The second strategy I recommend you do is all about engagement. It would be great if you combine it with the first one, people are way more likely to follow you. If you engage with their content. Just go ahead and engage with Instagram users who are your target audience. The way you do that, is by going through the hashtags they're using. An important point, when you look for relevant hashtags is to look at the most recent and not most popular posts in these hashtags.
The reason for that is because you want to engage with new Instagram users. Give a like, write a short comment. This strategy works better if you engage with the content of new users who don't have a huge following. This is very important. These new Instagram users have three Four likes per photo. And when you give them a like, they will notice your Instagram account.
That will not be the case if you engage with accounts which have 2000 or 3000 likes per photo. In the past, many people grew their accounts using exactly the strategy, but they did it with the help of a bot. In other words, they automated the process, so the bot does the likes and comments for them. However, now Instagram is really picky about third party services, especially any kind of automation. My advice to you is not to use a bot and do the engagement manually. People are way more likely to follow you if you engage with their content first.
I want to repeat myself to be effective. This strategy should be executed with new Instagram accounts. Otherwise it's almost useless If you're going to be engaging with huge, huge accounts because they will not notice your engagement. Thank you for watching