Instagram Journey to $100K
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madblackhatter1000
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- Oct 29, 2015
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New total is 136,111 followers across 100 accounts. One of my accounts hit 5K followers. With 3 accounts in the 4K+
After bumping my accounts by 25 follows/likes/comments and reducing the time interval, 18 accounts got hit with password resets within a few hours. I've purchased new proxies, reset the pw, and all are running 100% again.
Ran into some weirdness. One aged account is near maxed out at 7400 following, so I turned off following, turned on unfollowing dropping the day count from 14 to 7, and now 0. FL only unfollowed 180 today (my min max is 500-600)... The past week of unfollowing looks like: 400,500,500,200,475,180 .... Not sure why FL struggles to meet the minimum
After bumping my accounts by 25 follows/likes/comments and reducing the time interval, 18 accounts got hit with password resets within a few hours. I've purchased new proxies, reset the pw, and all are running 100% again.
Ran into some weirdness. One aged account is near maxed out at 7400 following, so I turned off following, turned on unfollowing dropping the day count from 14 to 7, and now 0. FL only unfollowed 180 today (my min max is 500-600)... The past week of unfollowing looks like: 400,500,500,200,475,180 .... Not sure why FL struggles to meet the minimum
madblackhatter1000
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169,000 total follower count. +33,000 in 2 Days
CAREmyBEAR
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- Oct 9, 2014
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I will be following your journey since i'm also trying to work my way up through insta.
Best of luck!
Best of luck!
Smashing it, keep it up buddy, managing 100 accounts must be some work lol. I'm a month in on one insta account and just hit 4k using only mass planner. Mass planner also struggles to match daily unfollow amount and it can only unfollow people that the app has auto-followed which I learnt the hard way on a twitter account after a format of my hd, the 5000+ i've followed on that account with mass planner can not be unfollowed because i reinstalled it so now it has no data go off on who to unfollow 
madblackhatter1000
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Smashing it, keep it up buddy, managing 100 accounts must be some work lol. I'm a month in on one insta account and just hit 4k using only mass planner. Mass planner also struggles to match daily unfollow amount and it can only unfollow people that the app has auto-followed which I learnt the hard way on a twitter account after a format of my hd, the 5000+ i've followed on that account with mass planner can not be unfollowed because i reinstalled it so now it has no data go off on who to unfollow
I will run into this challenge soon as I switch accounts from FL to MP. I wonder if setting the unfollow date to "Zero" will unfollow all accounts, even those not cataloged in the FL/MP database? I'm following a bunch by hand too, so I hope FL/MP can unfollow them
madblackhatter1000
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181,500 Total followers
10 accounts got PW changed twice (first time was a 4 days ago), prompted me to lower the settings across all projects. IG appears to be super sensitive now.
10 accounts got PW changed twice (first time was a 4 days ago), prompted me to lower the settings across all projects. IG appears to be super sensitive now.
madblackhatter1000
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195,000 Followers
2 accounts got hit with phone verifications, scaling down settings, even though they're not that aggressive ...200-300 likes/unfollows/follows with 50-120 second delay
2 accounts got hit with phone verifications, scaling down settings, even though they're not that aggressive ...200-300 likes/unfollows/follows with 50-120 second delay
madblackhatter1000
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203,000 Followers +8000 since yesterday
2 more accounts with PVA, scaling down all accounts again, hmmmm
Monetization
Considering creating numerous separate Ali-Express websites, one for each niche.
Will get a larger VPS for FL/MP and hosting the numerous e-commerce sites, most likely using a wordpress multisite running woocommerce, which sounds like the cheapest, easiest thing to setup 10 of.
2 more accounts with PVA, scaling down all accounts again, hmmmm
Monetization
Considering creating numerous separate Ali-Express websites, one for each niche.
Will get a larger VPS for FL/MP and hosting the numerous e-commerce sites, most likely using a wordpress multisite running woocommerce, which sounds like the cheapest, easiest thing to setup 10 of.
eXclusivejobs
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- Nov 19, 2013
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Very inspiring journey. Best of luck and stay motivated man!
madblackhatter1000
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Yes very interested in purchasing AliPlugin - but its only a partial solution apparently. If there is $5 AliExpress product, it will sell automatically at that same price on my website. There doesn't appear to be a direct solution to markup the price 100-200% if I want to sell it at $15.
Seems the only way to achieve this is a 2 pronged approach.
