Hey guys I desperately your advice

So I have a 10k IG account and I use it to promote my fashion brand. I used some services over the years like Ascend Viral, Growthoid and Followfox. My engagement was kinda bad lately like -200 likes per post. I quit working with those services and used promotions/boosting posts and even tried promoting reels but still my posts didn’t get the attention they deserve- like the content is good I usually spend a lot of time editing and shootings. I recently posted ‘a cry for help’ on Reddit and a guy who seemed he knows what he was talking about promised me that he will help me grow my account and bring awareness to my brand organically. But he emailed me that he checked my profile on Hypeauditor and that 20% of my followers are bots and advised me before he’ll start working with me to remove those bots followers. I started scrolling through them today and removing one by one but it takes ages and it literally breaks my heart seeing that how the numbers go down. What do you advise me to do? Shall I remove all the bots?Is that gonna help me go viral? Im afraid if I do so, I will loose credibility for the new followers that see my page- I feel like in my field the number matters a lot.

Until you remove all the bots your engagement will be lower than without them cause they don't interact with you and IG's algorithm would think that your content is bad.
And because of that your post will reach fewer people.
It's a downward spiral.
It's better to have 1k followers with 100 likes that 10k followers with 200 likes.

+1 for removing the bots, social media platforms are hungry for engagement rates.

Rafa09 said:

Shall I remove all the bots

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Yes , You should definitely remove the bot followers .
And later concentrate on the organic and growth through real / niche bases followers that will improve your engagement rate.

Overflame said:

+1 for removing the bots, social media platforms are hungry for engagement rates.

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yes, that's right

James_walker said:

Yes , You should definitely remove the bot followers .
And later concentrate on the organic and growth through real / niche bases followers that will improve your engagement rate.

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I have an IG account, and I would like to earn more followers, real followers, how can I do it so fast?

RichardS24 said:

I have an IG account, and I would like to earn more followers, real followers, how can I do it so fast?

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For gaining real followers there are two ways follow unfollow and mother chid.

James_walker said:

For gaining real followers there are two ways follow unfollow and mother chid.

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what is mother chid?

If you want engagement, remove the bots.

Also buyers are burned their hands and learned the lessons. You can't fool them with bots like before.

Okay I will explain here briefly.
Mother child is a growth strategy where we create number of accounts/fan page in the name of mother account (the account we want to grow). Through which we target wide audience from different target/competitors accounts. and then we politely pitch these audience to follow our mother account. and this followers get redirected to the page we have to grow.
It is completely safe method where our account is not at any risk of getting block or ban.

Your case is a classic eye opener for those seeking quick increase in followership and likes by resorting to the cheap means like bots and artificial likes.

You are now facing the horrible aftereffects of the spammy services that you wasted your time and money on.

If you really serious about your account and business, then you need to get rid of those dummy followers one by one, even if it takes ages.

Set the target of removing 20 to 30 followers everyday.

Meanwhile keep on doing organic activity like posting useful content and engaging with real audiences. These two activities collectively can help you recover the losses caused by the damage.

Have patience, social media management is not an easy task. You need to invest your heart, blood and soul to build a loyal community around your brand on social media, how can a cheap artificial bot do this?

James_walker said:

Yes , You should definitely remove the bot followers .
And later concentrate on the organic and growth through real / niche bases followers that will improve your engagement rate.

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How do you suggest I go about the organic growth? Going through my competitor’s followers and interact with them? Is there a service that offers real interaction? Or do I have to do it manually? Many thanks for your reply

James_walker said:

Okay I will explain here briefly.
Mother child is a growth strategy where we create number of accounts/fan page in the name of mother account (the account we want to grow). Through which we target wide audience from different target/competitors accounts. and then we politely pitch these audience to follow our mother account. and this followers get redirected to the page we have to grow.
It is completely safe method where our account is not at any risk of getting block or ban.

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Like DMing ppl from your competitors?

Rafa09 said:

Like DMing ppl from your competitors?

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That's a good way of getting your main account action blocked on a regular basis.

If you employ the use of fan pages, you can basically have them do the cold outreach on your main account's behalf and be able to scale above the 20 - 30 DMs you'll be able to do per day via manual outreach.

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Like DMing ppl from your competitors?

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More like engaging with them mainly via like/comment/follows etc via your child accounts.

There are already many guides explaining this in detail, just use the search feature here or on google, and you'll find more than enough info in detail on this.

Rafa09 said:

Like DMing ppl from your competitors?

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Yes , But no.

Directly DMing and liking won't help,
There is a proper strategy that need a to be implemented. Sending Dm's directly will drop into the message requests section which has very rare visibility ratio.