Instagram Marketing - Training Guide
Instagram Marketing - Training Guide
Instagram Marketing - Training Guide
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I’m very excited to have you here, and I know that this will be very helpful for
you.
This exclusive training will show you step-by-step, topic by topic, and tool by
tool, what you need to know to dominate Instagram Marketing, in the easiest
way possible, using the most effective tools and in the shortest time ever.
This training is comprised of 20 training chapters, ready to show you the latest
Instagram Marketing strategies.
Chapter 3- Researching The Best Hashtags And Topics For Your Instagram
Campaigns
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Chapter 13- Creating The Type Of Instagram Content That Customers Love
Chapter 14- Tips For Capturing And Editing The Perfect Instagram Photo
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We want to thank you for picking us as your guide in this exciting journey, as
well as congratulate you for your decision to improve your online marketing
game.
Here you’re going to learn all you need to launch and grow your brand or
business on Instagram, how to reach the perfect type of customer, and how to
generate more profits with advanced-level strategies. But first, let’s start with
the basics.
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Content creators, brands, marketers, and businesses have learned how to use it
to share stuff like pictures and videos in a way that is so casual that immediately
engages, which makes it the perfect platform to promote and sell through visual
discovery.
You can leverage Instagram’s scrollable gallery format to grab the attention of
users with a powerful image or video that makes them stop to check your post.
Once you’ve captured the attention of a user with a visual element in your post,
the next step is to make them take action.
Instagram helps you in this step by letting you add copy, captions, calls to action,
and hashtags into your post. This is how you can drive people to a landing page,
or to comment, or to click on a hashtag to discover related content.
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For example, if you’re running a baking shop, you can post photos of your
sweets to Instagram two or more times a day, and you can optimize your image
posts with hashtags related to that business as well as with geo keywords that’ll
help potential customers in your area to discover your shop.
Couple that with behind-the-scenes videos to give your shop an air of coolness,
and soon you’ll be attracting new customers to your shop.
Other powerful features such as integration with Facebook Ads can help you
take your business to the next level because they let you run paid ads and
promotions across Instagram, Facebook, and many other places around the
web.
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✓ Instagram enhances the way you reach people with your message along
the customer journey.
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The future looks bright and profitable for Instagram marketers, so, are you
ready to learn all about Instagram Marketing and get ready to make it big? Yes?
Then awesome, see you in lesson one next!
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When you create an Instagram account, you only get access to basic features for
common users. But if you want to be able to use business-friendly features such
as your business profile, promoted posts and insights, you have to switch to a
professional account, and in this lesson we are going to show you how to do it
easily, the right way.
Getting Started
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For this, tap on the Facebook tab. Make sure you are already logged in to
Facebook on your device when you do this. Tap on “connect”. You can then
select whether to enable “Facebook sharing” to share your Instagram connect
to Facebook automatically. For this example,
we are going to tap on “not now”.
The first step is to select “which best describes you”. You can select “creator” if
you’ll run an account for a public figure, a content producer, an artist, or an
influencer.
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For this example, we are going to select “business” so we can switch the
account that we manage for our online business.
As you can see here, switching to a professional account will allow you to learn
more about your followers through insights, to reach more customers with paid
promotions, and to add a “contact” button to your profile that will make it
easier for people to get in touch with your
business.
This information will be displayed on your profile so people can contact you
easily, without having to visit your website first.
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In this example, we are going to add only our business email address, which is
filled by default, so we’ll tap on “next” to continue.
Now it is time to connect your Instagram account to your Facebook page. Start
by selecting the Facebook Page of your business from this list, then tap on
“next”.
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The first thing you’ll do before creating content for the platform is to find the
best hashtags to use with your account.
Getting Started
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This will take you to the search page. Most people use this section to find
trending content published by the accounts that they follow, related accounts,
and to find content and accounts using keywords, just like they would do on
Google. Likewise, you can use this feature the same way to find your hashtags
and topics.
