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Small business owners have long understood the importance of their social media presence as a part of their larger marketing efforts. In order to boost their presence across each major platform—particularly Facebook and Instagram—many have turned to buying social media followers.
If you’ve been having a hard time building a following, buying helps boost your numbers. A $10 purchase appears to net you thousands of followers, more than if you’d spent hours creating good content—so why go through all that effort?
To buy social media followers, you pay a third-party service to enlist thousands of accounts—some real, but many of them fake—to follow your handle. Some services promise “quality” followers, and you’ll have to pay more for those.
