mylastvacation
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- Apr 26, 2018
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Every day I am reading interesting journeys on BHW, downloading from the members downloads section, getting review copies, finding great services and even reselling a few of them, so I want to try and give back to the community by sharing this post with some of the things and services that have worked for me when I was doing IG automation.
A bit about myself, I live in a small fishing village in Ecuador and make about 1000 $ a month teaching English and Spanish online for 2 hours every day, but I only have 300$ of monthly expenses for rent and food, so that leaves me with 700$ to play with, and a hell lot of free time to try new things.
I started IG automation just for fun and to learn something new, did it for about a year, got bored and fed up and abandoned it about a month ago and now I'm on a KDP journey because we have to do something we love and I realized I didn't enjoy IG automation but I love books, reading and writing, so I want to make a living doing something I love.
Here's what I learned on my journey and the services I have used:
Emails: I used 90% mail.ru learned to change the passwords with youtube tutorials and gmail for the 10% of accounts which I cared about. Each gmail account can be used for 2 IG accounts, one using [email protected] and the other one using [email protected] emails deliver to the same account but you can use them for 2 separate accounts on any website.
Bot: I only used Instadub so I can't compare it with any others. I know people here say it's not user-friendly and too difficult to use but I didn't care about it so much, I'd rather pay a one time fee and bust my ass learning and watch 30 tutorial videos than pay a monthly fee only just to have a nice user interface.
Proxies: I started with greencloud, they were all flagged or blacklisted and they replaced them for me, then I used proximillion 150 proxies package for like 40 cents each and used one per account, they worked alright.
phone verifications: I used https://sms-activate.ru because they were the cheapest ones by far. I used chrome to translate the page to english.
VPS: I started with greencloud but the IP was so blacklisted I couldn't even google anythign without having to spend a year completing captcha. Then I changed to turnkey and faced the most horrifyng customer service ever, everytime I contacted them they made me feel like a criminal, twice they shut down my service and locked my account without notice and even made me send them my photo holding my id for verification. Then I changed to soyou, I had a 64gb private server for 89$ I think, customer service was great, I even called them at 3 pm a few times and they solved my problems the bad thing was that it was a pain to log into their system and they couldn't set up automatic paypal payments for me even though I asked then twice, and now that I'm not doing IG automation anymore I'm with hyonix, 4gb vps, 10$ and running other software and using it for stealth, never contacted their customer service but the VPS is really good and even had all the right frameworks installed so I could installed my software right away.
Accounts: When I started I bought 100, about 10 from every seller and after a few months I realized it didn't make a difference so I started making my own, by opening the browser with the proxies.
CPA networks: I tried Max Bounty, Cpagrip, Instazood, IMonetizeIt , Peerfly and ogads and clic2sell. Click2sell was the only one which links were not blacklisted yet so I didn't even bother using a cloaker or landing page, I link directly to the offer after shortening it, I made peanuts from all of them and decided it was not worth my time.
For landing pages I bought a few and made my own and used twitter links, until my twitter accounts got banned and finally decided to settle for linktree because It was free, can't get banned and it takes seconds to set up and then I found a similar one to diversify I think it was called linkinbio.
I also tried the Zara influencer method and got some decent results.
I tried power likes but they didn't do much for me.
I tried running IG ads and used a table of the cheapest countries, I used the option to raise brand awareness in the FB ad manager and I set up to pay for impressions instead of clicks and with the cheapest countries like Vietnam, laos, Maldives, I was paying about 10$ for 30.000 impressions if I remember correctly, which translated to about 3000 real engaged IG followers from third world countries, for the countries you would normally pay 0,04 cent per click I was paying just for impressions that's why it was so cheap.
I also tried FB engagement groups and got a few hundred real followers every time I posted.
Hope someone finds any of this helpful.
A bit about myself, I live in a small fishing village in Ecuador and make about 1000 $ a month teaching English and Spanish online for 2 hours every day, but I only have 300$ of monthly expenses for rent and food, so that leaves me with 700$ to play with, and a hell lot of free time to try new things.
I started IG automation just for fun and to learn something new, did it for about a year, got bored and fed up and abandoned it about a month ago and now I'm on a KDP journey because we have to do something we love and I realized I didn't enjoy IG automation but I love books, reading and writing, so I want to make a living doing something I love.
Here's what I learned on my journey and the services I have used:
Emails: I used 90% mail.ru learned to change the passwords with youtube tutorials and gmail for the 10% of accounts which I cared about. Each gmail account can be used for 2 IG accounts, one using [email protected] and the other one using [email protected] emails deliver to the same account but you can use them for 2 separate accounts on any website.
Bot: I only used Instadub so I can't compare it with any others. I know people here say it's not user-friendly and too difficult to use but I didn't care about it so much, I'd rather pay a one time fee and bust my ass learning and watch 30 tutorial videos than pay a monthly fee only just to have a nice user interface.
Proxies: I started with greencloud, they were all flagged or blacklisted and they replaced them for me, then I used proximillion 150 proxies package for like 40 cents each and used one per account, they worked alright.
phone verifications: I used https://sms-activate.ru because they were the cheapest ones by far. I used chrome to translate the page to english.
VPS: I started with greencloud but the IP was so blacklisted I couldn't even google anythign without having to spend a year completing captcha. Then I changed to turnkey and faced the most horrifyng customer service ever, everytime I contacted them they made me feel like a criminal, twice they shut down my service and locked my account without notice and even made me send them my photo holding my id for verification. Then I changed to soyou, I had a 64gb private server for 89$ I think, customer service was great, I even called them at 3 pm a few times and they solved my problems the bad thing was that it was a pain to log into their system and they couldn't set up automatic paypal payments for me even though I asked then twice, and now that I'm not doing IG automation anymore I'm with hyonix, 4gb vps, 10$ and running other software and using it for stealth, never contacted their customer service but the VPS is really good and even had all the right frameworks installed so I could installed my software right away.
Accounts: When I started I bought 100, about 10 from every seller and after a few months I realized it didn't make a difference so I started making my own, by opening the browser with the proxies.
CPA networks: I tried Max Bounty, Cpagrip, Instazood, IMonetizeIt , Peerfly and ogads and clic2sell. Click2sell was the only one which links were not blacklisted yet so I didn't even bother using a cloaker or landing page, I link directly to the offer after shortening it, I made peanuts from all of them and decided it was not worth my time.
For landing pages I bought a few and made my own and used twitter links, until my twitter accounts got banned and finally decided to settle for linktree because It was free, can't get banned and it takes seconds to set up and then I found a similar one to diversify I think it was called linkinbio.
I also tried the Zara influencer method and got some decent results.
I tried power likes but they didn't do much for me.
I tried running IG ads and used a table of the cheapest countries, I used the option to raise brand awareness in the FB ad manager and I set up to pay for impressions instead of clicks and with the cheapest countries like Vietnam, laos, Maldives, I was paying about 10$ for 30.000 impressions if I remember correctly, which translated to about 3000 real engaged IG followers from third world countries, for the countries you would normally pay 0,04 cent per click I was paying just for impressions that's why it was so cheap.
I also tried FB engagement groups and got a few hundred real followers every time I posted.
Hope someone finds any of this helpful.
