Instagram Success Tips

Instagram is one of the social platforms that you need to be leveraging for your business. This guide is a compilation of instagram hints and tips to help you build your instagram followers ethically.
We are building our Training Profits Instagram account with an initial target of 2000 – 3000 followers over the next few months.
I have spent the last month heavily researching how to ethically build your Instagram account without using any blackhat techniques that might get you banned. That means there is no automatically adding followers or buying followers or anything dodgy like that. Let’s get started!

Strategies for Instagram success:

Use Hootsuite to schedule automatic posting (up to 30 posts on free account)
When you post, use hashtags with between 200k-800k posts. Use up to 30 hashtags per post, or 10 per story. To check post count of a hashtag, Search for the hashtag, click Tags and you will see how many posts under the hashtag
Check out http://hashtagify.me or http://instavast.com (free) for hashtag ideas. Save these to Notes in your phone for easy cut and past for future posts
Post at 2am and 6am ASDT. (Australian time. Check timezones here
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html )
Use Captivate app to follow people who liked a post in your niche / hashtag
Use Followers app to unfollow people who don’t follow you back (after following 5000 people) You can follow up to 7000 people
Once you get some of your posts on explore page, post 10 times a day (or as much as you can)
Post a Story at least once every 24 hours. Simply share somebody else’s post or story (and tag them, also add a main hashtag). Click the paper plane icon, add your @ mention and hashtag #, then click Send To. Click Share next to your story, then click Add to highlights, choose your highlight (or add a new one) and click Done
Your Instagram Page will take off between 2k – 5k followers.
Once you have over 5000 followers, monetise your account:
1. Shoutcart to sell shout outs on your Instagram page
2. Dropship from AliExpress
3. Sell merchandise (merch)
4. Naturebacks on instagram is a good example of selling merch
Post more videos (1 minute long). For videos, click cover when posting and choose the best cover
Post slideshows, select multiple images icon when posting, then choose all images for slideshow
Post viral content to try and get on explore page. For ideas, go to influencer’s pages in your category and look for stand out posts in terms of likes and comments
Try the occasional spelling error to get more engagement
Engage and collaborate with pages in your niche. E.g paid promos, shout outs etc. Every follower / number is a real human being
Create engaging emotional content
Use Instagram stories, Instagram live and Instagram tv
Use Instagram DM (direct messages). DM people that commented and thank them
Build a loyal strong community
Use When to post app to find best times to post
Create all new posts as a story also
Comment for engagement E.g ask question. At least 4 word response
Heart comments on relevant posts
Have longer form micro blog like captions
Rotate hash tags
Post question posts
Run a contest for a $25 Visa gift card. See text for contest below:

How to enter:

1. Like this photo and follow @traningprofits
2. Tag a friend in the comments below
3. You can enter as many times as you want
4. BONUS: if your tagged friend follows @trainingprofits it’s an extra entry

🔥Contest closes today March 8th, 2019 @ 11:59 PM EST 🔥
🎁 We’ll choose a lucky winner tomorrow and contact via DM 🎁
📝 This contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed, associated with, or administered by Instagram 📝

Daily actions for Instagram:

Add 100 instagram followers
Like 100 photos
Comment on 20 photos
Post 2 photos
Share posts on Twitter
Post 1 video
Share video to YouTube & Twitter
Unfollow non-followers
Post 1 infographic photo
Create an Instagram series
Twitter: follow 100

Examples of hashtags I have saved to my phone’s Notes:

Educate:

Educate #familiarize #school #prepare #learn #nurture #cultivate #teach #advise #sensitize #train #civilize #develop #enlighten #inform #instruct #awareness #informing #sensitizing #acquaint #educational #engage #informed #instil #publicize #instill #communicate #sensitization #aware #apprise #inculcate

Learn:

Learn #teach #discover #see #check #hear #larn #educate #memorize #study #read #find_out #take #instruct #get_a line #watch #determine #get_word #get_wind #ascertain #find #realize #know #tell #understand #lessons #explore #lesson #con #pick_up #relearn

Success:

Success #fruition #successful #successes #triumphs #performance #acclaim #succeed #win #feat #effectiveness #popularity #luck #achievement #achiever #breakthrough #achievements #winner #accomplishments #strength #prosperity #stardom #victory #triumph #accomplishment #glory #progress #outcome #viability #fruitful #succeeding

Motivation:

Motivation #motive #morale #need #motivating #incentive #rationale #inspiration #motivated #passion #motivator #impetus #purpose #encouragement #disincentive #motivates #justification #desire #reason #enthusiasm #momentum #commitment #intention #goal #intent #cause #reasons #reasoning #interest #willingness #explanation

Entrepreneur:

Entrepreneur #developer #promoter #businesswoman #company #creator #ventures #owner #builder #businessperson #enterpriser #proponent #trader #firm #businesspeople #businessman #industrialist #business #operator #ceo #developers #sponsor #undertaker #contractor #enterprises #offeror #holder #undertaking #enterprise #subcontractor #employer

Ecommerce:

Ecommerce #e-commerce #e-business #storefront #commercial_activity #business #crm #e-trade #seo #marketer #outsource #erp #back_end #commerce #ebusiness #merchantry #intranet #webmaster #online #saas #merchant #internet #analytics #retail #sme #website #web #mercature #merchandise #optimization #multichannel

Growth:

Growth #rise #economy #recovery #development #growing #grow #upturn #ontogeny #improvement #expansion #slowdown #emergence #ontogenesis #increment #increase #outgrowth #maturation #increases #prosperity #rate #economic #evolution #inflation #investment #upswing #expanding #boom #gdp #expand #advancement

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