My Journey of Building an Instagram Empire!

Hi welcome to my journey thread. I've been following BHW for a long time and have been reading all kind of threads. I started my IG journey already like a 2 months ago and I thought this would be the perfect time to open my journey thread as I believe it'll motivate me to work even harder. Reading all the journey threads about Instagram really Inspired me.

So here it goes I'll break down my journey into few parts.

Right now I have 11 accounts, I'll add more as I go
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[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]6,921[/TD]
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[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]1,820[/TD]
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[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]1,759[/TD]
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[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]461[/TD]
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[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]1,088[/TD]
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[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]1,151[/TD]
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[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]1,994[/TD]
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[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]322[/TD]
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[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]146[/TD]
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[TD]10[/TD]
[TD]218[/TD]
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[TD]11[/TD]
[TD]35[/TD]
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What I've done so far
- I have bought FL unlimited license
- Bought 5 Proxies
- Created accounts in several Niches
- Bought PVA accounts (but most asked to Re PV them, so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone instead by your own numbers or use your family, friends, relatives and etc)
- Found accounts to scrape users from
- Found accounts to download pictures from
- Set FL to Share Picture in most of my accounts

I wanted to buy IGERSLIKE license but I heard it has been buggy lately.

Followliker Settings
- I follow people until I reach 7.5k then unfollow them
- 700-800 follows per day with 55-65 seconds delay
- I do FLC on some of my accounts not all!

My Plan on Monetizing this accounts
- Open an E-commerce site (Later when my accounts get popular
- Do Affiliate Marketing
- Run Adsense site
- Sell Shoutouts (I wouldn't do it unless I really need some $$$)

Note: I won't do all of these methods altogether, I'll test it out each of them and see which one works best for me.

My Goals
- Reach at least 100k followers on some of my accounts by June, 2016
- Earn at least $50/day by February (My Birthday Month )
- None of my accounts should get banned (cuz I'm staying well within the limits)

Please suggest any way I could improve my journey or any other method of monetizing

I'll try updating this thread once a week.

If you have any question regarding this journey please ask here.

Good Luck OP !

GodSpeed, OP. Let the force be with you

Good Luck on your journey...

Good Luck OP looks like a great start so far

Your goal is realistic. Good luck with your journey!

Thanks Everyone! I'll continue updating my progress and each thing I do

Sounds good, I am in an instagram journey too but because i am VERY broke i am just going with 1 account right now and its going wonderfully at them moment. I have a few questions.

Do you plan on doing S4S soon and if yes how would you find accounts in the similar follower range?

Have you been botting these accounts since 2 months? I am doing one account manually and second week finishes in 5 hours and i already have almost 3000 followers (would probably have them by the end of 5 hours at 3k)

Also good luck on your journey i will be following this

Goodluck OP, but don't be mad if accounts get banned.. They won't be safe just because you're botting within the limits haha, instagram won't care, they ban you for botting / spamming.

Reminds me of JustChillin's journey.. And mine...

nomansohail said:

Do you plan on doing S4S soon and if yes how would you find accounts in the similar follower range?

Have you been botting these accounts since 2 months? I am doing one account manually and second week finishes in 5 hours and i already have almost 3000 followers (would probably have them by the end of 5 hours at 3k)

Also good luck on your journey i will be following this

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I'll try doing S4S once my accounts reach 10k followers (Hopefully Soon), I honestly don't know about any specific tool that would find similar follower range accounts, so I guess I'll do manual search I know it will be time consuming. I'll also drop my kik ids on bio!
I started botting like a month ago, I was doing it manually before.

Good Luck for your journey OP!

All the best for your journey.

Good luck for your journey, io will be following your progress.

Thenub said:

Goodluck OP, but don't be mad if accounts get banned.. They won't be safe just because you're botting within the limits haha, instagram won't care, they ban you for botting / spamming.

Reminds me of JustChillin's journey.. And mine...

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At least I'm trying not to leave any footprints behind

Good luck on your journey mate A lot of people banking hard using IG, so I know you can do it as well

sakif said:

At least I'm trying not to leave any footprints behind

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Yeah that's a good plan, anyways, ill be following, goodluck

Good luck with your plan, keep us updated
Im new to IM and Instagram is the first I want to try my luck with. A few questions about the setup (sorry, these might be really nooby):

Are you using a VPN or just proxies?

Are you running FL on a VPS or on your computer?

How do you manage to get different phone numbers to verify your accounts if needed?

good luck opppppp

Nderdog said:

Good luck with your plan, keep us updated
Im new to IM and Instagram is the first I want to try my luck with. A few questions about the setup (sorry, these might be really nooby):

Are you using a VPN or just proxies?
I'm using proxies (already on the thread)

Are you running FL on a VPS or on your computer?
Running it on my conputer now but soon will change to a VPS

How do you manage to get different phone numbers to verify your accounts if needed?
Right Now I'm using my family members numbers, when I expand more I'll use my friends' numbers and if I run out there too I'll buy bulk sim cards

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Answers are with the questions above

Update #1

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It's been a okay week, I need to do something to increase my follow back ratio. Also I was unfollowing on some accounts so should have had more gains. I will start monetizing this accounts from next month.

BTW any suggestions for improving followback ratio? like should I scrape users from hashtags or people who liked a particular picture?