i own a bot, should i just follow / unfollow people?Depends what your account is about. Usually personal accounts are more random, but some people have a focus like food, travelling, etc. With that budget I would suggest using instagress if you have a low following number right now. If you already have a lot of followers you can purchase shoutouts as well.
Let's say I want more followers for my personal account and my budget is somewhere between 10-100$
What would you recommend? Buying shoutouts? Massplanner? Any tips would be ideal.
Is it that I need to use hashtags more often or focus on specific content?
thanks for the advice, will take in consideration to focus on specificsMake a plan for yourself
What is your niche fashion,cars,beauty,art
Follow/like on that hasjtag or populair accounts ....
Use hasjtags what fit your niche.
And let do the good content the %50 work
Instagress is great for getting started.
If you ever want to run multiple accounts (or expect to be botting for more than a year) get FollowLiker. It's expensive, but you pay $100 once and you can automate your account for forever. (I didn't want to buy it, so I used instagress for a year with 8 accounts and ended up paying $270. I wish I had just gotten FollowLiker back then).
What you say is very valid but you have left out crucial additional costs involved with using FL.
I think its important to give an OP who appears to be less knowledgeable as yourself all the possible costs of using proxies/vps/electricity of running a computer 24/7...
I'd hate to see anyone buy something by mistake...
if your just running a few accounts you don't need proxies. If you want to run more than 5, then you have to pay around $2/month for every 5 additional accounts (at 5 accounts/proxy).
Most people I know of keep their computer on 24/7 anyway....and leave your computer on 24/7 OR pay for a vps
Its important that people see ALL the costs involved. Those costs might be obvious to you but they are not to everyone and could effect the decision people make.