Tricks That Actually Grow Instagram Accounts Fast
With over 1 billion monthly users Instagram is now the world’s third-largest social media platform. As much as we use Instagram to connect with friends and post photos from our lives, it has also become a great way to grow your business. Whether you are an influencer, brand manager, or business owner Instagram is now a great option for you to grow a following.
Although it is everyone’s goal to grow their Instagram account fast, it isn’t an easy task. According to Mention, 52.35% of Instagram followers have less than 1,000 followers. The next largest segment is 1,001 -10,000 followers at 37.41% of Instagram users. In total, less than 10% of Instagram accounts have more than 10k followers.
Now, there are a lot of pages that claim to help you grow your Instagram account fast, but the advice they offer is generic. They will say things like,
- “Use geolocation on your posts.”
- “Partner with another brand”
- “Start a branded hashtag”
While some of these can work, for most people starting out this doesn’t help at all. How many new accounts can attribute a mass follower growth due to tagging Denver Colorado on their Instagram post? Or how many new accounts can work with huge brands in their space completely for free? I don’t know of any. Like all things, there is a hierarchy of what works and what doesn’t. We are here to provide only the best tricks out there that actually grow Instagram accounts fast.
In this post, we will cover 9 actionable strategies that actually work to grow your Instagram account. These are the same strategies that all the major Instagram agencies use to grow their client’s Instagram account rapidly. Whether you are a business account, a personal account, or a theme page, all of the tricks provided here will help you build a massive Instagram following fast.
1. Have A Great Instagram Theme Aesthetic
This is step one when it comes to building out your Instagram page. Your Instagram aesthetic is going to be the first thing people see when coming onto your Instagram page. Having a consistent feed that uses the same colors and theme may oftentimes be the deciding factor on whether someone will follow you or not.
How many times have you seen a page and saw some posts are selfies, others are infographics, and others are videos of cats and you have no clue what’s going on? Now, how many of those pages did you follow? Probably not too many.
Having a great Instagram theme is one of the easiest things you can take control of today that can help the overall social proof of your Instagram page. So, how do you create a great Instagram page?
Well, this will vary depending on what type of Instagram page you have. If you have a business account your theme will probably be centered around your product. Click here to see some great business Instagram pages and their layouts.
If you don’t create your own content and you just repost the content of others, this is fairly simple. Your Instagram may not have all the same colors but your content will follow the same theme. If your Instagram page reposts motivational quotes, you shouldn’t have photos of your food. Check out how we post content on our page.
As you can tell, our theme is simple. We only use three colors and have the same background every time. In the middle of our feed, we have quotes from successful individuals and on the side, we have general business knowledge.
If you want a list of various Instagram themes you can check out this post by Fun Life Crisis. They provide 45 great Instagram themes that you can use and walk you through how to implement them.
2. Have A Posting Schedule
It’s no secret that Instagram wants to promote pages that post consistently. The question is, “What is consistent?” At a minimum, if you seriously want to grow your Instagram account fast, you should be posing at least once a day. It is more important the bigger you get the more you post but in the early stages, under 1,000 followers, you should never miss a day of posting.
Now this will change depending on if you are an Instagram theme page or personal page. If you are a personal account it is okay to go as low as three times a week. However, if you are an Instagram theme page, let’s say you post cute kitten videos, you should never ever miss a day.
The reason why you want to post so consistently is that it gives you that many more chances of having a post go viral. By viral, we mean it can either show up on Instagram explore page or Instagram’s Top page. The explore page appears on the same page as the search function. The Top page for hashtags shows some of the most popular posts tagged with that hashtag. See our visual of each.
Being on either page allows you to grow your Instagram followers fast. Think about it like you were playing the lottery. You increase your chances of winning the lottery the more tickets you buy. In this scenario, consider your post to be like lottery tickets. The more you have the more likely you will win.
In the hashtag portion of this post, we will talk more about what types of hashtags to use in order to have your content go viral. But for now, you should get really serious about making sure you’re posting at least once a day. If you are a personal account, no less than three times a week.
The best way to follow a consistent posting schedule is to create a schedule and use a bot that posts for you. We personally use Later as our tool of choice. Instagram only allows the use of certain bots and will punish your account if you use bots that aren’t part of their Instagram Partner Program.
Later has been accepted in the program and allows users to preview posts, schedule posts, and do hashtag research. You can post up to 30 pieces of content a month for free through their website so it’s a very easy way to get started.
Does It Matter When I Post
It used to matter what time you posted to Instagram. That’s because Instagram used to show your posts to your followers in the order in which they were uploaded. So if you posted at 6:00 pm and someone else posted at 6:03, your followers would see the 6:03 post before yours because it is more recent.
However, Instagram has changed the way they show posts to followers. They no longer show posts to followers based on when they were posted. The order of photos in someone’s feed is based on the likelihood that they would be interested in the content. The way Instagram gauges interest is by analyzing the user’s current relationship with the Instagram account. If someone is frequently commenting on your posts, liking your posts, and visiting your profile, Instagram will show them your post regardless if it was posted 10 minutes ago or 10 hours ago.
