Cracking the Instagram code

A 7-day challenge from the ever-inspiring Jenna Kutcher

Friends, entrepreneurs, dream chasers, and Instagram enthusiasts — this one's for you! To start at the beginning, my friends Jeff and Jourdan got married a few years back and hired Jenna Kutcher as their photographer. She crushed it and my friend group became a little obsessed with Jenna and her mad skills and all-around wonderfulness. 

These days, she is way more than a wedding photographer. Jenna's a passionate small business owner who's always using her unique blend of go-getter and yoga-pants-wearer to inspire others. I'm not a professional photographer and I'm not a small business owner. I just have a blog-for-fun and a dream that maybe someday all the work I put into this little love project will pay off. Jenna Kutcher inspires me — in blog world and in life — to keep creating.

Jenna also has a huge Instagram following, gaining about 100 followers each day. Each day! Tomorrow, she's starting a free week-long Instagram challenge where she'll teach folks her secrets for success. So far about 8,000 people have signed up for the challege and 4,000 have joined the Facebook group and introduced themselves. 

Lots of people have beautiful Instagram feeds already and are seeking exposure. Others are even more new to this than I am — and while I've had a Planet Kelsey Instagram account (snapshot above) for a while, I'm still not actively promoting it. Real talk: The shameless self-promotion on Facebook is nerve-wracking enough! 

But I'm ready to take this dive with Jenna and learn a thing or two from the master. And I'm sure there are others of you — the aforementioned friends, entrepreneurs, dream chasers, and Instagram enthusiasts — who might want in on the challenge too! So check it out and sign up here, then join the Facebook group and introduce yourself to this community of super-rad creative types. Let's do this!