How to Increase Your Instagram Followers by 7X in 30 Days

Case study: How one writer increased his Instagram followers from 212 to 1,400 in one month.

Special thanks to Bill Phillips for editing this post.

If you’ve ever wondered how average people develop massive Instagram followings seemingly overnight, you need to meet Max Chafkin.

Chafkin, a writer at Bloomberg, had a measly 212 Instagram followers last fall. A month later, he had 1,400.

How’d he do it?

It all started after reading a rant by an anonymous executive that claimed Instagram influencers are talentless. How talentless are they, Chafkin wondered? He reached out to two influencers, whose answers conflicted.

“If it were so easy to be an influencer, then every single person on earth would do it,” Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of the massive social media marketing agency Vaynermedia, told him.

“If it were so easy to be an influencer, then every single person on earth would do it.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

But Daniel Saynt, owner of social media marketing agency Socialyte, disagreed. He said that anyone, even Chafkin himself, could quickly gain a large…