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In our case, you can see that top topics related to our keyword include
“lifestyle” and “food”. This means that we can add these long-tail keywords to
related posts so we can reach people looking for that kind of content.
The other way you can use these results is to explore featured accounts to
reverse-engineer the content that they create and to collect the hashtags that
they use.
For example, you can tap on this featured account to check their profile. Here
you can see the keywords that they use, and how they customized their profile.
Let’s tap on one of their posts, then let’s scroll to the bottom of the caption,
where we’ll find the hashtags.
As you can see, there are some hashtags on this post that you may not be
familiar with, but that are related to the niche
that we are researching. What this means is
that there is an audience made of people that
are using these hashtags to find this type of
content, so it is a good idea to save these
hashtags to a file so we can use them on a
similar post to attract this audience to our
account!
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Let’s go back to the search section so we can show you. There, tap on the
“tags” tab. Here you will find all those other hashtags that you can use to reach
your perfect audience.
One thing you’ll notice is that some of the hashtags on top were already
featured in the “top” section, so the correct strategy here is to find lower-traffic
hashtags at the bottom of this section.
Hashtags with 1 million posts or more are great because they are used by a lot of
focused members of your target audience, who are much more engaged with
the content that they’re looking for.
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And that’s it my friends! Now take your time to check the rest of the hashtags
featured in the “tags” section, so we can move to the next step!
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Getting Started
To create a post, open the Instagram app and tap on the “plus” icon in the
actions menu. Next, you have to select what type of media you’ll use on your
post: “photo” or “video”.
We highly recommend you to take your product pictures or videos before you
create your posts, and then to tap on “library” to add your media. This will give
you time to produce better visuals for your posts.
In this case, we are going to select the picture of a cool upcoming product that
we’ll sell as merchandising. Once you select your media, tap on “next” to
continue.
After selecting your media, you will be prompted to edit it. Instagram offers you
a nice variety of editing tools to enhance the visual impact of your images and
videos.
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Questions are great because they’re the easiest way to trigger interactions. By
asking a simple question related to the product or topic in your post, you’ll be
encouraging people to comment and share your content.
So, let’s open up this caption with a question asking users how they would use
the product that we are promoting in the post. This is an indirect way to
advertise the product and its benefits, by directly asking potential customers
about uses for it.
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We’re now done creating this post, and there are a number of settings we can
adjust before publishing it.
You can tap on “tag people” to tag other accounts on your post. You can tap on
“add location” in case you want to tag a business location on your post. And
lastly, you can post to other accounts, including other Instagram accounts on
your device as well as accounts on other social platforms.
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And although you can reach an amazing number of people organically when you
share engaging and relevant stuff, you will get to a point where you’ll hit a
growth wall.
Promoting A Post
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There you will find your published posts by scrolling to the content column
below your bio. What you’ll do now is to pick a post to promote. Once you
decide, tap on the post thumbnail to open the post. Once you’re on the post, tap
on the “promote” button.
Selecting An Objective
And you can select “your direct messages” if your objective is to encourage
people to send you direct messages. This objective will add a “send message”
CTA to your post that invites people to send you direct messages.
For this example, we are going to select “your website” so we can send people
to our business website.
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We won’t target special requirements with our post, so we’ll simply continue
without selecting a category to keep the special requirements disabled.
When defining your audience, there are two ways to match your targets. If you
select “automatic”, Instagram will target users that are similar to your followers.
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For this example we are going to select “automatic” so Instagram helps us reach
users that match the interests, locations, and demographics of our existing
followers. After defining your audience, tap on “next” to continue.
Now you have to define your budget and duration. Start by selecting how much
you’ll spend daily using the “budget” lever button. Now select the number of
days you’ll promote your post using the “duration” lever button.
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If you’re familiar with Instagram stories, they are slideshow-type posts that let
you share content that looks and feels more interactive.
