How to Find Leads from a Competitor's Followers on Instagram

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The accounts followed by a well-known page in your market are a ready-made directory. A supplier, a trade magazine or a popular local brand often follows the businesses it works with or likes. Those are people already inside your market.

Choose the account to start from

An industry page or magazine that follows many businesses.
A supplier or marketplace whose customers are your customers.
A big local brand that follows its partners and stockists.

Pick an account that follows people, not just an account that has many followers. What matters here is the following list, and it has to be public.

Collect the following list

Enter the username in the lead finder. It collects the accounts that profile follows. Private accounts are skipped, because their details are not public.

Look up the details

Run the lookup to get each account's follower count, account type, category and public email. A lookup can take a while on a big list, and it keeps running in the background if you close the page.

Filter to the leads that matter

Followers: for example at least 1,000 and at most 50,000, to skip tiny and huge accounts.
Account type: business or creator, depending on who you sell to.
Only leads that show an email, so your download is ready to use.

Verify and download

Check the emails, then download only the ones that pass. You get a file you can open in Excel or Google Sheets.

Write to each business about something that fits what they do. A relevant, honest first message works far better than a bulk blast, and it keeps you on the right side of email laws.

Find leads on Instagram

Collect the accounts a profile follows, filter them, and get the public emails. New accounts get 100 free credits.

Open the lead finder

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