I Rage-Quit Instagram 4 Times… Then I Cracked The Code

porciabaxter
May 15
2 min read

Let’s get one thing straight: I didn’t always love Instagram.

In fact, I rage-quit FOUR accounts—each time with tears in my eyes, questioning if I was cut out for this faceless marketing thing. I watched other people scale, grow, and somehow turn content into cash, while my own posts barely got 12 likes (and one of them was my mom).

I bought the courses. (One too many...)

I downloaded the freebies. (Which turned out to be recycled garbage you could find in a five-minute Google search or a YouTube rabbit hole.)

And for a while, I thought maybe the problem was me.

But then it hit me…

These Strategies Work…

If You’re Already an Influencer.

Most of the popular “IG growth hacks” are designed for people with established followings, aesthetic feeds, and hours to spend creating trending reels.

But what about the rest of us?

👉 The moms juggling nap time and DMs.

👉 The faceless brands who don’t want to dance on camera.

👉 The small creators who need leads—not likes.

That’s when everything changed.

I got to work. Dug deep into research. Started testing strategies no one was talking about.

I launched multiple faceless accounts at once and became my own case study.

What Happened Next Blew My Mind:

I went from under 500 followers to 10,000+ in less than a month.

No viral reel.

No dancing.

No posting 3x a day.

No living in my DMs.

And best of all? Those followers weren’t just vanity numbers.

My Old Accounts Were Ghost Towns.

No leads. No conversions. Just vibes.

But last week?

22 leads in 2 days. Daily sales. Real growth.

Not from luck. Not from an algorithm hack

But from a strategy designed specifically for small accounts.

And now I’ve bundled everything I learned—the mistakes, the breakthroughs, the exact steps I used—into something I wish I had YEARS ago:

💻 The Lazy Girl’s Instagram Playbook for Small Accounts

If you’re a small creator, a faceless marketer, or just straight-up exhausted from trying to "keep up"...This playbook is your shortcut.

It’s not some copy/paste template. It’s a lived experience with hard-won insights, real strategies, and powerful Do’s and Don’ts that can finally give you the growth—and the leads—you’ve been chasing.