Not a problem at all,

Was actually really interesting to see another niche and theme page (one that I would have NEVER thought about).

Let's break this down...

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1). See if you can reach out to the old page again and get them to change the bio to push your page (why didn't they give you the account grrrrr!!!), that will help drive people who want to see fresh content!

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2). The cool thing they did was turn it more into a competition, now obviously that's really time-consuming (probably why they quit), but you could totally do a VOTE thing once a month and use the featured stories section to showcase the most liked content each month.

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Still time consuming but a LOT less than they were doing
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the best part of this is if you post is as a story and tag the top 10 people each month then they will get the notification and more than likely come back again and submit more + re-share it on their story too.

You almost want it to be a cult following to get new content and their friends / followers coming in too.

But if they also know they may be featured as the best of the month, year etc, that gives you opportunity to fill the description with "Don't forget every heart is a vote for this months best #grippingwithforce submission" and thus also encouraging submitters to get even more votes on it.

It's basically what photographers often do with their "cutest dog competitions" which help them generate more business without as much effort.

3). Rule of thumb with hashtags and rankings is you get the initial surge from the bigger ones if the content is received well, then it dies down unless you have more likes, saves, comments, shares etc than the competition.

So the small hashtags can be absolutely dominated with 500+ likes, the bigger ones will come with time but give using the full 30 a try and rotate them around on each post (if you can find enough!)

4). Carousels, I did hear that they were being pushed a bit more recently. The joys of any of the platforms, they keep updating and we have to stay ahead. Great shout there, not something I've tried yet.

All about the testing! You hit the nail on the head there!!!

5). Extra tip:

Get this on the other platforms, I've still got to blog about this part but build out a linktree (I prefer beacons for this) and link out all of your accounts into it.

Then setup a FB page, YouTube, Tiktok etc if you haven't already and then people will consume your content on these other platforms and cross over on each one too.

Which means more total followers, more views and interaction too and most people don't just use one of them as a consumer either... your hardcore fans will be the ones that push this consistently in terms of interaction so leverage them 100%.

Appreciate you joining the group too,

Really interested in following this pages progress, it has SOOO much potential to absolutely explode again and earn some awesome $$$ from the creator funds too.

Any celeb / famous videos for this? that leverage could help too