Instagram Growth Results After 400 DAYS

Key Takeaways

i first began posting on instagram on march 31st 2020 and i have been consistent for more than 400 consecutive days in this video i will be showing you behind the scenes of all of these posts my best pose my worst pose as well as some of the key lessons you can take away from my journey give this video a huge like and watch till the end so you can start dominating instagram as well in my journey thus far on instagram i have gained more than 140 000 followers i reached around half a million people every single month in the social media marketing industry and throughout the span of my whole journey i've reached more than 20 million people this has led to numerous opportunities for me as a keynote speaker i have also filled my agency and i recently even launched the book which did five figures in sales in the first week but in the beginning it wasn't so easy i often doubted myself i didn't know if people would even care about the content i was sharing and on top of that i didn't really know how to create content effectively i was spending so much time on my order post with some of them even taking as much as eight hours but with time the more i posted i learned a lot of things i built habits and things began working in my favor the difficulty of managing a social media presence went down and at the same time the results went up around day 20 is when things clipped to me i had found my style i had found my niece i found my ton of voice on purpose from that point my growth started picking up and by day 54 i had gained 10 000 followers but things didn't go straight up from there i had a lot of challenges along the path of growing from 10 000 to more than 100 000 creating content daily can be tough and boring at times and that's completely normal around day 150 when i had 50 60 000 followers i started to burn out from content creation i felt the urge to give up as things were too repetitive and boring for me something which i started with so much passion had turned into more of a hate relationship more than anything else i just wasn't enjoying the process as much as i used to that is when i decided to switch things up i knew that if i wanted to continue being consistent and serving value i had to change my strategy and that's when i began introducing different content formats you see before that i was only concentrating on carousel type posts but around 50 to 60k more i began introducing single images diagrams memes and this was the needed creative outlet which kept me going and then this happened my new content format which i just introduced and i was so afraid of underperforming actually went viral for me this one single post managed to gain me hundreds of followers and two to three eggs my usual engagement and this sparked my passion for content creation i knew that i didn't have to limit myself to only things i knew were working but i could freely experiment because you never know which post can go viral for you now i have continued upon the strength introducing wheels to my content strategy i did tv videos torsos single images means diagrams and every single content format serves a specific purpose because everyone learns differently and one part of your audience might prefer single images another part might prefer videos so you have to have that healthy balance between different formats in order to make sure your audience is as happy as they can be and you as a creator are just as fulfilled hopefully this gives you an idea of what type of content you can be sharing in order to improve your reach and growth now that we have export my content strategy let's dive deep into some of my best and the worst post and hopefully you can learn from my mistakes and take the lessons which i am about to share with you in order to improve your social media presence my best will this far has more than 270 000 views and 9 000 likes and it is a tutorial which enables you to create your own profile picture in 16 seconds the reason why it did so good is because the topic is super popular everyone wants to know how to create a better profile picture because i showed something new and i made it straight to the point my best single image is a free tool alternative you're seeing it on screen right now and it gained more than 14 000 saves until this is so good because it was easy to extract value from it you didn't have to watch a video you didn't have to swipe through a cover so in order to find it helpful and it also was covering both free alternatives as well as paid tools which everyone wanted to save for later moving converse to the best calories so it is five fewer canva tips it did so good because the topic again was super spot on i and my collaborator covered tricks and tips which weren't as popular at the time and people could implement immediately and see results from them and my best igtv video thus far has been how to find your audience in two minutes again this is something which is super practical and super helpful to the vast majority of instagram users and those people really enjoyed it the key lessons from my viral content is make it practical don't just give marketing bs think of ideas concepts guides which people can't implement immediately in their life this could be tools tutorials mindset shifts which people can understand it can click for them and thus they would want to share it they would want to say what they would want to implement it this is the best content type for engagement my second lesson is understand the medium you are creating content for and make sure you are following its rules rios for example they have to be straight to the point and easy to follow carousels on the other hand you can allow yourself to have build up further call to actions and spread your knowledge aboard it is all about understanding what is the format you are creating content in and making sure it fits it perfectly and lastly keep experimenting with your content formats don't limit yourself to only one format people will get bored from it you will get bored from it as well it is super crucial that you keep reinventing the will you keep thinking outside of the box as this way your creative passion will stay sparked up and now that we have seen my success let's also dive deep into my failures my worst instagram real is a video covering how to learn social media in 30 days now the problem with this rio wasn't that it wasn't helpful practical or i didn't understand the format the problem was that due to technical issues on instagram and the real didn't have subtitles and thus because most people on instagram watch videos on mute they couldn't extract the value that's why you have to make sure that if you are creating a wheel which people need to hear in order to get value from you need to play subtitles and you need to make sure they are spot on before uploading my worst single image is a meme of mine which unfortunately didn't resonate and wasn't relatable with my audience and thus its performance completely tang you have to understand what is the goal of every content piece you are sharing some of the content pieces have to be educational others have to be inspiring dirt have to be just entertaining so if you find out what your content is supposed to do you then need to deliver on it and this meme which should have been entertaining just wasn't as funny as him i imagined because people couldn't resonate with the situation my worst counsel has been a culture about mindset against something which needs to inspire people that it needs to make it click for them and yet i didn't manage to make it relatable for them i was discussing a topic of earning a lot of money on through social media but most of my audience had just started their journeys or were scaling up and this issue wasn't something which they resonated with and lastly my worst igtv video is again due to technical problems this time on my end though because i didn't respect the ratios of my igtv video igtv actually cuts on top and on the sides and if you have text which is too close to the borders on the side or text which is too close to the borders on top it is going to be kept on your profile and on the home feed and that's because i had text on the site and that text was actually super crucial to my video success it actually underperformed for me but by understanding that social media is a marathon not a screen i'm not worried if i get one bad post because i know that the next day i have another chance to succeed you just have to be consistent and you need to think long-term if you want to learn more about how i grew to more than 140 000 followers make sure you get my ebook link is in the description and start dominating instagram