Top 25 Tips to Engage Instagram Followers Highly

Instagram is a social networking app which is made for sharing photos and videos from a smartphone or tab. It is almost similar to Facebook or Twitter. Everyone who creates an Instagram account has a profile and a news feed. And then s/he can post a photo or a video on this profile. Now Instagram is so much popular in the western countries.

Today I'm giving you some tips to engage your Instagram followers highly.

1. Post Daily to Build Engagement
In order to get some true followers, there is no other way than posting on your profile in a regular basis. Try to post on your profile at least once in a day. The more you post, the more you get followers and their engagement.

2. Try to Know when Most Of Your Followers Are Active
It is very important in which time you are posting on your profile. Try to know when most of your followers are active. It is very important because if you post while no one is there, no one can see your post.

3. Communicate With Your Followers for More Engagement
It is important to regularly communicate with your followers for many reasons. By responding to their comments and mentions, you inspire them. It lets your followers see a personality behind your account.

4. Create Your Own Hashtags
Hashtags rule the Instagram world. Instead of just using popular hashtags in your posts, create your own hashtags for your brand. You will then be able to monitor how people use this hashtag. 

5. Try To Know What Types of Post Enjoyed by Your Followers
Find out that types of post which is most popular and liked by all. And then post similar types of posts on your profile to get more engagement.

6. Keep Up With Trending Hashtags
You can see that which hashtags are trending on Instagram. So that you can create some posts on these trending hashtags and post it to your account.

7. Integrate A Webpage Call To Action With Strategic Photos For Better Conversion Rates
If you are posting five or more times a day, then I suggest you to promote a webpage for every 20 non-promotional posts.  You can use short links to create custom URL’s that link directly to your a blog post or a landing page.

8. Keep Posting Interesting Video
You can post both photo and video on Instagram. So you should try to post some interesting and unique video on your account which is enjoyed by your followers. Your videos can be 3 to 15 seconds long. So that your followers can enjoy it so easily.

9. Make Fun Which Is Noticed By Your Followers
Social networking sites aren’t all about marketing, it’s also important to have some fun. Like and comments on other people photos and videos. Follow whom you like. Post some entertain things on your account. So that your followers notice your presence much more.

10. Save Time And Energy By Using Posts From Other Sources
You can save your valuable time and energy by using some post from other sources. You can do it easily on Instagram. Identify the tags related to your target audience and start browsing for images. Take screenshots of every post that you find. Be sure to give a mention to the person who originally posted the image in your caption.

11. Arrange A Contest To Boost Followers
On social media sites like Instagram, contests are wildly popular by the followers. The way that these are typically done is by instructing your followers to post a certain photo and tag you in it to enter. This will then cause a chain reaction of people following you and posting the photo, which is a powerful form of promotion.

12. Connect Your Other Social Media Accounts With Instagram
You can connect your other social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc. with Instagram. So those people who follow you on these social media sites can come to know about your Instagram account.

13. Find Out What Posts Are Doing The Best And Why
It is so much important to keep a watchful eye on all of your posts. Review how well they are doing, how many likes and comments they receive, and then determine why. Once you figure out what works best, implement it into the rest of your postings.

14. Adapt Instagram Exclusives To Provide Incentives
Sometimes you can offer up some great deals that are only available to your Instagram followers. This will have multiple affects for both your account and your business. It can drive business and purchases, as well as give people a great incentive to follow you.

15. Team Up With Other Users For Shout Outs
Shout outs are a great way to build a relationship with another business or person, while simultaneously promoting your own. This works by posting a promotion for the other person to your followers, while the other person does the same for you.

16. Engage Your Followers By Spotlighting Their Participation
You can appreciate your followers and customers by regularly showcasing them on your profile. Sometimes you can share some pictures of people with your products, or people that have submitted their own reviews of your business. This type of post encourage your followers to follow you more and more.

