Thanks for the kind words! To answer your question, I haven't gotten anyone to give me any sort of free shoutouts. I've learned from people asking me later on the same question that you shouldn't give free shoutouts because there's always someone willing to pay for them and if you only give them out for free, there's never any money to be made. In my opinion, you're better off trying to do shout out for shout out. Try to find similar accounts that have close to the same followers/average likes as you. Keep up the hard work, make sure to post every single day and don't give up!
My First Instagram Journey
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Thanks for the kind words! To answer your question, I haven't gotten anyone to give me any sort of free shoutouts. I've learned from people asking me later on the same question that you shouldn't give free shoutouts because there's always someone willing to pay for them and if you only give them out for free, there's never any money to be made. In my opinion, you're better off trying to do shout out for shout out. Try to find similar accounts that have close to the same followers/average likes as you. Keep up the hard work, make sure to post every single day and don't give up!
Hi there, to answer your questions, I personally have 1 account, but I'm thinking about expanding while I dabble with a few other methods such as cpa+instagram. Furthermore, if you're looking to grow at a pace of 100/h and you say you have the money to invest, I would advise you to invest into some high quality shout outs. Check out bigger accounts in your niche and look at their engagement, make sure they have really good engagement and message them about their prices. Remember, this is all up to bargain so don't just settle on whatever prices they tell you, you can usually get a lower price. If you have money to invest, you can definitely grow very big very fast. However if you don't, then don't expect to find some magical way to immediately grow at a pave of 100/h, it takes time to build a large following. Goodluck!
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Where do you sell shoutouts ?
This has been mentioned before in the thread. Please scroll up.
Update:
Current Number of followers: 80.1k (+13.1k from last week)
Will reach 100k in a week and a half, sold around 250$ worth of shoutouts this week alone! However this was mostly due to having sold a 70$ permanent one through shoutcart.com as i raised my prices to see if it was worth it. Also sold 1x 2h+ 1x permanent + 1week bio link to another dude for 150$. However, this caused me a lot of headaches as he basically wanted to get spoonfed and wanted a full refund after he saw that his first shitty picture he sent me didn't get good engagement. However, overall good week! Looking forward to hitting 100k as i expect a lot more shoutout inquiries to come from it as 100k looks much better than 60k or what not. As per always, if you've got any questions leave them below for others to learn as well! Will try to answer everyone
Current Number of followers: 80.1k (+13.1k from last week)
Will reach 100k in a week and a half, sold around 250$ worth of shoutouts this week alone! However this was mostly due to having sold a 70$ permanent one through shoutcart.com as i raised my prices to see if it was worth it. Also sold 1x 2h+ 1x permanent + 1week bio link to another dude for 150$. However, this caused me a lot of headaches as he basically wanted to get spoonfed and wanted a full refund after he saw that his first shitty picture he sent me didn't get good engagement. However, overall good week! Looking forward to hitting 100k as i expect a lot more shoutout inquiries to come from it as 100k looks much better than 60k or what not. As per always, if you've got any questions leave them below for others to learn as well! Will try to answer everyone
Thanks! As for the total income i've gained, i really can't be sure, haven't been keeping track much even if i should...
If i could take a rough estimate, i'd say around 350-400$ so far. Only recently been starting to make money though.
Update:
Currently followers: 93.9k (+13.8k)
So, quick update, sold 225$ worth of shoutouts this week! Has been pretty good! However, I'm sad to say that i've been banned till Wednesday. I suppose I've been going too intensely in regards to following once again. Will have to take a step back and slow the pace down if I don't want to lose my account. Hoping to reach 100k in less than a week!
I've also noticed interaction has seemed a bit off this week as well. Currently only getting around 3k likes per picture, when I used to get 4k+. From my usual trend, I should technically be getting around 5-6k likes per picture, but this isn't the case. Lets hope the interacting catches back up in the upcoming week.
I'll most likely post a quick update once I actually do reach 100k followers.
As usual, I'll try to answer every question as best as I can, ask away everyone so as many people as possible can benefit from this journey thread!
Currently followers: 93.9k (+13.8k)
So, quick update, sold 225$ worth of shoutouts this week! Has been pretty good! However, I'm sad to say that i've been banned till Wednesday. I suppose I've been going too intensely in regards to following once again. Will have to take a step back and slow the pace down if I don't want to lose my account. Hoping to reach 100k in less than a week!
