You can steal your closest competitors’ followers by engaging with them. There are several ways to engage with Instagram users, and predictably, the more work you put in, the more followers and return engagement you’ll get out of it.

The three types of engagement on Instagram are: Follow a user / Like a photo / Comment on a photo

I ran an test with my comments on to see how my competitors’ followers responded to my marketing advances. I targeted the followers of a close, local competitors. Since I know many of followers would be local, I specifically be fast and the first one to comment on a picture to create a greater sense of familiarity between Riccovero brand and the people I am targeting.

Here are the results of tactics I generally use: Follow: 14% followback / Follow + Like: 22% followback / Follow + Like + Comment: 34% followback

Again, the more you put in and engage with people, the more you’ll get out of it. If I would just posting pictures and do nothing RV Vestby would never had 800 followers till now.