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How to Get Real Instagram Followers Free

You might already know that Instagram is a growing channel that lets individuals and businesses alike expand their brand. For businesses especially, it’s a way to humanize your brand, recruit future employees, showcase your product and company culture, delight customers, and generate new business.

But here’s the deal: Unless you’re famous, it’s really hard to amass a huge following on Instagram without some hard work.

For the average person or business, growing your following takes time and attention on a daily basis. Luckily, there are a few things you can do right away to collect at least 1,000 quality followers for your personal or professional Instagram account. It’s all about knowing where to invest your time and effort — by customizing your profile, curating excellent content, writing clever copy, using hashtags, and working with influencers and fans to incentivize engagement.

Let’s go through how to gain those first 1,000 followers, from creating a follow-worthy Instagram profile to using contests to staying true to your brand.

Let’s just get this out of the way: yes, you can buy Instagram followers and likes. Should you buy Instagram followers and likes? Definitely not.

While many social influencers and major brands work hard to build out an organic following, there are some who choose to buy followers with the hopes of increasing their social reach and engagement. Buying followers is cheap — some companies charge less than $5 for hundreds of followers. A with the growing pressure to have thousands of Instagram followers, it’s understandable why some resort to buying followers.

Buying Instagram followers may increase your number of followers, but it won’t improve your engagement — it actually damages it. And if you get caught, Instagram may remove your account for violating their community guidelines.

Fake followers also won’t buy your product or support your brand. Focus on gaining authentic followers that increase engagement and sales, instead of fake bot accounts.

OK, I know what you’re thinking, “it’s not that easy to gain real followers!” While it’s not exactly easy, it’s definitely possible — it just takes some hard work and dedication. Around 80 million photos are shared on Instagram every day. That’s a lot of content. Fortunately, there are some things you can do to get noticed. Let’s walk through some tactics to get real followers — fast.

First things first: Customize your Instagram profile to make it look good, tell your potential followers who you are, and give them a reason to follow you.

How? Start by making sure your username is recognizable and easily searchable — like your business name. If your business name is already taken, try keeping your business name as the first part of your username so that people searching for your business are more likely to come across you.