Because Instagram Stories are so engaging, you can use them to raise
awareness about a product or topic easily, and in this chapter we are going to
show you how to create a branded story quickly.
Getting Started
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The “superzoom” format lets you record a segment that highlights a portion of
your screen with a superzoom effect.
The “hands-free” format allows you to record story videos without having to
press the “record” button.
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You can use these elements to create crazy combinations that will keep your
followers entertained and engaged.
Let’s now tap on the “stickers” icon to add a cool sticker. For this example, we
are going to select a countdown sticker to show a countdown of the date when
the product goes live on the store.
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Let’s now tap on the “stickers” icon again to add a couple more stickers to
increase the visual impact of the story.
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In this lesson we are going to show you the right way to repurpose Instagram
content on top social media
channels.
On Facebook
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What you’ll do here is to simply enter the text from your caption on the
Instagram post. Now, one thing worth noting is that character limits don’t work
the same on other platforms as they do on Instagram.
And while you can compose long-form captions for Facebook posts, the idea is
to create teaser-type posts to encourage people to click on your Instagram link
to check the original post there.
One trick that works great is to open this post with headline text. This is simply a
title that you’ll use to catch the attention of the user. In this example, we are
going to open with a question related to the product that we are promoting on
the Instagram post.
After you enter your headline and text, add a call to action and a shortened link
to the original Instagram post.
As you can see here, Facebook will generate a cool-looking preview of your post
by pulling your featured image or video into the post, as well as the name of
your account and publication date.
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On Twitter
Here you are going to apply the same strategy we applied on Facebook. You just
have to be careful not to go over the character limit, which is 280 characters.
This means that you have to compose a shorter caption this time, so you can
leave space for your URL and hashtags.
Ok, so let’s start by composing the headline. Here you can use the exact same
headline that you used on Facebook, as it is going to have the same effect.
Now you are going to add the post text. You can use the same text that you
used on Facebook as long as it is short-form. Otherwise you can simply add a call
to action to encourage users to check the original post on Instagram.
We’ll do that in this example, so you can see how easy it is. Here we’ll simply
compose a call to action to invite users to find lots of answers to the question in
our headline over at Instagram. Then we are going to add the shortened post
URL.
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Lastly, click on the “gallery” icon to upload the image or video that you used in
your original Instagram post. Now that you’ve fully created your repurposed
post, click on “tweet” to publish it!
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We’re talking about doing product reveals on Instagram Live, Instagram’s built-
in live streaming feature that will allow you to showcase your products and
interact with potential customers in real time!
In this lesson we are going to show you how to easily go live on Instagram, and
how to set up a product reveal broadcast!
Getting Started
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Going Live
Now you can select how to save your live session. Enable “save to camera roll” if
you want to save your live session to your phone. This is a useful feature that
you can enable in case you want to share your video on other platforms, such as
Twitter or YouTube.
You can also enable “save to archive” to save your live session to your Instagram
archive instead of your phone.
Next you can adjust “sharing”. Here we recommend you to enable all default
sharing settings. This way you can reshare your live session in the “stories”
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Once you have configured your live settings, tap on “done”. Before going live
you can also select whether to go live in normal mode, or you can select to go
Live using a filter. For this example, we are going to go live in normal mode. Now
that we’re ready to go live, we simply have to tap on the “live” button.
During Live
Let’s assume you prepared your presentation the right way, so let’s take a quick
look at what you can do while you’re live.
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Your attendees will start asking questions at some point, and you can tap on the
“questions” icon to see their questions regarding your product.
A couple more functions worth checking are the direct messaging and “go live
with” icons. The “direct message” function allows you to send a direct message
or invitation to other accounts while you’re live. And the “go live with” feature
allows you to go live with any of your viewers.
Once you are ready to finish your live reveal, simply tap on “end”, then confirm.
You can then tap on “share to story” so your live session is added to your stories
for 24 hours.
