How to Gain Real Followers on Instagram that Actually Care (Predictable and FREE)
Being able to know how to gain real followers on Instagram is one of the most important aspects of Instagram marketing.
You can have the perfect profile picture, an engaging bio section, and epic content, but if no one ever views your account, all this is kinda worthless.
You need a consistent flow of potential customers seeing your content and checking out your profile if you want to use Instagram to grow your business!
In this article you will learn a predictable, and free process about how to gain real followers on Instagram, and not just random followers, real people that will actually be interested in your content and your brand.
How to Gain Real Followers on Instagram that Actually Care (Predictable and Free)
If you want to gain real followers on Instagram in a predictable and free way, you need to lay down your pride and follow a bunch of people. We call this a “follow frenzy!”
Following people is the absolute best way to get people to follow you on Instagram.
Some Instagram marketing experts say you just need to like and comment on a ton of people’s posts to get more followers, we haven’t found this to be true at all.
When you follow someone they will receive and notification and will most likely view your profile and then decide if they want to follow you back. This is why your profile needs to be optimized and your pictures need to look good.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you need help setting up your profile and creating epic content for your brand, check out these articles: How to Create the Perfect Instagram Bio, and 4 Ways to Create Amazing Instagram Content.
You can’t just follow anyone!
Targeting is key, you need to find the right people to follow! Instagram allows you to find the exact type of person that will be interested in your brand. You should know your niche inside and out so you should have a full understanding of the interests of your ideal customers.
You need to find popular/large pages in your niche by utilizing the search feature. When you search a certain word such as fitness, fashion, cars, etc, you will find the top accounts easily. Find large pages and brand accounts with at least 500K followers.
Here is an example where I search the word “vegan”
When you find one you can easily find several more by clicking the drop down arrow to the right of the follow button on an account. This will allow you to scroll sideways through all of the suggested accounts so you’ll never run out of people to target.
Make sure you know all of the large Instagram accounts and brand accounts in your niche.
When you know these pages, go to their most recent post, click on all the people who have liked it, and start following those people. This ensures that you are getting targeted people to follow you who are actually engaging on the app.
You can also do “follow frenzies” on popular hashtags in your niche.
Here are some examples:
#luxury, #fitness, #beachlife, #travel, #vegan, #businessman, #motivation, #food, #makeup.
These are all huge hashtags that pictures get uploaded to constantly. All you need to do is scroll through the most recent ones, like pictures and then follow the people posting them.
Try to follow only real people, not brands, companies, or niche pages.
Follow around 300 – 400 people per day, and unfollow the same amount. If you follow or unfollow too many people too quickly you’ll get temporarily blocked. Try to space out your follow frenzies and unfollow frenzies throughout the day and don’t do more than 200 in one hour.
Instagram has daily follow and unfollow limits which are around 800 for accounts older than 3 months. Don’t do more than 500 follows and unfollows per day if you have a brand new account.
If you hit the limits Instagram will temporarily block you from following or unfollowing more people. If this happens just wait a full 24 hours and you should be good to go after that.
How to Quickly Unfollow People on Instagram
In order to quickly unfollow people who don’t follow you back you’ll need to then download an app called Followers For Instagram.
NOTE: For a complete list of all the Instagram marketing tools we recommend, check out our resources page!
This allows you to view all of the people who aren’t following you back. So about 24-72 hours after your follow frenzy just go into the app and unfollow all of the people that didn’t follow you back (start from the bottom of the list and go up).
You can unfollow 200 at one time on the app and then you should wait about another hour before unfollowing more people.
When you unfollow the people that don’t follow you back it allows you to keep the amount of people that you’re following down so you can continue doing more follow frenzies.
At some point you’ll need to unfollow everyone because Instagram only allows you to be following 7,500 people. When you do this use the app’s engagement insights to view your ghost followers and unfollow these people first. This way you’re engagement won’t drastically drop.
If you feel weird about following people to get followers that’s fine, just know that if you don’t do this it will be very difficult to grow your account and your competition will blow you away because most of them are doing this.
There are accounts that grow organically, however, it is very difficult to become one of these accounts right away. Even if you do all the right things such as stick to a theme, post absolutely mind blowing content consistently, create engagement groups with influencers / brands in your niche, etc, there are no guarantees that your account will ever grow, and even if it does, it will likely be incredibly slow.
Following people is the number one way that accounts grow, if you’re not doing this it will be very difficult for you to use Instagram to grow your business.
Expected Results
With this tactic you should be able to gain 50 to 100 + new targeted followers everyday.
Even if you achieved only 50 new followers per day, after one year that would be over 18K followers. If you hustle and crush it every single day with 100 new followers you can achieve over 36K followers in one year.
Along the way you will be generating thousands of clicks and hopefully sales as well. Not to mention, you will then have built a targeted audience that you can market your products to over and over again.
This will take some time at first, however, if you stay consistent with it you’ll learn how to get results quickly.
Expect to spend around 30 mins per day in the beginning doing follow and unfollow frenzies. Once you really get the process down to a science you might be able to get it down to 20 mins per day.
Remember, this is just the growth aspect of Instagram marketing, you’ll be spending lots of your time on other aspects such as creating content and engaging with your community.
There you have it! A predicable and free process about how to gain real followers on Instagram that actually care about your brand!
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