#now look away as i add 1million more tags | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

purge-that-urge-rhackathon · 5 years

Note

Heya purge! I saw in one of your tags that you’d been consuming fic for around 20 years! That’s like my whole life. Mind telling us how things have changed? I’m sure places like ao3 have changed things a lot. I’m just really curious in fandom and fanfic culture! :3 x

Ao3 is a fucking godsend let me tell you. I won’t make a lot of the same points and stuff that fannish history folks have already documented (how it literally changed, and all the fic we’ve lost that isn’t backed up on floppy disk somewhere… I’d say we’ve lost an equivalent to the digital burning of alexandria honestly) but i can tell you my experience :3

I’ll stick it under a cut cuz i kind of rambled… but i had fun doing so ahahha xD sorry you unleashed the tiger from the cage xD

We all make jokes about ‘being there’ when stuff in fandom history happened, but i’ve been around since all the major purges (LOL my name is so fitting in retrospect ahahha). ff.net’s various purges (and the whole anne rice suing fanfic writers and shit… i never DID agree to their new terms of service haha), geocities sites going down, obviously the more recent shit too, but like I’ve been around even for the creations of certain, older fanfic sites too (one of the oldest slash forums for lord of the rings fics for example… I was there, Gandalf LOLOL!!… and now that i check the date on that i feel old as balls thanks anon xDDD and wow my one fic is still up there PFFFFT) but like, I come from an era where you took your floppy disk and copy/pasted shit from online (once it even loaded) for later reading, and also so you could find it again, because also before ff.net it was hard to find stuff. I’m pre-google ya’ll xD You dont UNDERSTAND the horrors of trying to find anything pre-google. Ya’ll have it so fucking good D:

There was never an abundance of content like there is today, and so you can bet your shit we were grateful as fuck for what was out there, let alone for someone with a decent command of writing and storytelling. Everyone commented on everything (once that was something even implemented… it was email lists before that, and comments sent in that way… i still have my e-mailed comments from fic readers haha), and it was (and still is, in my honest opinion because people entitled as FUCK now) one of the GREATEST faux paus you could do to be reading a fic (esp. multi-chaptered) and not comment. The indignity of not giving back a little (and it still is a little, which is why i get so damn fired up on this subject) for aaaaaaaall the words and story and everything you just read was a serious sin against fanfic writers. I still think its seriously fucked up not to comment (and again, i’ve mentioned that if you dont got the spoons, thats obviously different) but like, the entitlement that runs rampant today did not even exist back then. Yeah, you still had the assholes whose comment would literally consist only of “where’s the rest?” with ZERO actual thanks or input while expecting/thinking they deserve more (and THEN you could remove chapters or stories, cuz god giveth and damn does she taketh away xD), but it wasn’t nearly as prolific as it is today.

The commenting culture today and the backlash against writers wanting comments on their work in return for providing said free content makes me mad enough to wanna curb stomp some people. I’m a bartender, I don’t put up with shit HAHA xD But the entitlement especially now and people who act like writers are being uppity for wanting a small return on their craft are disgusting. Same type of entitlement as art thieves (we all know the type). We didn’t put up with that shit back then. People acting like little bitches wanting free stuff for literally nothing? We’d pull the whole fic. And the community would handle it and it usually turned into a teaching moment about how damn important it is to comment and just how much freaking control writers DO have over their media. We’d pull it from public view unless amends were made (whether that be a private note from someone entitled finally paying their fucking due with proper humility, or reaching a comment count when you had hundreds of people reading but not commenting). Damn i miss taking away fic xD We played hardball back then xD

That was the fucking worst and people were rightfully denied access to fic if hits didn’t coincide with comments. You could publish a chapter and then decide to remove it from view (either for editing, or hostage taking for comments…. which i miss dearly AHAHAH it forced people to learn to be proper commenters and interact with those whose media they were consuming). It’s a big part of what I miss because just like a proper community, people kept each other in check and made sure everyone played nice. You enjoyed a fic? You sure as hell let that writer know. Now though…. the entitlement drives me up the fucking absolute walls and makes me wanna put stuff behind a paywall sometimes…. everyone is lucky im lazy as shit tho AHAHAH and im usually fine after venting xD

