Now that sounds like some three-legged milk stool analogy, but fast free and easy are all relative terms.
People will make you think that you could just get a million legit Instagram followers free in 30 minutes and instantly be Instagram famous. But at the end of the day, that’s not what you somebody who has an e-commerce business or an affiliate marketing business wants. Because that won’t translate into sales. So I’m gonna run down ten tips on how to attract and engage with your customers. So that you can make some money.
Now one thing that I want to jump into real quick is I did search for apps. Rght you see all these things let me back up one quick second.
I did another search on YouTube for how to get Instagram followers fast free and easy. And all of these guys here’s 3 million views in 11 months. Here’s a million and a half views in two months. People want fast free and easy Instagram followers, but it just doesn’t translate into anything unless all you’re doing is trying to one-up your girlfriend in high school to show her that you have more Instagram followers than her. It doesn’t for the rest of us real people trying to earn money. Translate into anything. So most of these things are scams. This one talks about do it follow you know as many people as you can follow with your thumb.
You know when you’re on the toilet or in the bathroom or watching NBA Finals or whatever just follow, follow, … But it doesn’t work. Plus Instagram has follow rules. So if you try to do it too much, you’re gonna get your account banned. Don’t do the follow, unfollow, follow a routine. Because it doesn’t wor. It does to a very small extent work. Then I talked about that in one of my other videos, but you want to build an audience of real people, real followers. Because real people are who have credit cards and debit cards and can buy your merch. That’s one thing the other thing that I tried to jump into real quick was these apps again. The same rules apply all of these apps there they’re absolute crud. I’m gonna jump into this first one right here you know here’s get a billion you know followers whatever doesn’t matter what it says. You know one-star I thought this was a social media and not just tick tock. This is tick-tock this is an erroneous 5-star rating here’s 2 stars says give me all their followers.
Then I’ll give you mine plus a lot of these apps want you to log in with your Instagram credentials which ultimately might get them into your Facebook account and then you’ve been hacked. Be careful anybody that’s promised you the world for absolutely nothing and all of that in 30 seconds. It’s a scam! Stay away from it if you put in the time and do the real work you’ll be rewarded.
Let’s get into my list of 10 things, that you can do to attract real followers quickly and get plenty of engagements because of it.
1. Is to post consistently.
You have to be consistent with your posting because the Instagram algorithm will reward you accordingly. Now, what does posting consistently on Instagram look like? It looks like posting at least two times a day for 6 to 7 days a week. And you think: oh my god mark that sounds like so much work and you know it takes some work everything in this life takes work if you want to be rewarded for it. One of the things that I use is Hootsuite and HootSuite makes it soo duper easy to automate your Instagram posting. I post on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram with HootSuite. I usually do it for every one of the videos that I post. You can set it up on a Monday morning with your coffee. Do you know twelve to fourteen posts automate the schedule for all of them and away you go?
2. Create quality content.
A lot of people say: Oh you know I don’t know I’m not a Hollywood movie producer. I don’t have the skill sets to do all this to do the best that you can. Quality content doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to be the prettiest. It just has to be qualified in terms of informational, etc. Obviously, on Instagram it is more of a lifestyle type of platform. People like pretty pictures but you can get pretty pictures from just about anywhere. Just make sure that about 70% of the information of your content is informational and as such, you can create posts that are how-to or unboxings or lifestyle type of posts. That relates back to your e-commerce product or your affiliate marketing product. It really is in the long-term pretty easy thing to do.
3. Post when your audience is online.
Now initially you’re not gonna know when that is but over some time especially if you are saying: I have an e-commerce store that is focused on the US. You know that your audience you know typically roughly what the time zones are like. If you also reside in the US and maybe your audience is morning, it all kind of depends on your niche, but maybe it’s morning maybe it’s in the afternoon, maybe it’s in the evening. You’ll notice you’ll start to notice when you start to release your Instagram posts. What time do they start to get the most engagement? And as such, you can go back and start to schedule using HootSuite all of your posts to launch about that time. That they you know that your audience is active on Instagram and you’ll get the most amount of engagement.
4. Reverse-engineer the hashtag strategy to find new followers.
If you do a search for I’m just gonna do a search for like camping and if I jump into camping I’ll go into a post. And you want to look at the hashtags used by posts that have a decent amount of followers. If you go for the longtail posts camping with friends happens to be the longest one and this one you can go through and start to write some comments on these. You will get engagement back to your profile.
5. Treat captions like many blog posts.
If you notice here this is all the caption I do like the use of their emojis. People on Instagram I don’t really get behind emojis. But I would write it in such a way that it’s more in short paragraph style leading with an emoji. The human eye just is trained to be able to kind of digest. That information quicker when you set it up like that. So the caption is really valuable real estate. Be sure and take advantage of it include a call to action. I want to show you somebody else’s here’s a post from a gal that I saw use your images with captions in them because visually that is the first thing that’s going to be seen is the image, not to text. You can see how she has a nice clean image it could be anything with this nice classy clean kind of layover right here utilize your images and the text that you could put in your images and have it relate to all of the captions.
6. Fully utilize hashtags.
Instagram is completely driven upon hashtags. You can see the extensive list of hashtags that they’re using for this particular post. I really like this post with the fire billowing behind the mountain actually. I don’t like what it represents, because here in California, we’ve had a lot of wildfires. But what you want to do with your hashtags is to we ate a list? Maybe in a spreadsheet or you know at least a Word document. Something spreadsheet it probably is easier of reusable hashtags certainly your brand and your store name. All of these types of things, I would probably keep them categorized by category product. Category on your store and then add in keyword specific hashtags for each of your product types again. If you are using this for the strategy for an e-commerce store.
7. Be sure and use branding for all of your Instagram posts.
You want to brand your brand. Do you want to really hammer home your brand for your store? And that means, if you’re gonna have your logo on each post, I would use a different slightly different color palette for branding per each category in my store. If I had an overall you know camping store then you know travel trailer accessories. Would you know have one set and etc? I would also put that information my branding information kind of on a master spreadsheet perhaps the same one that you use for your hashtags.
8. Optimize your Instagram business profile.
I’ll put a link to it up in the cards wherever the card is always getting it backward.
9. Really utilize stories.
Now Instagram has reported that people under the age of 25 engage with stories for over a half an hour a day. Especially if your niche market tailors to that age audience then you should really use it. If you use highlights, then you’re able to categorize your stories much like you would categorize sections or categories on your e-commerce store. Be sure and utilize that to your advantage. TechCrunch I read an article on TechCrunch they said that Instagram stories have just surpassed 500 million users a day that consumes stories on Instagram just krei.
10. Utilize collaborating with influencers.
I know everybody says:” I’m a little too nervous to reach out to influencers it makes me nervous. I’m nobody. I only have this many followers”. The whole point about it is to get in front of an influencer that will get your message in front of their audience especially micro-influencers just like me. I’ve had people that have reached out to me to do some collaboration or promotion or things of that nature. I’ve been very flattered to do it. At this point would do it for free so reach out to influencers. Most of the time you can get away with sending them a free product and having them review it, or do something along those lines sometimes they want a little more money. If they have a huge channel some sub influencers just sell a package deal to you and that could be a good thing. As well but at the end of the day reach out to influencers to get your brand recognized.
