How to grow a new Instagram account with USA followers, fast, and from scratch.
No matter the business you're running, Instagram can bring cheap and high quality traffic. But starting a new account can be confusing. Here's the sauce.
You’re starting a new Instagram account and you keep posting but it’s not growing.
And perhaps, you live overseas, but you want USA followers (the most profitable ones).
It’s already been a couple of weeks of posting every day, and your views stay under 5 on average (occasionally 10, often 0) and you have had 7 followers for a while.
“What do I do?!”
“Is my content just bad?”
“I just wanna get rich!!!”
Sounds familiar?
Look, your content is not bad.
(Let’s assume you’re doing this with good content).
It’s just that you have no followers.
So Instagram is having a hard time knowing where to show your reels.
At this stage, the algorithm needs a bit of help.
You need to use some tactics to get your first 500-1000 USA followers ASAP.
In this article I’ll show you:
a) Methods that people think that work but actually don’t.
b) What people will tell you to do in group chats but you probably can’t do yet.
c) What you can actually do, whether you have 0 money or some $$ to spend.
Let’s dive in.
A) First, a couple of things that ARE NOT needed or DO NOT work:
Using USA VPN or Mobile Proxy + US sim card.
Unlike TikTok, Instagram doesn’t care about your perceived location.
If your content is appealing to a US audience, it will show it to them.
Nobody really knows how the IG algorithm works, but we know a couple of things that matter in order to go viral and grow, and where:Where your current followers are from.
If non-followers are engaging with your content.
But right now you don’t have followers, so proxies or VPNs don’t help with this.
Buying aged accounts created in USA.
It’s extremely hard to find sellers of good quality accounts. Half of the times, you’ll see the accounts getting suspended right when you log in to them. Another % of times they’ll get suspended after a few days, even if you didn’t do anything wrong. Some of them might survive for a long time, but this is not really efficient.Additionally, the fact that they are aged and created in USA, won’t help you getting USA views and followers, you still need a way of putting your content in front of people.
Buying fake followers.
Just don’t do this lol. It won’t help at all, and it will crush your chances of growing.
B) Next, a couple of things that you might hear (and which work really well) but that many readers can’t do just yet.
Leveraging existing Instagram accounts that you own (or your grown accounts in other social media platforms), to do shoutouts to the new one. Of course not every reader has this earned advantage, so I won’t cover this one here. But the logic is simple.
Other platforms like TikTok are known for being faster to grow from 0 than Instagram. So the idea is to start on TikTok, and funnel followers from there to Instagram. This can work well but you need really good content, you need to understand the TikTok trends, and if you’re not in US, you need a proper technical setup to reach USA (and a random USA VPN or proxy will hurt your account).
Depending on the industry, you can leverage Dating Apps (like Bumble) with US-located accounts to grow a female IG profile. But this is an extremely technical blackhat method and in 2025 not many SMMA/Affiliate/OFM agencies are able to pull this off. So I won’t cover that here either.
C) Finally, here are the methods that anybody can do.
Buying IG ads on Telegram group chats.
Running IG ads (inside of Instagram, with the ad tools).
Running Mother/Slave method.
Multiaccounting and waiting (if you have more patience than money).
Let’s have a look at these.
BUYING IG ADS ON TELEGRAM GROUP CHATS
Welcome to the wonderful world of Telegram, where anons with emoji profile pictures, online money bazillionaires, fake gurus with rented Lamborghini pictures, and larpers with cigar lounge stories (I’m guilty of this one) are trading thousands of dollars for products and services of dubious legitimacy and efficacy.
Prepare crypto, and ideally USDT on TRC20 chain, because that’s the main currency of the underworld.
Watch out, you can get easily scammed on Telegram.
But once you develop some “Telegram street smarts”, it works well to find what you need.
There are 2 group chats in which you can find people with big Instagram accounts, selling shoutouts in them:
Well, technically you can’t find sellers in them, only buyers.
But as soon as you post a request, sellers will flock to your DMs.
There are multiple services such as Buying SFS, Guaranteed Growth, or simply buying Ads.
Personally, I just buy ads, which is to pay a page for them to post your reel, mentioning your page in the caption.
You can go to the groups above and post something like this:
Buying ads on Theme Pages💰
- Top US 🇺🇸 35%+
- Any niche with high male %
- [Write any niches you want to avoid here]
DM me insights video @yourtelegramusername
Adapt that to your needs.
Check the groups to see what people are buying, for more inspiration.
After you post, you will get your DMs flooded with offers.
Make sure the sellers send you videos with insights of the pages in which they will post.
They need to show these:
The % of audience they have in USA
The % of males and females
The reach they had in the last 30 days
The insights have to be provided via a VIDEO that shows the statistics, like this:
Don’t buy from the first anon with a Lambo PFP that hits your DMs. Check a few sellers and their page insights. Once you see a bunch of different ones, you will learn to discern which pages are good.
But as a rule of thumb, you want to work with pages that have more than 35% of USA audience.
