How To Get Your FIRST 1,000 Followers On Instagram | Step-By-Step Guide To More Followers In 2021

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hey brave ones i will be showing you how to grow your first 1000 followers in 2021 make sure you stay to the end of this video because i will be sharing some of the methods that i use to grow my account to more than 100 000 followers in less than ten months which i haven't shared anywhere else before that i want to make a little disclaimer if you want to jump straight into the value make sure you go to this timestamp here having said that it is incredibly important to understand that the first 1000 followers are the hardest and they will take you the most amount of time for me my first 1000 forwards took around 22 days and in the next 22 days i actually was able to grow close to 10 000 followers so you need to have patience with that out of the way make sure you like this video and subscribe to the channel because i will be making a lot more videos on dominating social media and you can count on that the first step in growing your instagram presence is optimizing your profile because at the end of the day even if you are able to generate a lot of traffic to your profile if it doesn't convert profile visits into actual forwards it doesn't make any sense that is why you want to make sure you optimize everything your profile picture your highlights your headline your bio even the category of your profile which appears below your headline because every single bit counts and right now i will be giving you tips on how to optimize every single part of your instagram profile now in terms of a good profile picture you need to make sure it stands out in small sizes as well because most of the time your profile will be seen in smaller sizes so don't optimize for how your profile picture looks on your profile optimize for how it would look in the comment section in the suggested tabs in the explore page because those are the placements in which it matters also some general tips in terms of your profile picture make sure it's high quality and it meets the standards of instagram requirements make sure it isn't boring make sure you're smiling because that attracts attention and also if you have the possibility invest in some professional photo shoots because those will pay big time and as a bonus if you can try making it branded it doesn't have to be with a solid color like mine which you can see on the screen right now but you can put some kind of emojis or you can put some kind of circles which represent your brand colors there are a lot of different ways in which you can brand your profile picture but that helps as well now the second most important element of your profile is actually the headline you need to make sure it is keyword intensive and it also has the right keywords so it doesn't help if you have some random keywords which have a lot of traffic you need to make sure that these are the keywords which will help your account which will attract the right people and which have a healthy amount of source volume so the way you do this is actually by going on instagram in the search tab searching for different keywords the first thing i want you guys to be doing is going to the search tab and then enter a keyword such as mark thing then you want to visit the profiles which appear at the top and make sure you check their headline in this case the headline is brave social media marketing so we see the keyword there then we want to check the other profiles which appear and see what type of keywords and where they have placed them by doing this we can emulate a similar headline which makes sense for us and appear on top of the searches for our keyword by doing so you can see what are the keywords that get people ranked up top and also what are the keywords you can use in your profile as well moving onwards to the bio this is the place in which i see the most amount of mistakes when it comes down to optimizing your presence on instagram what they see on instagram all the time is people optimizing their bio for themselves making it centered all around them the honest truth is that and nobody cares about you as the individual people are on social media most of the time to engage for their own benefit so make sure your bio represents that what i always recommend is first a clear representation on how you can help others secondly a strong call to action which will transfer people from profile visits into clients forwards etc the next step is really underrated but i like utilizing it in the accounts of my clients and myself because it gives instagram extra information the part of the profile i am speaking of is the category of the account you can utilize different categories in order to give instagram information on how to recommend you to its users if you'd like to add category which is showcased right beneath your headline all you have to do is click edit profile then click category and then select a category which makes sense for your profile the major tip that i have is that it is better to have a category which fits your account really well rather than have a category which actually doesn't benefit your account and only brings you low quality profile visits so if you cannot find the right category don't use it if there is the right category for your account then go ahead and utilize and the final point which i'd like to touch upon is highlights highlights are a great way to retain users attention on your profile for longer periods of time and when people spend more time on your profile they are more likely to follow you as well so make sure you utilize highlights appropriately here are five ideas which you can utilize in your highlights first one testimonials if you have testimonials for clients organize them in a nice fashion in your highlights second one freebies if you have something to offer people for free that is a great way to start a conversation third one about you you can share a little bit about your personality how you can help others and what are some of the ways you have done this before fourth highlight it could be about your best post organized in a really nice fashion and this combines with instagram guys beautifully because you can organize your post in an instagram guide which you can later on put on your highlights and that is a really well managed and professional way to do things now after your profile is