buyer followers isn’t about making you feel good, its about attracting business.

@ItsJonnyKeeley

9 ай бұрын

Any business with a brain can see a fake following in a matter of seconds.

@onlyfacts4me

9 ай бұрын

@@ItsJonnyKeeley Not necessarily if your customers are average people

@zaarourinterior

8 ай бұрын

@onlyfacts4me you are right!

@eroz1120

7 ай бұрын

@@ItsJonnyKeeley if you were in my line of work you wouldn't be thinking the same way !

@dejanillusoriskatakter

4 ай бұрын

@@ItsJonnyKeeley All your 85 900 KZread follwers real?

I definitely agree with you and i dont advocate for people to pay for followers. However, often times perception is everything. Photographer with “more” followers tend to book more clients vs those photographers with “small” following. It comes down to many factors but we cant deny that having a lot of followers makes a difference- even if they are fake, dont interact etc…

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

I have two IG accounts for my photography the smallest one books the most. It’s niche photography but its interesting to note.

@CookbookDivas

Жыл бұрын

@@ItsJonnyKeeley and a client who knows what they're doing, knows how to analyze accounts and find people with real engaged following, not a high follower count. They know how to do their due diligence.

@FranklinLiranzo

Жыл бұрын

@@ItsJonnyKeeley obviously there are exceptions- but we cannot ignore the fact that you have a strong social media presence and people tend to gravitate towards what or who they know. Even if its not on a personal, or in-person basis.

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

@@FranklinLiranzo Totally agree.

@luizalouyoga

Жыл бұрын

You’re absolutely right, Franklin. Even though he said truthful and interesting things, for business, nowadays, buying followers, unfortunately, is what give the business a boost in terms of growth. If the account is rightly set and the owner is prepared to receive costumers, buying followers can be very beneficial and I believe many many businesses do that.

The sooner you’re able to ignore numbers and concentrate on the output of your creative process, the sooner you’ll discover it’s genuinely not about the numbers.

@chanelcreadora6570

2 ай бұрын

Income is SOLELY about the numbers

@Brahlam

Ай бұрын

Or just... add Boob and Nudes, and a link to OF, at least that seems to work for the Top 1%... sex sells, everything else is just noise.

The problem with this logic is this… Instagram is also about what your prospective customers, clients, business partners, etc. SEE when they arrive at your page. They will immediately make an assumption about you based off of the vanity metric of your follower count and write it down as your status. So, if the crowd is sold out, and there are many mannequins inside, when your targeted audience walks by the window and see the crowd and the sold out sign, will they care who’s actually inside. lol but you better be funny once they get in there!!! 🥂

Great analogy, thanks for that...I'm trying to grow organically. Every now and then, I get those kinds of offers, and I turn them down. To tell you the truth, it really makes me feel good about myself. Like you said, it's better to have a smaller but interested and active following than a large one that doesn't care! Keep it up, you're making great stuff. You're telling us what we NEED to hear, rather than what we want 🙌🏽 big ups!

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Thanks loads for watching!

This is why I always cull my 'new followers' I dont want people who are only here for a minute. I want people who I can build freindships with, who can interact with and enjoy my posts. I may end up growing slower, but my following is more defined and more relevant to what I post. I'm amazed not many people do this!

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

For sure man, it works too, you have a solid IG account and following.

By far the best advice I've seen. Great analogy, and a good reminder that it should be fun, if you're stressing about how many people are in your audience, you'll burn out and hate it

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, and thanks for tuning in.

It’s true , but some times you need the number

@ItsJonnyKeeley

10 ай бұрын

The numbers are definitely a benefit but only if they're real. Anyone can see fake numbers within 2 or 3 taps. Check followers > view most recent posts > check engagement > truth

Even if you are multi talented, people tend to correlate your followers and likes to whatever is associated w you . Unfortunately, thats the truth about creating a brand/business

Thank you brother. I needed this. We get stuck on needing more followers. We forget to build meaningful connections.

I deleted Instagram and FB and never been happier.

The concept of booking a sold out tour is on point Jonny

This is a PERFECT explanation. Build a community, not just a number. 10K engaging followers, are so much better than 1M randoms who rarely engage with your content ever. Believe it or not, less is more actually, because of you just let these bot accounts run wild, your metrics are severely flawed as well and you won’t get a real representation of your analytics.

@Kybone

7 ай бұрын

How do you know this?

Well said. Personally it is how I view my following. As in I have a number which IG says is my follower count, and then I have a number which I consider is my real meaningful follower number. Even though that meaningful follower number is a lot less, (since IG is full of bots, spam and ghost accounts that you cannot stop), that smaller number is more important to me that any larger number IG might tell me. Reason being, that small group of followers has meaning behind them. They are not just a number, but a person, one I have more than likely chatted with and know stuff about. For me one of them is worth more than a million as generic number. In essence they are worth more than any money can buy.

Well i think if you have 500 real followers and 1000 fake followers it shows 1500 followers if you have 1500 followers real and post a picture you get about 100 120 like per pics now if you have 500 followers and you post a pic you still get 100 120 likes difference if most people will tente to follow you more if you have 1500 followers then if you have 500 same likes.

My account got suspended today for literally no reason. I did everything already. About the form, they're not letting me submit it saying the decision can't be disputed. Years of my chats, posts, reels, people, communities are gone. Pls help me. Can anyone pls give me some advice as to what to do? I'm on my knees begging. I'm crying my balls out. Can't stop thinking about it. I'm devastated.

Non-engaged Followers contribute literally nothing except to a deceptively inflated number. I run a fan account for a singer. All too often these days, I'll get a new Follower who follows me but not the singer. That's a telltale sign that something may be amiss. And these are just the public accounts I can see. IG has become so overrun with bots lately it's ridiculous!😊

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

IG could fix this problem really easily in my opinion.

@myopia2020

Жыл бұрын

@@ItsJonnyKeeley Hmm...That would be a great topic for a video😊

@henriquesa2384

3 ай бұрын

Some celebs have even over 100 Million fake followers/bots

Reminds me of my 3000+ followers I had some years ago on an art website and it felt like 10-20 of them were still active, not because these accounts were fake or anything, but the users simply didn't use that website anymore (or they followed so many people, that they did not really bother with my stuff, haha). Such a number is good for nothing, if nobody is active.

Thanks for the video. I suspected this was the case. I use Instagram hoping to sell my book. I've heard about buying followers. I considered buying followers, but when I thought about it, I assumed everything you talked about in this video.

I also have the same opinion as you , I also don't want fake followers. Even though many of my friends have used fake followers. But I believe it's better to have few real people who have similar interests rather than to have thousands of fake people who don't interact

Almost the only interaction I get on IG is people offering to sell me followers. I figure they cant believe I'm ok with having just over 50 followers. As someone who has never chased followers, they were selling to the wrong person.

Dont know if you read this but thank you so much, just exactly what I needed to hear. I am just starting my IG account trying to build a community for my business plan as an old stay at home mom. In my opininon, as a beginner I am gaining good number of views but not followers. There are days when a follower would unfollow and it would literally break my heart. But then, I told myself, it's okay perhaps they are not the people who would appreciate and embrace my content. Coming from you now, it feels reassuring. Even if my followers are just a few number (for now) as long as they are the right people for my content, Im okay with that. But of course, who wouldnt like a large numbers of followers😂😂😂 Again, thank you.

I got scammed by promoters thinking it was legit (I didn’t want followers I just wanted them to repost) but then they added a bunch of fake followers- how do I get rid of them?

I often get into debates with my partner on our wine blog because she is pretty numbers-focused and discouraged that we don't have 10k followers yet. She gets mad when I remove those fake or bot followers that have 1 follower themself but follow 6700 accounts. They'll never see our content, never click like, never comment or interact with it, so I remove them. It drags down our engagement rate to have large numbers of inactive followers.

@t.8927

Жыл бұрын

Is it really work for the engagement by removing those bot followers? I'd do it to my shop account. Thanks!

@luizalouyoga

Жыл бұрын

People don’t check to see if your followers are bots or not, unless your profile is really messy and unprofessional. Having more followers (bought ones) will attract more followers (organic ones). I think it’s a little naive to think businesses don’t do that nowadays. I think your partner is quite right if you guys are talking business, but if it’s more of an “ethical” problem for you, then, yeah it’s good to keep your values at sight even when talking business.

@carvinguptrails

9 ай бұрын

So my friend has an account he started called “travelwithdalt” and he admitted to me he bought a ton of followers.. the sad thing is it’s working for him and it’s not genuine at all. I think accounts like his is ruining the platform and he should be reported

Im currently slowly cleaning out and organizing my IG account. 8000 accounts that do NOT interact with my hard worked video post that cost me hundreds of dollars per post! Its horrible..I did way too many gain/groups pages and loops. I quit doing this after learning my lesson the hard way.

This venue size metaphor is beautiful. Thank you.

@ItsJonnyKeeley

6 ай бұрын

Glad it helped mate!

