You are or aspire to be an influencer, you want your work to be appreciated and noticed, you want a large follower base and you want more likes on your Instagram posts. For that, you click pictures every day and diligently post them with a large number of hashtags but the end result is a far cry from what you imagined it to be. Your follower count does not budge (you probably also lose a few everyday), the number of likes on your post is minimal and there is hardly any engagement. What happens next? You get depressed and wonder where you are going wrong. Familiar scenario? Anyone who is on Instagram has or is going through this phase (unless of course that person is a celebrity). I have gone through it and while I definitely do not count myself to be anywhere close to being a popular Instagrammer/influencer (I have 5160 organic followers as of today with around 30-40 following everyday. The number would have been around 8k but I’ve blocked a huge number of fake accounts and male followers!), certain tips and tricks have helped me to reach that number and I thought I’ll share those tips with you. I have written the post from the point of view of a blogger/influencer but these tips should work for everyone. And if I may add, I have not spent a single paisa to get my followers 🙂