Welcome to the Influencer Podcast. I'm your host, Julie Solomon. If you found

yourself here, it means you are ready to unleash the powerful visionary that

lives inside you, turning you into an authentic leader who creates influence,

impact, and change. Let's get started.

Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of the Influencer Podcast. I am

excited to be here with you today as we dive into something that I know we all

love to hate, hate to love, want to figure out, and that is growth on Instagram. How

to grow on Instagram and hopefully, how to do it quickly and easily. Now,

obviously the name of the influencer and Instagram game has changed a lot

over the years. We've all had to pivot, test, tweak, do all the things, but

there's one thing that has stayed a constant with a lot of what I teach in my

pitch methods and in my branding methods. And that's what I want to dive in with

you today. It's really about this one thing that you can do to start showing up,

making money, really attracting your ideal follower, engaging with them more, and

starting to attract the brands and the companies that you want to work with.

And so that is what we're going to be covering today. So what is that thing? Well,

I want you to imagine for a moment that you work for a well-known lifestyle brand,

and you're looking for an amazing content creator, entrepreneur, coach to help spread the word

about your company, about your products and services. And you plan to pay this person

for a collaboration, for a partnership. And if things go well, you want to continue that

relationship. So as you scroll through Instagram looking for that special someone,

what ends up happening is that minutes turn into hours, hours turn into days, and you still

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