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How I Gained 50,000 Followers in 1 Month (9 Easy Steps)

0h 20m video Published Aug 7, 2024 Transcribed Jul 30, 2026 G Grow with Alex
Beginner 12 min read For: Aspiring Instagram content creators, especially those interested in building faceless accounts and growing a following.
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"Delivers a clear 9-step system, though some steps are padded with self-promotion and generic advice."

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This video presents a 9-step method for growing a faceless Instagram account to over 50,000 followers. The creator shares his proven process, including account setup, branding, content creation using competitors' viral videos, and targeting a US audience. He emphasizes simplicity, consistency, and small, testable changes to build a long-term business.

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Introduction and Results

The creator has over 50,000 followers on a faceless account and runs 15 such accounts. He promises a 9-step system to replicate these results.

[00:30]
Audience Demographics

Over 50% of the audience is from the USA, and the majority is above 30 years old, indicating high purchasing power.

[01:02]
Name Generation with Chat GPT

Use Chat GPT to generate a brandable account name that could go on a t-shirt or product. Example: 'Cron' for storytelling.

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Account Warm-Up

Like and save high-performing content in your niche for 10 minutes, 3-4 times a day, for 2-3 days to prime the explore page.

[04:22]
Simple Branding

Create a simple logo using Canva with a black background and a font matching your niche. Ensure the logo could work on merchandise.

[06:57]
Content Research: Find Outliers

Identify competitors and save their videos with exceptional views (outliers). These are proven to work and serve as inspiration.

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Recreating Viral Content

Download a competitor's viral video, then recreate it using original clips (e.g., from Pinterest) following the same sequence and editing pattern.

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Add a Unique Element

Differentiate your content by changing one element at a time (filter, font, clips, or overlays) to maintain a unique brand while using proven formulas.

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Posting for Target Audience

Use a time zone converter to post 2 hours before the peak time of your target audience (e.g., 4-5 pm EST for US). Content is the main driver of audience.

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Analyze and Iterate

Make small tweaks, analyze performance, and focus on long-term growth. Avoid overcomplicating; consistency is key.

The video provides a complete framework for growing a faceless Instagram account by leveraging proven content, simple branding, and strategic posting. Success comes from consistent application and small, testable refinements.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 01:02 Generate a brandable account name using Chat GPT.
2 01:31 Create the account with an aged Gmail (2-3 weeks old) to avoid being flagged as a bot.
3 02:47 Warm up the account by liking and saving niche content for 10 minutes, 3-4 times a day for 2-3 days.
4 04:22 Design a simple logo on Canva with a black background and a font matching your niche. Ensure it could work on a t-shirt.
5 06:57 Research 4-5 competitors and save their outlier videos (videos with exceptional views).
6 08:52 Recreate each viral video by downloading it and using original clips (e.g., from Pinterest) following the same sequence and editing pattern.
7 13:25 Add your own unique filter, font, or overlay. Change only one element at a time to test what works.
8 16:05 Use a time zone converter to post 2 hours before the peak time of your target audience (e.g., 4-5 pm EST for US).
9 18:07 Analyze performance, make small tweaks, and continue consistently. Treat it as a long-term game.

Study Flashcards (10)

What is the recommended age for a Gmail account to avoid getting flagged as a bot?

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2-3 weeks old.

01:31

How many times a day should you warm up your Instagram account?

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3-4 times a day for 10 minutes each.

02:47

Which tool does the creator recommend for designing a logo?

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Canva.

04:22

What is an 'outlier' in the context of competitor videos?

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A video that has significantly more views than the average on that page.

07:42

How many competitors should you analyze to find outlier videos?

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4-5.

07:10

What is the method for recreating a competitor's viral video?

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Download the video, then use original clips (e.g., from Pinterest) following the same sequence and editing pattern.

08:52

How many elements should you change at a time to differentiate your content?

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One.

15:40

What is the recommended posting time relative to the target audience's peak time?

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2 hours before the peak time.

17:21

What percentage of the account's audience is from the USA?

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Over 50%.

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What is the main factor that attracts a specific audience according to the creator?

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The content itself.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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Demographics: 50% US Audience over 30

Shows the importance of targeting an audience with high purchasing power.

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Using Outlier Videos as Gold Dust

Emphasizes leveraging proven content instead of experimenting blindly.

07:42
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Differentiate by Changing One Element

Encourages small, testable variations to build a unique brand without risking performance.

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Post 2 Hours Before Peak Time

Provides a concrete, actionable timing strategy for targeting a specific time zone.

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Long-Term Game Mindset

Stresses consistency over quick fixes, a crucial mindset for sustainable growth.

