[Journey] Instagram page from 300 to 100k followers

plopizo

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Hello all, and welcome to what seems like it will be a very long journey !

Let's present my project !

Why are you doing this ?

I start this project as I want to have a step in a niche that I plan to exploit in the near future. Instagram will be my gateway to lead people to my other projects. I do thjs in order to make some income in quite a passive way and by doing what I like !

What does the page looks like ?

The page has now 334 followers, it had 324 when I started it, I gained those followers from a personnal project and transformed the page. My engagement is awful as most followers are probably not active anymore.

The page focuses on reposting pictures, and giving information about a specific passion.

How are you growing it ?

I do follow/unfollow manually. Around 50 new follows and 50 unfollows each day.
I have a hashtag users can use to get reposted on the page. The niche is really active and a lot of users are desperated for exposure so I really hope that the hashtag will get some traction to the page once the page has more followers.
Users that I repost can repost me in their stories. I try to aim for small users that will be happy about being reposted and will share it in their story. This can lead to new followers.
I also do informative stories once a week. They dig deep into a specific aspect of the niche and are then in my highlights. Once my highlights will be full of informations, more people will be influed to follow me as they will identify me as a serious page.
I manually like 100 post of targeted users each day, and i leave a few comments a day.
I activate notifications to big pages in my niche and I leave a funny comment, or an interesting one with hopes of other people clicking on my profile and following me. The comments I write here are high quality and well researched. Writing simply "nice great shot" wont get people curious about who wrote it.

What will be the milestones and what new things will you start once you reach them ?

1000 followers: I will start doing battles between my follower's pictures. They will probably ask their followers for a vote and therefore lead people to my page which will get me story views and interactions.

5000 followers: I will try to sell my first features for $5. I might also do a fake giveaway... could lead a lot of people to follow me but not sure they will still engaged afterwards...

10k followers: I will start selling tshirts with aesthetic or funny graphics about the niche which will probably sell well if my community is very engaged.

25k followers: Will try to sell one feature a day for 20$. Will start my other projects (youtube channel, blog about the niche).

50k followers: Will drink champagne and start dreaming big. Will push my other projects on the page and keep running it. I will host weekly photography about the niche contests with prizes to win.

100k followers: Will start another page dedicated to niche clothing brand with original graphics and very focused on my users tastes.




If you have any ideas or tips on how to improve, dont hesitate to leave a comment !

I will keep you updated. From now on my focus is on creating content (2 posts a day, one well researched story once a week, daily stories, and 2 reels a week).
I also do my growth routine daily (f/u, liking and commenting and so on).
 
Good luck, interesting, I'll be following.

Why do you plan to wait until 25k followers until starting youtube channel, fb, twitter, blog etc?

I am sure it would be useful to get this setup from the start, since I see you are confident in your niche potential, and leverage compound effect
 
I will only start a youtube and a blog,. I'm a bit worried that my videos will be cringy therefore i want to launch them when im sure to get a few views to boost it up and it will help me be nore confident.

For the blog i will use it to post articles about the niche. The goal at the end is to design a membership website where people from that niche can have fun.
 
Your planning looks stellar
YT shorts is also another way to go
Good luck!
 
You are only focusing on taking more and more money from your followers. If you want to organically grow your account, you should plan to provide some value.
 
I have read somewhere no more than 100 actions per day for f/u, how high can i go ?
 
Hello guys, this is an update and some help is needed.

I now have 360 followers and 55 following.
I have 28 posts, i forgot to post for a week but im now back to one daily post. I didnt post any reels yet... I will start now.

My problem is a lack of engagement... i have an average reach of 30 on my stories... when i post a poll in a story or an emoji slider, i get like 4 people using it...

The page is of good quality, and i have a few very active followers.

I started doing photo battles, i got 4 people playing in it and the winner is getting a feature. I plan to do this weekly.

I think with reels, quizzes in stories, battles, and more agressive strategy (commenting other peoples post and so on, i can get a lot of new followers) !
 
UPDATE:

Now I have 370 followers, I'm organising a battle every saturday, posting daily, daily story... but my reach is awful...

I get 15 likes per post on average, 30 views per story... the battles seems to bring some new followers from the participants sharing the thing...

Tried reposting someones reel and got 10 views for 1 like.

Sometimes it feels like im shadowbanned. I have accounts on the same phone and a specific one on which i got reported i believe. Or maybe it is because my page is business ?
 
UPDATE:

Now I have 385 followers.

I have been doing follow/unfollow with people in my niche.

Im looking for an engagement pod if someone has one...

I will try to post more reels too

The battle dont bring me a lot of followers, sometimes even the participants dont follow me... but they bring story views by reposting the battle in their story. I will keep this battle thing alive and will look for participants with high number of followers (1500-5000)
 
420 followers reached, I started being a bit more agressive with follow/unfollow.

Something weird happened to me, my "activity" tab was not loading for a few days and then it went back to normal. Maybe some form of block ?

I will now try to post 2 times a day. One image, and one reel. Anyone knows if reels get less view if you DO NOT put them on your feed ? (it would ruin the feed)
 
Quick update: followers close to 600

The battle worked well to bring me organic following. Combined with f/uf it is working great.

I think we recently hit hashtags becaue we had 1200 impressions from hashtags on a post...

Reels have not paid off at all, wi have to find new ideas to bank on them
 
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