Description
Getting more followers on Instagram is hard and most organic methods of growing on Instagram take a long time. Especially when you have less than 10,000 followers, getting views and followers and growing on Instagram can be frustrating.
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In this video, I wanted to show you how I got over 2500 followers a week on Instagram. I want to show you methods that you can actually follow step by step on any Instagram profile in any niche.
1. Switch to creator or business profile & Dial Down your Niche (Your Profile should be laser-focused)
2. Set up your bio for success
3. Find viral content fast and hitting the explore page
4. Learn the ultimate hashtag strategy Try Flick here: (affiliate link) https://flick.tech?fpr=howfinity
5. Use the latest Instagram updates
6. Schedule Your Posts in Advance
Transcript:
How to Get More Followers on Instagram in 2020 - Step by Step Guide
Hey everyone. In today's Instagram video, I'm going to show you how to get more followers and attract more followers to your Instagram page and followers that really engage with your content. The number really doesn't matter if those followers are not really engaging and caring about what you're posting about.
So I'm going to show you some practical step by step ways to do that. And I've used these methods for a couple of years now. And they've got me sometimes up to 2,500 followers a week. So I'm going to show you exactly how I did that. And I also have a webinar, a free webinar that goes in depth in some of the things we're talking about.
I'll put a link to that one in the description, and he also is backed up by a course of over 10 hours of content to grow and monetize your Instagram page. Let's jump in here. And the first thing I want to focus on is you have to make sure you have the right profile to start with. So make sure you change your profile to a creator or business because some of the other things we're going to talk about is going to be requiring that information. So on your profile here, press the three lines and go to settings and make sure you go to account here. And on the bottom of the page, you should see switch to creator or business. I'm already on business, and we're going to use some of the data we get from a business to see what we're doing right and wrong.
But that's the very first thing you should do with your accounts. The next thing we want to do is jump into your profile and look at your bio, the information on top. Now here's the thing. 90% of people that go through my course or I've reviewed their bio here are not doing this correctly. Here's the problem.
Let's say you spend money or you organically get hundreds of thousands of people to come to your Instagram page. And we're going to look at some of those methods in a few minutes, but the problem is if this top of the page is not set up right, you're going to lose a lot of potential followers.
There's three really simple things you should worry about. Your profile picture should be specific to what you're talking about. So I have a little film logo here and I'm using this to grow my business as well. So that shows someone that comes in here, mostly filmmakers and film professionals, that this is about film.
It's the right profile about film. So make sure your logo is set up correctly. And then the name right here. I changed it from my personal name to the first word being filmmaker, because he makes it easier for people to search and find things that are related to filmmaking. So if they look up filmmaker or filmmaking, I may show up in search. That's really helpful.
And then the first line has to be very specific and very short about what this page is all about. This page is about best, original and repost in the world of filmmaking. I made it very simple in one sentence, then you'll have a link where you could send people to your business or to your YouTube channel or whatever it may be.
I do change this from time to time. When starting out, I recommend not having anything there. You want people to engage with your profile and not leave. So I usually don't put a link in newer pages there for a while, at least till I get to a thousand followers or so. Once your profile is set up right, now you have to focus on the content that you post.
So I'm going to show you how I find viral content or ideas for viral contents. So follow along here, go to the search icon here. And this is the explore page of Instagram. Our goal is for our posts to hit the explore page. I'll show you on my phone, a couple of different examples of when I've done that and the amount of followers that comes from that, it could be very significant.
Once you hit the explore page. Let me show you an example here of what happens when you hit the explore page. So this one looks like 72,000 view. I'm going to press view insights. That's one of the options that you get from using a creator or a business profile that we really need here. And if you jump into the post insight and you go down here to reach, you could see from the explore page, 80,000 of the views came from there. From hashtags, only 1500.
So here, I know that I need to improve hashtags. We'll talk about hashtags in a minute. And some came from home. That's just from the people that follow me about 14,000, but you could see the explore page has a big, big impact and 321 new followers just from this post. Here's another post, this one got me 1,415 followers, again, because it hit the explore page with 235,000 impressions coming from there.
So this is how you get new followers by reaching people that don't already follow you. So you should really look at the insights on every single post to see where those numbers are coming from. Are they ever coming from the explore page, the home, hashtags or the number of other things that could be on this section. In order to find out what could hit the explore page,
usually on top, on the search icon, I searched for things related to what my page is all about. So in this case, it's about filmmaking. So I'll look up filmmaking here and I'll go to that account tap here to see other accounts that post about the same thing. So, no matter what you're posting about, maybe fitness, maybe motivation, wealth.
You'll go ahead and search that. Again, make sure you have a specific niche, a specific topic you're covering because this is going to be really hard to grow a page if you're not really narrowed down on that topic. And let me jump into one of these profiles. I know this is one of the biggest ones, but this is what I could do.
