7 Ways to Grow Your Instagram Organically in 2018

Instagram, the social media that became famous by letting us edit our photos like professionals, is one of the easiest social media to grow your network but there are some things you need to know and some others you need to avoid. And if you don't have an Instagram account yet what are you waiting for, go ahead and create one. Now that you know these let's start.

1-Grow your network, not your ego

The first thing you need to know is that you don't want to participate in this "like for like" or "follow for follow" apps or even actually buy followers. This kind of apps or followers might make your ego feel good but you will definitely not grow your network or your community with active users, in fact, you will only be surrounded by ghost followers, this kind of followers will not interact or engage with your content so it is pretty much useless.

2-The Hashtags

Hashtags will help you to find your value market and engage with them, the more hashtags you use, more people will see you. If I am not wrong Instagram will only allow you to use 30 # so I recommend you to use all of them. Let me give you a simple example if you get the opportunity to get 30 lottery tickets totally free will you use them all or just 5 or 6 of them? I am sure you will use them all.

BonusTip: Find a popular Hashtag but not one over saturated. So your image will have a chance to get noticed. I personally use this Hashtag app with my clients "Leetags" to find the best Hashtags for their niche but there a lot of others app you can use.

3-Become an active member

Be active and engage with the community get in touch with your value market, tell them real and honest feedback about their photos no just simple comments like: "Nice pic" "cool" because this sound like bots it doesn't sound real or genuine.

I give you this example, lets imagine you are telling a story to two persons, Mr A and Mr.B , Mr A. is just telling you comments like "oh wow" "yes" "ok" "cool" "yeah" and Mr.B. in the other side is asking you questions about your story and sharing with you other related stories.

which one of this persons would you rather get involved in a deeper conversation?

I am sure you would rather have a conversation with Mr.B

4-Follow people on your niche

Guys remember that Instagram like all the other social networks, they work with algorithms , algorithms tell them the behavior of every user , as you can notice if I start following pages related to cats and dogs, Instagram will notice that I like this kind of content so they will suggest me pages related to this niche.

Follow people on your niche, so if anyone is liking or following a page that is related to your niche Instagram is going to suggest them your page.

I know that it is very funny to follow our friends, family or even meme pages but let's keep all this only for our personal Instagram page.

5- Aesthetic over everything

What do I mean by this? This basically means that you have to be consistent with the kind of content you upload, for Example:

If I have an Instagram page about success and how to make money online, I need to keep uploading content related to this, cause it is what my followers expect to find, I cannot just one day upload motivational stuff and quotes and the next morning upload memes.

Is like if you go to KFC and they offer you sushi.

6- Why should they follow you?

Give them value content, talk to them, ask the questions, they are your followers spend time with them. I personally like to make giveaways or contests, cause the first minutes are very important when we talk about engagement, so I like to make some calls to actions for example:

First, 30 persons in comment their favourite motivational movie will participate to win a 5$ Amazon card.

As a result, you will get a more active community and also happy followers.

BonusTip: giveaways and contents are a very cheap way to increase your likes or followers with active users, you can make this as well as on Facebook and Twitter.

7-Analytics

Finally, use metrics and analytics to know the best time to upload your content. Some experts recommend uploading content between 8 pm to 11 pm (Only from Monday to Friday ) and on weekends from 12 pm to 5 pm. This makes sense to me cause during weekend most of my friends are out getting drunk or in the movies so I am sure they don't check their Instagram during this period of time (8 pm to 2 am).

But every niche is different so you can even use an app to know the best time for you to upload content, there are tons of them in the Appstore and in the Play store.

Great results take time, so keep working hard but even more than that keep working smart.

Ladies and Gentlemen my name is Alberto but you can call me Chicho, I am a social marketing expert (or at least I am very good at it) if you need help, feedback or some tips feel free to ask me, I will be very happy to answer you.

joosesanches@gmail

so what kind of content you upload to your Instagram business account?