It's ok. I've learned so much from BHW I don't mind sharing any secrets I might have. I owe this forum alot.
Its pretty simple and I've done it multiple times for myself and clients:
1. Make a niche-specific phone verified insta account
2. immediately post 9 posts (enough to fill the screen when ppl look at your profile if they dont scroll)
3. Find you competitors insta accounts and start manually following and unfollowing their followers. I usually try to wait two weeks after following a user to unfollow them. There is an hourly and daily follow/unfollow limit but in my experience you will not get banned AS LONG AS YOU ARE DOING THIS MANUALLY and stop when it tells you to.
4. Post 3x per day using hash tags. I generate hashtags here:
http://www.all-hashtag.com/
I spend maybe 15min / day doing this and am still getting follow back rates of around 60% in all my niches. Usually after 5-6 weeks the profile is growing so fast on its own (through people tagging their friends in posts) that its not worth my time to continue manually following users.
Note: I never had massplanner until last week so I withheld mentioning it in my growth process... but massplanners capabilities are blowing my mind. I plan to continue to seed insta accounts using the above method in order to avoid spam detection/getting banned and then slowly automate like/unlike activity.