But yeah, fanfic culture in general has shifted in a major way to constantly consume and NEVER give back, either in comments, or creating new content yourself to also add to the community (for example as i’m sure we’re all aware, like ALL the people who bitch about certain ships or ‘why ship this when you can ship THIS?’…. Like, instead of bitching that ‘WAH WAH this author doesnt WRITE the ship I LIKE why can’t they write THAT??’ people came up with the radical idea of CREATING the content they wanted to see :| And if weren’t that good of a writer/artist to do so? Well then you SUPPORTED the writers/artists you enjoyed by leaving comments on their shit OR getting a commission… Goddamn i remember when even ‘commissioning’ people was a wild concept… Ya’ll dont know ahahah xD

I do believe that this is a huge source of where Anti-shipper behavior has stemmed from; entitlement gone berserk. And public schools and shit are still largely full of my parents’ generation who were not computer-literate either in function or courtesy, so even as internet social skills are not being taught correctly (or safety; they scared the SHIT out of us back in the day and now everyone has all their shit and pictures online haha) so there’s also a huge disconnect socially which i think has impacted online fandom spaces and what is considered acceptable or not. People also turn into fucking swine when they think they’re anonymous online (and boy do they change their tune fucking quickly when you out them) and i think the whole anonymity thing is also a factor of this whole entitlement issue in fandom spaces; making demands without giving ANYTHING back. Like I’ve mentioned in the past, I don’t put up with that shit, and it’s not a coincidence I was going to work for the CIA after I just left Japan about 3yrs back (thank fuck I didn’t cuz FUUUUCK this administration) cuz people are dumb as shit and basic tracking skills to call someone out on their bullshit has been my bread and butter since i was like 12 haha. You act dishonest and entitled, and it’s gonna come back to you in some shape or form. You’re going to reap what you sow. That was the motto back then and I still believe in it today.

Hell, it has shocked the FUCK out of me the few times i’ve had people tell me ‘omg me and my friend were talking about your latest update!’ and i’m just like O_O????? because also back in the day, ‘fanfiction’ was kind of a taboo word. You never said you were into fanfic in mixed company. You more or less NEVER discussed it publicly (I’m not even talking dirty stuff, just normal, sfw fanfiction) because it primarily existed only online (for me; i’m post-fan magazines but pre-internet fanfic sites LOLOL). Hell, I got my college english professor into fanfiction. She didn’t even know what it was, let alone that something like that existed, and I had to explain it to her my first year of college kind of with a red face xD She was a writing-professor too so like, let that date the culture a bit. Like, if that was literally her major field of expertise and she didn’t know about it, that should tell you how not-mainstream fanfic was.

I’m kind of out of touch with that myself. Do kids (ya’ll are kids to me okay? xD) mention fanfiction as a reading/entertainment medium in normal conversation? Like, you could mention, without getting weird looks, ‘oh i enjoy reading fanfiction’ or (and i’m like internally gasping at the idea here) being able to say ‘yeah i enjoy writing fanfiction’? Is that a thing? I sure as hell don’t tell my peers that I write fanfic, let alone that i’m approaching 1million words for borderlands stuff alone AHAHAH It’s STILL taboo and seen as a lesser writing medium to folks my age. If you weren’t in a ‘geek’ circle (and i mean, i had friends who played D&D at lunch, and one friend who we mentioned fanfic together with) then culturally, as an art form, it wasn’t acceptable to discuss. Like, i’m STILL in that mindset that fanfic is not something to be discussed off the internet with people and it makes me very very uncomfortable to do so unless i know 100% I can speak discretely with someone. That’s what the offline culture was. I know its way different in some respects, like me and my youngest sister are 10yrs apart and her experiences with fandom are wildly different, but the idea of people actually talking about someone’s fic together with friends absolutely blows my fucking mind.

