These days, any business leader understands how hugely important it is to have a successful Instagram account. Even though this social media platform may have originally started as a fun way for friends to share cool pictures, it’s now become one of the most powerful ways for businesses to connect with potential clients (not to mention business partners and influencers). That’s why it’s so important to get as many followers as possible on Instagram. And with 2019 here, that means doing more than simply coming up with clever hashtags and posting regularly. You need to use the right strategies and tools.
That’s why we’ve put together this list. By using some of these Instagram growth services, you’ll get the organic growth you need in the new year.
1 SocialSteeze
First and foremost, you want a tool that will get followers. There are lots of great tools on this list, but SocialSteeze specifically gets real followers for Instagram. Many services purport to get you followers, but they’re fake, which won’t help your business. By using information such as location and usernames, they’ll get you followers in record time, which in turn will help you master the Instagram algorithms and get noticed by even more people.
2 Magic Social
Magic Social is another great Instagram service. By using different strategies for finding followers, by researching hashtags, usernames, locations, and blacklisting, this service helps you grow your followers and immediately go viral. A regular account costs only $15 a week, so it’s a steal considering all you’re getting.
3 Fastory
If you’ve been spending a lot of time recently reading up on the most trending features of social media, you know how big Instagram Stories are becoming. But if you’re new to this feature, it can be challenging to use. That’s why Fastory is so great–this tool simplifies it all, and even though it starts at $499 a year, it’s well worth the cost.
4 Squarelovin
When it comes to running Instagram successfully, a hugely important element is getting all the analytics you need. Otherwise, you won’t know which posts are successful nor what strategies are working. According to Format, this free tool can “give some additional insight into how your account is growing. It offers a monthly analysis of your Instagram account’s performance. You can also view a complete history of your posts and how they performed, broken down by the year, month, day, or hour.” So even if you’re already using Insights, use this, too!
5 Droplitt
If you’re running a super-busy business, and you barely have time for social media strategy at all, Droplitt is a great option. This automates everything you handle, from reposts to DMs to comments to likes. All you need to do is post; once you’ve done that, Droplitt does everything else.
6 Foursixty
This great tool, which has a 4.8 out of 5 stars rating in the Shopify app store, is hugely useful to ecommerce stores. They make it easy for shoppers to use your Instagram as a store in itself, with the power of embedding. If someone likes something on your Instagram and they want to buy it, this makes it way easier and more likely they will.
7 Facetune
If your Instagram account has a lot of faces in it–you’re selling clothes, for example, and models are wearing them–then Facetune makes it easy to Photoshop those faces automatically. Which in turn means prettier images, which means more followers. Considering that 31 percent of Americans earning over $75,000 use Instagram, small changes like this can get you more followers, which means more money, too.
8 Repost for Instagram
Repost for Instagram is a tool that’s exactly what it sounds like: you can take a post you enjoy, and share it. This will help in getting more engagement with your followers if you share pics of them using your products, and the same goes for working with influencers.
9 Famebit
Speaking of influencers–Famebit is a great way for you to connect with them. Especially if you don’t have time to research who’s the best fit for you, this will significantly cut down on that time and allow you to focus on getting more followers. Self-service fees start with a 10 percent service fee, and VIP service for brands costs only a little more.
10 ViralUpgrade
ViralUpgrade focuses on getting followers who come from your niche, so if you’ve got a very specific business, it’s a great Instagram automation tool to use.
Already, outlets such as Socialrocketer are putting out lists of the best Instagram tools you can use to improve your following in 2019. We’ve done our research, and these are some of the best out there. What other tools have proved useful to your social media business strategies?