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[Deleted member 979859]

You keep growing! Good luck with this journey.

 

[Little_Jacob]

hey there, i just started a journey in instagram.
i have a few questions,
do you will use any bot in the future for IG? which one ?

Hey there! Good luck in your journey! As I said before I do not intend to buy or use any bot! I will continue to do it manually and cost free.

Good luck on this! I'm newbie here but i already know that you'll have succes! Gonna check this thread from time to time to see how are you going!

Thank you!

Im starting a similar project, good luck buddy!

Thank you, and good luck with your project!

You keep growing! Good luck with this journey.

Thank you! You really smashed with your journey !!

Ok so now lets see what happend this days. After one week I think I could do more but I also believe the results are fair considering I do not use any ad/bot. I continued posting pictures and videos on both Instagram and Facebook. Sharing the hell out of them on groups and continuously searching for bigger groups. Today I streamed a weed documentary which didn't had so much reactions as I expected but maybe it was the hour also.. I will search for something else and hit the Live button again asap! If anyone can suggest me the best free way to do a quality live poll like the ones i see over and over please tell me. ( I searched on the forum and found some but the counter seems to stay still..) For Instagram, aside from posting I follow targeted ppl from other pages to increase the page. Slow and steady.. Reddit was also a nice tool in promoting some of the videos and the account with karma constantly building up might come in handy in the future also. Ok so now let see the stats:

WEEK 1 STATISTICS:

FB:
Likes/follows: 661
Post Reach: 65,021
Post Engagement: 9,038
Photos uploaded: 17
Videos: 3


Instagram:
Followers: 155
Following: 226
Posts: 12


Spent / Earned:
Spent: $0
Earned: $0

A Total of 816 followers in one week. Judging by this first week, I can hope to reach the short-term goal of 1k followers on both FB/IG in less than 1 month as initially predicted. Thank you all for following and I look forward to questions or suggestions!

 

[Retus4]

Hey there! Good luck in your journey! As I said before I do not intend to buy or use any bot! I will continue to do it manually and cost free.


Thank you!


Thank you, and good luck with your project!


Thank you! You really smashed with your journey !!

Ok so now lets see what happend this days. After one week I think I could do more but I also believe the results are fair considering I do not use any ad/bot. I continued posting pictures and videos on both Instagram and Facebook. Sharing the hell out of them on groups and continuously searching for bigger groups. Today I streamed a weed documentary which didn't had so much reactions as I expected but maybe it was the hour also.. I will search for something else and hit the Live button again asap! If anyone can suggest me the best free way to do a quality live poll like the ones i see over and over please tell me. ( I searched on the forum and found some but the counter seems to stay still..) For Instagram, aside from posting I follow targeted ppl from other pages to increase the page. Slow and steady.. Reddit was also a nice tool in promoting some of the videos and the account with karma constantly building up might come in handy in the future also. Ok so now let see the stats:

WEEK 1 STATISTICS:

FB:
Likes/follows: 661
Post Reach: 65,021
Post Engagement: 9,038
Photos uploaded: 17
Videos: 3


Instagram:
Followers: 155
Following: 226
Posts: 12


Spent / Earned:
Spent: $0
Earned: $0

A Total of 816 followers in one week. Judging by this first week, I can hope to reach the short-term goal of 1k followers on both FB/IG in less than 1 month as initially predicted. Thank you all for following and I look forward to questions or suggestions!

thx for the answer!
if u are going to use a bot plz let me know which one do you think is the best!

goodluck!

 

[Little_Jacob]

thx for the answer!
if u are going to use a bot plz let me know which one do you think is the best!

goodluck!

Thank you! Maybe Massplanner or I don't know. I didn't searched for a bot yet.

I've been in my country for the Easter vacation and I probably posted and was less active. I stopped using Reddit and Forums in this period but I intent to start again. I read alot about commenting on other pages and using top comments to boost the page.. I'll try to integrate that too. I hitted the short-term goal of 1k on Facebook and I slowly advance to the 10k goal. 520 on Instagram is good and I also saw that posts get more attention pn IG than FB so that's nice. Pushing towards the short term goal. I'm thinking if I should start with monetizing when both reach 5k or when both reach around 10k. Since I didn't had time to plan a live I stopped with it but it was a good method and I'll try to make a live voting system. If I manage to hit 1k in this next week on IG too I'll be on time like I calculated in the beggining!

