5 Instagram Growth Tips That Work In 2021
By: Archana Panda
Tags: Instagram Marketing, Instagram Followers, Instagram, 2021, Instagram Stories

With a billion plus active users, Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms all over the world. Instagram pages of celebrity personalities are hugely popular with their fans. In fact, Instagram accounts of these personalities grow rapidly and generate huge income for them. However, for ordinary users growth in Instagram is a difficult story. You really need to fight for every inch of growth or follow these Instragram growth tips.

These are not just ordinary tips that reiterate the importance of on time posting, quality content, using hashtags, engaging etc. Those are common measure that almost every aspiring Instragram user takes recourse to. Here we are going to discuss something that not everybody is aware of. Hopefully, your Instagram following gets a boost by following these tips.

1. Follow Other Users

You really need to follow other users if you want them or their followers to follow you. Instagram already has a “Find People To Follow” feature. With the help of this feature, you can import names of friends from your email contacts and Facebook friends having Instagram accounts. You can also use the “Explore” feature and find suitable users to follow. The usage pattern of Instagram is such that a section of users whom you follow would in turn follow you. Thus you can acquire the initial base of followers from whom you can grow exponentially. However, the importance of on time posting, quality content, using hashtags, engaging content etc sets forth from this point onwards.

2. Engage With your Competitors & Most Active Followers

Your niche of topics and images is not without competitors in Instagram. There may be thousands or even millions of Instagram users who are posting content and photo about the same niche. To get followers for yourself you need to engage with followers of your most popular competitors in Instagram. Since these people are following a niche, they may have a natural inclination to explore the niche further. This can nudge them to follow more users in the same niche. You need to exploit this natural inclination of users and enhance your follower base.

3. Use Instagram Insights

Instagram Insights is a very helpful feature of Instagram as it helps users to learn more about their followers and also about how his or her content is performing. If you are curious about how specific posts or stories are performing, this feature can help. You can see how individual post is performing and how people are engaging with them. So, you can get insight about your posts and activity of users around your posts. You can also track growth in follower count.

4. Use Direct Message to Share Posts

Direct Message for Instagram web interface is available as a Google Chrome extension . You need to download it before using. In app version, it’s available within the app. This extension lets you send messages to your followers and friends from your PC or laptop. It comes with emoticons to let you express your emotion. Moreover, if you feel that you should not have sent a particular message, you can delete it easily. Just tap on the message, hold the right button on it and select “Unsend”.

5. 30 Minutes of Engagement

Don’t treat your posts in Instagram as a fire-and-forget artillery shell. You really need to engage with them before and after posting. The trick lies in 15 minutes of research on niche hashtags before posting and 15 minutes of engagement on your time line after posting. A small research on the most popular niche hashtag is pretty much worth your time and effort as it can lead to more followers. Similarly, spending some time on the post after posting can help you understand how your followers are reacting to it.