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[00:02] account and today that account has over 50,000 followers I currently run over 15 faceless Instagram accounts in this video I'm going to show you how you can do the exact same thing for any type of content whether you're looking to create

[00:15] a new income stream build a theme page promote a brand or simply want to grow your followers these nine steps are going to allow you to grow a massive following now let's look at the analytics of this account so as you can

[00:30] see here I'll press professional dashboard total followers 57.5 th000 right now but what's interesting is the audience location so if I press countries over 50% is from the USA and as I scroll down further the

[00:47] majority of the audience is above 30 years old meaning the purchasing power of this audience is insane I'll be sharing my techniques for posting and how I think I've been able to achieve this towards the end of the video so

[01:02] make sure you stay and watch each step so that you can apply and get the same results setting up the account in the best way possible so there is stuff I do before I've even started posting and here is everything now the first thing

[01:16] is we need to come up with the name and create the account so what I would usually do is get my phone and go to create new account at that point I need to insert the name of my account and in this case I came up with cron now the

[01:31] reason I came up with cron is using chat gbt which I'm about to show you but I Storyteller 3694 as that's not brandable that's not going to be easy for me to put on a t-shirt for me to put on digital

[01:47] products I want to make money with this account so here is what I did on chat gbt to get an epic name you can do this to in any Niche so I'm going to share this full transcript in the description of this video of exact how I came up

[02:00] with cron after a few attempts and you'll see number nine right there it's super easy check the description and you'll be able to get it no matter the travel Niche you want to come with a travel name just follow these steps

[02:15] replace it with travel Etc and you'll be able to do that so once you have your name what you need to do is create the account you need to add a gmail which is aged which is at least 2 or 3 weeks old anything which is new is going to make

[02:30] your account get flagged as a bot and Instagram will shut down or ban your account or you won't get any views so we need to use an aged Gmail and now our account is essential and this is essentially when you help the algorithm

[02:47] and give it some guidance in terms of your audience but also it allows you to get a constant information about your Niche and here's how to do it once you have your account you want to go onto the search button and you will see the

[03:01] explore page what you want to type in is motivational storytelling do this on mobile because you'll get much better results rather than on desktop and what you want to do really is go to reals and in the real section you just want to go

[03:15] through content which is high performing and stands out and start liking and and stands out and start liking and saving that content also keep track of the best performing accounts that you come across put this in a spreadsheet

[03:27] but you want to do this basically three or four times a day for 10 minutes a time do about 105 accounts and that's literally the process for 2 3 days and you will set up your account in the best way possible and you can see here my

[03:42] actual explore page if I press my explore page is primed with everything in my Niche and shows me exactly the type of content or what my audience will be seeing so this is a perfect way to do it so my account was done warmed up

[03:56] properly so I was ready to start the next step remember remember whatever type of account you have you need to be following these steps if you want to achieve results like this there's no point skipping this going to this

[04:09] section because you think this because you think that literally I've done and tested this on so many different accounts and this is how I'm setting it up time and time again to get followers quickly so make sure you're watching and

[04:22] paying attention even if your account is already established you can warm up your explore page right now you can do changes you can Rebrand you can do everything I'm teaching you in this video do not sleep on this simple

[04:36] branding branding is essential for converting people to actual followers when they come on your page but something that i' done especially when I first started was over complicating this process spending too much time on this

[04:51] and really not being efficient the previous step of research should really help you with this step now for Branding I literally went onto canva and went on to Logo put a black background put in my

[05:04] name which is cron and then looked for a font which matches my Niche or my topic stories I wanted something classic and I found the szel font which was perfect I

[05:16] simply added a glow to it made it smaller and I was ready to go I didn't need to pay anyone or get anything I can do that later down the line something I want you to remember with your logo is always try to imagine if that logo could

[05:33] be on a t-shirt you might never actually put your logo on a t-shirt you never know your account might blow up and you might want to turn that into a brand so when creating your logo whether it's a name or an actual logo think about it

[05:46] name or an actual logo think about it can I see that logo on a T-shirt and then at the end of the day is the same thing as I said with the name the bio I literally did a combination of the high performing accounts and made it as

[05:58] simple as possible for this Niche Simplicity works amazingly when you create your account we are building a business that we want to run for a long time so it's better for us to start from a simple point so that we can make

[06:14] tweaks over time if we over complicate it at the start then we'll probably burn out so make sure that you simplify your process and often that Simplicity in the modern world works really well for converting people the next part is when

[06:29] where the magic starts happening I want you to join my 30day challenge by following the challenge document which will be in the description or pin comment on this video and applying this video and these steps to your account I

[06:43] truly believe that you are going to see a big difference let me know in the comments if you're going to join this challenge let's grow and move on to the next part content why do we play a guessing game time and time again when

