I have been following this thread closely:
https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/instagram-marketing-100k-profit-4m-followers.62519/page-3
as literally the week before I came across it (thanks again @JimD for all the knowledge bombs you have shared) I had purchased FollowLiker and was experimenting with it.
Rather than highjack Jims AMA I thought I would start another thread where we can share results.
So for what they are worth here are my experiences:
I am building one account in a small niche for a Kickstarter I am planning and a few others for various speculative business ops.
I got my first 1000 followers in just over a week. The account used was several months old with a dozen or so images on it and a handful of followers. I used the follow/unfollow technique and also posted 10 image a day spread out hourly finishing around 9pm each night. I also used a large selection of relevant hashtags which I tethered to a shortcut on my phone so I could dump the whole list in the text box in less than a second.
To start with I was getting 40-60 follows a day which quickly increased to 100 or more. Checking in regularly several times a day I was often seeing results like this:
Things were going great until I read @Phillipbro post about Instagram blocking/banning accounts doing mass follow/unfollows.
I was working away at the time so got my wife to shut the pc down until I got back as I didn’t want to run the risk of getting the account banned as I had one banned the week prior within 24 hours of setting it up. (I was using the same settings as my older account which were obviously too extreme for a brand new one). Lesson learned, you can't hit the ground running with a shiny new account.
Since then follows have been much slower.
After reading @johnp post about his increase in follows I have experimented for the last few days by switching from liking via hashtags to liking based on large accounts. The results have been very poor.
I have just checked my main account and the Interaction is much lower with zero follows.
I intend to change to different large accounts and see if that makes any difference. Currently I am unfollowing about 200-300 accounts a day with no new follows which Instagram seem happy with.
I have also experimented with not using hashtags. The result was significantly fewer likes as you would expect. I have used Iconsquare to work out the best hashtags to use to get the most (relevant) exposure.
What have your results been like?
https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/instagram-marketing-100k-profit-4m-followers.62519/page-3
as literally the week before I came across it (thanks again @JimD for all the knowledge bombs you have shared) I had purchased FollowLiker and was experimenting with it.
Rather than highjack Jims AMA I thought I would start another thread where we can share results.
So for what they are worth here are my experiences:
I am building one account in a small niche for a Kickstarter I am planning and a few others for various speculative business ops.
I got my first 1000 followers in just over a week. The account used was several months old with a dozen or so images on it and a handful of followers. I used the follow/unfollow technique and also posted 10 image a day spread out hourly finishing around 9pm each night. I also used a large selection of relevant hashtags which I tethered to a shortcut on my phone so I could dump the whole list in the text box in less than a second.
To start with I was getting 40-60 follows a day which quickly increased to 100 or more. Checking in regularly several times a day I was often seeing results like this:
Things were going great until I read @Phillipbro post about Instagram blocking/banning accounts doing mass follow/unfollows.
I was working away at the time so got my wife to shut the pc down until I got back as I didn’t want to run the risk of getting the account banned as I had one banned the week prior within 24 hours of setting it up. (I was using the same settings as my older account which were obviously too extreme for a brand new one). Lesson learned, you can't hit the ground running with a shiny new account.
Since then follows have been much slower.
After reading @johnp post about his increase in follows I have experimented for the last few days by switching from liking via hashtags to liking based on large accounts. The results have been very poor.
I have just checked my main account and the Interaction is much lower with zero follows.
I intend to change to different large accounts and see if that makes any difference. Currently I am unfollowing about 200-300 accounts a day with no new follows which Instagram seem happy with.
I have also experimented with not using hashtags. The result was significantly fewer likes as you would expect. I have used Iconsquare to work out the best hashtags to use to get the most (relevant) exposure.
What have your results been like?
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