How To Gain Instagram Followers Organically 2020 (Grow From 0 To 10,000 Fast)

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so in this video I'm gonna show you how to grow your Instagram account in 2020 and look there's been a lot of different ideas and strategies for this but so much has changed in just the past few years that we need to go over some of the details and some of the different methods that don't work anymore and some of the best ones that just came out for 2020 so look my Instagram it's not massive it's about 16,000 followers now but if you dial it back to just a few months ago it was very very small only a couple thousand followers so I think I have a little bit of an ability to talk about this I know it's not a massive page I don't have millions of followers but I want to show you the things that have worked really well for myself and how you can use some of these tactics to really grow your Instagram organically in a keyword that is organically I think a lot of people consider using some BOTS or maybe buying followers buying lights and let me just tell you that look guys it's not a great way to go especially long term I've seen people who will buy a hundred thousand followers they'll buy likes every time they they post a photo they'll even buy comments and it can look real for a little while but the problem here is that you need to continue to throw money at this to keep it going you need to keep paying for more followers you need to keep paying every time you make a post you have to pay for more likes and it can actually become sort of a financial burden for a lot of people to continue doing this and then when you stop everybody says whoa wait this guy used to get two thousand likes now he's getting five likes because he doesn't have any real followers on his Instagram account and there's also nothing funnier to see in this world when I go on Instagram I see somebody with a hundred thousand followers and they get like 47 likes on a photo it just means that they're fake followers and they pay for followers and that's that just makes you a chump in my opinion now we're gonna talk about some different BOTS and some things you could possibly use but in general automation is something you want to kind of be careful with when it comes to Instagram so this videos can be focused on organic growth on the Instagram maybe we'll put out some other ones on bots in the future make sure you subscribe to the channel but let's talk about those organic growth strategies that you can use now first of all what we need to do here and this is the problem that most people face they instantly hit a brick wall when they find a grow their Instagram is because they're not thinking like a consumer so the first step is you need to think looking at your page right now on Instagram if you have one say would you personally follow that and I think a lot of people just kind of assume that if they just start posting stuff people are just gonna come in in flocks and they're just gonna start liking all their stuff but the truth is unless you have a big butt or unless you're like a ten out of ten perfectly just like the most beautiful person in the world then you're probably not going to just grow Instagram or organically by just posting pictures of you so you need to understand that you need to find a way to provide some type of value to people who are considering following your page because maybe a bunch of people end up looking at your page every day and then they say should I follow this person or should I not follow this person and if there's no other value besides the fact that it's just posting pictures of yourself then you're gonna need to find something else to do okay so what I was you guys doing is find a way to either connect with your audience in sort of a deeper way so like creating longer Instagram posts more detailed about maybe thoughts that you're having or ideas that you're having or maybe a movement if you want to be more environmentally friendly you start really posting about that it's just an idea that you can use to kind of meet you down your followers so that you're really kind of focused on one thing so that people know you for that one thing and that certainly helps a lot now it doesn't matter if you're growing a personal account or a business account whatever it is it's something that you want to make sure that you have followers who are there for something more than just you personally and like I said unless you're just like absolutely beautiful or you're just incredibly good-looking it's gonna be difficult to just get people liking your photos just because like a picture of your face right alright so in just a minute we're gonna talk about hashtags and the effectiveness of that but I would argue that the largest and most important factor when it comes to growing an Instagram account is the engagement rate that you're getting on your post because when Instagram sees that you're getting a great engagement rate meaning that people are commenting people are liking your photos people are replying to your stories and droves they're gonna actually push that out to more people and I've noticed that when I put up an Instagram story even if it's something that gets a lot of people to respond especially gonna ask a question and Instagram story it's gonna push it out to a lot more people than just a regular store you might do so with my 16 thousand followers sometimes I'll put out a story that will get you know maybe three or four thousand views but if I do one where I ask the question where I get a lot of people replying where I get hundreds of people replying to my story all of a sudden gets pushed out to five six seven thousand people for story views on that and it's because it's more engaging so what I would suggest doing is on your Instagram post and you'll notice this on my Instagram if you're not following me yet make sure you follow me after this video but you'll see that I asked a question and all of my Instagram posts it especially the last ones and by doing this by asking a simple question throughout the post it drives so many comments and it's interesting how this works but I would suggest doing this and you want to get more engagement just write your post maybe for example the last one I did I was in Tokyo and I just wrote some goals that I had for this coming year for 2020 and I just said at the end what are your goals and it got hundreds of comments just by simply asking that question so consider doing that to create more engagement on your post now there's also that question of how many times per day should you post and I think this is a really interesting one but there's not really any necessarily right or wrong answer to it but you want to be careful with over posting if you're posting ten times a day that could be a little bit much for people from what I've found so for my personal Instagram account I really only post maybe once a week and that's just a personal preference but I've seen people who will post three four or five times a day and it works very well for