a lot of fun and I think you're really going to enjoy this [Music] one [Music] okay so first thing when you're getting started with Instagram you want to start with a goal what is your goal for Instagram do you want to attract more B2B clients do you want to attract more B Toc clients are you looking simply for large branding and to get your name out there more this is really important so make sure you write down specifically what you're trying to get out of Instagram to start things off okay so the second thing you want to do is build a profile that can converts I want you to be really deliberate about your picture and your bio make sure your picture is flattering it speaks to the type of persona that you want to perceive when you're out there on Instagram and that your bio talks about your credentials and then has a call to action right there that lets people know that they can reach out to you at any time and what's nice about the fa uh Instagram business profiles is that there's going to be a nice button right there that's going to allow people to click to call you or click to email you and it really helps helps to convert business I've seen a lot of success with my own profile and with all of our clients okay so item number three create an editorial calendar but in order to do this you need to take a look at all the top Instagram profiles online in your Niche so go ahead and do some competitive analysis find 10 profiles in your Niche that have large followings that have a lot of Engagement and take a look at it and make sure that you pull out all of the best content themes and use that to create your own editorial calendar take the time to do this step and to really create an editorial calendar and know how often you're going to be posting before you start this cuz it's going to save you a lot of time and it's going to be important for some of our next steps okay so the fourth thing you're going to want to do is start publishing and engaging with people so get a good base of content there before you start kind of interacting with people don't worry if there's there's nobody kind of commenting and liking your stuff at the beginning um it's okay you want to just basically get a foundation of posts there so that when people come to the account they know that this is a solid account and they're going to want to interact with it so do that and once you've got maybe five or 10 posts you're going to start engaging and what I mean by that is you're going to want to follow other people who are commenting and liking on your competitors and the similar people in your in your same industry uh photos and information because those are going to be the most engaged people so so follow them uh comment on their things interact with them and really spend the time to do that and you're going to see floods of people coming in and starting to follow your account okay another really important thing that you have to do is you want to make sure you're using the right hashtags don't be shy about this because every hashtag that you select is going to give you more distribution so when you're adding a hashtag on Instagram it's going to tell you how many posts are associated with that you're generally going to want want to hit hashtags that have hundreds of thousands to millions of posts associated with them cuz that's going to allow you to have greater distribution and those are the areas that people want to interact with so make sure that you're using five 10 hashtags if you do a post even if you don't have a lot of followers you're going to see a lot of people liking and interacting with your stuff just because you used um those hashtags now keep in mind some of them might be Bots right from things like instagress some of these third party Instagram tools that's okay but eventually you're going to start attracting a large amount of people who are actually following you and who are liking your stuff who are real people and and a couple Bots here and there it's not the end of the world at least it it's a little bit more engagement for you and it helps you with the Instagram search feed right so the more comments the more likes you get the higher you're going to show up in the Instagram search feed for the specific hashtag that you set okay so the last thing that I have is make sure to advertise your top post so if you have a post that's doing 95% better than your other posts and Instagram will tell you this then go ahead and do a promoted post there right and then also use that information and create more content that's similar to that same one that did so well because people like certain content themes they don't like others I've certainly been surprised by what some people like and what they don't when I do posts and I think that you will be too okay so as far as Instagram goes that pretty much all you need to do the more you engage the more time you spend doing these things interacting with other people posting great content doing advertising on your top post using the best hashtags um and interacting with influencers and kind of building relationships with the top people in your industry the faster your account's going to grow I think that this is one of the best ways right now for people to attract businesses for sure if you are a a Persona online you're a person running your own business it's great for beauty it's even been great for um B2B clients for me really just across the board um we are seeing some level of success on Instagram now it's not going to be uh driving as many Ecommerce sales um as something like a Google AdWords or or a search engine optimization but there certainly is a lot of value to this component of the marketing mix and I wish you a lot of success if you have any more questions about Instagram or you want to learn more go to visibility.com we've got a great guide on it uh that'll teach you everything you need to [Music] know

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Keywords: Instagram, Instagram Followers, Social Media Marketing, Instagram Marketing, Instagram Business Tips, Instagram Business Marketing

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Length: 6min 11sec (371 seconds)

Published: Fri May 26 2017