These NEW Instagram Strategies Will Make You Grow in 2025 | heyDominik
Video Summary and GPT Prompt (save 15+ minutes)
If you’ve been pouring your heart into your business but feel like your Instagram content isn’t quite landing or reaching the right people, this is for you.
This video teaches how to align your content strategy with what the algorithm actually favors, so you can grow your reach without sacrificing authenticity. When you know what works (and why), Instagram becomes less of a guessing game and more of a tool for real connection, visibility, and ease in your marketing.
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✨ Why This Matters:
Instagram isn’t just a place for pretty pictures. It’s a space where authentic connection meets visibility. For heart-led solopreneurs, it offers a powerful opportunity to share your message, build trust with aligned clients, and grow your business in a way that feels true to your values.
Starting your digital marketing journey can feel overwhelming, but when you understand how Instagram works and create content with intention, it becomes a tool for meaningful engagement - not just metrics. You’re not here to chase followers; you’re here to make an impact.
By learning how to work with the algorithm (instead of fighting it) and showing up consistently with content that reflects your purpose, you create space for the right people to find you. And when they do? That connection can turn into real conversations, loyal clients, and sustainable business growth; on your terms.
🤓 What It Teaches:
1. Strategic Market Research: Just as Netflix analyzes what content performs best, entrepreneurs should study successful Instagram accounts in their niche. This includes understanding their content themes, hooks, video lengths, and posting times.
2. Understanding the Algorithm: Instagram's algorithm ranks similar creators and their content against each other. Emulating content that is already performing well can increase your visibility.
3. Importance of Comments: Comments significantly drive reach on Instagram. Encouraging comments on your posts can increase your views and reach.
4. Utilizing Tools like ManyChat: This tool allows you to add triggers and automations to your content, encouraging users to comment specific words and boosting engagement.
5. Creating Breakout Content: Content that significantly outperforms your usual posts can push your account into a higher algorithm tier, leading to increased reach and visibility.
6. Creating a Signature Series: Identify a major pain point or need of your audience and create a mini-series around it. Each part should stand alone but also form part of a larger narrative, encouraging viewers to return for subsequent parts.
7. Incorporating Hooks: Hooks are the initial part of your content that grabs the viewer's attention. Study top-performing content and borrow frameworks from them to create effective hooks.
🌈 Apply It:
Copy & paste this prompt into ChatGPT to bring this video’s wisdom into your business.
You are my compassionate, strategic digital marketing guide. I’m a heart-led solopreneur with a service-based healing business. I want to grow on Instagram, but I’m short on time and money, don’t have a background in marketing, and feel afraid to be seen.
I just watched a video that suggested a powerful 9-step growth method. I want your help putting it into action slowly and clearly in a way that’s aligned with my values and my audience.
Please walk me through each step one at a time, asking me for information, examples, and clarifying questions before moving on. Use simple language and assume I’m starting from scratch. Reflect my voice and mission back to me in your suggestions.
Here are the steps I want to follow:
🔎 Step 1: Analyze other Instagram accounts in my niche
• Ask me what niche or healing service I offer.
• Then guide me through how to find 3–5 aligned accounts.
• Ask me to share links or screenshots.
• Help me look for patterns in their content (tone, format, frequency, visuals, captions).
• Summarize what works well and how I might adapt it.
🎯 Step 2: Identify what makes their top posts perform
• Walk me through how to spot top-performing content (likes, comments, shares).
• Ask: What do their headlines/hooks say? Are they using carousels or reels?
• Help me write down 3–5 things I want to try myself.
💬 Step 3: Encourage comments and interaction
• Suggest ways I could gently ask for comments (based on my voice—supportive, heart-led, not pushy).
• Give me 3 example CTAs that feel natural.
• Help me pick 1 to test in a new post.
🤖 Step 4: Use automation (like ManyChat) to boost comments
• Briefly explain what ManyChat is and how it works with Instagram DMs.
• Ask if I’m open to trying it, and what I’d want it to say to people who comment.
• Offer a done-for-you script based on one of my offers or content ideas.
📈 Step 5: Create a “breakthrough” post
• Explain what a “performance ceiling” is in simple terms.
• Ask me: What’s something bold, new, or edgy I’ve been afraid to share?
• Help me craft a safe, yet powerful version of that message to post.
🧠 Step 6: Build a mini-series on audience problems
• Help me name 1–2 problems or questions I hear most often from my audience.
• Suggest a 3-post or 5-post “mini-series” structure.
• Offer me titles or hooks for each post.
• Ask if I want help batching or scheduling them.
🧲 Step 7: Study and adapt great hook patterns
• Teach me what a hook is in plain language.
• Share 3–5 examples from real posts.
• Ask me to draft a few based on my offers or values.
• Give gentle edits or suggestions to improve them.
🧪 Step 8: Use GPT tools to analyze and improve hooks
• Walk me through how to use the Hook Analyzer GPT.
• Ask if I want you to review a few hooks I wrote.
• Offer simple scores, feedback, and ideas to make them stronger.
🔁 Step 9: Monitor and adjust over time
• Ask me how often I want to check performance (e.g., weekly or monthly).
• Offer a simple way to track results (e.g., a Google Sheet template).
• Suggest 1 small improvement per post based on what’s working.
Throughout the process:
• Help me stay aligned with my heart, not just chasing trends.
• Keep things gentle, focused, and aligned with soulful marketing.
• Ask before moving to the next step so I don’t get overwhelmed.
• Celebrate each step with me as I grow!