10 EASY TIPS TO GROW YOUR INSTAGRAM THEME PAGE

A lucrative approach to instagram profiles.

Instagram pages can be created without any investment. If they reach a considerable audience they can be monetized as any other platform online.

Some of the most common ways are shout outs, affiliate offers, dropshipping and selling own products.

There are marketplaces online where instagam pages can be bought and sold. Some digital entrepreneurs view this as an opportunity to perform the digital version of the “fix and flip” model in the real estate industry. In this model, investors would acquire real state property in poor conditions, remodel it maximizing cost efficiency and then sell it for a profit margin. The Instagram version of this model would consist on either acquiring a page with poor traffic but good content or the other way around. After improving the weaknesses and growing their audiences, pages are either sold for profit or monetized.

How to grow an audience on Instagram theme pages?

It can be hard to keep up with the algorithm to know what works and what doesn’t in order to position your page. What works now, may not work tomorrow. This said, here are some tips that may help you:

• Profile username

Must be nice and clean and related to the niche. Similar criteria that in domaining, we will want a clean name which has no periods or underscores, be creative.

• Logo

Must be related to the topic, can be simple and really just an image downloaded from Google images.

• Feed

Have a nice looking feed and be selective with the content, specially when you have a bigger audience. Keep in mind potential users will only see your last few posts.

• Engagement

Encourage users to interact with your post: can do this with a caption that has a call to action: for example “tag someone that…”. Another good ideas is making your post purposely controversial.

• Videos over photos

Instagram wants people to stay longer on the app, so the algorithm will reward posts that retain the audience for longer. Also try to select the most eye catching thumbnail for the video.

• Follow for follow

This used to be a good tactic for the first few hundred followers, nowadays this tactic is proven to get Instagram accounts penalized. Still can be done manually and in small quantities. If you will use this method, search for similar pages and follow users that interacted with their content. Unfollow users that didn’t follow you back, apps are fine to use to automate the unfollowing process. Check the followers/following ratio the user you’re going to follow has, if the following is much higher that the followers, that’s user is more likely to follow your page and engage with your content.

• Hashtag strategy

Turn the list of hashtags into a paragraph with words in between and post it on a comment. Can also add an explanation of why you’re doing it. You get the benefits of spamming hashtags without actually spamming them.

• Stories

Always have a story posted at all times. Shows that you’ve been active in the last 24hs which encourages more people to follow.

• Study

Check regularly your analytics and comments so you know what works better and get feedback from your audience.

• Don’t give up!

Don’t quit before the 3k to 5k followers mark, that’s usually when the pages blow up. The more you post the higher the chances are to blow up, since there is usually takes just one viral post to get the ball rolling,… the more post you make the more chances you will have to go viral.

Additional information:

• Shoutcart is a website that automates the process of selling shout-outs on your Instagram page.

• If you’re looking to buy accounts, either for flipping them or monetizing them yourself, it’s always better to message pages directly instead of using Instagram pages marketplaces. This is because sellers on these marketplaces may be flipping the account themselves or may be selling them because they aren’t getting good results. However, these marketplaces are a good option if you’re looking to sell accounts.

• Check Biahezas videos on the topic. It’s always great to learn form the experts in the field! Most of the content in this article came form notes taken from his videos.