Recent content by chrtr

I am staggered about how clueless many people are regarding the pricing of Instagram accounts. I was once offered $22.000 for my +1 million account. I felt offended and declined, as I spent 3 years building it, and I have 60% of my followers from Western countries. I even have +20 tier 1...

Lost about 1000 on my 1.4 million account. It seems like it is universal. Cristiano Ronaldo lost 86.000 in a day.

My average engagement is around 25k likes and 300 comments, but only about 0.2% of my impressions come from hashtags. And I have never used bots, engagement groups or the like. With my level of engagement I should rank rather high on hashtags, but the hashtag impressions are ridiculously low...

That’s not gonna revive the account. If you already have a low reach, the reach is only going to be lower if you post this many times per day. You need to start slow with 1 (max 2 posts) per day, so your posts won’t cannibalize on each others’ engagement.

Because people share my posts with their friends. On average, each of my posts are shared 3.800 times. Trust me, this gives tons of followers. I used to use hashtags to grow, but it is not necessary when the snowball of organic traffic is rolling.

I do not agree. The reach on Instagram is amazing, you just need to understand how to leverage the platform. It is not about likes and comments anymore. It is much more about shares and saves. I speak through experience. Over the course of this past month, I increased my engagement rate from...

It is funny, because a month ago I would disagree. But the last couple of weeks, I have started to post without hashtags, and I am basically seeing the same results. I still grow about 2.000 followers – with and without hashtags. If the posts are shared and saved a lot, it does not really matter...

It is to "hide" the hashtags. If you put 30 hashtags in the caption, it looks super spammy. If you put them in the comment section, there will be greater focus on what you write in the caption. Coherent and transparent captions will on average increase the performance of your posts.

It all depends on what you use social media influence for. As an example, I don't do promos or collaborations with any brands reaching out to me. I use my influence to gain access to highly influential people (international celebrities, entrepreneurs, etc.) whom I can leverage for future...

We all know now that "content is king". That's nothing new. The girl in the video is also preaching for longer captions. And she is completely right about this. I started writing longer captions about 8 months ago, and it seemed to have a significant impact on my engagement. More comments, more...

I grow 2500 followers a day without automation. So no, you can scale by growing organically too.

I experience it with some posts too. I usually get around 100.000 impressions from hashtags alone, but sometimes I get close to zero. It is only one out of five posts though. I have tried to assess the issue, if there is a pattern to which hashtags it concerns, but it does not seem there is a...

You can take it quite far, if you ensure to built something offline simultaneously. I have built a page with +1 million followers with good engagement, and I don't earn money from ads (a conscious decision). I have leveraged my influencing power to connect with very influential people offline...

It makes no sense to pay for verification submission. It is free through the app. And yes, you can get verified by requesting verification through the app. My buddy just did so, and he is not a celebrity. He has an inspiration account with +1.500.000 followers - that's it. However, I do believe...

Instagram counts engagement as the accumulation of "likes", "comments", and "saves". In Instagram Insights, these categories are valued equally. As an example, my best performing post had 53.257 likes, 567 comments, and 23.545 saves. According to Instagram, this equals 77.369 engagement points...