“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
“I don’t know… boobs? Obviously, boobs do well, if you’re a woman… Then hashtag it, like #Syria, you know what I mean? #Oprah, #Iraq, #ISIS, just stuff that people are searching for. Then they’re going to find your boobs in those feeds and they’re going to follow you. Your follower count is going to…”— Josh Ostrovsky, elitedaily.com