Why organic growth is dead

And what you should do instead

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Like it or not, Instagram’s organic reach is declining year after year

Ranking in hashtags and explore still works, but it is nothing compared to what it was years ago

Good news, there's a way to bypass this problem, and make yourself completely independent from the IG algo

Have a look at the top theme pages on Instagram, who comes to mind?

Pubity
Memezar
Fuckjerry
Daquan

One thing 90% of these pages have in common?

They are private

You may wonder why..

How can they gain followers if they’re private?

Isn’t this counterproductive?

Absolutely not

They may not grow from ranging on explore or in hashtags, but they grow A LOT more from doing something called sfs

sfs = shoutout for shoutout

It’s basically two pages posting a promo for each other with mutual benefit

If you do this right it does not look like an ad, it looks like a meme or theme related post, this is what gets you high engagement + follows

If you have a good ad set that performs well you should gain anywhere from 10-50 followers from every 100 likes the promo gets

Let’s do the math with 20/100 which is a decent set but nothing special

100 likes = 20 followers

500 likes = 100 followers

2000 likes = 400 followers

5000 likes = 1000 followers

If you have a page above 100k getting over 500-2k likes is easy

I do about over 10 of these per day with each getting a minimum of 500 likes… most times it’s over 1000

Do the math

If you can afford to spend 1-2h per day growing your ig, this is a better alternative than trying to grow organically

*Caution, it’s a very bad idea to turn a page that has been grown organically to a private sfs page, the audience is not used to it and unfollows will be massive

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