10 Minute Instagram Growth Hacks To 10X Your Followers

Okay, so what I'm about to show you are five super powerful hacks, up-to-date hacks, that if done for just 10 minutes a day, will put an end to the feeling that the Instagram algorithm hates you. These are all things that right now can sort of give a nudge to the algorithm to show you to more people. So if you're stuck at a plateau, if you have trouble getting views like these, basically, by the way, these are just examples from my clients, actually, from the past, I would say two weeks maximum, just a sorted example.

But if you don't get anywhere close to these kind of metrics, what I'm about to show you can actually get you there. Now, here's what's up. It's not going to be tacky growth hacks that you've heard a hundred times before that will compromise your account, like follow on follow or any of that actual growth hack stuff.

No, they're sort of a systemized approach. Part of what I call the data-driven content framework that we sort of instal into our clients' strategies and adapt it to our clients' strategies to get them to become actual long-term creators who are, first of all, friends with the algorithm, and who also get results like these or these. Now, generally speaking, you're going to see on Instagram, sometimes it will look like that.

Basically, spikes, not a lot of spikes, spikes, not a lot of spikes, spikes, not a lot of spikes. Usually that's how it looks. This is an extreme example of one of my clients, but just so you're aware, this is most likely going to happen if you follow what we talk about here today.

So I'm not going to waste your time. Let's start with the first one here and just drag it down there. It's something new that I've talked about years ago, and we used to have a programme for this, my old agency, by the way, I'm not part of this anymore for a long time.

There might be some litigation. I'm not allowed to talk about it right now, but basically some of your followers are most likely spam. Maybe you even bought some followers at some point or some arsehole competitor bought followers for you just to mess up your stuff.

You never know. Let's not even talk about that right now. But especially if you've been creating content for a long time, chances are you've gotten some of these fake ghost followers, as I used to call them.

And recently, Instagram actually came out with a new feature and it basically allows you to identify fake followers on the platform in your app and then actually safely remove them because it's actually from Instagram. So you don't have to be afraid of getting action blocks, stuff like this. And actually we've had some creators go from, I don't have a before picture here, but we've had some creators suddenly start to reach a lot of non-followers again after they removed some of these fake followers or spam followers.

Basically, I wouldn't say they're fake. They're just low quality, fake spammy kind of people. Here's an actual example of how that could look for you if you remove them.

So what you want to do is, let me just see what I hid in there. Oh yeah. What is the price?

Remove potential spam followers. You're going to click on your profile onto your follower number. And then right there, you're going to see, first of all, something very new called Creators.

We're not going to talk about that. It's kind of a strange thing, but you're going to see Flack for Review. Now, if you only have 132 followers, like this example right here, who are Flack for Review, still would be good to go through some of them and remove them because obviously, especially the smaller your account is, the more each follower counts in terms of how do they interact with your content?

Do they even interact with your content? And if they don't interact with you at all, yeah, your reach is going to be down there. And you just want to go ahead and remove them.

As easy as that. Here's one thing though. Please take a look out, especially if you don't have a lot there.

And by the way, one of my clients actually sent me the other day one of his accounts. He had, I don't remember. I'll show you here, but it was something like 300,000 fake followers that the Instagram algorithm actually recognised as being fake.

But one thing you have to be careful of is sometimes they Flack actual friends in there. So especially if you don't have a lot of them, go through them. The system's getting better, but yeah.

So this is the first thing I want you to do. Like I said, just doing this will most likely boost your engagement, boost your whole reach that you get, especially your non-follower reach by a lot. But also there's another thing you can do is if on the same thing, you just swipe all the way to the right, and then it should say something along the lines of follow requests.

It's similar to that, but it's a little different. And it's basically some followers who try or some people who try to follow you, they will not be able to actually hit the follow button. They'll get into your follow requests fold.

Basically you have to approve them to follow you. Essentially the same if they recognise some low quality, low trust score. First of all, I just remove most of them, but here's the thing.

What I have noticed is sometimes some actual people who might be actually part of your fans or part of your target audience might be in there. And you want to take a look at them, you know, two minutes a day, if there's somebody in this folder and approve real looking ones, because especially if you're a newer creator, you need every person out there to interact with your content. So, you know, just to look for basically false positives, right?

