[Journey] Instagram Journey to $25/Day

Vexous

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I’ve been lurking around BHW for quite a while now without really posting any content. Finally, I decided to come out of the shadows and post a journey thread not only to inspire you guys, but to also motivate myself.

My Goals:

- Reach $25 per day through shoutouts and eventually selling niche related products
- Bring my total follower count over 50k
- Slowly introduce automation to make the job easier
- Once $25/Day is reached, I will look to scale as much as possible with more accounts in new niches


What I have so far:

- Account #1 (Sports): 25.7k followers | I’ve owned this account for around a year but went inactive a few months ago and lost a good amount of followers. This is my largest account and having a journey gives me a reason to become active again.

- Account #2 (Hidden Niche):
8.5k followers | I’ve owned this account for 3 months and it’s been growing like crazy since the day it started when the first post hit explore. Now it hits explore consistently 100% of the time and holds the most promise out of all my accounts.

- Account #3 (Hidden Niche):
66 followers | I just created this account and am using it to test the waters in a new niche. If it performs the way I think it can, it will grow quite well.

Total:
34.3k followers | $18 profit (shoutouts)

How I will grow my accounts:

When growing my accounts, I will NOT be using the follow/unfollow method, or any other methods that lead to low engagement. When you use follow/unfollow, you might see a spike in followers, but it makes your account look spammy and leads to low engagement which is the opposite of what I want. I want my accounts to look professional and sleek so my followers will be attracted to my page. The key to growing an account is content, content, content. With the right content, you can grow you page organically and gain real followers quite quickly. That’s exactly how I plan to grow my Instagram empire.

Wrap-Up:

Thank you for taking the time to read this introduction to my journey (I know it’s quite the mouthful). I hope you guys can learn something useful and apply it to your own life. If you have any questions, suggestions, or comments, please leave them below and I will try to reply as soon as possible. I will be trying to provide updates here as much as possible.

- Vexous
 
Best of luck on your journey, interested in seeing somebody trying to grow an account with commited followers and quality content.
 
Good luck on your journey. It's rare to see someone trying to grow on Instagram without follow/unfollow method. Waiting to see how it turns out for you. Keep us posted.
 
Best of luck on your journey, interested in seeing somebody trying to grow an account with commited followers and quality content.


Good luck on your journey. It's rare to see someone trying to grow on Instagram without follow/unfollow method. Waiting to see how it turns out for you. Keep us posted.


Sadly, not enough people seem to appreciate the power of an organically grown page and tend to lean towards the quicker methods. I've dabbled in Instagram bots a few times with CPA and such but it just wasn't satisfying. Nothing feels better than seeing your follower count go up knowing that you put in the work yourself. Also, thank you for the well wishes on the journey. Hope one day I'll have an Instagram empire + money printer on my hands!
 
Good luck, currently in the same waters except I'm doing follow/unfollow.
 
Keep up the good work and grind!
 
Good luck OP!

I understand that you don't wish to use a follow/unfollow method, but might I ask what you would like to eventually automate? Just because automation can be a slippery slope in terms of engagement. But, that depends whether you plan on just automating the post times or if you plan on automating something like comments.
 
Keep up the good work and grind!

Thanks man I appreciate it!


Good luck OP!

I understand that you don't wish to use a follow/unfollow method, but might I ask what you would like to eventually automate? Just because automation can be a slippery slope in terms of engagement. But, that depends whether you plan on just automating the post times or if you plan on automating something like comments.

Good question. The only automation that I plan on implementing (if any) would be scheduled posting just in case I can't get a post up at my account's peak times.
 
Best of luck with your journey! I'm also trying to grow on IG

I'll have to disagree with you on the follow/unfollow though. Most big pages do it.

There are a few cases where pages get big without follow/unfollow, but that's usually because bigger pages shout them out.

You can have two 25k pages grown with follow/unfollow. One can average 500 likes, the other averages 1.5k likes...They were grown the same way, but the one that averages 1.5k likes is part of engagement groups. So it actually makes the account appear 'stronger' than it actually is. Those engagement groups can be a big deal. Especially if you can get some of those people to drop comments under your pic! :)
 
I've not got around to using instagram yet but I had some success with tumblr a few years back (starting up again after seeing I have some accounts still) and I never bothered with following accounts at all, just content content content. My accounts seemed to last longer than others and were pretty successful.

Good luck, will be following.
 
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