10 Ways to Use Instagram for Business

[AllenCrawley]

"Are you thinking about putting your business on Instagram?

Are you looking for content ideas for this increasingly popular mobile social platform?

Read further to discover how you can use Instagram to give your business extra visibility and better engage with the Instagram community.

Instagram is an up-and-coming photo-focused social platform not to be ignored. So what can your brand do with it?

Here are 10 creative ways your business can use Instagram..."


Read more: 10 Creative Ways to Use Instagram for Business | Social Media Examiner

 

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[AroundTheWorld]

bump.

Interesting to me that this was posted in Oct 2012, received a couple of likes and no comments.
Another thread about instagram was posted this week (Feb 2014) and brought about a conversation

Guess the world just wasn't ready for your insight yet, @AllenCrawley

 

[AllenCrawley]

ess the world just wasn't ready for your insight yet,

Haha, I was on the cutting edge. It's taken a while for marketers to realize the power of Instagram.

To be fair, the thread you referenced had more actionable content.

 

[GravyBoat]

@AllenCrawley

Thanks for posting this. I have always had this kind of despise for social media, but many of your posts have turned that around and enabled me to use it to my advantage instead.

Wanted to share this as well as I've found it a good tool.
https://bufferapp.com/
I have conducted "tests" in the past having to do with social media and ended up using this to plan my posts ahead of time. I have found that it's much harder to gain traction if you don't have a personal account with tons of friends to promote, which I don't. I launched a small Etsy business as a test and used one of my friend's Facebook and Twitter accounts to try and promote it, and just the fact that he had almost 700 people on each list really went a long way!

 

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[RHL]

I think we really need to get an INSIDERS megathread going on how to break into and dominate various social media platforms. This stuff is way too important to ignore, and the idea that there are dozens of us all making the same mistakes as we try to figure it out separately is kind of depressing. Actually, I think I'll start the thread now.

 

[AllenCrawley]

I posted a link in the affluent marketing thread to this case study. I think what they did with automating the embedding of their customers FB and Instagram pics into the product pages in absolutely genius.

http://www.shopify.com/blog/9721608...usiness-with-0-marketing-budget#axzz2wQK9pCq9

 

[drmctcher]

@Allen Thanks for sharing all the info in this thread, some great stuff!!

This is also a great article I found off of your link

How To Build a $120K per Month Ecommerce Brand in Less Than A Year

Read more: http://www.shopify.com/blog/1293658...merce-brand-in-less-than-a-year#ixzz2wR3uRxlS

He also expounds on how they built the business in this Reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1zmpvl/beardbrands_guide_to_building_a_brand/

Best

~S

 

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[AllenCrawley]

I think we really need to get an INSIDERS megathread going on how to break into and dominate various social media platforms. This stuff is way too important to ignore, and the idea that there are dozens of us all making the same mistakes as we try to figure it out separately is kind of depressing. Actually, I think I'll start the thread now.

I started an INSIDERS thread specifically for this reason. This was good idea and since I didn't see where you created a thread yet I went ahead did one. Rep transferred for a great idea.

https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/co...ng-social-media-marketing-masterthread.51141/