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Most of these strategies will help you to grow steadily and to stay relevant, but
there’s going to be a point where you’ll need to scale. The best, fastest way to
scale is to run paid campaigns to promote your content.
Luckily, Instagram integrates with the Facebook Ads platform, one of the most
widely used advertising platforms on the planet. In this lesson we are going to
show you how to get started using this platform by promoting a Facebook post
from your business page on your
Instagram account!
Getting Started
This will take you to the ads manager page, where you can create and manage
Facebook ad campaigns that have outreach on the Instagram network.
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Now select “post engagement” as your objective. Then, enter the name to save
this campaign into the “campaign name” field. Now click on the “set up ad
account” button.
What you’ll do now is to select your “account country”, your “currency”, and
your “time zone”. Make your selections, and click on “continue”.
Let’s now move to the “audience” section. Here you are going to select your
target audience, demographics, and attributes.
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Now click on the “edit” button corresponding to “age” to select the minimum
age and the maximum age of people that you want to see your ads.
You can also click on the “edit” button corresponding to “gender” to select a
specific gender. This is useful when you want to advertise something to a
specific gender. For example, if you are going to advertise custom automotive
parts, it is better to select “male” as your target gender. Or if you are going to
advertise makeup products, it is better to select “female” as your target gender.
In this case, we are going to leave the default “all” genders setting as our target.
Now click on the “edit” button corresponding to “detailed targeting”. Here you
can select more detailed criteria that will help you target the perfect prospect.
This includes demographic attributes, interests, and behaviors. All you have to
do is to enter a keyword into the “detailed targeting” field, and then to select an
item from the results. You can add as many attributes as you want to target!
Lastly, click on “show more options”, then click on the “edit” button
corresponding to “languages”. Now enter the language or languages that you
want to target. Make sure to always target the same languages you use to
create content.
Once you are done defining your audience, move to the “placements” section.
The “automatic” setting allows you to promote your post across multiple
placements that includes Facebook, Instagram, and other networks.
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Let’s now move to the “budget and schedule” section. Here you are going to set
your budget and your ad schedule.
Start by selecting “daily budget” as your budget type. Next, enter your daily
budget amount into the budget field. Here you can start with a daily budget as
low as $5 and scale as you see fit!
When it comes to the start and duration of your campaigns, you can select to
“run my ad set continuously starting today” to promote your post right away
and to stop the campaign manually later on, or you can select “set a start and
end date” to schedule when to start and when to stop promoting your post.
Now move to the “identity” section. Click on the “Facebook page” menu
button, and select the Facebook page that is connected to your Instagram
account. You’ll see your Instagram username below, in the “Instagram Account”
section.
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Your selected post will load as the ad creative, and you will see a preview on the
right column of this section.
And now that your ad is ready, you will simply have to click on the “confirm”
button to submit your campaign. It will start running from 5 to 15 minutes after
you submit it!
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This time around we are going to show you how to set up a video ad campaign
to promote a Facebook video
through your Instagram profile!
Getting Started
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Next, move to the “audience” section to define your target audience. First,
select your target “locations”. Next, select your target “age”. Then your target
“gender” if it applies.
Now click on “show more options”, then click on the “edit” icon corresponding
to “languages” to select your target languages.
Now move to the “budget and schedule” section. Select “daily budget” as your
budget type, then enter your daily budget amount into the amount field.
Now select your schedule. For this example, we will select to “run my ad set
continuously starting today”. Once you are done configuring your campaign at
this point, click on “continue”.
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Now it is time to create your video ad. Start by entering the name of this new ad
into the “ad name” field. Now move to the “identity” section, click on the
“Facebook page” menu button, and select the Facebook page that is connected
to your Instagram account.
Now scroll down to the “media” section and click on the “add video” button to
upload the video that you are going to promote on Instagram.
