all right so you want to grw an audience to thousands of followers build a brand monetize it build community friendships and so on now let me tell you what the truth actually is only 8% of you will actually succeed there are 2 million creators on Instagram but only 0. 7% has over 1 million followers so this is the blueprint to grow in your Instagram from 0 to 1 million followers even if nobody knows who you are the strategies and methods you about to discover in this video are exactly the same strategies I used to grow my brand for good code from 0 to 1. 7 million followers in less than 2 years time these methods completely changed my life I was able to grow my account to the biggest Tech brand on Instagram moved to Bali at the age of 21 and I was able to charge over $10,000 for one post of my feed now the first thing I want to talk about in this video is Carousel if you don't know what a carousel is a carousel is one Instagram post containing more than one picture or video I think now you can post up to 10 slides I've seen a lot of people transition from creating these carousels to reals because now they think that Instagram is a video platform that's slightly right but there is a huge opportunity on carousel right now I have grown to 1.
4 million followers only by using Carousel I've never shared a re before and I only tested two reals they cost me a lot of money and they didn't get that much engagement I used to get what I love about carousels is that they're so easy to make you can literally go now to figma or canva or whatever the editing app you use make a frame type something out and you can share it right away literally that's what it takes you don't need any video editing skills any of that but first before you do that you need to understand who do you make content for so who do you make the content for when you are a complete beginner with zero followers it is extremely important to know who you are making the content for you're not making it for yourself so please please do not share a picture of your food or your family because at this stage of your growth no one actually cares about you but they actually care about the value you're providing and what you're offering and I see a lot of creators they say you are the niche I think this is a really bad advice for beginners because these creators have built over the years are following that they know their faces so they can talk about whatever they want they can share whatever thoughts they have and they would still get clicks and fuse but for you no one really knows you so if you put a title this is my morning routine who are you like no one really knows you so it is extremely important to Niche down and niche as much as possible I have started my account teaching people how to code this is where forg good code name came from I was specifically talking about data structures and algorithms which is a very very Niche Topic in the programming world I wasn't trying to talk about programming in general or how to solve problems but I was hearing these very hard Concepts that I have seen the Gap in the market that no one talks about this topic I have grown to 80,000 to 100,000 followers just by doing this concept called explain to me like I'm 6 years old so I was explaining very complicated topics in an easy way and that made me Stand Out Among the millions other programming accounts simply because I was very very Niche and talking very specifically about data structures and algorithms it is so easy to grow if you nich down if you have a personal account with your friends and family please St from there archive the post that you don't want people to see and stop posting because you need a basic following for Instagram to boost your post to more people because how it works is Instagram sees how your basic following in this case your friends and family interact with your post first based on likes shares and saves how they interact with your posts specifically in the first 30 minute or the first hours of your post then based on this they see if they can boost it to more people or not if you don't have a basic following then it is very very challenging to grow if you're a fitness coach for example and your buyer is like I help people transform their body there's millions of creators doing that but if your buyer is like I help entrepreneurs transforming their body without sacrificing the work hours then there is more likely that you're going to stand out among other creators and you can always expend your Niche down the line if you want to if you actually have an audience a basic audience so now here is the most interesting part what makes content go viral on Instagram since I've been on this Instagram game for more than 4 years now and had multiple viral puls on the way let me share with you my stats and the key metrics that Instagram utilizes to boost your pulse to broader audience so now I'm going to share with you live stats from my Instagram account to show you and prove to you what actually works and how content gets viral on Instagram because it's really hard to predict unless you have data so first the first metric on Instagram is saves as you can see here the pul stack gets fir from me this one it gets 1. 3 million saves and only 700k likes well only but the number of saves is a lot more higher and also the shares 400k shares this post alone got 152k new followers and that's the same for every viral post as you can see here 391k 14k new followers 130k shares 130k people share this post this one only 3 days ago as you can see here it's still going but it has 67k and only 53 KX this one as well I can keep going to all of my viral puls I had multiple viral puls before and I can just prove that it's all about saves and shares as you can see here again 1.