Now, the next one is actually, if you've been creating for content for a while, and it's basically something we're trying out in the creator mentorship right now with some of our clients, some clients have actually reported some very, very interesting things, which is if they deleted bad performing content from back in the days, like literally low bottom tier performing content, suddenly deleting that not archiving, actually deleting that help them suddenly get a boost in reach and to help them suddenly get actual reach again, you know, so what you want to do is go to your insights, you're going to see that content you have shared at some point. And then you can basically take a look at I would take a look at the last year, maybe even two years to be on. Essentially, what you want to do is you want to sort by lowest and the metric reach, or most likely what you want to do is sort by accounts engaged.

So the lowest posts were the lowest amount of people engaged with you. And what you want to do is you want to delete bottom tier performing content, don't delete too much, by the way, because that could also get you to run into problems. But delete, you know, just a bunch of posts that are and that's important thing older than 90 days, okay, when because we need to give the algorithm time, so older than 90 days, and if it really has unusually low engagement, so if it's literally bottom 10%, percent, performing content in terms of engagement and reach, and slash or if it doesn't fit into your strategy anymore, could be that you slightly pivoted your content, or could be that you tried some stuff back then, and it didn't really work.

And now you kind of feel like you figured it out right now with your strategy. So if that's like a mismatch, and even if it performed well, sometimes that's another thing we're testing right now, you haven't heard from me, I don't have 100% conclusive evidence on that. But I've seen some accounts who sort of pivoted a little bit, delete their old content, and suddenly the algorithm reset again, or something like right, doing that shouldn't take you actually more than one minute a day, just to take a look at these things.

You know, if you do that every once in a while, perfect. By the way, if you want to see if we can actually help you instal this data driven content framework into your unique situation, because obviously, it's different for everybody, just fill out the application form down below, hop on a call with either me or with my community manager, Florian, and maybe in a few weeks, you'll also have stats like this, which leads me actually into the next thing that's very closely related to that, which is blah, blah, blah, reupload. I already forgot what I wanted to say, reupload high performing content.

Okay, and here's the thing. It's essentially the same thing. It's exactly on the same, you know, folder screen, basically.

And you just want to sort this time by highest accounts reached, because here's what's up, you're gonna see at you can probably wear that people are just stupid. You know, people forget a lot of things, because there's just so much content out there. So it's not an issue at all, if you repost your own content without changing a thing, right, we have some videos here on how to actually do things.

Sometimes you can change a thing. Sometimes you don't even have to change anything. And just repost content again, especially content that was performing well.

And you're going to see sometimes you'll reach more people than with the initial post. So what you want to do is, you know, after sorting by this, repost without doing anything, content that was posted 60 to 90 days ago, maybe even more. And here's the thing, it needs to be content that's still up to date, because it doesn't help you if it has nothing to do, again, here with your initial strategy, or if it's just out of date in terms of what you talk about there.

So just repost it, you have to be aware, though, make sure you have the original file somewhere on your computer. Okay, because if you download it from Instagram, the quality is going to be lower. And Instagram doesn't like that so much.

So make sure to actually always keep the original file on the computer. Usually, because people are like, well, but Instagram, the algorithm doesn't like reposted content. Yes, that is actually true.

But so far, all of my data that I have working with hundreds of creators, I haven't seen any repost perform bad because repost from the creator's own account that performed worse than the initial or bat, you know, that kind of got the reach taken away. So there's the other thing you can do, and you should do is to kind of do the same thing. But just repurpose content, especially if you're like, I need to post something, I don't know what this week, you just go ahead, take a look at six months ago, a year ago, what performed well, and just basically create another video of it.

By the way, I've made a similar video to that one twice before here on YouTube. So it also goes for long form content. Huh, what a surprise.

Now, what you want to do is if you repurpose content, try to use a similar hook structure. You know, it depends obviously on how long ago you posted it. But just roughly speaking, the algorithm knows that the hook structure was validated because it performed well initially.

And so yeah, just create a version 2 . 0 or something like that. Now, the next one is actually very, very interesting.

And it's not being used a lot to be honest, I have no idea why, because it is a strategy that doesn't take a lot of time. And that's killing it right now out there. And we're talking about, oh, yeah, that's the one trend hijacking slash hook stitching.

Maybe you already know what that means. But essentially, what you want to do is you want to find a viral reel, any type of reel, either in your own niche or outside your niche or something trending, at least something that's really, really, you know, gets gets people going in your own niche and your own industry. And then you basically use it, download the clip, stitch it in front of your own video, and then create a reaction of your own or a continuation or whatever it is to it.

