what's the fastest way to reach 10 000 followers on instagram and is it really true that showing your face and the first story of the day will actually boost your reach while i've taken some of the instagram hacks and tricks that you have found on the internet and sent me over and i've done a fact check with each of them so you'll actually know what works and what doesn't growing and monetizing an instagram account starting with the first which is that showing your face and having a poll as the first story of your day boosts
your reach by quite a bit so let's take a look at what she has to say this instagram story hack increased my engagement times three your first story of the day should include your face and a pull pulls attract a ton of engagement which will put it closer to the top of everyone's feet you can hide up to 30 hashtags in your story post and tag your location for a higher range follow for more okay there's some truth to that however we've done some research and we figured out that the instagram story algorithm will actually
push out your content more if certain metrics are being met now these metrics heavily depend on how your audience actually reacts to your content and the metrics being mostly about you know view time how long people view the story how many people exit for example how many people actually interact with your stories you know polls for example is a good indicator and i hate to break it to you for some people their face might not be the biggest asset and the algorithm knows that for example we ran some split tests with some clients and we
figured out that for some of them having a black background with just a text in it and maybe a poll will actually get them better results than their face kind of sucks for them but that's just the way the world works now why is that because in the past their audience reacted better to content like this and they probably still continue to react better with just black background in that case same with polls actually yes in general polls are a very good tool to actually get up engagement to get up interactions in terms of stories
to get more reach but sometimes they just don't some audience just don't care some polls are just not good so if the algorithm sees well compared to similar posts this poll or polls on that account don't seem to be working that well obviously the algorithm you know cares the most about giving your audience the best time so figuring out what kind of content actually performs better and then delivering that content to your audience is actually the way to go but i'd say she's right three out of five times a face with the poll is gonna
do the trick now the second one is actually pretty interesting because it's titled the fastest way to reach 10 000 followers now let's take a look at it okay read the caption for real tips all right so she's actually doing this kind of meta but she's actually doing some good things in terms of her reels content she's first of all making you watch the reels through because there's some revealing content second of all she makes you open up the caption which get gets the watch time up way more and as you can see in the
background while you read the caption the reels continue to keep playing which is obviously good for for the algorithm which is why you can see that this reels actually has 7 000 you know likes already and she doesn't have that many followers just 18 000 followers and as you can see this one reels that we just watched has 218 thousand views and this is actually why it blew up but basically she said well the fastest way to sue 10 000 followers is creating valuable content that resonates with the right people duh first post consistently second
provide educational yet entertaining content they're using instagram's features to the fullest real stories live video engagement also plays a huge role commenting and liking others content is huge for the algorithm but let's roll this thing out first of all she says have the perfect instagram grid is not git which is actually true the grid theme and stuff like this is actually not that important it certainly helps if this whole thing is not too shabby but i'd say in general there's a very very low bar in terms of how well your theme should be put together
but however there is a bar you know no one but there's a bar obviously this whole thing depends on your niche if you're all about minimalism aesthetic and design and stuff like this you know probably it's a little more important than if you have let's say business advice than you know for example her not that important for her the next thing she says follow follow we know that it's bad the next thing she says it's actually not important is post every single day and i have some interesting insights about this whole thing because later.com actually
did some research which pretty much correlates with the data that we've gathered here on our marketing agency which basically says that if you're under 1 000 followers the more feed posts that you share on instagram per week the better they say both reach and engagement rates per posting proof as posting frequency increases per week with the average engagement rate climbing from 3.1 percent at one post per week to 4.9 at 20 posts per week which is kind of a lot but yeah data doesn't lie on the other hand they say for accounts between 1 000
and 250 000 followers it's kind of a broad range if you ask me but they say reach rate proposed still improves as more feed posts are shared but engagement rates see a significant decline yeah first of all kind of like a stretch between 1 000 250 000 i don't know why they grouped them together like that but let's just say if you're focusing on reels which you by the way should if you're all about growing your audience fast hammering out daily reels is certainly the way to go as we can see as we have tons
