You clicked on this because you don't have very much time to spend on growing your Instagram,

but you know that you need to grow your Instagram in order to grow your business.

Well, I am going to give you the five things that you need to be doing in 2026 to grow your

Instagram in less than 10 minutes per day. And let's get right into it because the first thing that you need to be doing is actually a setting that you need to turn on just once.

It's not something that you're going to have to do every single day, but this setting is going to make a huge difference to growing your following and engaging your followers.

Both of these settings are available through many chat and they are number one the follow to DM.

This is a brand new feature that was just launched at the end of 2025 that allows you to instantly and automatically send a message to anyone the moment they follow you.

So once you turn this on, if someone new visits your profile and they click that follow button, they will get a message from you right in that very moment.

Now, as you can imagine, this can become very spammy and very overwhelming and very off-putting for new followers.

So I do not recommend using this feature as a way to sell or get people on your email list or even as a way to get them a free download. I know it's free.

I know it's super valuable, but they just followed you. So to use a dating analogy, don't propose

on the first date. Take your time a little bit. Instead, use this feature as a way to welcome them and

just say, hi, thank you so much for being here. Hi, I appreciate you following me. Hey, I appreciate you becoming a follower means a lot.

Something super simple and super kind like that is all you need to do.

But this is a great way to familiarize your new followers with, number one, getting direct messages from you.

Because you hope that in the future they're going to be direct messaging you, you're going be direct messaging them it's just a great way to kind of break the ice speaking of you could say hi

thank you so much for following me and you could say if you want more info on blank you could check

out this post i do think it's okay if you want to link them to one of your posts or maybe tell them to

check out the pinned post on your profile. But again, I would not try to sell anything. I wouldn't

send them to any links. But the second thing that this feature does is it engages the new followers

so that they are more likely to see your future posts. The second setting that you need to turn on

is also a feature within ManyChat, and it has

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