Hi Hi it's JayJay Ghatt welcome back to my channel so um last december 2020 i did a video on instagram
guides which is one of the latest functionalities on the instagram social media platform
i did not get a chance to finish that video and or publish it so i am picking up where i left off
and so i want to invite you to take a look at that video and then i'm gonna see on the
other side of the break so um if you are new to this channel you know that it's a
recently branded pinterest marketing channel however i try to use this platform to also
elevate and provide tips tricks hacks on other social media platforms and i am a big believer in
the importance of being an early adopter if you're not new to this channel and you've seen my videos
before you know in the video about how i got um elevated in pinterest and when i first joined
princess it has to do with the fact that i was one of the first users of pinterest and then similarly
um when i got a verified check mark on youtube it's from being an early adopter in google plus
and then finally when i got early access so it's not just about joining new platforms
but then also when the platforms that are existing have new features and you use it
and take advantage of it you get the benefit of any tool with a viral lift or push and you know
that uh when pinterest unrolled its pinterest stories to the us and i got early access earlier
in this year the fact that i used it meant that when other people's channels were going down mine
was going up because i was using a feature that pinterest algorithm favored and it elevated my
my my my account okay so today i'm talking to you about a uh new feature um it's in instagram
of the instagram guides so two other youtubers um it's molly and katie steckley already did
pretty comprehensive reviews on ways that you can use instagram guides and then um
she did an actual great walk through so i don't think i necessarily need to do a walk-through
for you i recommend you go to her channel i'll put a link down below and get a walk-through on
how to do it so i am just sharing um ideas that i've gotten from katie and others on how to do
an instagram guide and i did i've done it it was really quick between yesterday and today i think
i did four or five so i'm just going to just show you the different ones that i did and um
and the benefits of the guides okay let's take a look at the guides that i've done with my account
i've had um i've done four so the different types you can do product roundups so here's one i
put four eight products um there's a dress uh if i wanted to i could put description of
the dress in there so i just tagged i just pulled that up here's a crossbody stripe
um oh it's removed by coach oh well um bulgari a cologne a five minute journal so these are
the products that i like so these are roundups of my favorite products i'm not affiliated with any
of these so but you know there's just a product blogger's wishlist to round up and then the second
type is like the travel guide so here's a travel guide so what i did is since we can travel i just
um posted photos from the places it says well we cannot go anywhere we cannot travel because of
pandemic and travel restrictions we can reminisce so here's a round of places i've traveled to
so um here if i wanted to i can put longer con form content here i can expand on this um
here's from sea world um vegas um we went i drove to um somewhere in the desert somewhere
virginia beach washington dc so um yeah jersey islands maracas beach so you can do a travel
guide another long phone content another form of guide i did um i also did um you can do
um round up your favorite post so here i just did a round of my favorite digital
marketers so i just you can take post their own post so i just took this straight from her
so instagram the jinzy youtube productivity queen youtube master pinterest marketing ball
so i just um hear the folks here these are folks who i like uh and just round up with their folks
and then finally that was last was a pinterest and then um and then just here's just food porn
so just pictures and these you know burgers really i should call this one burgers um and
you can the thing about it is like i mentioned you can rearrange these you can add more whereas
instagram usually like a static static thing where you can't um rearrange it but you can rearrange it
so those are my four guys and i just have some words from my own posts from my post in the past
that's it i didn't also get a chance to say the three reasons why you should consider using
instagram guides reason number one that like a lot of social media platform like snapchat tick
tock linkedin twitter facebook social youtube that when they un unveil and reveal a new sort of tool
that those of you who actually are one of the early adopters to it and use it are more likely
to get pushed up in the feed so if you're like me i'm trying to grow my channel to ten thousand
that is one opportunity to get a boost by using the instagram guys possibly you just never know
so that's one thing the second reason why you want to consider using instagram guide because
it allows you to show another part of your personality right now on instagram the only
place you have is your feed but if you have a food channel you have a channel dedicated to fashion
or to travel or to something that's specific in your niche your followers may not be too keen
for you to deviate a little bit on it and so the only place you get to show off your
personalities in your stories which is fleeting but the instagram guys last a long time so use
instagram flies to show off your likes your travels your adventures um your food choices
your faves whatever you want to do and put it in instagram guides the third reason why you might
want to consider using instagram guides is living moving breathing sorted entity and that you can
change it unlike the instagram feed perhaps if you do a slideshow for example you cannot rearrange
a slideshow after you hit post you just have to delete it and start all over again but instagram
guides you can rearrange the order you can add more content and to the extent that instagram
does decide to do more long form written content that is rumored to be instagram guys is going to
be the tool to get it you would have already had your dipped your toes in the instagram water and
you already know how to do it and you can just keep on going and keep going with that platform
so i hope that's helpful for you um i like to highlight one of my recent comments for the j
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and i think that's all i have for you today i am going to be doing more pinterest 101
videos i promise um stay tuned for them um in the meantime i'll see you next time hit my outro music