Instagram is one of the fastest growing social networks and it doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon. Check it out and start crushing Instagram!

Influencer marketing is here to stay. It’s a growing phenomenon and many brands leverage it as much as possible to gain the maximum benefits. However, when it comes to selecting the most suitable social media platform for their campaigns, brands can easily get confused. In general, social platforms like Instagram and YouTube are the most effective channels for influencer marketing.

The date was December 11, 2015. The event: a challenge. "I want you to pick a platform we’re not on yet and grow it rapidly. Set a traffic goal and make a plan." Challenge accepted. And guess what? We took SumoMe’s Instagram following of under 1,000 in February to 88,000 in just six months. More impressively, we took our Instagram following to 50,000 in under 3 months. Since then, we've seen massive traffic to our site from Instagram (with many of those people buying our products). And now, we're revealing the exact way we did it. Everything is on the table: our marketing plans, the tools we used, our SOPs...all of it. So we're not just going to show you how we did it. We're giving you the tools to do it for yourself, too. There isn't another Instagram guide like this on the internet. Consider this the definitive guide for cracking the Instagram code. Ideas you can try from this article: