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this is made by same developers as the one I use. I imagine you already tried it out though since you said you tried three. But just in case
You don't need to give credit and nobody will be mad :) It is part of how Instagram works. Like you wouldn't be annoyed if someone RT'ed your tweet right?
You just use this app (Google Play or iTunes), it will add their IG as a little badge on it, and you can give them an @ shoutout in your comment or you can leave the pre-filled caption (I think it just copies what they write and adds from @WHOEVER) and then write your 2c under it. Or you can write your caption at the top, press enter, and then use some --- to divide it and leave their comment underneath.
Hope that helps!
I use Repost for Instagram. The only thing it leaves is the Username you reposted from with a little repost icon (looks like retweet). It puts a caption that you can just backspace.
Does that count? It's free.
Hey, some great tools are IFTTT and Buffer. If you plan it right, you can keep the Buffer free plan and supplement the rest of the functions with IFTTT.
I have my IFTTT set to post Instagram photos to my Twitter account, with the picture embeded in the Tweet. It also adds the caption :)
Buffer I use to schedule LinkedIn and Twitter, I try to use a combination of posting my own content and sharing articles related to my industry. For you, probably swap out LinkedIn with Facebook or something else...
You can use Repost for Instagram, so you don't need to use Buffer for that - so you can keep the free program :) (Google Play or iTunes)
Do they do any email marketing?
>My plan is to get as many followers as possible and generate as much engagement as possible.
Whoa there, is your goal to get followers or to sell phones?
Usually I take an ROI approached focus to social. Not that getting followers isn't a good thing, and yeah you want to see engagement - but set the goal for your actual end result. Otherwise you will optimize for gaining followers, not making sales.
I was looking at this article the other day, I think you can start looking at the companies that featured even the case study company (the fancy handbags) and start by reaching out to there.
Get placement with influencers, use this app to "regram" it onto your Instagram. First step.
Combine that and the regram strategy with being active on the platform. I would automate (use Later or Buffer), and I think you can do 3-5 posts per week (GaryVee recommends 3-6 per day but that is a LOT and really daunting for anyone to start with).
I think that you can see the same level of results with promoted Instagram posts, combined with influencer placement to save you from needing to post 12 times per day lol.
Identify 20, 50, 100 accounts that reach your target demographic that are between 10,000-100,000 followers. Start DMing them and getting prices for placements, or start off first with offering free product for an @ mention in the description :)
You can also do some hashtag research (I use this website) and find niche tags that you can potentially become one of the "featured images". You want to pick a hashtag with tens of thousands of a few hundred thousand posts, 1m+ posts is really competitive..
When you're looking to grow (which will involve upping your post count), another way to up your post count is to regram pictures of users with your products (example). I am not sure if you drop ship your cases or if you have them at your house, but I would add a call to action to your boxes that says "Please post a pictures and tag @YourInstagram account or use the hashtag #YourCompanyName to Instagram! We would love to see. Don't have Instagram? Email us a photo ". Have the call to action in all of the orders that go out, so you can start having a steady trickle of submissions (which will grow over time).
Hope that helps! I write more about marketing here, you might find this guide helpful and the first 2 posts :)