#gainwithupthrust
One of the key components of any social media platform is to be consistent in your uploads. On Instagram, you should be keeping your following engaged with new content every single day. That can mean one main profile post per day or actively involved in using Instagram Stories. Both of these pieces of content serve their own purpose, and both are an important mix of building and nurturing a growing audience. Your content needs to be a priority. As such, you need to give your fans fresh content to consume is the best way to continue growing and getting that first 1000 followers.

Take advantage of discoverability features
One element of Instagram that you may neglect when posting daily, is to take advantage of the ways in which people find you. Instagram actually has several ways to get your content in front of new eyes. The first is Hashtagging. Hashtags are essentially a way to give context and search functionality to your content. If you are posting travel photos, you should target travel hashtags. This will put your content alongside others posting similar content for which an audience is searching for! You can use up to 30 different hashtags for each photo - but, make sure to use a different set of hashtags for back-to-back content.

The second discoverability feature is Sharing Location. When you post a piece of content, especially if the location is unique or interesting - sharing location will help you get more eyes on the content. What this does is gives a potential audience a chance to find your content alongside others who’ve shared an image from that location. Ideal for travel content, food reviewers and other location-based focused content.

Third, you should be tagging Feature Pages. These pages build audiences based on grouping similar style content and help new creators get noticed if they fit within their niche. Often times these accounts will share one of your posts, giving you credit. It benefits them by giving them new content to share with their audience and benefits you by driving a similar audience to your profile.