9 Tips For Getting More Followers and Likes On Instagram

Instagram has reached 600 million users all around the world as by December 2016. 20% of all internet users use Instagram. This photo sharing app is gaining popularity day by day and has become a medium to grow a business rapidly. A businessman, facing troubles and shortcomings otherwise needs to sign up for Instagram and rely on these tricks to let the business climb cloud nine!

Once you sign up, you will be facing a few hardships in growing your account’s followership. All you need is to pay heed to the following instructions.

1. Instagram is not all about posting pictures anytime you feel feasible, or anytime you have a pic, rather you ought to comply with the fact that you post pictures at the time when most of the users are active. Mostly, they login in the morning, or when they return home from school or work. An analytics company ‘Simply Measured’ recommended the best time between 5 pm and 6 pm on Wednesdays.
2. Using multiple hashtags with every single pic is another way to gain plenty of views and likes on your pictures. Make sure you use popular hashtags related to the field of your Instagram account.
3. Everyone having even the ordinary phone has a camera with it. Everyone can capture pics too! So how to make your picture look unique? Try adding filters to your pictures that will make your pictures catchy at first sight. Some of these filters are Aviary, Early-bird, Valencia and X-Proll. Apart from filters, download apps that will convert low quality pictures to high quality. Consider your Instagram account as your art gallery.
4. To discuss captions, lengthy captions are not recommendable. Consider yourself in the shoes of a follower, would you spare ten minutes to read a whole bulk of a caption? No never, not even a single minute! Avoid using long captions; instead, ask some question in the captions that will fetch you more likes than usual.
5. Display of courtesy is one of the effective ways to attract attention. Never use harsh language for the one who has commented negatively on your picture. Never be unsympathetic, show patience; all great things are constructed from criticism!
6. Be responsive. Do make it your habit to throw a few random likes on others’ pictures as well! Follow your followers back or drop a good ‘thank you for following’ text in their inbox as they follow you.
7. You can host a contest on Instagram to keep your followers hooked and attentive. This behavior will surely bring you more followers whom existing ones invite, as well as likes! Whoa! Think about it!
8. Post ‘Teasers’ for products that are going to be released soon. The node ‘Coming Soon’ with the picture of a product featuring teaser gets your account regularly followed up by the followers. ‘Wait’ is a tough thing, though!
9. Last but not least, one of the trickiest ways is to reach out and request some popular page/Instagram user to post a shout out for you!