A reasonable price would be $50 for an ad at a page with 100k followers.
Do the math if the page is smaller or bigger.
And with 3-4 shoutouts from such pages, you can get the first 500 followers on your new account.
Of course, this will depend on how compelling your page is and how good your content is.
Once you find a good page to buy from… for the love of god: USE A MIDDLEMAN.
The MM is a telegram dude who acts as an escrow.
So once you’ve found a seller that you like, before buying anything, find and outreach to one of the available MM’s.
He will create a group chat in which you will invite the seller.
After you state the deal terms, you will send the money to the address that the MM provides.
Once the seller has fulfilled the service, and you confirm with the MM, the MM releases the money to the seller address.
Simple.
Here’s an example of the start of such group chat with the MM and the seller (ignore the amount, you don’t need to spend that much to get started):
Here’s one that I regularly use (I’m in no way affiliated with him, but he’s legit and has tons of good reviews):
But there are more, and you can pick whoever you like.
Be careful though, because THERE ARE MANY SCAMMERS IMPERSONATING POPULAR MIDDLEMEN.
Just do your own research and don’t blame me if you get scammed.
RUNNING IG ADS (INSIDE OF IG AD TOOLS)
You can run Instagram ads inside the instagram account that you want to grow.
But don’t do this on your phone, because then Appstore will charge a pretty harsh service fee.
Instead, login on browser to the Instagram account, and use the ad tools.
For audience targeting, simply select USA, and age 18+.
Don’t bother with interest targeting or anything else.
These days, the ads algorithm is pretty smart and will put your content in front of the right people quickly.
With $100-200 you can seed your IG account with the first 500-1000 followers.
Spread your budget across a few days.
Also, spread it across a few creatives, analyze which one is performing best, and stop the others.
Note: if you are managing multiple accounts, use an antidetect browser (like Gologin or Dolphin Anty), and a good proxy, to hide your fingerprints and avoid a chain of suspensions if you make a mistake.
Running IG ads is very simple, I won’t expand the explanation any further so this guide doesn’t become unnecessarily long. If you have any more questions about tactic, hit my DMs at https://t.me/heartbreaker.
RUNNING MOTHER/SLAVE
First, what is Mother/Slave?
It’s a greyhat method that can be summarized as follows:
Basically, you have a bunch of accounts engaging automatically with target users, and then in the bio of those accounts, you have a call to action with the username of a main account, or a link to somewhere, etc.
So you could have 100 accounts engaging with users who follow similar accounts than yours, and attracting those users to the account you are trying to grow, by writing the username in the bio.
If this sounds highly technical, is because it is.
However, you don’t need to figure out everything from scratch:
there are services for this.
I would avoid Fanzella or any other API-based M/S services, there are very bad for the trust score of your accounts, and you will face many headaches + you’ll have to replace your slave accounts constantly.
Onimator is a good service, they use real devices.
I was using it for a few months.
Eventually, I built my own program to be able to scale harder, faster, and cheaper.
I’m currently only using it within my agency to grow my clients, but we will be opening access to the platform on a subscription basis.
If you’re curious, here you can see the benefits and differences vs the other services: http://swarm.ac
For the M/S method to work well, you need to make sure that you feed good targets to your M/S operation, so you end up with a good % of USA followers in the account you’re seeding.
For this, you have to scrape users from pages within your niche that are in USA, ideally under 100k followers (because their audiences tend to be better quality than the big “influencer” ones), and then run some filtering tasks, to remove users with bios, names, or characters of undesired countries.
For performing the scraping tasks, https://parser.im is the best tool.
Once you’re done seeding your account with the M/S method, you can:
change the bio of the slaves and send their traffic to your main product page, or
keep sending that traffic to the newly seeded account, so when you post reels in it, they get extra eyeballs and views, which can further push the algorithm.
MULTIACCOUNTING
The previous methods can seed your Instagram account with 500-1000 followers within 1-4 days.
The Multiaccounting method can take weeks, and honestly, none of your accounts might ever take off. But you can try if you have 1-2 phones and absolutely no money.
The idea is to “buy multiple lottery tickets”, by creating many instagram accounts, and posting 1 time per day in all of them until one or some of them pops.
Create maximum 5-7 accounts on each phone.
Ideally, each phone should be using a different internet connection, to avoid your IP getting flagged as spam, and therefore your accounts getting rate limited or suspended.
Note: you need unique content on all your pages, or you won’t grow.
The mechanics are simple: just post every day in every account til infinity.
After a few weeks, you might see some accounts popping off.
CONCLUSION
You just learned a few methods to reach your first 500-1000 followers with a high USA%.
This is enough to send an initial signal to Instagram that your content is engaging for such users, so it can show your next posts to more of them that aren’t following you yet.
Beyond that, if your content is good, you will keep growing organically within USA, eventually experiencing hypergrowth whenever you hit a home run with a viral reel.
Of course, this will depend on how good you are as a content creator / marketer / brand, and your posting consistency.
Now go click some buttons.
xoxo
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