How do i raise your instagram followers properly?

Collabs did more for us than anything we posted on our own. A collab post shows on both accounts at once, so you're in front of the other account's followers without paying for it. Pick someone in a neighbouring niche roughly your size - a much bigger account won't say yes, and a much smaller one won't move anything.

Getting nowhere in which sense - nothing is growing at all, or the number climbs and nothing comes of it? Those need opposite fixes. If it is reach, reels are still what puts you in front of people who do not follow you, and the first second or two decides whether they stay. If it is a following that never buys anything, you grew it too broad, and the fix is narrowing what you post about, which feels like going backwards for a month before it helps.