1,000 Instagram Followers in Less than Three Months

In today’s episode, Nat and Ang are celebrating a social media win… reaching 1,000 followers in less than three months! What’s the secret sauce? Well first off, there are no sneaky tactics, no paid ads and no buying of followers. You heard that right. The ladies are spilling the beans on simple and practical ways that you can start to implement into your own growth strategy! This is one episode you don’t want to miss!To start, Nat reveals that they had a goal in place from the beginning This is really important because without a goal, you’re really just playing it safe. And spoiler alert - Nat and Ang also reveal that while reaching 1,000 followers is a big milestone; in the long run, it actually doesn’t matter. Find out why at the 3:13 and 3:38 mark. Ultimately, a goal is a good strategy for any business. To start, the ladies discuss numbers and how your followers don’t necessarily have to be a big number. Everyones target is different and ultimately, each individual businesses goal would be different based on the number of clients that they can actually serve. At 4:22, Ang gives a breakdown on the strategy behind choosing your social media goals. At 5:00 Nat and Ang reveal that there is no trickery behind their growth tactics. No paid ads and no buying of followers. Ang warns that those tactics are never a good idea when trying to grow your social media following. As an alternative, they share their first technique, which is having a CTA (call to action) by hosting a giveaway. At the 6:35 mark, Ang goes into details on the strategy behind what to offer so as it is in alignment with your business. As the episode unfolds, Nat reveals their next strategy at 7:55 which involves posting regularly on their Instagram feed. She explains that consistency shows your audience that you are reliable. It is an opportunity to build trust. At 8:33 Ang dives deeper into the strategy around posting consistently on social media and poses the question, what is your ROI?  At 9:45 Nat shares some golden advice, referring to the best content to create as part of engaging and growing your audience. At 11:11 Ang declares Nat as (in her eyes) the queen of engagement. Nat dives into the strategies around good engagement and spoiler alert - the first thing she advises is to stop the scroll! Moving into the 14:00 minute mark, Nat reveals her strategy around using hashtags as a search engine to finding the right audience to connect with. And before using this strategy, understanding who your ideal avatar is, is so important.  At 14:45, at gives a great example of this and goes into the opportunity to connect with accounts in realtime. At 16:33 Ang shares, “ a really shitty thing to do” and advises everyone to not do this! (ok, ok… she explains that to follow and then unfollow is NOT a good strategy). To wrap up the episode, Nat reiterates that these strategies worked but wants to remind everyone that they did take TIME. There was a high level of commitment to the strategy but if you can invest the time, you will ultimately see results.If you want to keep in touch and know when the next episode drops, be sure to subscribe and visit them online at www.thesocialfocus.co and subscribe to their email list. For FREE styled stock images, follow along at @thesocial.focus on Instagram!On Instagram we are: @angela.s.doyon @natcaronphoto