Next, click on the “upload” button to locate your video. Double-click on it, and
wait for it to upload. The recommended length for videos that you want to
promote on Instagram is 15 seconds or less. Longer videos can’t be promoted on
the Instagram timeline.
You can click on the “call to action” menu button to select a different call to
action button. In this case, we’ll use the default “learn more” CTA button.
Now that your video ad for Instagram is ready, go to the preview section on the
right to see how it is going to look on different Instagram placements.
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If you want to increase your sales the way top retailers do, there’s no better way
than to run a product catalog ad on Instagram, and in this lesson we are going to
show you how to do it easily, step
by step.
Creating A Catalog
Once on the catalog manager page, click on “create catalog”. Now select the
category that best describes your business. Click on “next”, and select the
method that you are going to use to upload your catalog. For this example, we’ll
select “upload product info”.
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You can add products to your catalog by going back to the catalog manager. For
this, click on the “catalogs” option in the tools menu.
Once on the catalog manager page, enter your catalog. On the catalog page,
click on the “products” tab. Next, click on “add products”. On the following
page, select to “add manually”. Then you can start filling your product info,
which includes product image, name, description, website link, and price. Once
you have added all this info, click on “add product”. Repeat these steps to add
the rest of your products to the catalog!
Now you can start configuring the campaign. First, enter the name of this new
ad set into the “ad set name” field. Now click on the “product set” menu button
to select the products that you want to promote in the ad.
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Or you can select to “find prospective customers even if they haven’t interacted
with your business” to show your catalog ads to all users even if they haven’t
visited your site or app. For this example, we are going to select this method.
Let’s now define the audience. Here we’ll do like we’ve done on previous
campaign: first, we’ll define “locations”. Next, we’ll define “ages”. We’ll skip
“gender”, and we will select detailed targeting criteria. Next, we are going to
click on “show more options” to select our target language.
Let’s now move to the “placements” section. Here we are going to select
“manual placements”, and then we will deselect all platforms except Instagram.
This is how you can optimize your budget to increase catalog sales on Instagram!
Now move to the “budget and schedule” section. Select “daily budget” as your
budget type, and then enter your daily budget amount. Now select when to
start running your ads, and then click
on “continue” to start creating the
ad.
Setting Up The Ad
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There are three types of ad formats available: carousel, single image, and
slideshow. For this example, we are going to select “carousel” as the ad format.
Let’s now move to the “ad creative” section to customize the ad. First, let’s
select “multiple products” as the
catalog format.
Now enter your ad copy into the “primary text” field. Next, enter your lading
page URL into the “see more URL” field. Lastly, click on the “deep link
destination” menu button and select “open deep link in a mobile web browser”.
You can see a preview of how your catalog sales ad will look on the Instagram
feed and other placements on the preview window to the right.
Once you are done configuring your campaign, customizing your ad, and
reviewing your campaign settings, click on the “confirm” button to submit and
launch your product catalog sales campaign!
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✓ Are you going to use Instagram because it offers you a better way to
showcase your products?
Answering those questions will give you a clearer idea of your Instagram
marketing objectives. For example, you might want to use Instagram exclusively
to run catalog ads to drive sales. Or you might want to use Instagram only to
post product pictures with a call to action to encourage users to click on the link
in your bio to go to your store.
Reverse-Engineer Your
Competitors
The people behind successful Instagram accounts know what type of posts
generate engagement, what kind of posts stir emotions, and what type of posts
drive sales, and they’re constantly using those types of posts to get results.
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You will see that by reverse-engineering content from successful accounts you
will be able to generate results
faster, and your account will grow
in no time!
✓ Your URLs.
✓ Your Hashtags.
✓ Your Posts.
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Take a critical look at these elements and decide what you’ll eliminate and what
you’ll edit. Do this while picturing how a potential customer will think of your
account.
This will help you build a consistent brand identity that helps people recognize
stuff posted by your brand on first glance.
And this is it my friends! These tips will give you an advantage that you wouldn’t
have otherwise, and we encourage you to start applying them today!