17. Only Promote Your Most Valuable Content in Your Posts
Poor quality content always harmful to your account and also for your webpage. It can be burn your followers activity and engagement. So always try to promote your most valuable and best quality content in your posts.

18. Use Interesting Emojis To Catch Attention
Emojis are those cute little pictures of smiley faces with hearts for eyes, food, animals, and many other things. Now a days people love these emojis, especially when it comes to social media sites. Emojis help to draw attention to your posts and engage your followers even more.

19. Use Seven Hashtags Per Post To Get Optimal Engagement
Hashtags are so much helpful on social media sites like Instagram. A research shows that the post which has seven hashtags can generate the most engagement. So try to use seven hashtags on your posts. Make sure you only include tags that are relevant to the content you are posting and your brand.

20. Use Interesting Captions To Increase Engagement
You can use some interesting captions on your posts which helps to increase the engagement of your posts. The captions can be “what do you think about this…?”, or you can request your followers to tag their friends who may like the post as well.

21. Use An Appealing Profile Picture to Increase Engagement
The first thing people see is your profile photo. This also appears next to each and every post that you publish. So an appealing profile picture can increase the engagement of your profile.

22. Monitor Location Tags
On Instagram you can add a location on each of your posts. It can help you to make more followers and more engagement of your posts.

23. Create a Bio
Instagram allows one linked url under the bio, and you want to make it count. Whatever url you use, make sure it has an email option with a strong lead magnet.

24. Identify the Most Popular Hashtags Relevant Your Niche
Hashtags are one of the easiest ways to get your target audience to see your posts. Power users will often browse through hundreds of posts within specific hashtags. Implemented correctly, this technique can make the life of a post last up to four months. So Identify the Most Popular Hashtags Within Your Niche.

25. Use the Crowdfire App
Crowdfire is the app that pros use to handle the engagement of their Instagram accounts. It allows you to many things, but the clear winner is a tool that allows you to follow the most engaged users of other accounts. You can Use the Crowdfire App to Follow the Most Engaged Users of Your Competition.

Those are the top 25 Tips to engage Instagram Followers highly. If you can follow the tips properly, you will be succeed to engage Instagram Followers highly.

How to make CHICKEN BIRYANI

Biryani is a rice-based meal that consists of layering cooked rice and meat in a casserole, before baking it in the oven. Originating in Persia and popular in Bangladesh, India and the Middle East, Biryani can be made with chicken, seafood or meat, and can also be made as a vegetarian casserole.

Chicken Biryani is generally made of basmati rice, chicken and flavored with cloves, cinnamon, cardamon, bay leaf, coriander, mint, ginger, garlic and onions etc. It is a tasty and delicious dish in Bangladesh and Indian sub-continent. It is by far the most popular Bangladeshi rice recipe around the globe.

Ingredients for Chicken Biryani

• 7-8 Onions (very thinly sliced and deep fried until light brown)
• 10-15 Cashews (fried in a little deshi ghee/clarified butter)
• 1 Kg Chicken on the bone cut into 12 pieces
• 1 cup yogurt
• 2 Tsp Garlic paste
• Salt to taste
• 500 gm Basmati Rice (washed and soaked in salted water for at least half an hour)
• 3-4 Tbsp oil
• Oil for frying the onions
• 6-7 cloves
• 2 (1 inch) Cinnamon
• 4 green Cardamoms
• 3 Bay leaves
• 1/4 Tsp Caraway seeds (shahi jeera/black cumin seeds)
• 4 large Tomatoes (chopped finely)
• 1/4 Tsp of mace powder
• 1/4 Tsp of grated Nutmeg
• 1 Tsp Coriander powder
• 1 Tsp red Chili powder (to taste)
• 1/2 Tsp Turmeric powder
• 2-3 green Chilies (to taste, chopped)
• 1 Tbsp Ginger (chopped)
• 1 Tbsp Garlic (chopped)
• 6-7 dried, pitted prunes
• 1/2 cup of milk
• a few strands of Saffron (kesar)
• 3-4 Tbsp Desi ghee (clarified butter)
• 2 cups of fresh green Coriander (chopped)

How to make

Step 1

Marinate the chicken pieces in 1 cup yogurt, 2 Tsp garlic paste and little salt, for a good 8 hours.

