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• Leads and customers on YouTube
• LinkedIn Messages strategy
• Commerce in the metaverse

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Want to know how to get your first 1k Instagram followers? Wondering what to post to attract an ideal target audience?

You may have heard that audience size is a vanity metric for marketers or that follower numbers don’t really matter on social media. Although it’s true that these numbers shouldn’t be the end goal, here are three reasons it's an important metric to measure.

Having more people follow you typically means more engagement. That generally leads to better reach, which can help grow your account even more.

A larger audience means better brand awareness and more customers in your sales funnel, which can lead to meeting revenue and other key goals.

A bigger following can serve as social proof to customers and help to land collaborations with other brands.

To discover a step-by-step strategy to speed up your Instagram audience growth without paying for followers, read the full article.

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• 3 Ways to Improve Paid Acquisition on YouTube
• How to Use LinkedIn Messages for More Qualified Leads and Sales
• Business in the Metaverse: The Future of Commerce