621,000 Followers - growth slowing down. 85/104 accounts are in full-time unfollow mode.
Hi madblackhatter1000,
I only have a single IG account, which I'm very attached to, it would really be a problem to lose it. I have developed nice friendships with quite a few of my followers and before I started using FL (about two weeks ago) I had ~1,200 followers, only 55 followings and ~350 comments per photo, posting HQ photos of my own work every other day.
Now I have almost 2,000 followers and, being forced to follow a bunch of accounts I don't care for, it's quite difficult to keep in touch with the people who really matter so I have FL follow one day and unfollow the next. I have tried waiting 3 days before unfollowing but I see no real benefit and I believe that having a high number of followings makes your account look spammy.
My settings are rather conservative 5 - 12 minute delay (7 minutes in real time), follow 400-500, unfollow 400-500, like 300-600 (I had to lower from 400-800 because I was getting a lot of errors from IG and didn't want to risk a block or ban) and I have FL on auto following Sat, Tue and Fri, unfollowing Mon, Wed and Sat and on Thu I do a bit of everything manually.
I've been growing by 50 followers per day on average (that includes <10 loses when I'm unfollowing).
Anyway, this is what I wanted to ask you: At this pace, how long do you think it would take for my account to reach a point where it would start growing organically (if that's really possible at all)?
Also, should I stick with FL or invest in the other bot you are using?
If you were managing my account, would you make any changes?
Thank you.
1. Organic Growth - this is really dependent on your engagement level. In my strategy I ruled this out, as its a bit of a crapshoot. You can have the best photos with best captions and best hashtags and NOT get featured. And a crappy photo can get featured. So I don't depend on this (I wish I could, I just don't know how to crack this nut open). I depend on a brute force approach. That said, 350 comments on posts - you're doing something amazing there. How the hell do you get so many comments from a small audience? My 10K accounts gets like 10 comments max - and I think most of those are bots haha
That said, the forum says you'll see organic growth at certain milestone numbers. that growth isn't amazing, but increases at each milestone.
1000
5000
10,000
15,000
25,000
35,000
50,000
100,000
Many insist to stop botting after 35,000, and that it is no longer necessary.
2. If you have followliker already, then I'd stick with that for a bit. Theres some tricks you can do. I'd setup multiple projects. Each project will do something different with your account.
I'd suggest keeping your existing project for expansion, and create a new project for engagement: auto like/comment those who engaged with your post AND/OR auto like those who are your followers. This won't expand your audience, but will engage with them even more. This could be how your account starts to grow organically.
Personally, I know I'm neglecting this big time. As I wrote this down, I'm thinking damn, that'd be so easy for me to setup and do to get my engagement up.
Be careful to check the automations times, delays, max and mins if doing multiple projects. You don't want to do too many actions within the same timeframe. hmmm come to think of it you could have a morning, noon, evening project so that you expand, engage, expand that way the projects never overlap.
