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How I grew by 100K followers in 9 months without going viral

Seven Strong with Holly Hillyer

Feb 6 2024 • 30 mins

Last summer, I was feeling stuck on Instagram. My Holly Hillyer account was stuck at 40K followers for over 2 years, and I felt like I was doing everything under the sun to get my content seen by my ideal clients and nothing was working. I was frustrated, blaming the algorithm and feeling fed up by creating content.

Maybe you can resonate.

But after blaming the Instagram algorithm for my struggle for so long, I decided to stop sitting in blame, and start asking better questions. And in this week’s episode, I am sharing the breakthrough that kickstarted my Instagram growth again, and completely changed the way I think about creating content.

On this episode I chat about:

  • How I got stuck at 40K followers for 2 years, even though I was giving “value”
  • What my ideal clients were telling me they wanted (and why I started to listen)
  • How I stopped blaming the algorithm and started looking at it from a different perspective
  • The simple question I asked that changed how I look at creating content