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With so many possibilities and a large variety of powerful editing tools to pimp
up your images and videos, it can be difficult to determine what’s the type of
content that customers like.
That’s why in this lesson we are going to discuss the elements that make the
type of Instagram content that
customers love!
And that is exactly the type of image that will help you to differentiate your
content from the rest: images that include some kind of highlight element or
distinctive feature.
This can be anything that catches the eye, such as a beautiful natural occurrence
like sunsets, dawn, snow, bright lights, and water effects, beautiful architectural
compositions, and special effects such as unique color schemes and
combinations.
Those elements, when combined with your products and great angles, will help
you give your content that unique and polished look that customers love.
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You can use Instagram’s built-in editing tools and filters to enhance your
pictures, and you can use royalty free resources to find exotic backgrounds for
your feature product images!
This means that, by producing images or videos of people using your products or
services, or of people visiting your business, you can increase purchasing intent
and drive more sales.
This strategy not only helps you to put your products and services in a real world
context, it also helps you to humanize your brand and makes it more relatable!
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Videos captured with a smartphone camera are especially effective because they
give your content a casual vibe that customers love, and that encourages them
to buy on a whim!
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Because these types of videos are so cool and entertaining people share them
like crazy, which can help you to
reach much more customers!
Image Macros
You simply have to come up with smart comments about your products, and to
share them as image macros on Instagram. Potential customers will stumble
upon them, they will share them, and they will follow your account to see more
of your branded macros in your timeline.
You can also create more elaborate image macros if you can come up with tips,
jokes, or inspirational quotes.
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And there’s good reason for that. Image posts allow brands and content
creators to share their best photos to create awareness and engagement. This is
because great photos can help you to really show the quality and lifestyle that
you want to reflect.
To help you achieve that, we’re going to share with you some tips that’ll teach
you how to capture and edit the
perfect Instagram photos!
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✓ A selfie stick.
Although all pictures you upload to Instagram will be shown as square on the
feed, it helps to know the dimensions of your pictures according to format:
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You can apply the rule of thirds by turning on your camera grid lines. Then, aim
your subject in the intersection between a set of vertical and horizontal lines in
the grid.
You can enable your camera grid lines by going to your camera settings while
you are on camera mode.
Use Symmetry
This is the opposite of the Rule of Thirds, and it can also help you to achieve very
interesting results!
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A good way to focus your photos on a single subject when you can’t use a clear
background, or when you prefer to use a natural background for your pictures,
is to shoot your pictures against negative space.
Negative space is simply empty space around the subject of your picture. You
can achieve this by placing your product, object, or person against an empty
wall, or inside an empty room.
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That’s why we recommend you to use natural light when possible. Taking
pictures of the outdoors, right before sunset or at sunrise, can help you to
create warm, striking, natural-looking images.
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Tracking and analyzing is important because it helps you see what content is
driving the most engagement, to discover what’s working, to find out what’s
not, and to determine what needs to be tested and optimized.
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This will take you to the insights section, where you’ll find detailed analytics and
metrics about your content, your activity, and your audience, and we will explain
what the information and metrics on this section mean.
Activity Metrics
Impressions
That means that your total number of impressions includes the number of times
users saw your content, read your content, and actually paid attention to your
content, but it also includes the number of times that users scrolled past your
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In other words, you can use this metric to determine how many times people
have seen your profile and your
content across all possible
placements.
Reach
A unique view represents unique views from an individual user. So if one user
visited your profile and then searched your content, it counts as a unique view.
This is a much more relevant metric because it lets you know the number of
users that actually viewed your profile and content. This is a strong signal of
intent.
Interactions
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To give you an example, let’s imagine that you’re getting thousands and
thousands of impressions and reach, but only a handful of likes and comments,
and no one is saving your posts. This is a signal that you are reaching a good
number of people, but that your content isn’t engaging enough.