[06:57] there is proven methods already that at work the beauty of this account and this process is that I've kept it super easy and beginner friendly the amount of and beginner friendly the amount of existing viral videos in any Niche

[07:10] whatever it is is absolutely gold dust and we are so often ignoring this I found four or five competitors which I done in my previous stage of warming up and I literally went through their pages and pick the outliers and here's exactly

[07:26] how I did that so let's say I'm on this page right here what I will do is press reals and from there I will literally scroll down as much as I can and start from there so basically what we're seeing is the odd one out so when you're

[07:42] looking through a page you should start seeing basically the rough average of how many views they get so for example as I scroll through this I can see that as I scroll through this I can see that their rough average is probably around a

[07:56] million so anything like these 16 million 23 million 19 Etc these are all outliers meaning that they've performed exceptionally well and I need to save these because these are the gold dusts that are going to help me grow my

[08:11] account so I'm going to go on this one and I'm going to literally press save and that's done and you want to do this for four to five different competitors for four to five different competitors and stack up a whole bunch of proven

[08:23] and stack up a whole bunch of proven viral videos in your Niche any Niche anytime one of the biggest mistakes that I see us do time and time again and I do this even on my personal one is we try to be experimental we try hard to be

[08:36] creative we try hard to think outside the box but this isn't the best strategy when we start an account it's better to experiment and to implement your own like ideas when you have an established audience so using this first batch of

[08:52] content which is already proven is going to allow me to get past 50,000 followers which is what is happening let's move over to the actual content creation over to the actual content creation process and how you use this data these

[09:06] process and how you use this data these videos that you've saved in the best way possible here is a guaranteed method to get you results when it comes to actually editing your rules and creating your content this is proven this is

[09:20] exactly what I do now the first thing you can see here is I have one of my big you know Inspirations big competitors in this Niche iron will now what you want

[09:32] to do is go to one of your competitors and literally press reals you as we're here we'll go through basically all of their reals and see you know what kind of is performing well and pick an outlier as it I explain in this video

[09:47] now as I go down and down I'll see you know a bunch of different videos and let's say I pick this one here with 1.2 bit more you know we can use all of them essentially but let's say I pick this

[10:02] one here with the lion what I'm going to do is I'm basically going to edit to this so I'm going to copy this link right here then I'm going to go over to

[10:14] you uh to Google and I'm going to type in Instagram real Downloader and here you've got a bunch of them you can try them all out or just pick one that works usually this one works pretty well and I will press paste and I will download

[10:29] this real now this is where the magic happens okay so I've downloaded the clip and I've put my video on the timeline and this will work on any any editing software so basically the key here a man

[10:44] software so basically the key here a man in his wife is you want to basically edit to this video so the first clip my man and his wife went to the man and his wife went to the zoo is around 2 seconds and it's a lion

[10:57] I'm going to literally do the same but mine will be original because I won't use the same exact Clips but I'll use a lion this is a proven video to have worked well it's got over 1.2 million views it's done really well the editing

[11:12] is great and why am I going to over complicate it when I'm starting a new to make sure that your videos are high quality that there's proof that your audience likes it and it's going to make sure that this really works well so now

[11:27] your line now for this we have two different options we can either go on somewhere like Pinterest and literally type in Lion HD find a lion which potentially would work well so for example this one could work well and

[11:42] what you want to do is press this press copy link go to pinest downloader and do the same thing so we will just download each clip one by one obviously this is in the storytelling Niche which is one of the longer videos

[11:56] minute long most most of you are going to be shorter kind of niches where the videos aren't as long so it will be easier for you to edit and it might be well it will be a lot quicker so I've

[12:09] downloaded my lion and I will essentially now add it to my clip for the first two seconds and honestly it's that simple and I'll just follow that recipe so for example let's say you are in the luxury Niche or you're a

[12:23] influence or you're a business all of that research we've done at the going to reconstruct all of those trending top performing videos and apply it to our own brand by recreating it and this is

[12:39] exactly how you do it having that inspiration right here and literally so now I've got my line I will put it here and as soon as that one

[12:57] and then the ne my next job is to find a monkey and just do that so you can see and obviously the beauty in this is that you can actually upgrade Clips so

[13:09] if you think that your line is better Etc you can make the videos even better what I would recommend is doing that for the whole clip then what you want to do is add your own unique filter which I'll speak about and then I will do the auto

[13:25] captions Etc and the video is basically ready to go and I can do this while I'm watching TV while I'm watching a show while I'm doing anything because I don't Powers I'm literally following the steps and it's kind of you know very useful

[13:38] there is nothing like over complicating your video creation you know at the start really on most accounts most topics we're still learning that market and through this process doing this for 1 month 2 months 3 months we're going to

