How We Made our First Instagram Sale (With Only 74 Followers)
Instagram is a unique platform because it is easy to find so many great people with the similar interests. That is why I love running a business through Instagram. It is all about making real connections with real people to start great relationships! Not about pushing a hard sell. We made are first Instagram sale to a stranger when we only had 74 followers! How we did it: The most important thing we did was focus on really interacting with all of our first followers. We made it a goal to DM every single new follower until we reached 300 followers. Here is the process we went through with every new follower: Check out their profile and find some common interests (where they were from, what art they liked etc) DM them to thank them for their early support and get a conversation going about our common interests. Give them a discount code or free shipping. Our first sale to a stranger through instagram was in Canada! This is how it went down : We replied