Audience Metrics
Gender
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Top Locations
Active Hours
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This can be a big turn off for anyone, so we’ve decided to gift you a collection of
proven Instagram marketing
strategies so you do it right from
the very start!
Use Hashtags To
“Categorize” Your Posts
This strategy goes beyond using keywords that are related to your niche and
product as hashtags, like we explained during the very first lessons.
You can run this campaign for several days, and in the meanwhile you’ll get tons
of participants following your account, commenting on your posts, and sharing
your content. This will in turn
increase the relevance of your
account.
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To determine the right time to post, take a look at your audience insights and
see where the majority of your followers are from. You can use their time zone
to determine the best times to
schedule and post your content!
This will help you to build a stronger, more reciprocal customer relationship, and
that will cause customers to become repeat clients, or even brand ambassadors
down the line!
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This is quite easy, because you can simply ask people to take a picture
showcasing one or some of your products, and to tag your account in the post.
For example, if you sell clothes, you can ask users to take a picture where they’re
wearing one of your clothes.
You can also leverage certain hashtags by instructing people to use a hashtag in
their caption. In fact, user-generated content is a great way to create a branded
hashtag of your own, as well as to raise awareness about the hashtag.
Instagram users love when brands ask them to generate content for them
because that’s a great way to generate more views and followers for their own
accounts.
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Be Consistent
You can’t add links to your Instagram posts, so it is a good idea to always use
your bio to share your landing page URLs and to remind people to click by
adding a call to action in your posts.
Ask Questions
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It is important that you develop a unique “voice” for your account. This is the
way your brand “speaks” on Instagram, and it will help you to differentiate your
account from the rest.
Instagram has a lot of amazing tools that will help you take your brand to the
next level. From its powerful image editing tools to its engaging video formats,
you’ll have a lot of fun trying every feature.
You can add shortcuts to your Instagram profile as well as a feed of your
Instagram content on your website to promote your Instagram account there as
well as on other channels.
You can show a more casual side of your company by sharing content that is
relatable, such as pictures of pets, your staff’s favorite dishes, music, and humor.
Don’ts
Don’t Be Salesy
Never post stock images or videos on Instagram. Instagram users are put off by
stock content because they’re there to see content that shows your brand’s
authentic side.
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You don’t have to use all 30 allowed hashtags just because. Using too many
hashtags will just make your captions look crowded and disorganized.
Instagram users can identify automated responses from a mile away. In fact,
automated responses can cause people to dismiss your account as a spam
account not worth their time.
This is a strategy that fails every time because the Instagram algorithm is really
good at identifying artificial engagement bought to inflate metrics, and it can
only help you to make your account irrelevant.
Social media users can be really mean and rude at times, but that doesn’t mean
that you have to reciprocate. Always reply professionally to rude comments no
matter what!
If you’d like to share an image, video, caption, or quote that you think is cool,
make sure to always ask for permission and to credit the original creator to keep
your account in good standing!
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It also provides you with an accessible dashboard where you can reply to
comments and other interactions directly from your desktop computer.
Other Buffer features include the Stories planner, a programable first comment
for scheduled posts, a hashtag
planner, and custom reports.
Foursixty
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Shoppers simply have to tap or click on one of the images and Foursixty will
redirect them to a product page.
GRUM
With GRUM you will be able to schedule and publish photos and videos to
multiple profiles at the same time, and also to manage an unlimited number of
accounts at the same time. Other worthy GRUM features include tagging,
desktop publishing, and a very intuitive interface.
Crowdfire
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Hootsuite
Hootsuite can help you to plan all your Instagram marketing content under a
single collaborative calendar, to create unique and beautiful Instagram posts, to
keep your content calendar active with automated posts that fill content gaps in
your schedule, and much more!
Hopper
With Hopper you can create up to 50 Instagram posts at once using bulk
uploading, to set individual time zones for different accounts, and to integrate
Instagram analytics and grid planning. It also provides you with features such as
full image editing, reposting, and rescheduling!
