If you?re just starting out on Instagram, posting photos can be pretty depressing. When all your excitement and hard work are met by nothing more than few likes from a handful of followers, it?s easy to get discouraged, even if you know the benefits of social media marketing, which are waiting if you can find success with your initiative.
This article will help by giving you 50 ideas for increasing your followers and getting them to interact with your posts. You?ll notice that many of the ideas below are focused on increasing engagement (likes and comments), and here?s why: lasting engagement naturally leads to followers.
As you implement the strategies below, keep in mind that there?s no substitute for regularly posting engaging, creative and relevant images that your audience loves. Use the tips below liberally; just don?t forget that engagement should always be your underlying goal.
1. Use hashtags that are known to help increase followers: #FF (Follow Friday), #instafollow, #l4l (Like for like), #tagforlikes and #followback.
2. Like hundreds of random pictures from people in your target audience. Neil Patel has used this strategy and found that for every 100 likes he did of random pictures, he received 6.1 more followers.
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