Become Insta-Famous

Welcome to another blog of the Chino, happy Sunday or Monday depending on where ever you are on this continent in whichever time-zone, in this article I will give you the steps exclusive steps on how you can grow your Instagram account, note: this is not an article on how you can make money from Instagram, however the steps that you will read here will help lead up to it.

1: Optimize Your Profile for Search (Instagram SEO)

Think of your profile as your mini landing page, when users go to your account they should know exactly where they should go next. Make it appealing, your name, your niche, your style, let people know who they are following so you get the correct target audience. For your bio, let the users know what you do and who you help or what solutions you bring to the table, if you want to get a little fancy create a link in your bio where all of your social and professional links are linked to, something like a linktree.

2: Pick a Focused Niche & Content Pillars

Don't be like that account that just posts anything at random (unless that's what you want to do) but if you are starting out fresh you may pick a niche and focus on that, accounts that target a particular audience tend to grow a lot quicker than an account that is posting burgers on one day and posting about space exploration on another. Once you find your niche, focus on 3-4 topics since you will be creating content you can have fun playing around with them and the more posts you have the more people will leave a comment and the higher chance you'll get followers, this will help the users know exactly what they are signing up for, when someone knows why they are following you it makes it easier for them to promote you.

3: Prioritize Short-Form Video (Reels)

The days reels came about is the day Instagram was saved, these short-form videos are the reason why most of us get engagement on Instagram even if no one follows or drops a comment on them. The whole point of a "Reel" is that it is straight to the point, you don't want to spend 2 minutes leading up to an explanation when you can mention it in an intriguing manner within the first 3-5 seconds, on top of being straight to the point and use the latest trending sounds to give you video a boost on the platform.

4: Use Carousels for Depth & Saves

Use all the tools you have access to on the platform to your advantage, we know know the expression "One picture speaks a thousand words" sometimes one picture can't even speak 2 words, so you can create a carousel of multiple photo's, and to make it easier for the users to follow you can number your posts and connect them to the paragraphs you write in the description, by the way, always make sure the first picture the users see make them want to see more, be smashing! 

5: Leverage Stories for Relationship Building

This is the fun part, stories are the "most recent moment" update from your account, so without doing it, you can share your posts, reels or even share another users posts that you find interesting or comedy-gold or whatever it was intended for, don't just post the story and move on though, use it like a commercial break, add your stickers, if you want to add a cool sound over it to get people to click on the video to hear the original sound, do that, stories are the best way to interact with people in real time. Not to forget to mention there is a feature on Instagram stories where you can post quiz's or get your followers to ask you a question.

6: Use "SEO-Friendly" Captions & Strategic Hashtags

We all know how the internet started, first it was cats, then came memes, then came hashtags, but do not use the hashtags randomly, make sure your post has %100 accuracy with the hashtag, not %90 not %99 but %100, then you'll be seeing your 1000's of likes come in at any time of the day. Generally it is recommended to use around 3-5 hashtags anything more will just lose your post in the background, if you want to stand out even more you can go straight for the 3 most accurate hashtags, if you're a celebrity, don't use any hashtags.

7: Master the "First 30 Minutes" Rule

In order to boost your engagement on Instagram you must be active on Instagram, try commenting on posts and reels for 10-15 minutes before uploading a post and then for another 10-15 after you post it, I can guarantee that you will triple or four times your engagement with each post. I would strongly urge you to respond to every single one of your comments, even if they are bots, engagement = algorithm.

8: Collaborate with Similar Accounts

Once you have your niche pat-down and you have an audience you may kindly start to collaborate with similar accounts, may that be reposting each others posts or sharing each others contents or reuploading each others videos/posts onto each others profiles, a more effective way of growing your account whilst collaborating is hosting lives or joining other creators lives.

9: Instagram Instants

I'm not gonna lie, this step was to do with automated messages and DM's, no, do not do that, be unique and original, let the viewer feel that it really is a person reaching out to them for the DM or that the creator is asking the viewer to reach out to them via DM, anyway, the new Instagram Instants is a whole fun unique new way you can engage and just like stories they show your followers you most up to date action in real life, they're similar to stories but the viewers can't engage with the post directly but they'll technically be engaging with you instead, so no need to for those automated bots to run your account for you (Mind you this is for beginners, you don't need a bot to respond to one bot comment).

10: Analyze Metrics & Double Down on What Works

So it's been some time that you have been working on your Instagram account and you noticed at certain times you get more views than others and particular videos get more views regardless of what time you post at. Once you switch to a professional account you will be able to follow your analytics from day dot and Instagram also gives you your weekly updates for you if you forget, let's say you've been posting for a whole month, what you can do when the new month begins is that you can find the top 3-5 top performing videos on your profile and you can recreate them with a touch of uniqueness, this will help new followers pitch in and your old videos will love the stylish twist.

Conclusion

Thank you so much for reading this far and I will appreciate if I can get a follow, comment and kindly share this article with your Insta-Enthusiasts and watch how their lives change. 

Ps. Tip yourself %80 on this article.