Love your authenticity

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Rosa

Nah bro tbh, I just wanna pull girls 😅 (my friends has 40k followers and it works so well, girls like him in school)

Interesting angle on this problem, i think Vero is a good place where positive people get to know each other. Still, i hope it lasts! Well said Jonny.

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Vero is great!

Best analogy I have heard. Thank you.

@ItsJonnyKeeley

11 ай бұрын

Thanks

Very funny, I had the exact same issue this week. Our new Instagram channel is slowly growing and we were very surprised to see 150+ followers added to the account overnight… and during the day, we heard a beep every 3 seconds for a new follower added to our account! And we have made no request!!! I ended up removing over 1400 followers as they were all having the same template profile, 15 posts, 200 followers and +/-2000 following. I totally agree with you this is like knowing the concert hall is fully sold out but you know only a small portion of the listeners will applaud for your posts or songs!!! We have also been contacted to pay for shout outs in order to gain followers, but once again, this is so fake, … I largely prefer to have followers that are willing to follow us rather than pay for some posts with « dummy » followers….

This is just amazing thank you very much - what a great analogy! I am fed up of people (or bots) on Instagram messaging me saying they want to collaborate with me or find me followers - No you don't! You are mainly just a bot being a bot doing what is programmed of you - DELETE! Thank you again for your honest words.

Totally agree with you. Thank you for your short-well explained video. Do you have any advice to increase organic growth on Instagram, other than constantly making Reels, buying fake followers and only using hashtags? Because sometimes the growth can be so slow and at the end of the day, as a social media officer, I have to show some good numbers.

True words..... I have been doing this personally and am removing all those bots every week to keep the engagement clean and returning. Actually I am more happier while removing those bots even though the count of followers decreased. Now i have more real ppl

Yes mate. I remember you working on this a few weeks back. Good analogy. Best to have engaged people/followers. Glad you got it sorted.

This is the best thing I’ve heard in an awful long time and simply put. Well said Jonny 👏🏻

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching mate.

Couldn't agree with you more. As a "Creator" of images, I'm only interested in people following me that do so because they enjoy my work, anything else is just empty calories as far as I am concerned. Now I'm not going to lie, I would sooner have 1000 people who genuinely liked and enjoyed my images than the 300 I have now, but I would definitely prefer to keep and entertain my 300 followers than have 10,000 for the sake of a number and an ego polish.

Great video, thank you 😊 It's nice to see the bigger influencers following their advice too!

you're right, but local restaurants and stores will benefit from it. People trust more those restaurants that have more followers.

Well said man, thats about one of the best Posts i‘ve seen for a long time.

Amazing Johnny fully informative appreciate your work keep going!

@ItsJonnyKeeley

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Really helpful! Loved this

1:54 that's the take away

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

So many people forget it.

This is great insight. A lot of people need to have this mindset. I’m chill with my 1000 followers cause the majority of them interact with my content ❤

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

Thank you for the advice , it really help ❤

Spending hours deleting thousands of followers. Every time I spend time trying to delete followers (a few dozen not even hundreds let alone thousands) my Instagram glitches to no end.

You got to fake it to make it

@ItsJonnyKeeley

8 ай бұрын

Most fake it, but never make it.

What if we buy views and get followers

Some fella tried this with me the other day. I didn't respond at all, just blocked him. There was this other fella wanting to be an ambassador for some clothing firm. I looked into that to find it was a scam. Blocked him too. I interact with about half of my 235 followers, the rest seemed to have stopped posting, a lot of them during the lockdown years.

And the other thing you are missing is that if you want to do bz with someone, instagram will send a letter to that potential client stating that most of your followers are not real and that they should be careful doing bz with y You 😱😱😱 crazy right?

IM NOT A PERFORMER THO, IM JUST TRYNA IMPRESS MY FRIENDS

The "Sold Out Tour" is so perfect!!! Thanks.

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Glad it hit Stephen!

Does that followers affect negatively on our account?

Beautifully said

Love the msuic venue analogy, Jonny. Great advice.

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

I feel like every video I make has some form of band related analogy :)

@ramonedixon

Жыл бұрын

@@ItsJonnyKeeley I’ve noticed, but it’s totally spot on. The mannequins reference is definitely an accurate representation of “bots”. Always great to hear your views, keep up the great work.

Yes totally agree - NEVER BUY FOLLOWERS!!!!

@carvinguptrails

9 ай бұрын

So my friend has an account he started called “travelwithdalt” and he admitted to me he bought a ton of followers.. the sad thing is it’s working for him and it’s not genuine at all. I think accounts like his is ruining the platform and he should be reported

Would having so many followers that don’t engage affect how the algorithm perceives your content? Does it matter to only have followers within your specific niche?