I could click on their post here and I want to see which one potentially hit the explore page for them. So I'm going to look at their average views, so 30,000, 38,000. This one has 92,000 views. So I know this one most likely hit the explore page because he has significantly more views than the other type of content they've posted in the past.
So as you could see, that one really stands out. So I would go through and what I want to do is watch what this is all about and try to recreate something similar to that. So in the world of filmmaking, I want to do behind the scenes of something that's just as interesting as that. This is one of the ways to find content that you know is going to do well.
So you get inspired to create something similar to that, rather than thinking all day of what to post about. So I usually do this for any type of profile that I want to grow on Instagram. And the other beneficial thing you could do is this is actually a theme page, meaning they're featuring content from other people, other creations.
So sometimes I do send a direct message to those people. And I asked them if I could share their content and promote them on my page. And I do this, this is called reposting, but I don't do this until I get a significant amount of followers. Usually a few thousand would do. And then I use that method to have content all the time.
So I try to post every day, when I don't post every day and I focus on other things, this method does drop. So the, at the point where I was getting 2,500 followers per week is when I was posting every single day, sometimes twice a day. And I was hitting the explore page all the time. So you got to keep that momentum going. once you do get to that point. The next step is very important because beyond hitting the explore page, you also should try to rank for hashtags. And this has been around for a long time. There are plenty of videos about it. I have a lot of videos about it as well, but let me just show you on the computer, the platform, my use to find the right hashtags, because you don't want to just randomly try to type hashtags every time you make a post.
You're going to give up especially if you're trying to post every day and finding good content and creating good content to post. So what I like to do is use this platform. I'll show you I'll have a link in it, in the description to it as well, where you could go ahead and find your hashtags. Let's jump into the computer.
I'll show you that now. This platform is called flick. And again, I have a link in the description and affiliate link in the description to it. It's one of my favorite platforms to use for hashtags. It does require a paid upgrade after the free trial, but I think it's worth it because he speeds up the process of finding hashtags.
So let me just show you exactly how it works quickly. I'll look up filmmaker. One of the hashtags that I use often and typically tends to make it on the explore page once I rank for this hashtag. And you could see that ultimately this is how hashtags work. You want to combine low competition, meaning not a lot of people are using these
with medium competition and high competition hashtags. So filmmaker took me a really long time to rank for on the explore page for this hashtag is used very often by filmmakers on Instagram. So I tend to combine these especially when I start out, I almost don't use any high competition and stick with medium and low-level competition hashtags.
So all you do here is you could either search and see related hashtags in low competition. So I just press search to do that. And you see you open the new tab. I could go back to filmmaker here. And I could go ahead and select all of these, for example, let me select both of these sets and I'll select the 36 hashtags.
I'll click that and I could go ahead and copy them to the clipboard or save them to collections. So for example, let me just show you in the sidebar here, you see all of these different hashtags. I could go ahead and one by one, go through these and reduce because I can't have 36 or 35 hashtags on each post. I usually tend to do 20. 30 is the maximum.
So I'll take some of these off. So now I could go ahead and copy all these hashtags here. Again, I could copy it to the clipboard, put it in a notes app or use the flick platform here to save it to the collection, and then put those on my post every time and keep improving this process and keep finding new hashtags for each post until I have a really solid set that I could use all the time.
And typically I put my hashtags as a comment as the first comment, they could also be in your description. It's not that big of a deal, but I don't like my description underneath or the caption underneath the video to be very messy. I want it to be very clear. So I usually put it as the top comments and I tend to rank for hashtags.
The next tip is always to try to utilize the different parts of the Instagram app and the latest updates. I post almost every single update that Instagram has came up within the last three years. And I continued to post those. And for example, Instagram reels or Instagram stories are also part of Instagram.
So you want to use those two and create content for those as much as you can. And they're easier than creating Instagram posts. I even use IGTV for long-format videos like this one here. But what you want to do is utilize every update because Instagram as a platform tends to push those updates and rank those a little bit better.
So right now it's a lot easier to get a lot of views and a lot of followers using Instagram reels because it's relatively new compared to the other things on Instagram. And the last tip is to schedule your content in advance. You could use something called Instagram creator studio if you're using a computer.
Or other apps like later.com to schedule posts. So you don't think about this all the time. The way I'm able to post every day is either I create Post in advance. And then I go ahead and schedule those for a later time. Or if I'm finding viral post, I do the same one thing I don't think about this every day.
I usually do all my homework on a Sunday for the entire week. So I recommend you do the same because the moment you're not consistent on any social media platform is the moment that you start declining. So the key with growing on social media, especially something like Instagram, where you're content really has a short shelf life.
Usually, you're not going to find content to go viral from a year ago. It's really day to day. So I make sure I have that scheduled. So I don't think about it every single day. Take a look at the description box below this video about everything we talked about, check out the free webinar if you'd like to really dive deeper into some of the contents that I mentioned in this video, and make sure to subscribe for easy to follow content. And I'll see you next time.