themselves and I think in the beginning especially it's okay to post a lot but once you start to grow a little bit larger every time you do post you are going to lose a couple of fall or sometimes more sometimes less it depends but that's something that's really up to you and you need to find your vibe on that that also goes for when you should post I always post at 3 p.m. for Instagram for YouTube for all my social media accounts I always post 3 p.m. Eastern Time that's just something I found worked for myself because it means people out in Pacific time in Los Angeles in San Francisco Portland Oregon Seattle they're all on their lunch break but 3 p.m. here on the east coast they're starting to wrap up the work day and in Europe it's like 9 p.m. or 8 p.m. so it's just a perfect time for me to post on Instagram I find that that gets a really good engagement but once again there's no right or wrong time to post on Instagram maybe you shouldn't post at 2:00 a.m. because it might not be a lot of people up and your Instagram post will kind of get buried but let's also talk about hashtags which is something I think is really important and a lot of people in asking this question of sugar use hashtags are they still relevant in 2020 and this is something that's going to be effective and the answer to this is is yes hashtag are still useful they are still effective but you need to do it the right way and I've seen a lot of people kind of doing this old tactic that people been using for a long time where they'll just clump 30 hashtags together and they'll comment it in their post or they'll put it in the bottom of their post and they're all big hashtags like hashtag happy hashtag fun hashtag cool right those are things that have millions and millions and millions of people posting with those hashtags literally every day and so you don't want to fall into that category because if you do something with a big hashtag something that has millions or hundreds of millions of posts to it it's gonna get buried very very quickly especially if you have a small Instagram account so what you want to do is avoid these very large hashtags especially at first and go for some smaller or medium sized hashtags so what this means is find ones that have maybe about 50,000 hashtags total for that word or for that phrase maybe 50,000 100,000 I wouldn't go anything over 500,000 or a million and that's going to help you kind of niche down and get things that are actually going to be found by people who are might be following those hashtags now you can also follow hashtags on Instagram and this is a great way to kind of start to reach out into the industry that you're looking to tap into so let's say that your Instagram account is about business right and you're painting a business Instagram account you can follow hashtag entrepreneur or hashtag business mindset right and then it just pops up in your feed so it's really easy to just leave a comment right there and engage with other people now you'll also notice with what I said about driving comments which is really the most important factor that I see when it comes to growing Instagram and getting pushed out onto the explore page is you want to actually just comment on people that you're following so comment on their posts you know I I don't know why people don't do this but every time I'm in Instagram and I'm on my feet and I'm looking at my friends post I'll always just leave a quick comment after I like their photo and this kind of brings up something that's really interesting if you're into psychology you definitely know this already but there's this idea of this feeling to reciprocate something that people have done for us so if somebody starts commenting on your post and I used to do this with like high school friends and people that I went to school with in college where I would just comment something really nice on a post and then I noticed that they started for me as well and so it instantly just gets more comments it starts up the pot more and you're going to get overall just more engagement on your post because if there's more comments there's gonna be more likes and it's gonna get pushed out to everybody so it's all around just a win-win-win so let's talk about bots really quickly guys look there used to be something called instagrams and there's a number of different bots that you can potentially use but the truth is guys this is against instagrams Terms of Service and so if you try to give this route it's going to get shut down it's not going to last forever I know that there's this math story looking math story viewer thing that kind of came out in the past few months it's getting shut down pretty hard by Instagram now but essentially what people can do is you can view 5,000 stories or 5 million stories per day with your account so you give somebody else your Instagram password and your username they log in and they run some type of software that gets you a lot of exposure the general rule of thumb that I would have for you is don't let anybody have your Instagram password and username because that's going to be a big big big no-no when it comes to Instagram and their Terms of Service and like I said if your Instagram account gets shut down because you were using a bot or you were buying followers who are buying likes it's it's just going to be very very sad to see that happen and you know I've seen friends even who will grow an Instagram account to a couple hundred thousand followers they're using a bot they're following for following and they end up getting shut down and it sucks you know because they put so much time into it so much effort into making those posts and it totally gets shut down so guys grow organic it might start slow but it's going to start picking up overtime and my last tip here is to like I said find a way to provide value but then try to find a way to actually drive traffic from outside of Instagram this is a really interesting idea but some of the largest Instagram pages that I see today are actually driven from outside traffic so what you could do consider starting a YouTube channel driving that traffic day Instagram having a podcast driving that traffic day Instagram tick-tock drive it to Instagram snapchat drive it to Instagram and then it's going to help boost it overall to get a lot more followers this is why you might see somebody who has a hundred thousand likes per photo and they have like 4 million followers and you're scratching your head thinking like this is just a picture of a guy on a beach with his kid like why is he getting so many likes why is he getting so many comments is because he created a fan base somewhere else on some other platform like YouTube where you can get really in depth and have a deep connection with his followers so find a way to do that guys and I think that's really my biggest tips for everyone watching this video right now so thanks for watching it make sure you follow me on Instagram for more content and I'll see everybody in next week's video when we talk more in depth about growing instagrams