So, it’s changed in good ways too xD I just fucking HATE people who think they’re entitled to never comment or give back to the community sooooo i tend to get stuck on that issue, ESPECIALLY, again, as a writer approaching 1million words. *salute* doing my duty to the fandom community LOLOL or polluting the fandom community if you’re an anti AHAHAH antis can suck my entire ass and i’ll go on to put another million words of what they HATE into the world and they cant stop me ;3 spite is a fabulous motivator xD

The tools back then were a lot more crude, abilities and functionality was limited (but also better in some ways; moving fic to the ‘backroom’ so to speak), and even finding stuff was hard and relied on the hushed whispers of friends, but damn the community was better. So much better. So much more positive and accountability made people decent. So like, I do LOVE a lot of what we have now, but we have lost SO much. Both in terms of content and sense of community. I wish people would put more positivity into the content they’re consuming and lift up others. It’s why i try my damnedest to leave commenting tags on EVERY SINGLE THING i ever reblog here, because i *know* firsthand how much it means. To scream your art into the silence and only get the equivalent of stares back is maddening.

So yeah. Stuff has changed. Capitalism and censorship are running especially rampant hand-in-hand right now, and lord forbid we come full circle where there are no more places for us. I mean, if we have to go back to email lists, hell I’m already ready and an old veteran to that system anyhow. I’d miss all the content we all have access to…. but then there’s also that 90% commenting rate you get with that kind of system so HEEEEEY let it all fall down! bahahah xD

#poisonjack answers #sorry i got REALLY rambly xD if uh... it's not exactly what you were interested in #i DO have resources to provide like timeline wipeouts of stuff from fandom eras that are lost to the ages now :(#this is my firsthand view of how the past 20 years or so has gone hahah its aaaaall downhill #ya know what? as someone who has put so many fucking fics into the world i think i DO have a right to bitch xD AHAHAH <3 #also some bitchass lady who was 'waiting FOREVER' (forever here being defined as 3minutes) to get her miller lite at my bar has put me in a #MAJOR mood. total bitch. And my manager also told her off AHAHHA but i still can't BELIEVE her entitlement #i'd remember her face but then she was generic for angry old (old in MY definition... she was 60ish haha) white lady and they all look alike #LOLOLOL #if she ever comes back im refusing her service and she can get the hell outta my bar :)#it has been a DAY folks. a tiring ass day

9 notes · View notes

awesometempestblack-blog · 6 years

Text

GTA 5 Online cheats PS4, Xbox One and PC

Benefits Of GTA five Cash Cheat!

PS : Computer players can generate money & RP too, just pick any platform and your Computer username will be automatically detected by our program. This equates to just under £12 million worth of purchasable money cards, or a hell of a lot of races (as these slowly accrue GTA dollars as well). The GTA V online generator comes with a extremely user friendly interface which is straightforward to navigate. One particular of the interesting attributes of this GTA V online generator is that it can be utilized across all the gaming consoles and platforms in which the game is compatible.

Producing funds in GTA five hacks entails you to complete particular set tasks inside the correct time and also the way you progress with the game itself. Every time you want to upgrade your character or you want to unlock new functions, you need to have to pay up the gaming currency, which is referred as the funds.

Choose your platform that you use the GTA 5 On the internet account on which you want to add funds and RP. When you die on the cost-free-roaming world map, you respawn at a Hospital Even though it's not immediately apparent, every a single of these visits is siphoning cash straight out of your banking funds.

We have added our On the web gamer tags on our About us page so feel totally free to add us up and thank us for the difficult operate and free GTA 5 money. A new player has GTA five wikipedia offered, a melee of ammunitions and firearms supplied by this disposable to struggle with the foe.

This is ensured following the tests performed, encapsulating all numerous prospects and possibilities which can lead to any problems whilst creating cost-free GTA income. Furthermore, free GTA five income cheat is obtainable to anybody who is need of more game income.

