How Instagram story hacks can help your brand engagement

Transcript: Oh all right what's up everyone and welcome back to the Amanda Buchi business channel or we're going to learn all about how to utilize social media to grow your business entrepreneurial tips self-development tips and all of that kind of stuff just here in this channel in this box with me directly so today's video is gonna be all about how to utilize Instagram stories to grow your social media platform so if you guys did not know instagrams stories is your secret weapon to the algorithm so Instagram stories when you use Instagram stories more Instagram really really likes it because it's a new platform and it rewards users who use it more often so if you're not using Instagram stories number one to get on it and number two you know licenses of Instagram stories as a little mini vlog so it's a day in the life of you if you're a personal branding you're doing day in the life step or if you're doing just specific teachings on certain things make sure that whatever you're doing you're making it really on brand so don't forget to show your face in front of the camera actually talk... See more →

Transcript: Everyone's complaining about not getting enoughreach on Instagram. But what if I told you that the secret iswithin Instagram Stories? And it's not just creating the stories. There is a specific formulathat you need to follow if you want the most engagement and views from your Instagram Stories. Hey everyone, I'm Neil Patel, and today I'm gonna share with you how to get more views onyour Instagram Stories. (engaging electronic music) Before I get started, make sure you subscribe to this channel. That way as I releasemore marketing content, you'll get notified about 'em. Unlike traditional social networks, with Stories, the more you post, the more view you're gonna get. You should be postingideally four times a day. If you post four times a day, you're gonna get way more views than if you only posted onceor twice or three times a day. The more the better. So start off with at least four, and spread 'em throughout the day, and by doing that, you'llcontinually get views, versus if you just didone story update per day. The second tip I have foryou is leverage videos. In your stories, a lottapeople just put photos. People want engaging content. Whether it's videos... See more →

Key quotes:

• "Instagram story is one of the most effective formats to market your brand."
• "If you want to tap into the potential of Instagram stories, here are a few tips, tricks and hacks to fall back on: Take your audience behind the scenes."
• "You can use Instagram stories to cover all the action that goes into creating an event and all the backstage planning."
• "This is a great way to lead your audience to check out all your content on Instagram."
• "Similarly, you can use Instagram stories to share important announcements and updates."
• "Instagram stories allow you to add different types of stickers with your stories."

Transcript: Hello everyone so today we are going to be talking about how you can brand your Instagram to make sure as soon as someone it comes on to your Instagram page to your feed they immediately want to click that follow button because it's looking at professional aesthetically pleasing and informative I think there's a lot of YouTube videos about you know how to edit your pictures how to take better Instagram pictures how to you know make your feed look consistent and cohesive which are all super important I don't feel like we also need to know how to actually brand our instagrams and make the actual bio the profile make your profile look good and so today I'm going to be going over how to do that and also how I make my highlight covers and actually how to have highlights on your Instagram using your Instagram stories so let's get started the first thing of course is your username when it comes to your username you want something that's easy to remember and easy to spell so obviously if you are a photography account you may want photography and your username or photos or photo or if... See more →

Key quotes:

• "Instagram Stories raise the bar for brands to be more proactive in creating content that speaks to their target audience."
• "Let’s go 👇 Creating bite-sized polls with Instagram Stories is a fun way to engage with your audience."
• "They often create fun polls to engage with their audience on their IG Stories."
• "Takeaway: Instagram Live is a great way to interact with your followers."
• "(The Frye Company, TOMS, Converse ) Takeaway: Adding direct CTA links to your Instagram Stories provides a fantastic opportunity for taking the connection with your followers a step further, driving more traffic to your site, and potentially increasing your sales."
• "Instagram Stories are an extremely fun way to engage with your audience, and your brand can gain a lot from getting that kind of attention."

