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In before lock...
Cliffs for people who missed last thread
- OP has an ok idea but truly awful execution
- OP refuses to listen any sort of advice or opinions
- OP focuses on catfishing losers on IG to gain followers
Why would it get locked? Asking sincerely, i want a productive thread to talk about my strategies for growing the brand... if that isn't a valid thread for BFI, let me know
I came back to make a post about the value of following first to gain followers... it doesn't work if you spam your follows but doing it to a very focused group turns highly engaged followers and that is extremely important for out performing other pages to get selected into "top posts" on all of the hashtags. My ability to play way above weight is specifically because of how much my account is out performing expectation from engagement so my #1 priority is to grow with as engaged a fan base as possible.
When i have a warm lead... someone who has at least liked one of my posts then i return about 40% of my follows as new followers.
When i like posts on targeted hashtags i return somewhere around 15% but have got as high as 30% when i stay more targeted
That is an insane return on my investment of time to create highly engaged followers... When i have had time to spend 12-15 hours on it i have added 400 followers in a day through straight engagement... why wouldn't I do that to reach my 7500 followers? if i do sponsored posts it doesn't create as engaged a follower and engagement is the only goal of any of this brand
here is an example of my engagement vs a similar sized account... it shows the advantage that i have and how i'm going to grow
https://www.instagram.com/deftfotos/ Here is the page of a friend of mine... he has spent years building this page and has very high quality content but has no idea how to distribute it. He has never bought followers or tried to blow his page up, those are just genuine follows from people who liked his content however they found it (probably through following models that he has shot)... so, they are people interested in this kind of content
his most recent post was 2 days ago and has 418 impreessions 341 reach and 135 engagement. he had about the same number of followers, 4069 then as he does now and has worked to understand hashtagging because he knows that when he does get pinned on some hashtag feeds he has pics go "viral" and blow up relative to normal performance.
on a post that i made 2 days ago when i had about 2900 followers here are my numbers: 3841 impressions 2963 reach 866 engagements
that lets me pin that picture on to #maxim or wherever i want... and i know that there will be deltas of engagement based on the subject of the picture but i can target that picture's tags to target easier hashtags to pin on so that i'm still getting maximum exposure. i'm still building out my hashtag database but i'm posting 10 pics later this week as a birthday set and i will get those pics pinned to the top of over 200 hashtags. my accounts total impressions from my posts that day could easily reach 50k ...
i think that the most important thing seems to be likes per hour and engagement % that determine whether you get pinned to the top and then staying there requires a steady stream of likes coming in through that hashtag so if the people looking at that hashtag aren't engaging it, it doesn't really matter how well it's performing, it will fall off
but that just gives you free market research on which hashtags to target... i can stay on #rhcp for 3 days somehow and my guess is that it's because chili pepper fans like the pics more than say garth brooks fans do (but i get a lot of country music fans following when i target those hashtags, i just have to use less sexy shots to make sure my pic will get likes on that hashtag, that will keep it there and let more people click through to the the page)... but i'm able to tell whatever story i want to whatever type of follower that i am targeting so the people who find the page through those ways and click through until they follow are also highly engaged, but i have my gf go through every new followers' page and find a few posts she likes and like them, then comment on the one that looks most personal to that person... and then follow them back. i have her like every post in our feed and comment on the ones that look more personal so that they are getting positive reinforcement
the result is that i can put it on more channels than i see anyone else doing... the only pages that i see doing similar are big hubs that post
i'm getting about 100 followers per day off of an average of 5000 reach... pretty soon i will be able to pin onto hashtags that have exponentially higher impressions and that will blow up mine, if i can add 100 followers per day at 5000 reach i'll be adding a solid 500 at 50000 and those hashtags are not very far out of my reach right now. i basically have a reserved space for any picture i want at the top of #maxim and before long i'll have one at #playboy too ... for growing a brand like this those are insanely valuable.
i'm considering going to 4 posts per day if i can get enough hashtags ... it will lower the quality of my content but i would just delete 90% of my posts after they fall off of their pins and keep the page higher-end looking than the average post needs to be. i think that the more candid content performs better for attracting followers anyway (sexy gets likes, candid gets followers)
Last edited by hoonist; 12-19-2016 at 08:52 AM.