As usually, keep in mind that the moment you use one particular of the codes listed beneath, achievements are disabled, and you are credited with making use of a cheat till you reload the game. Going passive after expense you 100$ but it will save your funds getting wasted on healthcare bills. http://www.silentviper.net/free-gta-5-shark-cards/

In easy words you are entirely safe whilst generating use of the hack tool and have far better resources to play the game. Missions still provide substantial amounts of funds, but sub-missions, which debuted in GTA III, serve as an added source of revenue, awarding the player with increasingly more income as the sub-missions progress.

The hack tool has got an anti ban method and all your cheating activities will go undetected. GTA V is a game exactly where each second counts and if you don't have the latest ammunition and firearm then you can forget your life in this action packed game.

Verify our our YouTube video which shows you what you are able to get with our GTA funds cheat. If you happen to be stuck earning money at the start of the game, you can give yourself a leg up with these totally free money cheats and glitches. If you are okay with the police being hot on our tail, there is no easier way to get money in Grand Theft Auto V than robbing a store.

And let's face it hacks and cheats are component of gaming and will be as extended as games are developed. In the beginning hours of the game, one of the easiest ways to make income is to rob an armored automobile They appear randomly as blips on the minimap while you are driving around. http://www.silentviper.net/gta-5-cheats/

There is no person out there carrying out what we do. Get access to the funds now just before we go to a subscription based hack. So far soon after ten months of beta there is nevertheless no bans or anything poor that occurred to the accounts that received resources from our generator.

Also Watch this video under on GTA five income hack online You will be able to discover a lot of new factors which you are not conscious of. The advent of the new gameplay mode has when once again catapulted GTA V back up the UK Games Charts. Use the Fast Swim cheat to get out there quicker, make certain you have two characters offered otherwise you will drown.

Thank you, following a a number of hours of looking I found that wonderful generator with which I was able to generate money to my account, thank you so significantly! Now you can switch back and forth triggering this very same effect repeatedly till you create nonetheless much funds you want.

Read our Creating Cash in GTA Online web page and you'll quickly be swimming in a sea of luxury and decadence. It will give you the money to genuinely open up this game and support you find out its accurate possible. That was the auto driven by the Zaibatsu Corporation in GTA 2, and a luxury auto in GTA 3.

Right after profitable completion of the provide, the cash and RP will be added to your account in just few minutes. It's really easy to select the amount of money that you want to add in your GTA 5 on the web account. Be positive to wait till you have got all the cash from the very first register ahead of shooting to stay away from alerting bystanders with the sound of the gunshot.

Also, GTA allows you to uncover every single treasure item up to 3 occasions, once with every single character. Following this you merely click the split option, and divide the funds amongst the participants. So please if you want to get cost-free income please use this totally free GTA 5 online money hack right now just before you have to pay for it. We have a strong group who know what they are carrying out and we have carried out this on a standard basis.

The GTA V map is the biggest, most detailed and most diverse map in Grand Theft Auto history. Our GTA on the web income generator supports all platforms namely, Xbox 1, Xbox 360, PS3, PS 4, and Pc as well. You want to make some money in GTA, the really first issue you happen to be going to have to do is stop your self from spending your challenging earned/stolen funds needlessly.

No a single can commence GTA V On the web and basically devote a lot of dollars from the beginning to go a single distinct phase in advance. It needs a small effort to set items up, but after you have got both your characters in the proper location, you can earn yourself as considerably funds as you have patience. https://nscoder-sev.tumblr.com/

The difference among the two markets is that the LCN is directly connected to the items you do in the game, producing it a sure-fire way to make cash. It worked perfectly for me, I generated a lot of funds to my account in such a short time. Even when GTA On the internet players discover a Job that's comparatively easy to run and supplies high GTA$ payouts, Rockstar seems to usually find out the technique and neuter it.