optimized you'd obviously want people to see it on instagram there are dozens of ways in which you can generate profile visits for your account such as suggested review lists billboard comments hashtags explore page collaborations with others location tags leaving engagement on other pages and many more in this video i can't possibly dive into every single traffic source so make sure you subscribe so you don't miss my future videos on the topics but i will be covering the top traffic sources that i recommend for beginners in 2021 the first one is the so-called billboard comments this is basically you leaving a high value comment on a high traffic account in your industry what i recommend you doing is creating first a list of such high traffic accounts and you can do this by searching for keywords these high traffic accounts have to have at least fifty thousand fours and need to have an engaged community the way you check that is by going in the comment section and seeing if there are a lot of other people leaving comments liking comments because that is a good representation if you will be able to generate profile visits from that account i need to open the post of a high traffic account then the next step is obviously go through the post and see what are the things that stand out to you then go into the comment section and leave a true comment for example absolutely love this post enjoyed how you showcased all of your routines in a few simple slides you can even add your personal experience that way you are generating curiosity of the other people in the comment section and you increase your chances of them visiting your profile so i can type in my routine is quite similar as i try to make sure i plan everything properly by doing so people have a high chance of finding my account and the second step is turning compost notifications and making sure you are one of the first people to leave a comment because that way you have a higher chance of being posting your comment and actually visiting your profile also make sure you put some thought into that don't just simply put an emoji rather try to spark the curiosity of the people reading your comment that way they are a lot more likely to visit your profile and follow you as well now part two of this strategy is actually interacting with other profiles who have left a comment such as yourself you can go to the comment sections of these high traffic accounts which you have identified have an audience which you'd like to have as well and basically ethically still those forwards now how do you do that you visit their profile you check their posts you might even follow them if you believe that their content will be useful to you don't do any for one full that is a short-term fix rather try to build a connection and give the engagement and attention you'd like to receive as well after we have left our comment the next thing that we can do is actually visit the profiles of other people in the comment section and interact with their content as well that way we are building connections with other like-minded individuals which are guaranteed to have similar interests because they are engaging with the same piece of content now only with these two methods you are going to be able to grow by leaving comments on high traffic accounts you are generating profit business for yourself and by engaging with other people in the comment section of these high traffic accounts you are building connections so that is a great combination in order to grow but i have one more tip for you in order to generate traffic on instagram and that is hashtags now hashtags don't always work but when they do they are especially helpful for beginners because instagram won't be pushing your page on suggested for your list as well as on export page so the only way for you to organically grow except the strategies which i mentioned previously is by utilizing the right hashtag strategy the two which i recommend for hashtag is flicktek i also have made a video on the topic which you can check right here conflict you can do anything you can search for hashtags and it will immediately show you other hashtags which are with similar competition with wall competition and with high competition and you can immediately view hashtags with lower competition with medium competition and also with high competition which are similar to the one you have selected then you can simply choose the hashtags which you'd like and immediately audit them for bad hashtags for hashtags which are too big for your profile etc you can also monitor the hashtags which are performing for your profile and which aren't performing click does this really well it is actually the only two which can show you such kind of data and by doing this you can simply choose the hashtags which are always performing for you and avoid the hashtags which aren't performing for you you can also form collections of hashtags review their average likes review the average post made as well as the frequency and by doing so create optimal hashtag collections which you can then easily copy and paste if you'd like to use the two there is an affiliate link first thing in the description so go check that out now we have covered how to optimize our profile we have also covered how to generate traffic to our profile now the next thing which can help you reach 1000 followers fast in 2021 is utilizing trends hopping on trends and reporting on industry news is a great way for new profiles to get extra exposure for example when prince gambit went viral in 2020 the chess searches went through the roof and smart marketers took advantage of that and created posts such as 7 branding tips from queen's gambit or 5 marketing chips that helped queen's gambit reach virality and these posts so a lot of exposure because they combine what the industry was seeking as well as a trendy topic into one and it turned out really beautifully what i recommend you doing is hopping on google trends every once in a while and seeing are there any trends which you can utilize in your content because you never know which post will go viral next and which post will change your content creation career for the better these are the three steps which i recommend you taking in 2021 if you want to grow 1 000 instagram followers if you'd like to learn more subscribe to this channel turn on the bell notifications because i will be making a lot more videos in 2021 peace out