Next level

I have a Instagram page with 22.2K followers and growing. I have been collaborating with alot of people these days and its working out pretty good so far. People will send me their products and I will post about it. I also had a private event and was able to collaborate with a few vendors and got free stuff for my event, I would say it was worth like almost $2K in total worth of vendor items, I had over 250 guest attend.

But I'm having a hard time getting my likes up! I havent bought any followers or anything like that. All my followers are organic meaning I post stuff and people end up following me. How do i increase my likes?

Also I want to take it to the next level! what can I do to do that? money wise? collaboration wise?

Thank you for your help