Their actions are a tiny more significant than the gamers in there who have simply been quitting jobs mid-mission (another GTA crime), offered that GTA dollars are available as in-game purchases, $1million becoming worth about £5. The maximum amount of funds that any character can have in the game is $2,147,483,647.

19 notes · View notes

lionhearteli-blog · 6 years

Text

GTA 5 Online cheats PS4, Xbox One and PC

GTA five Hack Cheats Tool On-line

Our GTA 5 money generator is confirmed working with every single single gaming platform, this signifies no matter what platform you are using our hack is perfect for you. Just pay a visit to the web site of GTA 5 Cash Hack, choose which package will give us the most advantages, enter nick you are using in the game and then pass fast verification. Before diving to the cash on the ocean floor, rapid save the game (just in case you drown).https://www.thegtaplanet.net/

Generating money in GTA five hacks requires you to complete specific set tasks within the appropriate time and also the way you progress with the game itself. Every single time you want to upgrade your character or you want to unlock new functions, you need to spend up the gaming currency, which is referred as the income.

GTA 5 HACK TOOL: The hack tool offered on this website is supported more than all different platforms and browsers. GTA 5 Money Hack: Customers looking for additional GTA income, this is the best web site to pay a visit to for the exact same. Exposing kids to violent game titles as component cheat for gta five ps3 money on-line gta 5 cash cheats of a research experiment is, of course, out from the query.

We have added our On the internet gamer tags on our About us page so really feel cost-free to add us up and thank us for the challenging perform and cost-free GTA 5 funds. A new player has GTA five wikipedia obtainable, a melee of ammunitions and firearms supplied by this disposable to struggle with the foe.

When your company gets into flow, you can get your hands on unbelievable quantity of money. Though it might look a relatively trivial matter to sustain law and order in an online world, some of the sums accumulated by gamers who ‘mod' or illegally tweak their game could be worth millions in actual cash.

Save your income for Weapons , Ammo, and Armor , and invest in a $25,000 Garage if you're interested in collecting Cars At the moment you can only have a single property in your ownership. Some of the individuals who have been playing the mode for a Grand Theft Automobile V player have been wondering how the GTA V On the internet narrative correlates or crosses.

This will give you all your money back, however if you pay a visit to the Ammu-Nation once again, the upgrades on the weapon will nevertheless be marked as purchased. We take pride in what we put on the world wide web and we are also gamers so we know how frustrating it can be to truly get a excellent functioning hack for most games.

The hack tool has got an anti ban program and all your cheating activities will go undetected. GTA V is a game where each second counts and if you never have the latest ammunition and firearm then you can forget your life in this action packed game.

You will need to have to save a decent quantity of funds to be profitable on the web, and wasting it on pricey garments or outrageous automobiles is a huge risk thinking about most issues are open for other players to steal. With each of these cards priced at £13.29 or $22 in true funds, the sum above - accumulated by a player named epiicmoddingtobi ” - is worth just below £12 million or $20m in genuine funds.

This is fantastic place where everyone should come and acquire the GTA 5 online cash totally free. As in GTA IV the value of income for the buy of meals and clothes is reintroduced. Advanced Anti-Ban: With the help of the GTA 5 On the web Hack Tool, you will not have to worry of receiving banned in-game, as the Stat Hack Tool & Cash Hack have a flawless anti-ban.

The easiest way is to merely click your phone, then click the tab relating to money and click the third option which need to be Maze Bank. There are distinct combinations of keys which assists a single to gather cheats for playing the game. The GTA V on the web generator does not just credit you with unlimited income but it also makes gaming easier with each and every step.

Also Watch this video beneath on GTA 5 funds hack on the web You will be capable to learn a lot of new items which you are not aware of. The advent of the new gameplay mode has once once again catapulted GTA V back up the UK Games Charts. Use the Quick Swim cheat to get out there faster, make positive you have two characters accessible otherwise you will drown.