I've also noticed interaction has seemed a bit off this week as well. Currently only getting around 3k likes per picture, when I used to get 4k+. From my usual trend, I should technically be getting around 5-6k likes per picture, but this isn't the case. Lets hope the interacting catches back up in the upcoming week.
I'll most likely post a quick update once I actually do reach 100k followers.
As usual, I'll try to answer every question as best as I can, ask away everyone so as many people as possible can benefit from this journey thread!
incognitus
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Best IG journey so far! I've an account set up exactly for this but its been eating dust for a few weeks. Your journey will probably be the reason why I revive the account
Cheers and wish you luck!
Cheers and wish you luck!
incomesurfer
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Great journey op, your account grow so fast. That must be an awesome niche
Question:
When do you stop follow/in follow method? Do you do sfs or buy shout out?
When does your account grow naturally?
Thanks
Question:
When do you stop follow/in follow method? Do you do sfs or buy shout out?
When does your account grow naturally?
Thanks
Hi, I follow Friday-sunday manually, and unfollow Monday to Thursday manually as well. I typically stop when I reach 1000/un follow in one day and then continue on the next day.
I've never bought shoutouts, nor do I really put much emphasis on sfs (only ever did 1). I first started seeing my account grow organically more or less at around 30k followers.
Quick update for everyone, I've officially hit the 100k mark today! We've finally achieved it and it only took 4 months to do it! This week unfortunately has been a pretty dry week and I've only sold 25$ in shoutouts so far. This is why you should have a diversity of income sources! I'm currently trying out some cpa+instagram. Haven't been doing so good, only like 1-3$ a day so far on 10 accounts total. If anyone is interested about it, i can always talk about this as well.
As always, will keep you guys updated this sunday night! Have a good week everyone!
As always, will keep you guys updated this sunday night! Have a good week everyone!
Update:
Current followers: 107,000 (+13.1k from last week)
This week hasn't been as good in terms of selling shoutouts as the other weeks, only sold for 105$. However, I'm really happy to have reached 100k this week! Now that I've reached 100k, I think that I'll be going easy on the follow/unfollow. Most likely will not keep to my strict unfollow/follow routine that I had been keeping up. This is mainly due to the fact that i got temp banned a lot and I don't want to receive any surprise perma bans... Also, it takes a bunch of time to do this manually and I'm getting enough organic followers that I believe I can now grow more or less organically. Will see how it goes and if ever it doesn't really work, I think i'll just revert back to the old routine.
So, now that I'll most likely only be concentrating on posting pictures, i'll have more spare time for other stuff. This is why I've recently started doing some CPA through instagram, however I'm only making pennies currently (2-3$/day). Maybe thinking about testing and expanding on to FB. Who knows, what i'll do, but I really want to diversify and increase my income through different methods and not only rely on this one account. So, will keep you guys updated as always and let you know what I do ! Ask away and i'll try to answer as swiftly as possible.
Cheers guys!
Current followers: 107,000 (+13.1k from last week)
This week hasn't been as good in terms of selling shoutouts as the other weeks, only sold for 105$. However, I'm really happy to have reached 100k this week! Now that I've reached 100k, I think that I'll be going easy on the follow/unfollow. Most likely will not keep to my strict unfollow/follow routine that I had been keeping up. This is mainly due to the fact that i got temp banned a lot and I don't want to receive any surprise perma bans... Also, it takes a bunch of time to do this manually and I'm getting enough organic followers that I believe I can now grow more or less organically. Will see how it goes and if ever it doesn't really work, I think i'll just revert back to the old routine.
So, now that I'll most likely only be concentrating on posting pictures, i'll have more spare time for other stuff. This is why I've recently started doing some CPA through instagram, however I'm only making pennies currently (2-3$/day). Maybe thinking about testing and expanding on to FB. Who knows, what i'll do, but I really want to diversify and increase my income through different methods and not only rely on this one account. So, will keep you guys updated as always and let you know what I do ! Ask away and i'll try to answer as swiftly as possible.
Cheers guys!
Awesome! You did it brother!
btw, How many people did you FOLLOW yet?
If you're asking how many people total I've followed throughout the 4 months that I've been doing this, I can't tell you for sure Haha. However if you're asking how many per day do I follow, I usually do 1k per day (100/h for 10h) x3 days back to back. And then I unfollow these people using the same strategy through the 4 following days.