Ask me anything about Instagram

[maxis]

I've got a question according to once somebody ask. About liking post to get to "top post".
1.You said if 1k of ur accs gonna like the 1'st client account this wont work because the likes wont coming from CORE followers. What if all these my 1k accs follow this 1'st client account?
2.Would You give any advice about InstaStory engagement and reach? What i have on mind that once f.ex. my reach was like 2-2,5. Let's say after some time it dropped to about 1k. Any suggestions about algorythm on Stories?

 

[mrworldseller]

Are these people offering verifications on popular IG posts legit? Seen a ton of spam from them and honestly they seem a bit shady. Also are there any tips or steps to have in the process of being verified? Is follower count important?

 

[Ekame]

hello bro.

Is wich way better, follow on tag or location or Gather user then follow?

 

[Nozge]

Hi, another question from me:
Is there any way that I can start a shop (selling t shirts and stuff like that) on instagram cuz I got some traffic and I would like to try a shop, without investing any money at all ($0)?
Shopify has some days free trial by I'm asking another way to do this all for free?

Thanks in advance.

 

[chrsplmr]

I've been growing one Instagram account for a while now with no issues, but my bot plan can run 10 so I'm trying to expand and get a bunch running. Buy aged accounts, buy a proxy for each account, and then log into the account on the proxy via the bot, but would you recommend waiting a few days to change the username/bio/profile picture? Will not be adding a link or anything until waaay later. Also should I wait to start posting images? Thanks!

I would wait time to change the bio details generally we split that up on a larger scale. 100 names, 100 pics etc.. however before doing all of this will the risk outway the benifit or should you just run the account?

You want to follow guildlines like a “memorable name” color scheme , posting only “quality”

But let me express some wisdom , Instagram is a numbers game if you want to convert do not waste time get as many accounts up and working towards your goal as possible. The percentage you will gain by following standard advice is minute.

Get you accounts on a clean proxy and start running all you need to worry about is description , decent image /logo and wait a bit for link but possibly not depending on goals.
Take account structure with a grain of salt and just get rolling
DO NOT WORRY about the small details just start producing hope this helps.

 

[Tom5876]

Where do you sell accs? Im wondering since I see alot of people grow & sell accs but I have no idea where to quickly sell accs.

Is there anyway to get instant cash rather than having to deal with buyer logistics. I want to grow and sell a bunch of small accs but this is the one detail I'm stuck on.

 

[chrsplmr]

From my experience to command top dollar you will have to deal with clients . However if you find and see a volume mover possibly proposition to use there platform to sell your wares.

 

[Tom5876]

From my experience to command top dollar you will have to deal with clients . However if you find and see a volume mover possibly proposition to use there platform to sell your wares.

Sorry I'm not quite understanding what the second sentence of your response means. Were you recommending a platform?

 

[chrsplmr]

Sorry I'm not quite understanding what the second sentence of your response means. Were you recommending a platform?

If someone you see that is selling accounts via website or email or sms or forum etc .. etc ...or selling any product for that matter I refer to that as a platform.

NOTE:::I will not point at any service and give a recommendation for one simple reason . If the quality of said product or service where to demish I do not want my name on it.

However if anyone wants to ask me about my experience with a particular service I will give me opinion only if I have used them in the past.

Couple

Hey, thank you so much for starting this thread!
I've ready all messages on here and had a couple of follow up questions on your replies:

1.


How do you find R*ddit engagement pods? I have been searching and can't really find them.

2.


When monetizing accounts, what does "rent out whole accounts mean"?

Also, how do you make sure that the footprint on Instagram is different for every account?

Thanks so much!

Couple of questions in one here so here are some answers for you.
1. Reddit pods / engagement groups , Facebook groups etc are quite simple to find just search the key term or look up the hashtag to find where people are talking about groups not just the lists . Within the chatter you will see mentions of groups doing well for people.

2. Renting out an account or bio spot is very common. I should have said the bio space

 

[LumGGs]

Hey man! Cheers for helping everyone on here out! I'm pretty sure we all appreciate the input you've given.

I'm currently running a personal page for me with just under 10k followers. I've currently got 2 main questions to ask:

1. When doing F/U with my account sometimes my app no longer shows my followings feed on the main page but reverts to a "Welcome to Instagram" page and my follower count when logged in is a different number than if I view my account when not logged in on my computer (e.g. in app logged in shows 9722 but on computer and to friends shows 9728). I'm not sure if this is because I'm doing too many actions or if IG has put a limit on my account and noticed I've been botting. Been doing about 200-300 follows a day with 300-400 likes and maybe a few hundred unfollows on a 2 year old account.

2. Is there a next step I should go to for trying to attain followers/engagement after reaching 10k? I'm mainly fitness/fashion niche and I'm a decent looking guy with a good physique.

Thanks!

 

[chrsplmr]

Hey man! Cheers for helping everyone on here out! I'm pretty sure we all appreciate the input you've given.

