What is everyone’s perspective on buying social followers? Working with an early start startup that is seeing slower social growth than they’d like. Would still primarily focus on organic growth/content strategy but curious to hear thoughts on buying followers to get the ball rolling on momentum and have a better vanity metric for investor/partner discussions? Currently just under 50k on Instagram and looking to get to 75k+ this year.

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Can you actually buy followers? I've never heard of this. From a business perspective it would be great but personally I am not in favor of someone being able to sell my follower-ship

Ohhh well that wouldn't make sense then ..scare investors away

The only reasons to buy followers is if you have useless business metrics based on count, you want an artificially high count showing on your profile, or you want a bit army for astroturf marketing.

Any “bought” followers are either hacked accounts or bots. There’s no real lift from using them, and if real customers catch on it just hurts your reputation.

Any good investor is going to know this and factor it into their decision, so don’t expect to fool anyone there.

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