WEEK 3 STATISTICS:

FB:
Likes/follows: 1,171
Post Reach: 50,508
Post Engagement: 5,218
Photos uploaded: 31
Videos: 8


Instagram:
Followers: 520
Following: 286
Posts: 21


Spent / Earned:
Spent: $0
Earned: $0

 

[nasia1301]

Good luck with your journey and keep motivated! I grow accouts too without bot so I know it's a bit hard.. keep working... can't wait to see results

 

[Little_Jacob]

Good luck with your journey and keep motivated! I grow accouts too without bot so I know it's a bit hard.. keep working... can't wait to see results

Thank you nasia1301! Keep up the motivation and good luck with your pages!

Because the last two days went pretty good I decided to post again now before the weekly stats reset. I managed to get 50 positive karma on reddit through the videos and also received many likes on FB page in the last two days. I am searching for some material to do a new live broadcast and also I am planning in shooting a weed recipe and watermark it with the brand name and post it on FB ,IG and start a brand new YouTube page to connect along with the rest. Instagram is growing slower than FB also because I started the page later but the engagement is rlly good! From what I saw this weekend this might be a sign that I should increase the numeber of posts during the weekend and I will keep this in mind for next weeks. Thinking of preparing the monetization plan in the week to come and implement it when I hit 5k on both, but I was also thinking to wait until 10K.. Didn't decided yet.

WEEK 3 STATISTICS:

FB:
Likes/follows: 1,540
Post Reach: 87,420
Post Engagement: 10,935
Photos uploaded: 34
Videos: 12


Instagram:
Followers: 533
Following: 286
Posts: 23


Spent / Earned:
Spent: $0
Earned: $0

 

[Deleted member 657006]

Keep going your need about 5k followers on social then start earning (( that a guess ))

I have noticed most sold accounts are over 5k , so i guess the income start from there , like i say it a guess only ....

Weed is a massive niche and hammered daily .

Bodybuilding another niche hammered daily.

 

[Little_Jacob]

Keep going your need about 5k followers on social then start earning (( that a guess ))

I have noticed most sold accounts are over 5k , so i guess the income start from there , like i say it a guess only ....

Weed is a massive niche and hammered daily .

Bodybuilding another niche hammered daily.

Thank you for the support man! I also saw guys trying to monetize at even less tan 5K but personally I want to plan it very well before implementing it. Also I am gathering many t-shits ideas that I have to work in PS or Illustrator first so it would take some time. I am aiming for a high quality monetization system that won't make the page seem like it's made only for $$ but also provides quality content that makes the audience come back so it will take me some time to set it up. I don't rush at all because I saw that this can lead to failure in IM.

I acquired a software from the forum ( Thank you again!) that helps me download all the photos posted by a Instagram page so now I rlly stacked a big database. Also judging from last days activity I started to recognize the content that works for my audience. I haven't worked on the live broadcast but I have an idea, hope I can do it this week. Next week I am also planning to produce my first original video, shooting a recipe. Reddit also responds well to the videos I post so I feel like I am on the right path. After I make the video I will also make a YouTube account. Instagram following gets boring from time to time and the progress is way slower than FB but still I am trying to follow/unfollow daily. Because I saw in statistics that in the weekend there is more ppl on FB (pretty obvious but I wanted real proof first) so if I find some proper content for a live broadcast I will do it in the weekend, or in the weekdays the live poll if I manage to work it out. Ok so numbers for the day:


FB:
Likes/follows: 1,806
Post Reach: 125,170
Post Engagement: 16,429
Photos uploaded: 37
Videos: 12


Instagram:
Followers: 540
Following: 113
Posts: 25


Spent / Earned:
Spent: $0
Earned: $0

 

[Little_Jacob]

Ok so as the main update of the week I made a huge step starting using Hootsuite for free. Started scheduling posts obtained with Insta Photo Downloader which I got from the download section of the forum and other websites for videos.. This helps me connect facebook with Twitter and Instagram and even if I use it for 1 day I know it will reduce some work. Also the tools there helps in finding rlly nice content and it's free.

