“I look at an Instagram feed like a photo wall in your house. A well put together feed that's seamless and consistent will be more visually appealing than one that is not”— Devon Valentin-Minnis, inc.com
“Despite the perfectly curated feed that many of the top Instagrammers have, few get it right the first time. The key is to take plenty of shots so you can choose the one with the best focus, framing, light, perspective, and distance.”— Melanie Deziel, inc.com
“I was having a bad day...I wasn't in the flow. I was like, Everyone sucks. That's when I did my best image. I was lying in bed and messing with it. And I thought, Is this good? And I just posted it, and I remember looking at it right away and having a lot of likes and saying, 'Huh.'..It has to be or…”— Kendall Jenner, cosmopolitan.com
“Even if you snap the most beautiful photo in the world, it won’t matter or get any engagement if you share it in the middle of the night....The two key times that people will check Instagram is either in the morning after they wake up or in the evening going home after work.”— Tim Sae Koo, tintup.com
“...I use VSCO to play with the colors and tones, and finalize with Photoshop Fix. Practice makes perfect, but learning how to manipulate a photo is crucial...Always be aware of the finer details..Also, be consistent. Find a theme or a subject that makes your account unique and stick with it. If it's…”— Kyle Huber, esquire.com
“My most genuine growth has come through collaborating with other Instagrammers. When someone's work blows me away, I'll occasionally ask for them to send me an original, unedited image...so that we can both edit each other's photos and post them with mutual shoutouts. This is a great way to grow an…”— Kyle Huber, esquire.com
“I actually wasn't trying to be a photographer; I truly loved taking pictures with my iPhone. It wasn't until I refined my own style and focused on keeping the quality of my posts consistent that my following started to grow. I realized that if my most recent photos always looked awesome together in…”— Kyle Huber, esquire.com
“...For me it just has to be one minute process. I think social media should be instant...So many influencers post they're in a place, but they really are somewhere else, and try to act like it's real time, but it's not. For me, when I post ‘I’m here’ I’m really there. It’s like an Insta diary.”— Chiara Ferragni, independent.co.uk
“I think the number one thing about Instagram is that people think there’s some sort of secret or magic to it and all of it is about being authentic and being yourself and respond to your followers.”— Eva Chen, independent.co.uk
“The actual most annoying thing you can do on Instagram is inundate your followers’ feeds with a ton of photos in a row. You can and should post multiple times a day if you want to get more followers, but you need to spread these photos out over the course of the day...”— Kate Knibbs, digitaltrends.com
“It’s very important that your followers know when to expect a new picture. ‘If you’re going to be daily, you have to post daily...Your audience will expect that rhythm.'”— Rebecca Hiscott, huffingtonpost.com
“[Selena] Gomez is followed by 69.7 million people, which is more than the entire population of France...She doesn’t post that often. This might seem like a minor point, but we think it actually makes a significant difference when it comes to one’s decision to follow...if you post fewer Instagrams, e…”— Josh Duboff, vanityfair.com
“Strike a balance. [Demi] Lovato does a great job of balancing really intimate posts of her with her family or pets with pictures that obviously were taken professionally that more succinctly market her profession.”— Lucas Matney, techcrunch.com
“It’s just based on the moment...Every second is the ultimate zeitgeist. So you narrow it down to those tiny moments. You just have to know the internet. You have to love it so much. You have to want to fuck the internet.”— Josh Ostrovsky, theguardian.com
“If you want to grow your account by a few hundred followers a day, the best way to accomplish it is to randomly like thousands of images a day.”— Neil Patel, quicksprout.com
“Ask questions in the captions of your photos. This is a great way to increase engagement.”— Maria Basyk,, quora.com
“In our quest to grow our followers, it’s always helpful to remember what really matters in all of this: The friends we’ll talk to, the relationships we’ll create and the fun we’ll have. An easy way to keep this principle central is to spend a bit of time each day just hanging out and enjoying Instag…”— Courtney Seiter, blog.bufferapp.com
“I have actually never tried to grow my Instagram following. I will say though, that I notice that every time I am hanging out with someone famous, I get a lot more followers. So I guess if you want to grow your following, you need some famous friends.”— Danielle Prescod, fashionista.com
“If you want to build a real presence on Instagram, you must first and foremost be yourself.”— Laura Brown, fashionista.com