Grow And Earn With Instagram

by laurent becca
"How I grow my Instagram account and how I make money with it"

I will show you how I get up to 50 comments on every new post, how I get free shoutouts from big accounts in my niche, and how you can earn money by monetizing your account. I will also show you how to use: hashtags, pods, bots, shoutouts, affiliate links and where to find them!

Not many people want to tell you this because it's boring and it's not a 'secret formula' but it's what needs to be done to get the ball rolling. When I started my account, I had zero followers so the first thing I did was I uploaded 9 photos so the account didn't look so bare. I picked out some beautiful photos from other pages within the same niche, but always making sure to credit the owner in the caption! They're always happy to get some extra free promotion. The next thing was to get my name in front of the eyes of people. The simplest way to do this is to engage.

#Instagram is a Social network. If you just constantly post and do not engage with anybody you're account will never grow. So I liked, commented and followed a lot of the big pages within my niche. I looked in to their followers and followed as many of them as I could as well. Every so often I unfollowed those who didn't follow me back. And this is how it started. Engaging with other people is simply the only way to start but it should be continued all the time, even if your account grows into the thousands of even millions of followers you should always engage! A good way to get engagement is uploading viral going videos or great pictures that already gets lots of engagement, just copy them! To upload video's you can use a app called ‘Browser’. You can download the video and upload them on your page without getting any watermark. Be sure you always credit the owner of the video or picture. All of this will help you getting be seen by lots of users.

Your Instagram Name and Bio

The first step to creating a good Instagram account is to find a creative name and bio this is essential! Make sure that your name is, in fact, your name! (By this, I mean the “name” field in your profile, not your Instagram username).
People searching for you on Instagram will likely use your name or your company’s name, and consistency let people know that the Instagram profile they’re viewing actually belongs to you and not an impostor.

This might seem pretty obvious, but there’s actually a bigger reason for it: your name and username are the only fields that Instagram considers in search queries. Add in a few keywords and even a couple of hashtags to ensure you’re easily findable by the right kind of followers.

So it’s really important to make sure that the name you use in your Instagram Bio is the one your followers and customers are searching for! Because it works as a hashtag. But that doesn’t mean you can’t spruce things up a bit! Do you have a specialty or industry niche? Do you offer a specific service? Are you known for something in particular? You can include those details in your name as well!

Shoutouts

Once your account grows to any respectable number you should start looking for other accounts within your niche with a similar follower size. Find these accounts and asks for a shoutout in return for a shoutout. Basically what this means is that you post on your own account and mention them and they do the same. You cross promote each others accounts to your followers. Instagram is massive! So no account has two identical set of followers. This is probably the single best strategy for growing your account fast! Do not bother asking accounts that are far larger than yours for a #shoutout unless you have something else to offer them. Focus on finding accounts similar to your own size.

You can also buy or sell shoutouts to earn money with them! How awesome is that?
It’s also an amazing way to to promote your own brand, or to promote an affiliate link through someone story's or post. Check the link, where you can create your own account for selling your own shoutouts

Checkout the website here: http://bit.ly/shoutoutcart

Affiliate Marketing

#affiliatemarketing basically means that you promote and sell a product and you'll earn a part of the profit which is called a commission. You’ll often see bloggers doing this on their website with sidebar banners promoting their partners (affiliates) or even through specific product inspired posts. Well, it’s not much different with Instagram.
With Instagram, you post attractive images highlighting their products and drive sales through your affiliate URL (this should be provided by your affiliate).
There are quite a few companies you can work with. Here are some of them:

• A CPA (Click Per Action) Affiliate program that earns you up to 4-60 dollars each e-mail
• Membership is Free and good quality training
• Yoonla is transparent, when you use their recommended products they earn as well as you. a 50/50 relationship.
• It's a beginner or newbie friendly
• Facebook group/community
• No payment details required, FREE sign-up
• The training received from Yoonla can be used to promote other products as well
• Pay-outs every month: Paypal or Payza.

To start with this program create your FREE account here: http://bit.ly/Yoonla-free

• A CPA Affiliate program
• A lot of products to refer to people
• No payment details required, FREE sign-up
• Earn up to $300 for 1 lead in commissions
• Its a beginner or newbie friendly
• Transparant company and great support service
• Pay-outs every week: Check, PayPal, Wire, Payoneer, ACH or Bitcoin.

To start with this program create your FREE account here: http://bit.ly/Maxbounty-free

You can put your affiliate URL on your captions or on your bio. You can either use bitly.com to shorten and customize your affiliate link OR you can hook up your blog and Instagram profile so that when people purchase through your link, you get a sale.

It really couldn’t be easier. This type of marketing is particularly popular with clothing on Instagram, as you can post your “OOTD” (outfit of the day) with the affiliate link sending followers to your full outfit details.
For those involved in the travel industry (or simply those that love to travel – ahem, all of us!), you could try to set up and use affiliate marketing when taking part in reviews for hotels and venues. Simply direct followers to book through your link! It’s also great for beauty bloggers, as you can invite people to “shop the look.” These methods are subtle and, as such, more effective than a direct sales type pitch.
Brands don’t typically require a formal brand ambassadorship for creators of sponsored content, but it’s common for them to tap certain influencers for content time and time again. However, it’s important that any brands or products you promote are a good fit for your own personal image on Instagram. The idea is to show off brands that you can personally get behind, and to show your followers how that brand fits into your lifestyle.

