5 Tips to Realistically Grow Your Instagram Account when you’re just starting out

Lewis Gavin
5 min readJan 6, 2019

In June of 2018 I started a little test. I don’t know where the idea came from but it was something that just hit me and made sense.

You like drinking craft beers. Why don’t you start sharing them on Instagram?

A relatively simple idea right? So that’s what I did. Pretty much every day since then I’ve posted a picture on Instagram. Almost all of them of a different beer and grew my account to around 3.5k followers – in just 6 months!

You can view my account here: beer.me.up.please

Now that might not seem like amazing growth if you go by the thousand other articles on this subject. However I’ve achieved this with a small amount of effort whilst still enjoying my beers and it not becoming a chore.

In this time I’ve also been asked to promote on behalf of some big brands who were willing to share their products with me in return for an honest review.

So here’s 5 things that helped me grow my account.

1. Post Everyday

If you want to gain followers you’re going to need to post everyday. Posting regularly means people see your content more often and are therefore more likely to remember you.

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Lewis Gavin
Lewis Gavin

Written by Lewis Gavin

Data and Productivity Writer — Data Architect at easyfundraising.org.uk

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