Of course, if you are looking to do it the systemic way, then you must be prepared to devote far more time and work in creating enough funds to increase your progress in the game. Driving a jacked auto to a nearby Mod Shop will garner a small additional spending money.

GTA 5 On the web had some technical difficulties at its release but it was fixed and now players can play it without any five On-line has three types of modes which you can play. If you don't want to comprehensive missions and want effortless Cash and RP points in the game, you can usually use The GTA five Money Hack The hack generates limitless amount of Income and RP points with out you paying even a penny.

That is since all banked funds is shared among your characters , but any 1 of your characters can only own one particular house (for now). There are some codes which will help you to collect cheats for the game which can be employed all through the life time of the game.

Also, GTA enables you to locate each and every treasure item up to 3 times, after with every character. Right after this you merely click the split alternative, and divide the cash amongst the participants. So please if you want to get totally free money please use this free GTA 5 on-line money hack today before you have to pay for it. We have a strong group who know what they are performing and we have done this on a regular basis.

There are lots of GTA 5 codes for the single-player portion of the game, but not for GTA 5 On-line. I heard of hackers providing players money against their wishes, receiving stated players banned for gaining unrealistic amounts of income. There's true funds in the first Heist , enough to give you a hefty Stock Marketplace bankroll.

The cash will not only let you acquire a mansion property, princely automobiles, and lethal weapons but you will also be capable to commence your really personal business or invest in some else'. Earning funds to make your move is just a click away now and so is becoming undefeatable.

This is a working GTA five On-line income hack that will provide you with unlimited funds for the game. We have tried and tested it with each and every platform so you can enjoy our flawless cheat hassle totally free! Jailbroken PS3s, JTAG Xbox consoles, and consoles that have never ever been connected to the internet ought to be in a position to use these exploits without deleting any files.

Their actions are a tiny more severe than the gamers in there who have simply been quitting jobs mid-mission (one more GTA crime), offered that GTA dollars are accessible as in-game purchases, $1million getting worth about £5. The maximum amount of money that any character can have in the game is $2,147,483,647.