Sell Your Photos or Presets

An obvious one, surely? Why not use Instagram for it sole purpose… to showcase your photography?
If you’re a professional (or amateur but keen!) photographer, Instagram is a great way to advertise and sell your shots to either individuals or agencies. Add a watermark to your snaps and use the captions to list all selling details in a concise manner. As always, make sure that you have an active presence so that the right type of accounts are following you. Use appropriate hashtags to pull people towards your shots and get a conversation going with influential photography agencies. There are also a few sites that you can use to actually put your Instagram photos for sale,

including: https://www.twenty20.com/ & http://community.foap.com/ and you can also offer your own used presets, save them and sell them!

Pods

The next insider trick I have for you is #comment pods or groups! Nobody else will admit this but all influencers on instagram are involved in comment groups. You can find these on #facebook (search for “Instagram engagement groups and pods”). These are groups where everybody goes into each others accounts and comments on the image to boost enagement. I am personally invloved in about 15 of these groups. You simply message the group when you have posted a new photo and all the other members like and comment on your post!

Building Your Own Pod

First of all, who should build a DM group network and why? DM groups are used to boost your posts in the first 60 minutes after posting. The engagement the post gets in the first 60 minutes is one of the big factors that determines whether your post actually ends up ranking on the explore page or not. If you are trying to grow your account by ranking on the explore page and going viral, then investing your time into building your own DM group network is what you need to do. Although, if you have the budget and you are willing to invest money instead of time, then joining an automated powerlike / powercomment network instead would be ideal. If that's your case, you can send me a PM to request a spot at Explora Media's!

How To Build A DM Group Network?

First off, have in mind that likes/comments from 100,000 follower accounts are way more powerful than engagement from 1,000 follower accounts. For that reason, you want to build yourself up and network to build 100k+ follower DM groups. So, how do you do this? By using the power of Networking! Get good at that, really. A tip I can share is to give free value to people and they will feel obligated to do something nice in return. When it comes to building DM groups, start by building groups with smaller pages, and get to know people that potentially have connections with bigger pages.

Now, once you are into several DM groups... let's say 20, you want to find and segment the people that are still active, and those that are not. This is so you don't have to waste your time sharing your post to 20 different groups where only 50% or less are actually active.

You want to be as efficient as possible and build the most powerful DM groups. Here is a small step by step long-term plan to follow: Build 20 DM groups (remember, Best if they are in your niche and have over 50k to 100k followers). After 2-4 weeks of posting in your groups, refresh by finding out those that are not active, then create new groups with the people that stayed active. Repeat the process after 2-4 weeks and if you start running out of active people, it's time to keep networking and build new groups again. I know people that are in ONLY 5 groups, but very powerful groups and they go viral almost every time.So don't underestimate the power of DM groups, you just need to build yourself up to having those powerful groups.

Feel free to follow me on instagram and if you want to join a pod, to connect or for more information send me a direct message here: http://www.instagram.com/laurentbecca
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Hashtags

Instagram allows you to use up to 30 hashtags. But because of the changed algorithm the rule is now to use not more then 27 hashtags! You should also not comment any hashtags in a comment under your photo. I know, it might look better, but you have to put the hashtags in the description of the post. I got shadow banned by instagram a few times when I put my hashtags in a comment and since I'm putting them in the description, I don't have any problems with that anymore! Getting shadow banned means that your post will not be visible under the hashtags you've used so that way you can not be seen by other profiles then the ones following you!

You can find up-to-date top used 2018 hashtags here: http://bit.ly/tophashtags2018

Influence the Influencers

Once you have an account with a following of 5000+ you are able to barter with influencers. You can offer them promotion on your account in return for them promoting your product. Most new or small influencers are more than happy to promote a product in return for promotion themselves. You can even use your network of similar pages and comment groups to promote them if you like.

Grow The Fast Way

I have been able to build my accounts up to 1500 followers within 8 days using these strategies. If you want to skip some of the hard work and get an extra boost you can use this app called: Stim. It's an instagram bot what will get you a lot of real followers because you target/choose your own audience. This app works great, I’ve also used it. Many people decide to buy fake followers, but these fake accounts do not allow interaction or addition. With this app, you will get more organic followers who are actually interested in what you do!

Try it now for FREE here: http://bit.ly/growinstagram5days

Stim

Is a powerful Instagram growth service and will increase your account, all day long and overnight. Specify your audience so real people and real results. First thing you need to do is to make an account. After that you can target minimal 5 Instagram accounts in example (travel niche) I would take “Travelgram” or “Travelandleisure”. As an Entrepreneur I would target: Entrepreneur, Millionaire_Mentor etc. Anyway, big Instagram accounts with a lot of followers and in your type of niche. Stim will be interacting with those followers and likers.

Try it now for FREE here: http://bit.ly/growinstagram5days

So this auto-pilot system will save you a lot of time! The app will post automated comments which you can create yourself, it follows and unfollows people and ofcourse it likes pictures. You can also create a message which you can use for ‘directmessage’. You can allow and automate it if you want to send it to every new follower you get, which also saves a lot of time if you have a business and you're trying to sell a service or product or even if you want to send someone your link to join your facebook community for example. The trial will be free for 5 days. It really helped me gain even more followers!

For more information about Stim I highly recommend this tutorial “how to use Stim the correct way to see your results within a hour”

Try it now for FREE here: http://bit.ly/growinstagram5days

I hope this post gave you a lot of valuable information about how to start, grow and monetize your instagram account. I also hope that you can use one or more tips I shared. Let me know in the comments what you think of the post please and don't forget to upvote! Thank you in advance and I wish you a great day!