While seeing competitors around FB and also reading the Making Money section most watched posts I was thinking in investing some money on a small blog to connect to the social media and also to start scheduling posts there since I think I can generate some traffic with some nice content. I started looking in the blogging section of the forum checking the most viewed posts seen some interesting ideas on autoblogging and rss feeds, and also ways to monetize. I checked a couple of blogs related to my niche to see what are they using and if they are consistent. There are many subjects to be covered so I see alot of potential of dragging traffic from fb page IG and twitter to the main blog where I can use adsense amazon or any other monetization technique. I am still researching the subject to choose the best way to start and some advice or recommandations from you guys would be nice. From what I saw till now I would go for a private hosted wordpress blog for more customization.

Coming back to the social media, everything works pretty well. On 1st of May I had a video that reached the most people until now with 87K views and still counting. This also made my FB page increase faster a little bit because many people shared and tagged friends. This is a sign to me that it is possible and I can grow much faster with a good video. Another pretty nice trick that I learned around here and that helped me even if it might seem obvious is going to the groups you posted in and just post a comment on each post you shared or the ones that performed well in the group to get attention again BUMP(i delete them immediately after and the post is still showing again). Sometimes is better than posting a new thing and in this way you build nice intercation. I also revisit all the posts from my page and invite everybody who interacted. IG also growed and there is interaction on every photo I upload > 20 likes. Not following people everyday since I forget about it but I also receive organic follows.. (maybe because I've put ig in fb description?). I sometimes get a little lazy with finding and posting comments but Hootsuite will help me with that and I will try to keep everything as schetuled to reach the goal of 10K followers. This journey thread here also helps me being focused on this project and think in the long term.
Now to see the stats of the last days(idk why the weekly count didn't reset but you can see the progress from the last post):

FB:
Likes/follows: 2,228
Post Reach: 299,388
Post Engagement: 34,866
Photos uploaded: 41
Videos: 18


Instagram:
Followers: 889
Following: 318
Posts: 28



Spent / Earned:
Spent: $0
Earned: $0

 

[beregrijj]

Keep going, seems like you are on a good track. You are not motivating only yourself, but others too (including me). I have a plan to start something similar, i just need to find a niche

I just have one question. Did you find the fb groups in your niche manually, or you used some software/website that helps you find fb groups?

 

[Little_Jacob]

Keep going, seems like you are on a good track. You are not motivating only yourself, but others too (including me). I have a plan to start something similar, i just need to find a niche

I just have one question. Did you find the fb groups in your niche manually, or you used some software/website that helps you find fb groups?

Thank you!
Yes I join them manually. I have 3 more than 1 yr old accounts on fb which I use to join groups. 1 got limitated 2 times so I only have like 10 groups there and posting in 2 or 3 per day max 2 posts in order to avoid limitation. The other two account which one of them is my main one with the page also I joined around 20 30 different groups on each of them. So a total of around 70 groups. It isn't easy to find good groups.. I mean with a lot of people and interaction.. but just use search bar with keywords from your niche join the biggest ones and than when you go to a group you have suggested groups.. This is mostly how I do it. or even members that share other groups. Also another thing what I did is added friends to test on one account. I went to a popular page posting similar photos to mine and than choose a photo and added many ppl that liked the post. the account reached like 1k friends and along with that I find the groups that they joined related to my niche.
Or invest and get Massplanner.

 

[beregrijj]

Thanks for the info!

 

[Little_Jacob]

Thanks for the info!

Since you asked me I constatly tought of ways and searched a little bit. I was able to find a couple of really nice groups in the last hour by going on the profiles of the admins from some of the groups I already have and check what groups they join. You can look around and see also which one is responsive this way. You might want to give this a try also.