[13:50] learn what works start building an audience and then we can experiment later down the line unique now one thing that I want us to remember but of course that I want us to remember but of course we are trying to build our own unique

[14:03] Brands okay and I know a lot of the steps in this video have been you know using established stuff you know copying High performing competitors Etc but here is how I make sure that my account is different to others and it's actually

[14:16] much simpler than you might think this is about using available tools to content and the content that is inspiring you or that you're using and here are the things that I recommend changing first thing is your filter so

[14:31] with your filters you can actually add a filter which is different to the current market so for example for cron I decided to add a black and white filter and you will see that you know we just kept that black and white filter made a few

[14:45] as I noticed that a lot of the competitors were adding color and this might be a way for us to be different another variation you can make is the font so for example I went for the font that most of these pages are using but

[14:59] you could easily pick a different font which makes you stand out from the font Choice as you don't want to pick a font which is completely different from that market finally you can have different clips so for example you can

[15:12] choose an outro clip or a certain clip choice at the end of your videos which makes your account you know unique I've seen this and this is a great way to kind of differentiate yourself the final one is overlays so you can see on a lot

[15:25] of videos people add fire overlays snowflake overlays which you can get on cap cut very easily and this could be another simple way to make your content different what I want you to do is only pick one of these what happens is if we

[15:40] start changing too many elements we won't know why something might be performing badly might be performing amazingly and it's important for us to make these variations one at a time and test it that way remember we're using

[15:53] the current market formula what we want to do is make small adjustments so that we know and can see what is working before we go into posting and how I was

[16:05] before we go into posting and how I was able to achieve over 50% us audience I want you to watch this video if you're interested in building a motivational storytelling video just save this video for after this video as this video is

[16:19] super super underrated and literally shows you everything from AI voices Etc but let's move over to my exact process posting times Etc if you want to Target a high value time zone and get results how I did then copy this method for me I

[16:35] was trying to Target the US market but I live in England so the time zones are completely different so what I did was open My Time Zone on Google and used a time zone converter so for example I wanted to attract the New York EST time

[16:51] zone but I'm in BST so I would just compare BST to EST and see what the difference is so what time is 900 p.m. in EST compared to me and from there I'll be able to analyze things now personally I think peak times are

[17:07] got the morning Rush Hour you've got lunchtime and then you have with the peak is Peak which is the evening but of course for some niches it might vary now I wanted to post around 6:00 700 p.m.

[17:21] EST and what I've noticed is posting 2 hours before the peak time actually works best so for example I would post around 4 500 p.m. EST which for me was around 4 500 p.m. EST which for me was around 8 900 p.m. BST and I would

[17:36] literally just do that every single day but remember there is no secret hack to getting a US audience if my content was in Spanish or it was in Japanese and it was about something completely different then it wouldn't have got that level of

[17:51] audience remember your content is the main factor which will attract a certain audience but if you also Al combine that with the right posting times and targeted steps then you can get good results so make sure use time converter

[18:07] and start targeting the peak times which you want to Target analyzing so as you can see on the account the first few posts actually didn't do that well it might appear now like they've got thousands of views but at the beginning

[18:21] they only had a few hundred the reason they've gone up is because the whole momentum of the page has contributed to that now as as you can see we actually experimented with a few different things so for example we tried some thumbnails

[18:34] we tried different black and white variations and then we came up with a formula which worked by adding a black and white filter which was more kind of vintage effect and we stuck with it and it's important as I mentioned in the

[18:48] previous part to make sure that you only make small tweaks and analyze and see how it's working but analyzing is super super important and something that is often underrated as we are focused on you know why it didn't perform well

[19:03] rather than how can we make the change to my next bit of content something that is so important for us to remember is that we are building something long term and if we make all the changes and everything in one day you know try to

[19:17] everything in one day you know try to max out our bank in one day then there's going to be nothing left for us to improve and it's super important for us to make sure we remember always this is a long-term game you know I've got time

[19:29] next week to make this change to try this video and that's the process here this video and that's the process here it's not complicated and it purely works every time the more I complicate it the worse my results the less I complicate

[19:42] it the better the results analyze the right way don't overanalyze this account is now almost 50,000 followers as I record this video

[19:54] phase which is beginning the monetization process and I wonder should I turn this account into a series what I mean by that is start to create videos where I show the full process of how I'm going to monetize this account and turn

[20:10] it into a fully fledged business so for example the next steps for me would be to begin this monetization process if you'd be interested in that I'd greatly appreciate if you let me know in the comment section if you want to upgrade

[20:23] your Instagram settings and get better performance then make sure you watch these videos my name is Alex and I'm all about growth let's grow

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