Step 2

Making Barista (fried onions) for chicken biryani.

Slice the onions very thinly (almost paper thin) using a sharp knife. Heat oil in a pan or kadai.
Separate the sliced onions using your finger. Put the onions in the oil and reduce the heat to medium-low.

Keep stirring the onions, so that they get evenly browned. The trick is to evenly and slowly brown the onions. If the flame is very high the onions will burn on the outside and remain watery on the inside.

Once a uniform color is obtained, drain on thick layer of kitchen paper, so that maximum oil is soaked. Keep these aside.
As they cool down, the onions will become crispy.

Step 3

Boil the rice. For this take a Big vessel (deep and wide), put lots of water in it, tip in the soaked rice along with 1 stick cinnamon, 3-4 cloves, 2 green cardamom, 1/4 tsp of Shahi jeera (caraway seeds) and more salt.

Remember that you should boil the rice in lots of water and salt (pretty much like a pasta). The rice should absorb the salt otherwise the biryani will be tasteless. Boil on a high flame and let the it boil vigorously on high flame for about 5-7 minutes.

You have to par cook the rice (meaning 3/4 cooked and rest will get cooked later). Do not over boil the rice. To check if the rice is done you can take a grain of rice out and press in between your thumb and forefinger. If the grain breaks into 3 parts, it means your rice is cooked just right. Now strain the rice and spread it out on a flat tray or surface, so that it cools faster.

Step 4

Now heat oil in a deep pan, add the remaining bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon and green cardamoms. When they crackle, add the ginger, garlic and chilies. Saute for a minute and add the marinated chicken, along with the marinade. Cook on a medium heat till all the water dries up (water from the chicken and yogurt).

Add the tomatoes, 1/3 of the fried onions, all the powdered spices, salt and cook till all the water from the tomatoes dries up. If the chicken is cooking too quickly then either cook on a high flame to fasten the evaporation or remove the chicken pieces aside.

The chicken should be just cooked and dry (because it will get
cooked further in the final step and if any water is left in it the rice will become soggy).

Once done, sneak a taste, adjust the seasoning. Mix in the dried prunes.

Step 5

Make saffron milk

In 1/2 cup of warm milk crush a pinch of saffron strands and put some whole strands. Wait till it turns yellow. Keep on one side.

Step 6

Assembling the chicken biryani

Use a deep heavy bottom pan with a lid.

First spread some deshi ghee at the bottom of the pan.
Second a layer of rice, followed by a layer of chicken. Now sprinkle a generous handful of chopped coriander and fried onions.

Repeat the layers with rice being the top most layer. Sprinkle the leftover onions and all the cashews.

Pour the milk and saffron on the top using a spoon, evenly covering the whole area.

Once all layers are set, take melted deshi ghee and with a spoon pour it around the rim of the vessel and a little on the rice.
Close the lid and seal.

There are 2 ways to seal the lid in order to prevent the steam from escaping.

1) Take a large foil, cover the pot/vessel with it and place the lid on top.

2) Take some dough made from whole wheat flour. Roll it into a thin strip and stick it going around the rim of the pan half on the lid and half on the pan in order to seal the whole pan.

Keep this pot on a very low heat for 45 minutes. Place this pan on top of a cast iron tawa (on which chapatis are made) or another heavy bottom pan in order to prevent the bottom layer of rice from getting burnt.

After 45 minutes turn off the heat. Let it stand for 5 minutes and open.

Enjoy the delicious Chicken Biryani!!!

Note:- Please don't eat the bay leaves and the other whole spices. They are used to add flavor. You can remove them to one side.