of data and case studies out there not necessarily because the algorithm favors that which is a factor but not a big one but basically because you get a feel for the platform because you get a feel for how reels work and how your audience actually reacts to the reels that you make you know going back to the first thing we talked about now if you're all about getting your reels game up and growing your audience with reels no matter what kind of content you have and stuff like this we're gonna have a reels challenge coming
up here on this channel so stay tuned probably in the next coming weeks we're gonna see a video obviously obviously and it's gonna be free just so you know now the next one is actually pretty interesting one from an account called brock 11 johnson and he's like stop posting stories now what does he mean with that if your goal is growth the feat comes first he says fact instagram stories won't grow your following if your goal is to grow your following it's not going to happen using instagram stories on instagram the amount of followers gained
from stories is less than one percent if you're prioritizing stories over feed posts then you're doing it wrong in instagram let me break it down for you feet serve your audience reach new people grow your following stories connect with your audience build better relationships interact with existing followers stories are a useful piece of instagram but the feed comes first now he's actually right about this whole thing in the sense that for audience growth stores actually don't do nothing nothing at all directly however and this is actually the big thing not posting stories at all just
because your main goal is growth it's actually not the best strategy it's actually a very bad strategy just think about it like that you get traffic through reels or carousels on the explorer lots of new people come to your profile and usually kind of like this is sort of polished but creating the right stories first and foremost builds a strong connection with your followers because it's not polished and it actually might push the one or the other over the edge to actually follow you because they say well this is actually relatable this is actually funny
to watch this actually gives me another angle of value so don't completely dismiss this whole story thing if you're just thinking about growing or let's just say you have an awesome lifestyle which a lot of you guys actually have and your stories actually showcase you know these interesting or entertaining things and you've actually identified let's say stories as your main content pillar because this is what what's your thing you know unfiltered raw content you know shooting it out as you go what do you do if you still want to grow obviously number one which is
kind of an overlooked thing in instagram growth influencer marketing you know basically getting shout outs from bigger players in your niche or similar niches with an audience overlap and yeah we've actually done some campaigns with some clients and things like that work like a charm if you have the right niche obviously if you have the right content and if you have the right audience overlap obviously yeah that one's actually boring and i'm actually sorry to be so direct but i see lots of people might actually like this because they get a good feeling out of
this whole content they're like whoa i'm this unique snowflake and i can finally be whatever i want but unfortunately my friends that's just not how the game works and as a result of that that's not how social media algorithms work like it or not and i know lots of you guys are gonna say right now who sold me algorithm so bad but to be honest it's never actually been like that even before the internet was a thing everything is a product of others influences especially if you're just starting out you probably don't exactly know what
you want to do or how you want to do it so imitating your inspirations is very beneficial to finding your own style as you go along ever heard about bob ross for example well he was not the first to do these things conan wanted to be like letterman letterman wanted to be like johnny carson and carson wanted to be like jack benny now would you say that neither of them are unique probably not so get inspired right of course you're unique by imitating by getting inspiration from other accounts first of all they kind of give
you pre-validated data in terms of this is a niche that actually works this is content in general that actually works or not and at some point you're just gonna have your own style so that's just how the game works we all do it by the way instagram's algorithm switched up it now favors shares plus safes and comments over likes add a call to action post save worthy content okay put save this for later or share with your bestie in your caption okay this is a call to action encourage commenting okay so she's all about you
know call to actions and that actually lights are not important anymore again like with most of these things from today there's some truth to that but it's actually not that simple first of all this whole likes are not important anymore it depends on the content with riaz for example it seems like it's not as important anymore percentage wise as with feed posts however if we take a look at actual information instagram gave us first hand and they're you know talking about how their algorithm works they say the most important actions to rank on explorer include
likes saves and shares i'm going to spare you the details we've done a video on that actually but according to them this whole thing ranking on the explore page and you know getting to reach up actually it's a combination of all things combined because that's what you should focus on anyway with the whole new instagram algorithm creating good content humans love not the algorithm and if a human actually enjoys a certain piece of content all these things you know play together like share safe so yes in a sense likes are not as important anymore as
they used to be because now everything together is sort of important and if you want to know more about how certain metrics play a role in getting your wheels for example to blow up you need to watch this video right there
