If you’ve been following current marketing trends, you know that 2019 is shaping up to be the Year of Instagram. There’s never been a better time to use this image-based social media platform to build your brand. To target your audience in such a competitive environment, you need the right tools and techniques to produce quality content, attract followers, and convert them into lifelong customers.
Socialrocketer compiled a list of the 20 best Instagram tools. Here are 10 more.

1. SocialSteeze.
   If your goal is to gain real followers for Instagram, SocialSteeze is one of the best services available. It uses targeted hashtags to reach users who are interested in what you have to offer. You can also choose to target specific locations, from a single city to an entire state, province, or country. Once you sign up and connect with your growth expert, the service is completely hands-free.
2. Magic Social.
   With this Instagram service, you can increase your exposure by using smart filters that target hashtags, locations, or usernames. Because the targeting is automated, you can devote your time to other things. Simply register and customize the settings to match your marketing strategy, and Magic Social will engage with your audience on your behalf. While you will likely see results within hours, growth experts will provide detailed performance reports upon request.

3. Ingramer.
   With its cutting-edge automation technology, Ingramer delivers fast and efficient likes, follows, and unfollows. The service also provides a hashtag generator and account analytics. Unlike most bots, the service’s smart algorithm knows how to mimic the interactions of a real person and recognize which followers are fake and which have the potential to become customers.
4. LikeSocial.
   Many Instagram automation tools provide likes and followers, but this service goes the extra mile to ensure your followers are posting high-quality engagement on both your photo and video uploads. like social also distributes likes and followers throughout the month to mimic a natural engagement flow. You can purchase plans from 100 to 2000 views, 100 to 10,000  followers, and 50 to 2000 likes.
5. Agorapulse.
   This multifaceted scheduling tool allows you to draft, edit, and post content to multiple social media accounts and view all incoming comments and messages without clogging your inbox
   with push notifications. Collaborate with team members in real time and export ROI data to PowerPoint. If you’re looking for deeper insights into your audience, engagement rates, hashtag performance or overall brand awareness, Agorapulse’s unlimited report generation is a gold mine.
6. Later.
   Later is one of the few scheduling tools with a visual content calendar. The intuitive, image-based platform is perfect for creating a consistent brand aesthetic. Drag and drop photos and preview your feed before posting. Sync the app with your phone, desktop, Dropbox, or Google Drive to create multiple content libraries.
   The free version supports one Instagram account and 30 monthly posts, while annual memberships ranging from $16 to $41 per month provide a complete package of services for growing businesses. The Auto-Publish feature is available to all Instagram business profiles. Because Later is an Instagram partner, it uses the Instagram Graph API to keep your account
   secure.
7. Visual Marketing Index.
   This unique analytics tool uses six different metrics and regression-based modelling to generate an overall Instagram performance score. The Visual Marketing Index gives you a more nuanced understanding of how your brand is performing compared to all other brands, regardless of size. Within 24 hours of registering, you’ll receive a free, easy-to-read report detailing your account’s engagement rate, top-performing content, and the reach of your brand hashtags.
8. Have2Have.It.
   Making your products easy to find and purchase is the key to boosting your conversion rate. Because Instagram doesn’t allow links in individual posts, you need a different approach to making your online merchandise discoverable. By linking to Have2Have.It in your profile, you create a curated, shoppable gallery with the same look and feel as your main Instagram feed. Tag the objects in your posts, and your followers can access your e-commerce site by tapping
   on any image.
9. Boomerang.
   Instagram Stories are growing in popularity, and this app makes creating them easy and fun. Available within the Instagram platform, Boomerang captures a series of 10 photos and stitches them together into a mini video. For each frame you snap, you can add drawings and text in a variety of colours and edit the sound. The animated GIF plays on a loop, smoothing out any bumps in the footage.
10. Shortstack.
    To build your following, you need to give your followers an incentive for engagement. Shortstack is a platform for creating interactive contests and giveaways. With a few simple steps, you can create a campaign to embed in your account or website and customize your email marketing to keep in touch with participants and generate leads. You can also track user activity after the
    the contest is over to improve future marketing.

Which Instagram tools are you using to build your following? Let us know in the comments.

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