#1 Collect orders and payments from my website.
#2 Enter the orders manually into Aliexpress for Dropshipping.
I'm not very excited to do any manual data entry especially once this business scales up. I could hire someone from Upwork (Odesk) I guess. I wish there was a direct link to perhaps email the order to aliexpress and they can charge my credit card on file and fulfill the orders. If anyone has any experience with what I am attempting to do, would love to hear your approaches.
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madblackhatter1000
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211,500 Followers. All accounts are now on unfollow mode only + posting 2 pictures daily. May switch accounts back to following in a week or so (only unfollowing 450 a day... is this too low or conservative?)
1. Changed VPS to a bigger closer cheaper one (GreenCloudVPS budget vps).
2. Moved all accounts to Mass Planner. Migration was painless. Literally reinstall + copy over 2 folders from old installation. all accounts, settings, old campaigns loaded perfectly. done.
3. Followerliker broke on me during the migration. 100 errors, database corruptions, I'm kinda over this program. It was excellent to get my feet wet, but I'm not sure if I need it anymore.
4. Next step is installing a web server on the VPS.
5. Still wondering about the drop shipping and manual input into AliExpress. I wonder if I can find an Autofill Form program that will take the order (either from the database, a daily export, or even an email maybe in XML) and autofill the AliExpress order forms in Google Chrome.
1. Changed VPS to a bigger closer cheaper one (GreenCloudVPS budget vps).
2. Moved all accounts to Mass Planner. Migration was painless. Literally reinstall + copy over 2 folders from old installation. all accounts, settings, old campaigns loaded perfectly. done.
3. Followerliker broke on me during the migration. 100 errors, database corruptions, I'm kinda over this program. It was excellent to get my feet wet, but I'm not sure if I need it anymore.
4. Next step is installing a web server on the VPS.
5. Still wondering about the drop shipping and manual input into AliExpress. I wonder if I can find an Autofill Form program that will take the order (either from the database, a daily export, or even an email maybe in XML) and autofill the AliExpress order forms in Google Chrome.
madblackhatter1000
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215,000 Followers +3328
All accounts in unfollow mode, no liking or following for at least the next 10 days to get the count to 0.
Webserver and wordpress site is setup with blank template. Now must find the products.
I'm considering a product niche within the fitness exercise equipment theme. AliExpress is an obvious starting place, but also looking for others who will drop ship who are either:
Located already in the USA and/or
Are actual manufacturers/wholesalers/dropshippers and not middle men like AliExpress.
All accounts in unfollow mode, no liking or following for at least the next 10 days to get the count to 0.
Webserver and wordpress site is setup with blank template. Now must find the products.
I'm considering a product niche within the fitness exercise equipment theme. AliExpress is an obvious starting place, but also looking for others who will drop ship who are either:
Located already in the USA and/or
Are actual manufacturers/wholesalers/dropshippers and not middle men like AliExpress.
Stansy
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Hey Madblackhatter, loving the journey so far and researching scaling my Instagram network up but I'm not sure how I would go about editing the bios and profile pictures. I don't want to do it in app on iPhone as I already have 3 accounts on that device. Do you do this via software or manually on separate devices?
madblackhatter1000
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I actually edited all 100 on my phone. Before each login I would close the IG App, turn on/off plane mode so that the phone grabs a new IP from the cell phone towers - do not use wifi.
madblackhatter1000
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I have unfollowed close to 500,000 users. Another 100K-200K to go. I've set the unfollow limit to 480-500. Very conservative, but I'm playing the long game here, no rushing, doing everything right after lots of careful research and testing.
On a positive note I know that when someone adds you with 6000+ users, we immediately know its spammy and ignore it. But with 0-1000 users, its more intriguing and real. I'm hoping when I add people/run campaign posts again that the percentage of followers doubles. Fingers crossed.
Lastly, this downtime has given me a space to research wordpress woocommerce themes, branding, and products I'm semi-passionate about. Looking to building in the next few days.
On a positive note I know that when someone adds you with 6000+ users, we immediately know its spammy and ignore it. But with 0-1000 users, its more intriguing and real. I'm hoping when I add people/run campaign posts again that the percentage of followers doubles. Fingers crossed.
Lastly, this downtime has given me a space to research wordpress woocommerce themes, branding, and products I'm semi-passionate about. Looking to building in the next few days.
belldragon7
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- Nov 7, 2013
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Hey , is there any new updates ?