Great piece of advice, Thanks !

I totally agree! This is what I was explaining to an account owner yesterday. He wanted to buy some services from a big account (like 1M+ followers).

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

It's a strange thing.

Amazing advice 🙌 Thank you!

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Fantastic video! I actually just paid someone to do an IG account analysis of all my ghost followers. I've been actively deleting them one by one. Just deleted about 300 of them. Feels so good to cut the fake. Now I can focus on building real relationships with those who are truly interested in my content.

The Question is… doesn't it kill your commitment? How long did it take you to do that? I ask because I assumed that you should only be able to perform a certain number of actions per hour/day. Furthermore, how have these made themselves felt for you? No profile picture and zero followers?

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

I just went for it. They were all bots, only 3 of 4 posts same vibe and tone (not interested in landscape photography)

I only have a small account yet and the same happened to me. They offered, i refused and went to bed. The next morning I had about 100 more followers as a "demo". Went through and deleted all of them. The number don't matter if they aren't real.

Nice words man! How did you remove the followers? Any apps to use? Or do it manually?

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Just did it manually. Using apps gives access to basically everything to a random third party, which is a bad idea.

But what you're talking about only applies to caring whether or not you want engagement from your following. What if you only want to create a sense of validity? Starting from 0 and building to a 1000 is hard and takes time. However paying for 1000 reaches that landmark quicker and then it adds a level of validity to what you are doing regardless of ifs fake or not.

I just did this paid 2360 Bucks and Im at 11k and NOTHING changed. Was a taken who knows How the hell do you monetize Instagram at all. I'm losing my mind.

I'm curious if the bots stop instagram from suggesting your content to the right people? Like is it worth it to go through and delete potential bots for future growth?

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Slowly, Mass deleting (like I did) isn't generally a good idea.

You're a wise man, Johnny.

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

That's very kind

I literally had so many fake accounts try to follow me today. Had to set to private 🙄

My photography facebook page got targeted by follow bots. They need to follow random people to look like legit accounts, so they dont all follow just the ones paying for the service. Well i for what ever reason got chosen to be that real person. Now i have 1.7k followers on facebook but all of them are Indian men between the ages of 20 and 40. my posts get 2 likes and arent seen by the 250 actual friends and familly that follow me since the facebook algoryth only show your posts to about 5% of your audience initially. At this point that page is pretty much ruined. I have to make a new one. It would take me longer to delete them all, than it would to create new

Same here I picked certain people on instagram

Smart video. Well done 👏

@ItsJonnyKeeley

11 ай бұрын

Thank you

Thank you

How do you delete that many followers at a time?

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Just organically one after the other.

*To the person who is reading this, don't give up on your channel. Keep going, Its going to be better. 💯*

Sorry I have to disagree, you can stop these scammers from adding unwanted followers. Set your account private, and report and block these scammers msgs. ..screen your follow requests. Works for me! I’m not interested in high follower count, and fake followers. I much prefer authentic people who enjoy my work!

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

That's true, you can do that. You can also delete your IG account that will stop someone adding fake followers. (I'm sarcastically saying is it's not practical for a business to have a private account.)

"Followers" - pronounced "Foul Lures" because you get lured into following people who are foul. And if you notice the end of the word "follower" is the word "lower" as in lower forms of people....psych! Sheeple - "people compared to sheep who are docile and meek and blindly follow others".😂

I have 11k ghost followers can I remove them in 1 day without getting banned?

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Probably not, the best thing do is do everything organically.

Great explanation. Never loved the idea

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve

Remember quality over quantity 👌

@ItsJonnyKeeley

Жыл бұрын

Yep

Agree with you 👍👍

To the point 👌

correct

I need those followers brav please give them to me

Kind of a pointless review 😅

This happened to me before they added me 4000 new fake accounts i deleted it manually and reported to Instagram, but Instagram ended up deleting my account...

I was a two time Suggested User to follow back in the early days of IG and while that felt amazing when it happened, I now wish it never did. After the second time my account got up to over 150,000 followers, but then everything started crashing. After months of sadness I personally removed 60,000 followers and that didn’t really change anything. Fast forward to present day, I’m hovering around 92k yet I’m lucky if my Reels break 3k plays and 300 likes. I’m still doing things my way, but it sure is frustrating.

Spot on as always. I got hung up on hitting the magic 10K, I was close.. very close but then I read a blog about 'ghost' & bot followers. Trawled through my followers and deleted a couple of thousand. My engagement went up. I was back to having my old 'regular' followers chatting and it's stayed that way since. I'm slowly creeping up again but desperate to hit a number now as I enjoy the interaction.