I have been looking into expanding my business’ following on Instagram, how does somebody actually work to cultivate a following? Some people get bots that will go follow then un-follow people, use walls of hashtags as a type of word association, or go to related pages/hashtags and like their posts in order to draw those people to their page. I’m doing the latter of those two, as I feel like a bot would corrupt the authenticity of the page and maybe even get the account barred for a moment or banned entirely. It would be easiest for me to make a wall of hashtags that I can copy then paste under all our captions to our pictures. We want to stay true to our roots locally but also branch out with some of those hashtags, here’s what that looks like:
#nestofvipersairsoft #michiganairsoft #westmichiganairsoft #NOVA #airsoft #airsoftinternational #usairsoft #ISOF #JWK #gcode #tactical #bbwars #airsoftplayer #MILSIM #training #WEGBBR #hpaairsoft #tippman #eagleindustries #airsoftgun #raisetheblack #condorgear #enolagaye #bblarp #actionshots #gearwhore #Patchgame #airsoftvideos #airsoftworldwide #stealthycunningvenomous
This took about five minutes to come up with and contains some very frequently visited tags which should draw in more followers who want to see this type of content or content related to this. The reason we want to use Instagram more is not just for sponsors, but for reaching an audience more inside of our demographic. Fewer young people use Facebook than ever before and we feel it may be a smart move to become more established on a more solid platform like Instagram.