11 notes · View notes

topicprinter · 7 years

Link

Let me guess:You have followed all the best tips found on the Interwebz.You create fresh content daily. You use the right hashtags. You post 3 times a day. You reply to everyone who comments on your posts.Yet.The number of followers on your Instagram account remains pitiful. You don’t even remember the last time your follower count went up.At this rate that this is going on, you are going to give up.How can Instagram be a profitable channel for your restaurant, if your number of followers don’t grow?Fret not.I am here to help.I reached out to several Instagram marketing experts, and got them to answer this one question:“If you were to grow a brand new Instagram account from zero followers to 10,000 followers in under 30 days, how would you do it?”Below are their answers.And I am 100% sure you will find something new to try… and skyrocket your Instagram following.1. Zach Benson (Assistagram)Powerliking methodCost $1200-$1700 a month, depends on how many likes per day 1-3x.What are powerlikes and why does it work?Powerlikes are likes/comments from a network of large accounts (100k+ accounts are considered large) as soon as your post goes live. The intent is to play into Instagram’s algorithm where a post’s first ten minutes are most crucial for gaining traction and determining how it’ll do in reaching beyond your current following.It works two-fold: By flooding traffic from the large accounts over to yours from the ‘Following’ tab, as well as triggering the algorithm to recognise that large accounts are enjoying that piece of content.This will not only increase the post’s reach to more of your current followers but increases its chances significantly in hitting the Explore page, where you’re reaching beyond your current audience and grow organically and quickly.Telegram groups/roundsTelegram is a messenger app that has become solely used for Instagram engagement groups. It’s hugely popular as you can code bots that take over the entire process for you, making everything automatic.Below are screenshots of arguably the best and most exclusive engagement group, XPLOR Rounds.Prerequisites: 80k+ followers, 2k+ likes per post avgNiche: General/allDirect message groups (free method)Create a DM engagement group of 15 people with similar accounts, niche and a high quality audience— in this strategy, multiple Instagram accounts help each other grow organically by mutually liking & commenting on their content. The larger the accounts participating, the more effective it is. You will need to be in 50-100 groups and participate constantly throughout the day, each and everyday.Better to hire a VA to do this.Shoutouts/giveaways/contestsNetwork with other big Instagram accounts in your niche and try and set up a giveaway contest with them. This is a great way to grow your following fast. By collaborating with a 3 million follower account and 300k + account, you could grow up to 2,500 -3,000 + in less than a week. For example, maybe you have a hotel page and want more travel followers, you could create a 2 night all inclusive stay in your best suite for 2, full-board. To be entered into the contest, you have to follow these accounts (the two large travel accounts and yours) and the more friends you tag, the higher chances of you winning. The set up price of these contests vary in price and could cost you anywhere from $500 to a couple thousand dollars. It just depends on who you know, like how big your network is and what you can offer these huge accounts in return to create a mutually beneficial business relationship.Post viral contentOpen up your Instagram app, look at whats on your Explore page tab. All viral videos and pictures with thousands and thousands of views and likes. Most of this content is what we call viral content, unique and original and “way out there”. The more open you are to posting viral content the higher chances you will have of going viral on instagram while using the above methods.Be consistentTo be good at anything, you must do it every single day. For example, you aren’t going to be an awesome sports player if you only play 1-2x a week. You have to practice each and every day. Same with social media, you have to be consistent and posting each and every day, respond to comments, direct messages, like and comment on your target market, do market research, research and rotate hashtags daily, participate in engagement groups, use Instagram lives, stories, etc and create original epic content. Easily 3-4 hours a day. If you don’t have time to do this, outsource it. Build your brand. Your name is your most important asset. Reputation is what other’s think you are. Character is what you are. Grow your following, provide great value for your fans, teach, inspire, give, give, GIVE and watch your circle of influence grow, network expand, and more opportunities will come your way. You will find that it’s a lot easier to negotiate anything, seal deals, pretty much do anything when you grow your following and brand. You are the brand. You are the commodity. Think of Instagram as your new name card, so when you are out and about and you meet someone, exchange biz cards but then say hey let’s stay in touch via Instagram, pull up your account on their phone and then they are like WOW you have 100k followers. You are legit! Definitely peaks their interest more and helps you stand out from everyone else they met that night.2. Nathan Chan (Foundr Magazine)I would research the market I’m looking to serve, then create great looking content and post 3x a day.Then I would find other Instagram pages that serve this target market and get them to share my content as much as possible from either paying, or working out reciprocal deals using my own accounts as leverage.Then I would find other big accounts that serve this niche and convince them to like and comment on my posts.Then I would run at least 2 competitions/giveways to get people to like and follow us – I would give away something that of super high value that would attract my target audience / niche – (that way we’re building a following of buyers too around this market).3. Alex ToobyMy answer will help you reach 10,000 REAL and