First Instagram Journey, Growing into an Authority Network

Hello BHW,

This is my first thread on here, also my first journey. My goal is to try to build a few IGs in a variety of niches to try and make money off of ecommerce. If things work out, and I am able to maintain and build a large following I plan to find manufacturers that are willing to dropship and expand beyond just IG marketing and try for a shopify store as well. Eventually moving into amazon fba.

But those are the goals, for now I must focus on actually building a following and potential customer base. In order to do so I plan to create "minion" accounts to refer people back to the main account. These accounts will be within a "sub niche", of my main account. It's a bit difficult to explain without giving the niche away.

Currently I am using GMT2 and have only 1 account, that I've had up for about a week. I am relatively new to this stuff so I started out conservatively and had to learn along the way a bit, specifically how to increment and what are realistic and safe amounts.

I am getting my content from prominent figures within the community, and genuinely want to build something of value. I plan to do outside research to expand my own knowledge base on the niche so that I can scrape content from prominent well known/talented figures within the community.

I will post content, and do research on hashtags that I am able to actually scale onto (meaning those that aren't too prominent), though I believe this is not the preferred method of scaling as it has been nerfed (?).

Settings:


Account 1
Followers: 46
Following: 278
Posts: 31

I will update this thread once a week. I will start growing one minion account every month, while I figure out how to scale, and streamline my content scraping methodology.

Best of luck! Hope you stick with your plan.

Hello Knob360, my idea is to do something similar to yours but I need some help, is this possible? I await an answer. Thank you!

Kn0b360 said:

Hello BHW,

This is my first thread on here, also my first journey. My goal is to try to build a few IGs in a variety of niches to try and make money off of ecommerce. If things work out, and I am able to maintain and build a large following I plan to find manufacturers that are willing to dropship and expand beyond just IG marketing and try for a shopify store as well. Eventually moving into amazon fba.

But those are the goals, for now I must focus on actually building a following and potential customer base. In order to do so I plan to create "minion" accounts to refer people back to the main account. These accounts will be within a "sub niche", of my main account. It's a bit difficult to explain without giving the niche away.

Currently I am using GMT2 and have only 1 account, that I've had up for about a week. I am relatively new to this stuff so I started out conservatively and had to learn along the way a bit, specifically how to increment and what are realistic and safe amounts.

I am getting my content from prominent figures within the community, and genuinely want to build something of value. I plan to do outside research to expand my own knowledge base on the niche so that I can scrape content from prominent well known/talented figures within the community.

I will post content, and do research on hashtags that I am able to actually scale onto (meaning those that aren't too prominent), though I believe this is not the preferred method of scaling as it has been nerfed (?).

Settings:
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Account 1
Followers: 46
Following: 278
Posts: 31

I will update this thread once a week. I will start growing one minion account every month, while I figure out how to scale, and streamline my content scraping methodology.

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Seems like you have a great vision and it's time to execute. Stay consistent and make it happen!

Vukela said:

Seems like you have a great vision and it's time to execute. Stay consistent and make it happen!

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thanks will be updating this tomorrow.

keep us update. and good luck with your IG journey. hope you will succeed.

Nice 1 good luck with your journey OP

sounds nice to me. good luck on your journey.

Hello Everyone, Updating my journey, I've been a bit busy but I'm here now

Week #3

Account 1
Followers: 152
Following: 433
Posts: 42
Follow back percentage: ~13%
Engagement: ~13%

I had a little issue with my unfollow settings which caused my account to be asked for verification. I let the account rest, figured out the math behind my follow settings, how much delay per interaction, how many interactions per operation, how much delay after each operation. I did this for Daily and hourly settings.
The goal is to reach 500 follows a day, check the increment amounts, I should be able to reach that within 40 days:

Follow Settings

https://imgur.com/a/7MQdPH6

I then proceeded to replicate my settings to the Unfollow Module, and scheduled it so that it spends most of the week following users and most of the weekend unfollowing users.
I also started to curate my content more and have diversified scraping sources. This is time consuming as I don't know if the push module is worth it, I really don't want to repost irrelevant content, like someone's picnic or their kids birthday party. This means that every Sunday I spend some time scraping/changing m5hash and scheduling posts.
I noticed that I do get engagement off of using hashtags, though I've seen many people don't bother using them.
This weekend I will start my second account as a subniche, I think it's a good time to do so because my account is growing slowly and I have figured out, what I consider to be, proper settings.

However I had an issue again with the software, it for some reason just followed the max increment amount (500), currently working on fixing the issue as I don't want this account to get burned and this is the second week in a row I've had issues with the settings.


Goal for next week:
1) setup my second account
2) redo logo for main account
3) fill in bio for main account

Hope you do succeed with this journey. Good luck to you.

Week #4

Built my second IG account as a subniche, will be scheduling posts and editing settings today. I had an issue again, my main account was asked for verification. This was the second time, and I don't believe it's because of my follow settings but it very well could be. It could be that the post schedule was set during a follow operation. I normally automate follows for 8 hour periods, with a 1 hour break in between; this way it looks as if the account is doing this as a job full time and taking a lunch break. I think the fact that I scheduled a post during a follow operation might've flagged the account a bit. When I looked at the operation history it showed a very small time between the follow operation and the scheduled post, something like a 10 second difference. I think I am going to work on my scheduling for follow/unfollow, currently I have it set so that I have 4 days of consecutive following, and then 3 days consecutive unfollowing, this as because I had an average follow back time of 3 days. However I think this might make my account looks suspicious both for bots and for users. I will try to alternate every 3rd day so that it alternates between follow/unfollow modules.

I was not able to work on the logo and bio for account 1 I will be sure to do that today, at least the bio.


Account 1
Followers: 262
Following: 864
Posts: 46
Follow back percentage: ~13%
Engagement: ~13%

Account 2
Followers: 1
Following: 0
Posts: 2


Goals for next week:
Complete bio for account 1
Schedule posts for both accounts
Activate F/U for account 2
Edit F/U schedule

I appreciate any advice if you have any tips.

Best of luck on your journey!