The popular social networking app, Instagram, took the world by storm in October 2010 and hasn’t slowed down since. Over the course of ten years, Instagram has been acquired by Facebook and grown into a 500-million-active- users-per-day technology giant. The site now has an undoubtedly major influence in business and personal branding spaces. However, so many people have not gotten the hang of growing their Instagram accounts and are eternally lost in the maze of follows, likes, and hashtags.
Reece Larkin created his agency, Blackcorn, to help you make sense of Instagram and take advantage of all the business and career opportunities the platform presents.
Reece is a 24-year-old entrepreneur and Founder of Blackcorn, a marketing agency that focuses on helping individuals and companies achieve their marketing objectives. Blackcorn combines the power of social media and PR to create and drive innovative campaigns for clients, from all over the world. Through Blackcorn and several other ventures, Reece has worked with clients from 80% of the countries in the world, regularly recording 7-figure yearly income.
About his agency, Reece says,
“A major part of our business at Blackcorn involves helping brand owners use Instagram to draw traffic to their business. Brands don’t come to us with problems to solve. Rather, they come because they want to be seen and heard.
There are several complexities surrounding marketing and we help clients understand which aspects to focus on to achieve their business objectives. We offer a range of solutions, but a lot of the time we curate bespoke marketing packages that best suit the objectives of a Blackcorn client.”
Reece founded his agency because he recognized a need in the market, based on his own experience with Instagram.
“When I first discovered Instagram, I used it at a basic level like any other person,” Reece says. At that time, Reece himself had no idea how to use Instagram because he did not realize the influence the app had.
His perspective drastically changed when he began to discover influencer accounts with more than 100,000 followers. From then, Reece began to pay rapt attention, studying the strategy and content these accounts were producing. He was able to deconstruct the logic behind the popularity of these mega accounts. Soon, he had created his own unique method and was using it to widen the reach of his personal brand. Currently, he has more than 30,000 active followers on Instagram and helps other businesses reach bigger audiences with purely organic methods.
Reece has some solid advice for anybody trying to grow an Instagram account, whether for business or personal branding.
“You need specific goals that have to be relevant to your marketing strategy. Also, give your followers as much free value as possible. That is how you build an engaged audience.”
You can connect with Reece on Instagram: @reece_larkin