Transcript: What is up everyone. Welcome back to my channel. Now in today's video, I'm actually going toshow you exactly how to grow your Instagram account organically. No bots, no cheating, no body followers, nonothing in 2019. Now I've had my Instagram account for a while,and since then I've grown it to over 7,000 followers, almost 8,000 followers using onlypurely organic strategies. Now I know nowadays it's really easy to buyyour way into Instagram success. You can buy followers, you can buy likes,you can buy anything that you want. But for me personally, I've always favoredthe organic approach, especially if you are using Instagram for your business. And I really say this for multiple reasons. First of all, if you're spending money automatingyour account or spending money buying likes and buying followers, you're going to needto financially keep that up for a long period of time. If you suddenly stop the financial investmentof growing your account, it's going to be very obvious that your past success was allfake, and it was something that you purchased and now you can't keep up with it. I've seen a lot of influencers and I've seena lot of people have huge accounts and huge success... See more →

Key quotes:

• "If you are here to learn how to organically grow your Instagram following with your target audience using scalable and actionable growth marketing tactics, then you’ve come to the right place! So today, I’ll share some Instagram growth tactics specifically for small business owners looking to reach their target audience on Instagram–the right way."
• "Likes and engagement could also come from accounts with very few followers, which won’t help your post go viral or make it to the Instagram Explore page."
• "Brands and influencers also use hashtags to run contests, host AMA sessions, and to share user-created content."
• "You’ll see a lot of Instagram growth hacking articles that recommend teaming up with relevant influencers to grow your following, however, I think it’s important to note the difference between micro-influencers and macro-influencers."
• "A great way to incentivize potential and current customers or users to follow your Instagram account is to share content or special offers exclusively on Instagram."

Key quotes:

• "There are countless resources available to businesses looking towards visual storytelling as a way to generate engagement and cultivate relationships with their audiences."
• "Every platform from Youtube to Instagram and Facebook offers a live video feature and businesses who use live video are noted for generating higher rates of engagement than with other forms of content."
• "Even more interesting is the fact that of individuals surveyed said they have a for live video from a brand when it comes to types of posts on social media."
• "Furthermore, research by found that among the 1,300 adults they surveyed, 71% felt that VR made a brand “seem more forward thinking and modern” and 53% said they would be “more likely to purchase from a brand that uses VR than from one that doesn’t.” If you’re looking to truly stand out when it comes to your storytelling efforts on social media, then staying ahead of the curve is the best way to get attention and gain leverage over your competition."

Transcript: - Man! My Instagram sucks! My followers are not watchingmy Instagram stories. They don't care about me. My engagement is like super low. It's because of that stupid algorithm. That's probably you right? Well keep watching thisvideo because in here, we're gonna give youthree simple tips that you can implement right now onyour current Instagram account so you are not that guy. - What is up family? My name is Josue Pena andwelcome to online CEO'S the channel that is allabout helping you grow and monitize your brandbusiness and influence with social media and marketing. So if you're new here, consider hitting that red subscribe button. If you have ever struggledgetting followers on Instagram, getting engagement up, maybe you have a big accountbut your engagement is very low your followers don'treally care about you, well the simple solution forthat is Instagram Stories. But the question then becomes is, how do you utilize Instagramstories to make sure your audience is engaged with youand actually cares about you? So tip number one inorder for you to utilize Instagram Stories in the best way possible to optimize your account. Do more video. Stop it with the freaking pictures. Think about it for a... See more →

Key quotes:

• "You can do a lot when it comes to creating the right type of content for your audience, targeting the right people and building campaigns around specific goals and objectives that can fuel business growth."
• "If you’re looking for ideas that can help you boost engagement and ROI on the next batch of ads you launch on Instagram for your ecommerce business, start experimenting this week with these seven tips: It probably won’t surprise you to read that most Instagram posts and ads use photos or videos of people, places, products or other objects."
• "Another way to grab attention and drive sales on Instagram is to launch ads that remarket to shoppers who left your store without purchasing the products they wanted."
• "Another way to reach your intended audience on Instagram is by creating and launching captivating ads that run within the Instagram Stories section of the platform."
• "The Stories tool on Instagram allows you to create immersive, vertical, fullscreen ads that blend photos, video, and text."
• "Instagram also allows ecommerce business owners to create “collection” ads on the platform."