Instagram Journey to $100K
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madblackhatter1000
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quick question man,
did you set your min-max at 500-600 since day one or did you start slow and increased it over time ?
Also, at 300k+ followers I really think you are leaving money on the table at this point ... but it's up to you
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Increase over time starting with 50-150 up to 500-600, bumping it up 50-100 every few days. I had to do the same when I mass unfollowed. Then again from scratch at 50-150 when starting to follow again. From the stories I've read, anytime you change your strategy, to increase or unfollow, whatever it is, warm up the accounts each time instead of full-steam. The algorithm is rigged to see mass anything as a hack attack.
Regarding leaving money on the table - thats inspiring to think I may have reached a level worth monetizing! Thanks! Thats alright for now, I only have some spare time after work and weekends for the big e-commerce launch in a few months. Slow and steady
madblackhatter1000
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335,000 Followers
After lots of trial and errors, working with helpdesk, it seems its very difficult to get Follower Liker to properly do FLC. FollowLiker rocks with simple tasks (ie follow 700 people, or like 600 photos with #ocean), but complex tasks like FLC is where it falls apart. I dug around the forums and FLC is a common issue. As long as you don't need to do FLC, its a great product.
I've since switched back to MassPlanner, and worked with the developers to iron out many of the issues I had before.
After lots of trial and errors, working with helpdesk, it seems its very difficult to get Follower Liker to properly do FLC. FollowLiker rocks with simple tasks (ie follow 700 people, or like 600 photos with #ocean), but complex tasks like FLC is where it falls apart. I dug around the forums and FLC is a common issue. As long as you don't need to do FLC, its a great product.
I've since switched back to MassPlanner, and worked with the developers to iron out many of the issues I had before.
Couch Monkey Media
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I have been watching your post. I have never had an IG account. Was thinking about setting one up for the business.
madblackhatter1000
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350,000 followers today.
Spent 15 hours the past 2 days gathering and curating photos for 2 niches + finding 500 IG accts to follow followers for these niches. Also connecting one IG acct to a Pinterest acct, so that photos get autopinned.
Spent 15 hours the past 2 days gathering and curating photos for 2 niches + finding 500 IG accts to follow followers for these niches. Also connecting one IG acct to a Pinterest acct, so that photos get autopinned.
Im going to follow what you have done here on a smaller scale. The only question I have at this time is:
How do you know when an account needs phone verification or has stopped a massplanner action due to problems with instagram?
I look foward to reading your updates and i wish you all the luck!
How do you know when an account needs phone verification or has stopped a massplanner action due to problems with instagram?
I look foward to reading your updates and i wish you all the luck!
PaardOpWielen
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MP detects whether an account needs phone verification or not.
madblackhatter1000
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368,000 Followers
20 accts got temp blocks twice, so I let them sit for a week, they are now warming up at 40-90 follows /day. I also significantly lowered the settings of the other 80 accts to near warmup levels (50-150 follows a day) to prevent any more blocks. Will be nudging the figures every 2-3 days back up to 400-500 follows + 700-1000 likes.
I've also converted some of my niche accounts into MICRO-niche accounts - this required getting high quality content that is very specific.
20 accts got temp blocks twice, so I let them sit for a week, they are now warming up at 40-90 follows /day. I also significantly lowered the settings of the other 80 accts to near warmup levels (50-150 follows a day) to prevent any more blocks. Will be nudging the figures every 2-3 days back up to 400-500 follows + 700-1000 likes.
I've also converted some of my niche accounts into MICRO-niche accounts - this required getting high quality content that is very specific.
Neither. Go to your competitors. Follow all their followers.
Buy new blank ones and build any niche you want.
rodmarb2b
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madblackhatter1000
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FLC = Follow-Like-Comment the same user.
Example: your account follows user12345, likes 3 photos of user12345, and makes a comment on one of their photos. They will feel a lot more engaged to follow you back...
Example: your account follows user12345, likes 3 photos of user12345, and makes a comment on one of their photos. They will feel a lot more engaged to follow you back...
madblackhatter1000
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383,000 Followers
Heres a breakdown:
1 acct 8K followers
3 acct 6K
10 acct 5K
20 acct 4K
40 acct 3K
Lesson of the day
One account received an Instagram email verification. I was unable to access the email address. Contacted the email admins and they said my email account was deactivated by the user. I am pretty sure I didn't deactivate this dummy account. Anyways, created a new gmail account and Instagram asked me for a photo of my face holding a paper with some numbers and user info on it.
Spent the past day changing passwords on 100+ email accounts. Some of them were unrecoverable, so I opted to create new gmail accounts to replace them. Luckily I checked before they get email verified in the future.
Heres a breakdown:
1 acct 8K followers
3 acct 6K
10 acct 5K
20 acct 4K
40 acct 3K
Lesson of the day
One account received an Instagram email verification. I was unable to access the email address. Contacted the email admins and they said my email account was deactivated by the user. I am pretty sure I didn't deactivate this dummy account. Anyways, created a new gmail account and Instagram asked me for a photo of my face holding a paper with some numbers and user info on it.
Spent the past day changing passwords on 100+ email accounts. Some of them were unrecoverable, so I opted to create new gmail accounts to replace them. Luckily I checked before they get email verified in the future.
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I have had a few email accounts get shut down/disabled. How did you "opt to create a new gmail account to replace them." If Gmail accounts that I have are currently disabled how do I opt to create a new one?
To connect the new gmail account to the old instagram account do i simply go into the profile of the instagram account and change the email, then verify with the new email? Or do you have a different process.
loedown
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That's kind of crazy them asking you to take a picture holding a sign lol.
valser29
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I would like to ask you some questions and hope that you could answer them.
1. I remember when I used to ran about 5 accts, I was using just one gmail address but changed the name by adding numbers (like xxxx+1(at)gmail.com, xxxx+2(at)gmail.com). Do you thinks it is safe to have around 5 accounts per 1 email like that?
2. Where did you buy your proxies? Recently I've seen people getting their accounts permanently banned because of the bad proxies.
3. Do you recommend using MP over FL? Or it is better to have both of them?
4. Where did you buy your burner numbers from?
5. What kind of VPS did you choose on GreenCloud? SEO optimized?
Sorry if these questions have already been asked.
1. I remember when I used to ran about 5 accts, I was using just one gmail address but changed the name by adding numbers (like xxxx+1(at)gmail.com, xxxx+2(at)gmail.com). Do you thinks it is safe to have around 5 accounts per 1 email like that?
2. Where did you buy your proxies? Recently I've seen people getting their accounts permanently banned because of the bad proxies.
3. Do you recommend using MP over FL? Or it is better to have both of them?
4. Where did you buy your burner numbers from?
5. What kind of VPS did you choose on GreenCloud? SEO optimized?
Sorry if these questions have already been asked.
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