 

[beregrijj]

Since you asked me I constatly tought of ways and searched a little bit. I was able to find a couple of really nice groups in the last hour by going on the profiles of the admins from some of the groups I already have and check what groups they join. You can look around and see also which one is responsive this way. You might want to give this a try also.

I definitely will, but before i start i'll try to find a way (app/software/website) to refine-search Facebook groups, so i can join the most engaged ones in a niche.
Also i will need a game plan, set goals, and most importantly, decide on a niche - the last one has been on my mind for almost a week. Hope I'll come up with something soon

 

[Little_Jacob]

Last day I played around with Hootsuite and got used to it. Today I'm planning to schedule 100 posts for the next period in order to automize this for a period. The only task remaining will be sharing into the groups and growing twitter and ig. The video I was talking about last time hitted 110K views and 300K reach and other 3 new videos also perform very well. I am still looking around for the blog idea but I think I will leave it aside for a period till I find a good template and create some good content for the first posts. Many competitors are not so well developed in terms of web design and what they offer. I will continue growing the pages and plan the blog until I feel I can start with it. In terms of monetizing, the blog might open many new ways to do that. Also I still gather ideas for t-shirts and until now I have 10 base ideas and I also need to work on a brand type of t-shirt. Another nice thing is that I know somebody that can provide some cheap and hand made crafts that I thing would sell well amongst the followers. Ok so for the numbers of today I just hit 2500 likes on FB:

FB:
Likes/follows: 2,511
Post Reach: 355,408
Post Engagement: 40,815
Photos uploaded: 43
Videos: 20


Instagram:
Followers: 1008
Following: 407
Posts: 30



Spent / Earned:
Spent: $0
Earned: $0

 

[Little_Jacob]

I decided to take time and shedule 100 post for FB and Twitter. Yesterday I did some research for other project and I did the usual job with my page. I found and added a couple of groups searched manually. Found more subredits to post vidoes in.. I already built 121 karma so I think it might bring some traffic. The videos perform well on all platforms. Yesterday I scheduled via Hootsuite 100 posts. I posted 2 photos and 1 video per day and reviewed all the list after. All the videos were from multiple competitors and were top performers and some that I tought that are nice . The photos were got from a instragam account and I choose 63 of them.

I plan to find even more groups with the methods I already mentioned and to try the trial for Massplanner soon. I already have 10+ ideas of tshirts that I am sure that will have good impact. I need to work a little bit to make them look good. Once I finish I will use a well known tee provider and start monetizing(after I hit 10K). This way I will be able to test them and see if it works and then invest in a blog and expand. But first I want to test and improve gradually the page, the t shirts and to build a relationship with the audience. I am going to take time next days to work on the other project and start working on the tshirts. Between this I will try to get the free trial for massplanner.

STATS

FB:
Likes/follows: 3,065
Post Reach: 495,024
Post Engagement: 59,231
Photos uploaded: 48
Videos: 22


Instagram:
Followers: 1050
Following: 743
Posts: 32



Spent / Earned:
Spent: $0
Earned: $0

 

[Little_Jacob]

I've been inactive in Instagram and Twitter with the follow/unfollow process but I continued with facebook. Last two days I've had a huge progress in the number of likes. More than 30% of the posts have more than 100 likes on the page and the rest have more than 20 for sure.
I started to prepare the tshirts using illustrator. Today I've made the first one and also serached for possibilities of promoting a world wide seed bank because I think some would need. Also thinking about bongs and other stuff but I will find out more with time. I have another 4 or 5 ideas of t shirts to make in illustrator and hopefully hit 10K and start monetizing. After the last progress I feel more confident about the page. People are also talking and the response is really good.

STATS

FB:
Likes/follows: 4386 (+1321 in 2 days)
Post Reach: 717,626
Post Engagement: 85,472
Photos uploaded: 52
Videos: 24

I guess this is the effect of the two movies that got more views and reddit. Also some photos performed really well and maybe ppl in the groups got used to the posts and decided to like it.


Spent / Earned:
Spent: $0
Earned: $0