Now, once you are into several DM groups... let's say 20, you want to find and segment the people that are still active, and those that are not. This is so you don't have to waste your time sharing your post to 20 different groups where only 50% or less are actually active.

You want to be as efficient as possible and build the most powerful DM groups. Here is a small step by step long-term plan to follow: Build 20 DM groups (remember, Best if they are in your niche and have over 50k to 100k followers). After 2-4 weeks of posting in your groups, refresh by finding out those that are not active, then create new groups with the people that stayed active. Repeat the process after 2-4 weeks and if you start running out of active people, it's time to keep networking and build new groups again. I know people that are in ONLY 5 groups, but very powerful groups and they go viral almost every time.So don't underestimate the power of DM groups, you just need to build yourself up to having those powerful groups.

Hashtags

Instagram allows you to use up to 30 hashtags. But because of the changed algorithm the rule is now to use not more then 27 hashtags! You should also not comment any hashtags in a comment under your photo. I know, it might look better, but you have to put the hashtags in the description of the post. I got shadow banned by instagram a few times when I put my hashtags in a comment and since I'm putting them in the description, I don't have any problems with that anymore! Getting shadow banned means that your post will not be visible under the hashtags you've used so that way you can not be seen by other profiles then the ones following you!

Influence the Influencers

Once you have an account with a following of 5000+ you are able to barter with influencers. You can offer them promotion on your account in return for them promoting your product. Most new or small influencers are more than happy to promote a product in return for promotion themselves. You can even use your network of similar pages and comment groups to promote them if you like.

Grow The Fast Way

I have been able to build my accounts up to 1500 followers within 8 days using these strategies. If you want to skip some of the hard work and get an extra boost you can use this app called: Stim. It's an instagram bot what will get you a lot of real followers because you target/choose your own audience. This app works great, I’ve also used it. Many people decide to buy fake followers, but these fake accounts do not allow interaction or addition. With this app, you will get more organic followers who are actually interested in what you do!

Stim

Is a powerful Instagram growth service and will increase your account, all day long and overnight. Specify your audience so real people and real results. First thing you need to do is to make an account. After that you can target minimal 5 Instagram accounts in example (travel niche) I would take “Travelgram” or “Travelandleisure”. As an Entrepreneur I would target: Entrepreneur, Millionaire_Mentor etc. Anyway, big Instagram accounts with a lot of followers and in your type of niche. Stim will be interacting with those followers and likers.

So this auto-pilot system will save you a lot of time! The app will post automated comments which you can create yourself, it follows and unfollows people and ofcourse it likes pictures. You can also create a message which you can use for ‘directmessage’. You can allow and automate it if you want to send it to every new follower you get, which also saves a lot of time if you have a business and you're trying to sell a service or product or even if you want to send someone your link to join your facebook community for example. The trial will be free for 5 days. It really helped me gain even more followers!

For more information about Stim I highly recommend this tutorial “how to use Stim the correct way to see your results within a hour”

I hope this post gave you a lot of valuable information about how to start, grow and monetize your instagram account. I also hope that you can use one or more tips I shared. Let me know in the comments what you think of the post please and don't forget to upvote! Thank you in advance and I wish you a great day!