Many ways; emails, cold calling, DMs, other social platforms such as YouTube, Quora & Facebook. Be more specific and I can answer more detailed
Hi, thanks for the thread. Can you please elaborate on what it is you are doing ?
Also how did you get started ?
Good point. So I run a digital marketing agency and we almost solely provide Instagram services. This varies from; just growth, content, consultation, and sometimes more specific operations such as engagement recovery campaigns etc.
I started in an odd way, I was doing CPA spam with OGads for 6-12 months, this was 3 years ago. It got a little difficult and stressful (constant ban waves, PV's etc) so I figured that i know a ton about growing accounts and Instagram in general, why not help legitimate businesses!
Good luck with your journey bro!
Even i do similar work!
Thank you man!
Thanks for doing an AMA.
I have a few:
1. How do you think has IG evolved in these 3 years? Especially regarding their bot detection, and regarding organic growth.
2. What were your biggest mistakes as a beginner?
3. What general advice do you have? (I understand if you do not want to share your best advice)
1. Botting has got more difficult; lower yields and stricter rules. However it's still very viable and profitable if done properly.
2. Biggest mistakes as a beginner when starting as an agency was pricing & confidence in what I was offering. My first client I agreed to £50/month for 6 months. This is crazy cheap and he locked me in for the 6 months. I learned pretty quick after that that my services were higher value than what I gave him. This was mainly down to confidence.
3. General advice? For an agency or for what? Ask me something specific and I will give any information you like!
What do you offer clients?
Im not sure what to do here, I feel like if a Burger Restaurant wants help with IG what do I do, automate, fan pages etc?
or do you focus on clients that want to build themed pages?
See one of my other answers for what I offer.
For a burger restaurant or restaurants in general I would offer them:
- Growth (automated & targeting locals)
- DM's to local users
- Content management (including targeted hashtags)
- Monthly reports (optional)
- Paid ads (optional)
Local growth is generally the best bet here, and content if they have the budget for it. I generally find restaurants pretty difficult to work with.
Do you pitch the clients with DMs or do you have a LP something and redirect them there from IG?
I have something set up with DM's but its hit & miss, you have to have a good strategy to make it work in the DMs. I have a website for social proof but genuinely in 2 years of agency, nearly no one cares about my website, I learned that in the first month. I set up a website, had business cards, flyers, etc. None of it mattered lol.
I dont think it would work pitching through DM's. Its the fastest way to get banned IMO.
It works, just have to be careful & strategic.
what tools do you use?
how many accounts do you bot?
what technique do you use? (child accounts, follow unfollow, power likes?)
what is your backup plan in case IG decides to ban all automated accounts tomorrow?
- I use Jarvee.
~100 client accounts
~400 of my own accounts for different purposes.
All of the methods you mentioned for different users. Follow unfollow is my bread and butter though.
I don't believe IG will do something like that as it will f*ck there user base & stock levels etc. It is getting more and more difficult and only the strong are surviving. If it really did all go south I would probably branch into some other SMM avenue, or just use organic growth tactics which is perfectly viable.
What are you offering your customer? F/UF method or something else?
Good luck on your journey, 10K is really good congratulations by the way
Answered above somewhere but F/UF, mother slave, content management & consultation generally. If they have a reasonable request for something else I will always see if its viable for me to fulfil.
Thank you bro!
1) How much profit you end up with at the end of the month?
2) What do you do exactly to grow your clients' ig account? (paid advertising, influencer marketing etc.)
3) What tools do you use?
Profit is good, I wont give the exact figure but above 75%. My costs are mainly proxies, VPS, tools, and an account manager who now automates almost everything for me.
Thanks for this thread
What are some main reasons for IG accounts and Ads accounts being banned?
IG accounts being banned falls into a few categories, namely;
- Botting poorly
- Spamming
- Bad content
Not sure about ad accounts, I would guess blackhat techniques.
What payment methods do you use apart from Paypal?
Cheers
Majority is through PayPal, some through Stripe. Starting to think I need a new payment processor though as PayPal fees are huge and Stripe is not much better
Happy to answer any specific questions you guys may have
