Complete Guide on How to get THOUSANDS of REAL followers on Instagram WITHOUT spamming/follow for follow/Buying followers

hi! My name is Derek Cahill and I wanted my first post on Steemit to be meaningful and provide lots of value to other Steemit users that are struggling with instagram. Please comment below, I want to meet new people!:)

Ever dream about getting a large following and 1000's of likes on every picture you upload to instagram?

If you go about it the wrong way gaining REAL followers that actually care about your content starts to feel impossible. This is not a get instafamous overnight scheme, the only the I can promise you is that you'll get EXACTLY what you put in.

Lets begin:)

THE BASICS
-Post Consistently!: and make sure the images correlate to the brand that you're trying to create and make sure you stay engaged with your audience by posting at the same times everyday. I fully understand that this alone is a lot of work but I promise if you don't have a good pool of content then theres no point in trying to get people to your page in the first place. EVEN ONCE A DAY IS ENOUGH!:)

-Don't forget your stories!: Self explanatory and honestly, keeping your instagram story updated will probably be the easiest thing about managing and growing followers/engagement.

-Use the right hashtags!: Try not to use hashtags that have more than a million posts especially if you're account is still small (sub 10k REAL followers). Also, NEVER use hashtags in the caption of your post. ALWAYS use 15-30 (relevant to your brand) hashtags as the first comment on your post. You want to use smaller hashtags because you have a much better chance of getting featured which will get many more new potential fans and engagements than being the 27 millionth post on #love.

-Respond meaningfully to comments on your posts/like EVERY comment: Self explanatory, was it a legit nice comment and not another spam bot? consider visiting their page and developing a relationship with them.

THE MARKETING STRATEGY

Okay, this is what you all came for. How do I get an account from 0-10,000k followers when you're an internet nobody?

-Step One: Gather a list of 10-15 hashtags that relate to your brand. If you are a tech person, use tech hashtags, ect.

-Step Two: Once you have your list go through one by one and: Like all top 9 posts/ make meaningful comments that respond to their post caption/ respond and like others comments on the post/ be positive and please DO NOT SPAM!!!.

-Step Three: After doing this to all 9 top posts on 10-15 hashtags EVERY DAY! you should expect to get 1 -15 meaningful followers a day.

-Step Four: If you stayed consistant and added lots of value to 100's of posts and amassed a few hundred real meaningful followers, then congratulations, because the last step is making a killer piece of content that people will want to share and hopefully at this point you start to grow at a much more rapid rate. The main takeaway here is to work very hard and be very social and patient.

HOW NOT TO GO ABOUT GAINING FOLLOWERS

-Spamming: People can smell and copy and paste, generic or emoji only post a mile away. Be thoughtful with EVERY post and comment you do.

-Following a bunch of people: You shouldn't have to follow anyone you don't absolutely want to. Furthermore, if people come to your account and see that you follow thousands of people and have the same amount of followers I can promise you they will not bother to care about your account and you are wasting your time.

-Buying followers: I mean, sure, it could work in the short term but once again people are not stupid and WILL notice that you only get 4 likes and a few spam comments when you have 10's of thousands of followers. Be honest.

Hope this helps!:) this is my first post to Steemit and I'm pretty excited to jump in and meet every single one of you and all of your wonderful content. Let me know if this post helped at all.