How to grow your Instagram following

Hey loves! i trust you loves are good, keeping safe and you are entertained. A lot of us have set goals for ourselves for this 21 days of lock down, if you are one of those people I hope you are killing those goals. If you feel a little demotivated just remember how happy and proud you will be when you see the results you desire.

Today i will be sharing with you guys my guide or tips on how to grow your Instagram following. Disclaimer: I am neither an IG guru nor have thousands of Instagram followers but I just want to share with you how I grew my account from 500 followers to 1 277 followers.

1. Have clean and desirable feed - I wrote a blog post about how to have a clean Instagram last week do check that out. I will put link to that blog post below. Instagram is all about selling yourself therefor you want people to love what they see and to click on that follow button. I can not stress this enough, you need to be intentional when you post.

https://teyshaq.wixsite.com/teydablogger/post/how-to-have-a-clean-instagram

2. Engage with other creatives and your followers - Reply to people's comments on your posts, comment on other people's posts (people in your niche). Don't just be a "ghost" follower ( just liking posts). When you comment you put yourself out there and best believe someone will take an interest in seeing your feed and end up following you.

Tip: Encourage people to take action ( Ask a question or ask them to go subscribe or follow you)

3. Use relevant hashtags - I used to underestimate the power and importance of hashtags. To be honest, I wasn't too fond of them either. Hashtags are important they makes it easy for people in the same niche or interested in content similar to yours to find you. But you have to use hashtags that are relevant to your content or post.

4. Stories - My favorite. Your Instagram stories draw traffic to your page. The more people view your stories, the more likely they will go to your page and follow you. I would advice you to be consistent with your stories, post all day meaning full content ( take people through your day or show them the behind the scenes of the project you doing). Your feed is just a representation of your brand but your stories just show your personality so you can be as creative as you want.

Tip: Check out Unfold, Canva, InShot and StoryArt apps for cool Instagram stories.

5. Consistency - This is something that I'm still working on as well. Try to post at least twice or four times a day. The more you post the more you appear on people's timeline and the goal is for people to not forget you or get bored and un-follow you. "There is plenty of fish in the sea" yeah Sweety ! everyone is replaceable because there are a lot of people doing what you are doing so you need to stand out.

Tip: always check your analytics to see when a lot of people view your post. Pay attention to your analytics to see which content people love from you ( selfies or full body pictures, beauty or fashion and so on)