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Iconosquare is a powerful
analytics, social media
management, and social media
scheduling tool for brands,
marketers, and agencies on
Instagram.
You can use Iconosquare to predict the performance of your content through its
insightful industry benchmarks, which automatically compares your content
against content published by top-performing competitors, and it gives you
detailed optimization suggestions to help you improve your content like a pro!
Combin
Later
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It will also let you preview your feed before you post, it will let you auto-publish
without notifications required, it can help you to import media from anywhere,
to find and repost user-generated content, and much, much more!
Linktree
Results: The company was able to generate over 71,000 mentions of its branded
hashtag, and made over 41,000 new followers!
Results: The ads helped the company increase bouquet orders by 62%, and
generated a huge spike of comments on their Instagram profile!
Bejeweled
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Strategy: The company partnered with top Instagram influencers, who shared
pictures of themselves playing the game and having fun. These influencers
included branded hashtags in their posts too.
Results: The influencer campaign helped the game climb app store charts in one
single month, from 702 to 182.
Old Spice
Strategy: The brand partnered with influential Instagrammers that were popular
among its target demographic to run a giveaway campaign.
Results: The campaign helped the brand lift brand awareness, and generated
over 2 million unique views across
all channels!
Chanel
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Strategy: The company partnered with fashion and beauty bloggers and
encouraged them to share content about the company using a couple of
branded hashtags.
Sonic Drive-In
Results: The campaign raised the company’s Instagram following from 118,000
to 129,000 followers. It also generated over 26,000 likes and more than 1,000
comments!
Hartley's
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Objective: The brand needed to raise awareness about a new low calorie jelly.
Strategy: The brand partnered with diet influencers to promote the low calorie
jelly to females aged 25 to 34 in the UK.
Results: The campaign helped the brand generate a 146% engagement rate,
doubled the brand’s follower count on Instagram, and increased sales.
Airbnb
Results: The campaign helped potential customers understand what Airbnb was
all about, generated thousands of likes per post, and increased business through
their marketplace.
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Dove
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Instagram users are also more engaged than users on other social media
platforms, and they check Instagram often.
All the stuff you’ll learn in this training will help you to become your own social
media manager, although you might want some help with Instagram marketing
once your business scales.
You won’t need to invest much when you’re getting started beyond paying a
good graphic designer to create a kick-ass logo and images for your profile as
long as you apply all the strategies in this training.
You will need to invest some money down the line once you’re ready to scale,
such as investing money on ads, or on influencers, but this isn’t as much money
as you would spend on a dedicated social media manager.
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In other words, you can’t replace Instagram marketing with advertising, and you
can’t stop marketing your brand on Instagram once you start running ads.
Remember, you are going to use advertising to increase your reach, drive more
sales, and scale, and that’s just part of Instagram marketing.
For example, you can produce images to share on Instagram, and create blog
posts about those pictures as well. You can then upload one of those pictures to
Instagram with a call to action inviting users to visit your blog through the link in
your bio, and you can also embed the post with the picture into a blog post. That
way you can generate traffic between both marketing channels.
Inconsistency is a very common mistake that can cost you the relevance of your
account. To avoid this mistake, simply stick to a regular posting frequency,
interact with followers when appropriate, and participate in trends when they’re
hot. That’s how you let your followers know that your brand is active.
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Key metrics that are important to track on Instagram include “engagement per
follower”, which tells you how much each individual follower interacts with your
account, “follower growth”, which tells you the consistency at which your
number of followers is growing, the number of comments received compared
against your total number of followers, and “reach”.
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Conclusion
We’re thrilled that you
have chosen to take
advantage of our
Training Guide, and we
wish you amazing
success.
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Thanks so much for the time you have dedicated to learning how to get the
most advantages from Instagram Marketing.
To Your Success,
Your Name
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