I just decided I’m going to challenge myself to get to 10k instagram followers before I make my first post just to show people what’s possible. I don’t recommend anyone else do this it’s a bit over kill but I do recommend getting to 1000 followers. I use a strategy where I will go to a post of a public business or university that just posted in the last 24 hours and then follow people that recently liked and commented on the post because this means they are recently active and more likely to engage once I post on instagram. Also I try to follow mostly people who follow more people then they have followers as they are more likely to follow back. I then will unfollow the people who did not follow me back. I did this to get to 1500 followers so far.