I'm currently running a personal page for me with just under 10k followers. I've currently got 2 main questions to ask:

1. When doing F/U with my account sometimes my app no longer shows my followings feed on the main page but reverts to a "Welcome to Instagram" page and my follower count when logged in is a different number than if I view my account when not logged in on my computer (e.g. in app logged in shows 9722 but on computer and to friends shows 9728). I'm not sure if this is because I'm doing too many actions or if IG has put a limit on my account and noticed I've been botting. Been doing about 200-300 follows a day with 300-400 likes and maybe a few hundred unfollows on a 2 year old account.

2. Is there a next step I should go to for trying to attain followers/engagement after reaching 10k? I'm mainly fitness/fashion niche and I'm a decent looking guy with a good physique.

Thanks!

Ok , glad I can be of some help here so I’ll answer your questions now.
1. The following counts being different 5-10 could be from a number of different things and I would not worry at all about that.

2. I get this a lot from clients “ I’m using f/u but I want to grow more what can I do?”

First remember what Instagram is for , f/u is really just to help along your campaign. #1 is producing consistent content daily that is not rubbish,
Ask yourself ,what are my goals here? Get followers for what? Why should they follow you ? What are you giving them? What value do you bring? Why are you any different than the other millions of people on IG .
When you follow a person or show up under a tag what will make someone stop and say WOW ,I WANT TO FOLLOW THIS GUY.


Once you have a purpose and a goal on the platform and produce consistent quality you will overcome your flatline growth. Hope this helps

 

[KeySara]

how can i boost my sales on instagram?

 

[steamsupreme]

I read the entire thread; great insights, thanks for sharing.

I have a question about "shadowbans". I have 4 accounts and the newest one is a travel account and I post once a day using about 10 hashtags. My first two posts starting at 0 followers received around 15 likes each but on the third day using my same routine I noticed no likes and when I clicked on any of the hashtags I had in the post none of those pictures showed up under any of the hashtags, even really small sub-5K hashtags. Why did this happen when I was clearly not spamming? Also, do you know how long will IG be blocking people from seeing my photos show up in the hashtags?

I'm using Jarvee in the meantime to get my likes and followers up which is helping but I am still not getting anywhere near the engagement I got those first two days.

 

[Ludwig van Beethoven]

I've heard of people juggling between 100's of accounts, why doesn't Instagram just outright ban them if they are all from the same IP address. That's something has been boggling me for some time.

 

[aristocratic]

Hey i got 1 question.

If i grab story's from different instagram accounts and i create videos out of them and post them on my account as original content (without giving credits) will i get banned?
I am on the luxury niche !!

Thanks in advance

 

[chrsplmr]

I have a 56k very active page on Instagram. Account is on private. How do I monetize it? Safe methods please.

I see this a lot , when you where growing the account t what was the goal? What niche are you in ? Why do you have an account ? Is it personal ? Did you plan on monitoring when you started ?
Generally when aiming to profit from said account / accounts you have a game plan before starting. You are currently at 56k followers I will assume all of them are authentic my method or advice here would be look around at others in your specific niche go through a few peoples funnels see what they are offering and see what is working each niche is very different.
For any new guys reading this have a vision in mind before starting and most of all stick with it if it’s a loser you will know early on. Hope this helps brothers and sisters.

Hey i got 1 question.

If i grab story's from different instagram accounts and i create videos out of them and post them on my account as original content (without giving credits) will i get banned?
I am on the luxury niche !!

Thanks in advance

In my opinion no you will not unless someone puts you on blast (rats) (tells) .However compilations or recreation of any sort of other videos are fresh content hope this helps.

 

[Emily Ingramer]

have you ever used Instagram bot?

 

[IGFella]

What's the best way to find accounts to use as sources is we're talking hundreds of accounts?

 

[Invoker]

How popular is advertising through 10k-100k follower influencers for dropshipping? When I'm looking up a product on Aliexpress, do you know how many orders is too many, in terms that, the exact item has been promoted through the small influencers? So in turn, that item won't do well, since the target audience has already seen it.

 

[DarkDrake]

i recently had some issues i hope you can shed some light on how to solve.

my first instagram account i ever made ( to test waters) got a breack and started gaining 300-500 followers a day. everything is good and fine and even to this day some of my uploads gets 100k+ views and roughly 400-500 followers a day (at 12k followers now) however, i have hit 2 major issues in the past week or so.

issue 1. i uploaded a video as i always do (1-2 uploads a day mostly 1) and noticed it got almost 0 engagements. after it being up for about 1 hour and only having 20 views and about 5 likes i archived it and uploaded another post which was ment to the day after but was ready to go. at that point everything went back to normal.

then today. i uploaded a post and from the analytics on that post (because it was doing weirdly poorly) none of my followers had seen the post so i deleted it and did the same as last time and uploaded another video and it worked again. however! this time when i am checking analytics it shows that from the 800 views and 300 likes almost all of them is from followers. only 7% weren't following me according to the insight tool.

now this seems strange to me as any other posts i have uploaded has always had a decent spread in the first 3-12 hours with about 60% followers and 40% non followers. is it jsut the analytic tool that is broken? my post seems to get a decent amount of likes overtime as well.