TARGETED followers.. Not just any follower because what’s 10k followers worth if they’re not going to engage with your content or purchase your products or services?So having said that.. here’s my approach: if you want your account to take off quickly you need to create a feeling of authority – like you’ve been doing this for ages and have perfected every inch of your Instagram strategy. To do that you need to laser focus on what your account is all about. It shouldn’t be “food, fitness, healthy lifestyle, travel, etc” it should be just ONE of those thing.Niche down as far as you can then curate images that fall into a very specific theme.Aesthetics are everything.. are your images white and bright? dark and moody? are they all desaturated except for the pinks and greens? Figure out what your aesthetic “style” is and stick to it like glue.Upload a variety of photos to populate your feed, then post at least once per day moving forward. Select hashtags that aren’t too large (limit yourself to 5 tags that have over 1million posts associated with them) and write engaging captions that evoke a feeling, educate, or provide some sort of value to your audience.Then.. the most time consuming part. Put yourself out there and start engaging with your target market. Like, comment and follow as much as you can (without getting blocked by IG) in the most authentic way possible. Make real comments, start true conversations, show your audience that you’re a real person who cares and is present behind the account. You could easily spend upwards of 1 hour a day doing this.On top of this you can add SFS with complimentary accounts, run a giveaway, add relative content to your Instagram stories daily and go on IG live often to answer your audiences questions.Bottom line is – Be present! Show up, be authentic and provide value.Good luck!4. Ali Mirza (ISocialYou)I would piggyback on the giant. Let me explain…You are just starting out and have no audience. Right?But there are so many other people in your niche who are 10 steps ahead of you (with huge audiences).So reach out to them and ask them to feature you.Yes, you may have to pay a little bit but it’s totally worth it.If you pick the right influencers, their followers is your target audience also.So don’t hesitate to spend some money.Let’s create a step by step process so we can easily follow1 — Find 10–20 Instagram influencers in your niche2 — You can search on Instagram or use 3rd party tools (e.g. RightRelevant, Kear, Ninja Outreach)3 — Find the contact info of the owners. Note: If their contact info is public on their account, this means they open for business)4 — Reach out and find out how much their charge for a “shout out” or “feature post”5 — I would pick 10 and have them feature my brand new account. Then pick the best 3 to 4 best performing influencers and do it again.“You either build the audience from scratch or go to someone who already has the audience you need.”5. Leon Benjamin (TripleYourTribe)Here’s my answer.The main steps are 1. Who I’m looking to attract 2. My content + hashtags 3. Get easy quick followers 4. Shout campaign 5. Giveaway campaign 6. Engage with existing fans dailyFirst determine who’s my account for. And think about who else is serving them right now. What other instagram accounts are currently BIG that have them. I’d make a list of at least 30 of them who have over 40k followers and a fairly active comment section where discussions arise.Next, I’d find out what type of content those accounts put out thats interesting for them to engage with. Make at least 30 posts that are similar to those kinds of post and add a twist to them with my brand. The rest can be posts with quotes related to the market.Also from the previous listed accounts, scrape some of the hashtags that are in the medium range 20k-200k posts. And some in the more popular range +500k. From there I’d look a bit deeper to find more related tags through suggestions. From there, I schedule the posts with later.com to go out once per day. And another post uploaded manually. While rotating 60 hashtags across 2 posts per day. (that’s 30 tags per post. NOT 60 tags per post – which can get you into trouble!)Next, I’d ask my current network of friends, or fam to follow my new account. Just for the sake of growing momentum and some social proof.Now for the giveaway campaign. I’d create a document of value either from my knowledge or from interviewing influencers in the market or get an existing product of value (maybe around +100$) that that audience will want. Something thats related to the market. And offer it for free. In a giveaway. They would have to follow and tag in someone to enter for a chance to win. The winner would be announced on the last day of the 30 days. All participants receive part of the document or online product as well as a bonus.Then, while that’s being promoted in the account, I’d get others to share it as well. I’d reach out to that list found in step 1 and ask them to give us a shout on their page. In exchange, shout them out on my page, or give them something of value in return.While they promote the contest, I’d manually get traffic. The way I’d do that is by engaging (by liking or commenting or replying to stories) to the people who are active on the posts from accounts of list one.In summary, 1. find my audience, 2. the content they’d like, 3. the tags that attract them,4. Ask existing network for some social proof followers 5. Create a contest 6. Get shouts from relevant accounts 7. Manually engage with the marketThat could make me hit 10,000 followers easy. But in reality, hitting the 10k mark can be done by purchasing them.. however, would not make your account valuable to you or your market..What would be the most bang per buck (your buck being in terms of your energy and time), would be to have an engaged and interested following instead.So growing through the steps above, ensures you get interested followers. And less of the ones that unfollow you later.If you like more strategies recommended by 14 other top Instagram marketing influencers, you can read them here.

#/r/entrepreneur #reddit

1 note · View note

topicprinter · 7 years

Link

#/r/startups #reddit

0 notes