You know, here's actually, you know, shout outs to Sebastian from the Creator Mentorship, one of my clients, he actually did that recently. Looks like it's going well. Obviously, that was only part of his strategy.

But that was one post that really, really got things going again. Now, if you do that, there's a few things you have to take care of. A few things that I have noticed work way better than other things when doing, you know, using the strategy.

First of all, it works really well if you have somewhat of an unexpected twist there, you know, unexpected twist in regards to the original, always works well, but especially if you have a stitch. The other thing is just react, just give your own reaction to the original, maybe even an unexpected twist in the reaction, or sort of like an unpopular opinion about it, something like that. Another thing that really works well is if you make the transition as seamless as possible.

So if people don't even notice it, because if people are like, huh, oh, wow, suddenly it's a different video. I didn't expect that because people are in this autopilot mindset all the time. Usually just by making a very seamless transition, you're going to see that people have to watch it at least once again, because they want to see when did I miss this amazing seamless transition?

I'll show you an example in a second. But yeah, usually that just gets your watch time up. Or another thing that sometimes works, you can just try it every once in a while.

It doesn't take more than a second. Tag the original creator as a collaborator. Sometimes they're just going to accept it and you'll be able to get reach from the original creator.

Here's what's up. Do not do that if the original creator has a totally different target audience. Talking especially about target demographics.

I don't want to get too deep into that, but sometimes seemingly totally unrelated industries and niches could still have a big target audience overlap in terms of, you know, especially demographics. So yeah, actually let me show you an example of that thing in action. It's not this post.

I wanted to keep him kind of, you know, safe from you guys, from the internet mob. But here's another post that actually does the same things pretty well. Always fun.

Okay. You get the idea. Now the last one is something that also doesn't take any time.

Cause I know we don't have time and it's actually gotten my client the most viewed video he's ever had. The most viewed post he's ever had with the most reach ever gotten, I don't know, tens of thousands of followers actually. And it's very simple, but don't overuse it.

You know, you'll see what I actually mean with that is you want to post a photo as a video. Yeah. Before you're like, we've seen this before.

It doesn't work anymore. Well, it seems like it works again. Cause this happened within the past two months, I think two to three months.

And, um, we've had some clients actually do the same because people here on the comments, they're always like, I want to grow with photos and regular posts. I don't want to create videos. Uh, we're going to have a whole separate video about this whole case, but this being one way to technically hijack the algorithm to get your photos to kind of blow up.

There's some caveats to that. We're going to talk about them separately, but what you want to do is, you know, post a photo as real, make it a four second reel. So as short as possible.

Um, and there are some ways because Instagram knows that if you remember there, you, this used to be a thing just to one, create a one second video, two second video, uh, and posts like that used to blow up like crazy. Um, so Instagram doesn't like that. And Instagram kind of knows that if you overuse that, and you know, you'll be at some point, maybe pardon one of these spam followers, one of these people who get flagged for review, if you follow somebody.

So don't overuse that use it sparingly. Ideally, you don't do it with any type of posts. So if you use that, you want to take all the, basically all the leverage that comes with it.

So ideally the post, the photo is highly controversial. Maybe it's polarising or it's something that just makes people have somewhat of a strong reaction to it or something super valuable or people, you know, something written that's super valuable or highly shareable because then all the, um, you know, the, the stars get aligned and then, uh, you know, the algorithm would just push it out. Now I don't overuse it every once in a while, but if done the right way, it will make your account blow up just with that.

And as you can see, each of these will not take you more than a few minutes every day. And especially if combined, you're going to see, yes, it will be very much possible to kind of get out of this algorithm rut and reach more people again with not a lot of effort. Cause I know how you guys are like, you don't have a lot of time, but here's the none of these growth hacks will actually get you anywhere.

If the algorithm actually hates you, you know, sometimes the actual, the algorithm really hates you. So before implementing all of these things, what we just talked about, make sure to watch this video first and combine this video with what we just talked about right now to really go all in and blow up maybe even this per day, maybe less. And yeah.

Okay. We're gonna, we're going to put this one in somewhere in the middle, by the way, by the way, if you want to see if we can actually help you instal this data-driven content framework into your unique situation, cause obviously it's different for everybody. Um, and we have a whole, uh, it's different for everybody.

Just fill out the application form down below, hop on a call with either me or with my community manager, Florian, and maybe in a few weeks, you'll also have stats like these. Sounds good. Now, one thing you're going to see is now I'm sure you've already noticed all of these.

Yeah.