Instagram is a worldwide platform for people who want to spread the word about their interests, hobbies, work, products, and services – in other words, about anything that they find important. But to many people it is as well a platform that has many difficulties for the novices: as this social media has become extremely saturated by talented bloggers who are telling people interesting stories and showing them astonishing things, it is very hard now to impress anybody. This is why if you’re just starting out on Instagram, you should definitely have several tricks up your sleeve – the ones that will help you with showcasing people that you’re worth following and supporting.
We will tell you about several unpaid tricks first. Let’s start off with mass liking and mass following: don’t exit this page as you have heard about those two, we’re not going to tell you that you simply need to follow 100 people a day and you’re going to see the first 1000 in your subscriber’s list just like that. No, it is not that easy nowadays: people are not ready to give their time away to people whom they don’t even know and who won’t bring them any practical benefit. So, to make sure that you’re interacting with someone who might be potentially interested, you should first do this: go to your competitor’s page or to the hashtag or the location that your audience might be interested in. Look through the pages of people who are there, and check if they have any recent activity on their pages. And the ones who meet all the conditions – are your potential subscribers and those you should definitely follow. These several actions sufficiently increase your chances of getting people to follow you back.
Now, let’s talk about targeted advertising on Instagram. First of all, if you haven’t yet done it, you should do it right now: practically, this is the only thing that will definitely bring you your first hundreds of subscribers. Be careful with what you’re going to showcase to people during that ad (don’t choose anything that’s too commercial, try to generate a post that would tell people about you and about your products and services without trying to sell it to them too straight forward) and think ahead – how many people do you want to attract using that ad and what is the time period that you want it to be finished. Be thoughtful with your ad and it is going to bring you lots of benefits and no worries at all.
Also, have you heard about cross-posting? This is a quite simple thing that can help you with transferring your audience from one social media platform to another. If it happens that you have lots of followers on Twitter or on Facebook, and not so many of them know that you have a page on Instagram as well – start posting your publications on those social media platforms as well and encouraging people to go and check out what you’re doing on Insta right now. If they love what you’re posting, they will definitely want to join the new party on Instagram, no doubt. Just give them the possibility to do so.
And let’s move forward and talk about the paid services that can bring you lots of goods if you do everything right: for example, a chance to buy Instagram followers. These are highly essential if you have just started to run your blog on Instagram and cannot find the ways to attract several hundred or thousands of people quickly enough. In cases like this targeted ads or the help of your friends and family might not be that quick and effective, and this is where a paid service like this can really change the situation for the better.
In any case, though, the main thought that should be present in your mind while looking for any promo services is that you need to buy real Instagram followers or real thumbs up or real comments and etc. Taking on the fake ones won’t help you reach your aims and can actually stop you on your way to success. How? You see, Instagram’s algorithms today can very clearly see if the page is fake and if it is real. And when somebody buys fake services, a huge number of fake pages come to their page and make 100% of its online activity. When Instagram sees that, it bans the content of that page and hides it from people who might be potentially interested in it. From that moment on people won’t be seeing anything that you’re posting, as Instagram tries to protect its users from the fakes and the bots.
Summing up: what’s needed to quickly reach success on Instagram? Make sure to double all of your posts on other social media pages or set the auto-publishing to take less of your time; use the mass following and mass liking, but do it thoughtfully, check whom you’re subscribing to and if you have any chances of being subscribed to back. Don’t postpone setting the targeted advertising and do it thoughtfully as well. If you’re deciding to use paid services such as buying subscribers or likes, make sure that you’re purchasing real ones and that you’re taking the right amount to make your promotion look natural and organic to those users who already read you. If you have little to no clue about online promotion in general and don’t have time to figure things out, hire a person who’s going to do it for you. Plus, you should always be in touch with your audience as well, so if you don’t have time to answer people’s comments and direct messages, you should make sure that you have a person for that as well.
Managing a social media page successfully might look like a whole big deal at first, but after you figure out your aims and purposes, it is going to become way-way easier. So don’t feel overwhelmed by all the pieces of advice that we have given you and start using them as soon as possible. You’ll see that there is nothing difficult in spreading the word about your page online, it just takes some time, thought and some investments at the beginning.