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All You Need To Know About Buying Shoutouts On Instagram – Get Value For Your Money & Avoid Fake Followers
Everyone wants to grow on Instagram, either for percieved fame or the financial benefits as people’s influnce on social media is determined by the number of likes and followers they have.
There are many ways to get a lot of followers and achieve this “fame” or “fortune” but today we’ll be discussing the popular Shoutout growth method.
What Is An Instagram Shoutout?
A shoutout on Instagram is simplly getting a referral from another account, the account that “shouts you out” is simply suggesting their audience follows you because you appeal to an emotional, financial, or physical need.
Let’s assume I just created a coffee brand for only entrepreneurs, I will look for big accounts in the entrepreneur niche (category) and tell them to give me a shoutout because my product appeals to the emotipnal need of their audience.
My product offers them a chance to join a “tribe” of entrepreneurs who love coffee (emotional need).
Why Should You Grow With Shoutouts?
Growing your Instagram account with shoutouts is an easy method that requires almost no work from you, it’s also very fast and gives you the chance to grow as many as 10,000 real and targeted followers in less than a week.
Buying Shoutouts On Instagram – Pros & Cons
– PRO: Fast
You’ll grow a lot of targeted followers quickly with this strategy
– PRO: Stress-free
This method gives you the chance to remove the stress of trying to get followers by engaging on the posts of your target audience (example: follow for follow, and Gary Vee’s 0.99 engagement strategy)
– CON: Fake followers
Yes this is one of the worst disadvantges of buying shoutouts as some “Influencers” will send you fake followers to make you believe you’ve gotten your money’s worth.
– CON: Follower Drop
When buying shoutouts be sure your content is really good or else they’ll just unfollow you after a while.
What Type Of Accounts Should You Buy Shoutouts From?
This is the trickly and most important part as buying from the wrong account means you won’t get enough value for your money.
Focus on accounts that have ovr 50,000 followers, these accounts should be accounts that are going viral, and each post on the accoint should have a minimum of 300,000 post reach (on the feed) or over 70,000 story views.
Accounts like the ones mentioned above give you the chance to expect a minimum of 300 followers from the shoutout, which is quite good considering your investment.
Researching Accounts To Buy From
Use the following steps as a checklist for researching accounys to buy shoutouts from:
1. Over 50,000 followers
2. Minimum of 300,000 post reach (per post)
3. Thousands of impressions from “explore”, “home” and “other” (ignore accounts with huge impressions from hashtags)
4. Go to socialblade(dot)com, select instagram, and enter the name of the account you want to buy from
5. On socialblade look for their daily follower growth, any account growing over 600 daily is great.
6. Ask for their story analytics, over 70,000 views per story is great.
7. Select your potential Shoutout sellers from the explore page (this is proof they’re already going viral)
It’s difficult to find accounts that meet these requirements but it’s not impossible and you’ll be glad once you find a good account that meets the requirements mentioned above.
Getting Value For Your Money And Avoiding Fake Followers
Buying a shoutout for $30 or more and not getting a lot of followers or getting fake followers is one of the most frustrating things ever
BUT you can avoid this with a simple trick:
Go private and stay private until after your shoutout has been delivered, this trick will help you get more followers because people will be curious to see your posts, and you’ll also avoid getting fake followers as most fake follower services can not deliver to private accounts.
How Much Should A Good Shoutout Cost?
The seller determines the price, but here are some common price points:
? $30/per shoutout on the feed for accounts with 100,000 or less followers
? $50/per feed shoutout for accounts with over 100,000 followers
? $70 – $90 for accounts with more than 500,000 followers
Story Shoutouts VS Feed Shoutouts – Which Should You Buy?
Story shoutouts are shoutouts you get from the stories of similar accounts, while shoutouts are the ones you get tagged on feed posts.
NOTE: Story shoutouts are considerably cheaper.
Which is better? This depends on the statistics of the account, if the account you want to buy a shoutout from gets more story views than feed post “reach” then you should consider buying story shoutouts, and vice versa.
Well, that’s all you need to know about buying and growing with shoutou’s on Instagram, got questions? comment and I’ll be happy to reply.
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4 Replies
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So you’re trying to sell people shoutouts?
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Ok, so how do you go about finding accounts to give you a shoutout?
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What’s your thinking with only using accounts with 50K plus followers?
Massive numbers of followers are A. More likely to be fake and B. Likely to cost more
Smaller numbers of followers closer to the 10K mark could be niche and more effective, could they not?
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where can I find influencers to buy the shoutouts from? Do I contact them directly via Instagram ? It seems a bit intrusive…
I’ve searched via Fiverr and It kinda looks all fake
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