This is why it’s really important to create engagement with your followers. We will talk about how to do this later in this post. But just remember that the key to someone seeing your post is how much they engage with your profile.
3. Use The Right Hashtags
Hashtags are one of the most misused tools that Instagram has. If you run a health and wellness Instagram page you’ll see a lot of small accounts, under a thousand followers, use the hashtags #wealth, #health, #wellness, #happy, etc. The reason why so many accounts use these hashtags is that millions of people search these hashtags daily.
The issue is, there are multiple Instagram pages that use these same hashtags. when you use the hashtag #health, you’re competing against Instagram Pages like WebMD and Women’s Health Mag. Each of these Pages having millions of followers and getting tens of thousands of likes per post.
Instagram can only show so many different posts on its top pages for hashtags. How Instagram decides to place posts on the top results for a hashtag is how many likes, comments, shares, and saves they receive. So if you have a post that only has 30 likes and you’re going against a post that has 30,000 likes then it is very unlikely that you will show up as a top result for that hashtag.
On top of this, since so many other Instagram pages are using the same hashtags you immediately get pushed down in the search results. So not only did no one see your post because you used a too popular hashtag, but it also gets immediately shoved down to the bottom of the feed because there’s a new post with that hashtag every couple of seconds.
How To Find The Right Hashtags
If you’re serious about finding the right hashtags to use for your business you should invest in a tool Flick.Tech.The tool is only $9 a month and what it allows you to do is see which hashtags give you the most probability to show up on the top page for a hashtag.
Let’s assume we’re still within the health and wellness niche. Flick.Tech will look at how many likes you get on average and suggest hashtags that you can show up for that have a similar amount of like. This is a great way for you to reach new audiences and make sure your content is actually being seen. For more information on hashtag research, check out this Youtube video from Sunny Lenarduzzi.
4. Always Have An Instagram Story [With Stickers]
Having the red circle around your Instagram logo is essential to establish credibility among potential followers. The red circle around your Instagram logo indicates that you have an active story.
When someone first comes to your Instagram page they cannot see the last time you posted. They would have to click into an image to see that. Having the red icon above your logo notifies the potential follower that you have been on the platform at least within the past 24 hours. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t have been able to post a story.
What To Post In Your Instagram Stories
Now that you know it’s important to have stories, you may be wondering what exactly to post? No need to overthink this. If you are a theme page and you are posting everyday one of the easiest things you can do is just reshare your post on your story. Add some text above the story that says, “new post,” and add an arrow pointing to your post. See our video below on how you can create an engaging Instagram story in just one minute.
As you can see we used a lot of stickers in this post and did two unique things. We used three big hashtags and covered it with the sticker, “New Post.” We did this because Instagram allows you to use up to three hashtags in your story. You can add more but Instagram will only register the first 3. Having hashtags can look spammy at times so it’s best to cover these up with a sticker.
The reason we used a big hashtag is that stories disappear in 24 hours. So if you use small hashtags, yes it is more likely to be found, but there isn’t enough traffic to smaller hashtags that can be received in just 24 hours. That’s why it’s best to use bigger ones and hope you get lucky.
We also put a big pointing gif over our text. The reason we did that is because if someone is interested in the title of the post, they will likely click into the post to read the text. Remember, Instagram shows your content to people who engage with your post. If we just posted that story, people could read it without clicking into it. But we want to maximize as many post interactions that we can, which is why we make them click into the post to read it.
Using Instagram Interactive Stickers To Grow Fast
One strategy we found works very well is using Instagram interactive stickers. If you have ever seen a poll, quiz, or a story that says “ask me questions” you’ve seen an interactive sticker. These elements were introduced by Instagram to help users engage with their followers.
You will hear in a lot of videos and blog posts that the best way to increase engagement is by commenting and liking your follower’s posts. While this is a good strategy, it is very time-consuming. Instead of going out and engaging with your follower’s posts, give them an opportunity to engage with you.
By having a quiz or a poll on your Instagram stories you can allow your followers to engage with your post. We try to post a new Instagram quiz every single day. Take a look at some of the quizzes we post.
This not only gives our followers something to look forward to, but it also allows them to engage with us on a daily basis. Guess what happens every time we post? The people that we see engage with our stories are the first ones to like our post.
5. Work With Micro-Influencers To Reach A Larger Audience
The keyword here is “micro.” If you are trying to grow your motivational speaking brand through Instagram, do not reach out to Tony Robbins asking him to shout out your Instagram page. Not that he doesn’t want to support you, he just doesn’t have the time. He also probably doesn’t even manage his own Instagram page at that.
The trick to getting influencers to give your post a shout-out is finding those below a hundred thousand followers but over ten thousand followers. Within this range, accounts are big enough to have a decent following, but not so large that they’re going to charge large sums of money for a shout out.
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