30 tips to Instagram growth and success for 30k followers

I recently hit 30,000 followers on Instagram after years of working on the platform. I love creating content for Instagram and working out new ways to grow and succeed, so here are 30 tips to help you grow your followers and engagement.

I’ve written various tips and tricks about what I’ve learnt on Instagram, but now I’m highlighting 30 things… let’s see how this goes!

1. Enjoy what you’re creating, if you don’t enjoy it it will seem a chore and that will show when you post.
2. I’ve always preached engagement, and we will get to that, but recently I’ve found the real key to growth is regular posting. Posting more often has caused me to have a huge spike in growth.
3. It helps to set up your account as a creator account, this gives you some really useful insights on your content.
4. Use your insights to see what works well and what doesn’t.
5. Use Instagram Reels to create a different medium of content for your followers.
6. Use a consistent filter to create a visual theme for your photos that ties everything together.
7. Make sure your bio is littered with key words and offers an overview of what people can expect from your account.
8. Follow accounts you love!
9. You don’t have to have a niche, but by picking one it will certainly help you target your account towards certain audeinces.
10. Put time into the platform, Instagram wants you to spen time on it and it will reward you for doing so.
11. Engage regularly with other accounts by commenting and liking on their photos.
12. Make Instagram friends, this honestly makes me love the platform so much more, but it also gives you a group of people to ask about Instagram things.
13. Use your captions to write engaging stories for your audience to get involved in.
14. Save images you like to go back to for future inspiration.
15. Post to your Instagram Stories daily, use them as a backdoor to your account.
16. Try out different hashtags, you never know when one might hit the sweet spot.
17. If you’re noticing a lull in growth, take a look at your most popular posts using your insights and try to create something similar for a quick boost.
18. Mix up your photos regularly to see what could be popular.
19. Use questions in your captions to encourage engagmenet.
20. When you post a new photo go to the photo you posted a day before and tap the heart on each comment, this will put you at the top of the users.who interacted’s notifications tab and they may come and check out your latets post.
21. Try posting at different times of day to see what works best.
22. Include some part of you (ideally your face) in your profile photo, this is stastically proven to perform better.
23. Share your latest posts to your story to remind people you’ve shared new content.
24. Stay topical, be aware of current events to use in your content if applicable.
25. Try tagging locations in your posts if your sharing content from a popular spot, this will help you increase your reach.
26. Create the content you enjoy seeing yourself.
27. Include a mix of popular and niche content, for example in the case of Bookstagram post a mix of popular books and also niche smaller books
28. Learn to love yourself because some of the best content on your stories involves your face!
29. Keep pushing through the negative times in the algorithm, it’ll always turn around but you need to be there to see it.
30. And finally, go into your Instagram account knowing it will take time. This isn’t a quick thing and doesn’t happen over night. I’ve said it that you need to put time into the platform but you also need to be patient and not expect instant growth.

I did it! I some how pulled 30 tips out of my brain. I hope you find these useful going forward when it comes to growing on Instagram!