With over 100 million monthly active users, 40 million photos shared per day, 8500 likes pressed per second and 1000 comments shared per second, there is no doubt that Instagram has a huge community for your business to tap into. But in order for your business to extract the most value from Instagram, you need to first get more followers on Instagram.

After studying people’s behavior and reading up a lot of blog posts about effective techniques to get more followers on Instagram, I wanted to share with you 8 simple and practical tips you can implement today. Here they are:

1. Share relatable, humanized photos.

2. Connecting your Facebook account.

3. Use relevant, popular hashtags.

#love
#instagood
#me
#cute
#tbt (throwback Thursday)
#photooftheday
#follow
#eyes
#beautiful
#happy
#girl
#l4l
#instacollage
#picoftheday
#throwbackthursday
#christmas
#instadaily
#nice
#like

4. Types of filter matter.

5. Timing is key.

6. Have a call to action.

7. Engage by following others and liking their photos.

8. Combine multiple images.

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