- [Neil] One of the most popular features on Instagram
is stories.
Wouldn't it be great,
if you can get hundreds if not thousands of people
to mention you within their story?
Hey everyone, I'm Neil Patel,
and today I'm going to break down
how you can get mentioned more
in other people's Instagram stories.
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As you can see on my screen
I'm on a site called Mobile Monkey.
I'm going to quickly sign in.
This is an app that I use
to get more Instagram story mentions.
And I'm going to show you the results that I'm getting,
and the responses.
You hear people talking all the time like,
you need to create great content
such as creating quotes and tweets
and videos and great images.
But that's a given.
You need to create good content,
and even if you create good content,
there's no guarantee of success.
But naturally, as you do create good content,
every once in a while, you are going to get people
mentioning within their stories.
What I found is the people who mentioned you
in one story are much more likely to mention you
in future stories.
So if you can see here, I'm going to go into my inbox.
This is all the people that are messaging me on Instagram,
and I'm doing something interesting right now
that works really well.
So if you can see here, someone mentioned me,
"Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for mentioning me
in your story.
I really appreciate it.
Hope all is well."
And she was ecstatic that she,
I ended up responding with that
and then she ended up responding.
And then of course I take the time to respond as well.
Here's another person, story mentioned.
"Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for mentioning me
in your story.
I really appreciate it, I hope all is well."
And again, "Thanks Neil!
You're amazing.
All is well.
If you ever need branding, I'm here for you, right?"
Here's another one.
Let's see what they said.
Instagram welcome to our message.
Let's go to a different one.
That's not that.
Here's one story mention.
"Hey, I just want to say thanks for mentioning me
in your story, I really appreciate it."
Some people respond, not everyone does
but a lot of people do respond
and it's actually worked out quite well for me.
So if I look out here as well, is this?
Nope, that's not a story mention.
Hey, just wanted to say thanks
for mentioning me in your story, I really appreciate it.
And some people respond, some people don't.
Here's another one.
Story mention, "Here, I just want to say
thanks for mentioning me in your story.
I really appreciate.
Hope all is well.
Always man, I look up to you.
I really appreciate it.
And you're going to get quite a bit of responses.
So in essence, what I'm doing is I'm responding to people.
But if I responded to them manually, that's a lot of work.
So what I do here, I'm going to click on the sidebar
in Mobile Monkey.
So I click on chat bot
and I go to Instagram story mention.
So you need to connect your Instagram account.
If you don't have it there, you want to click it.
And I just go to Instagram story mention
and then there's a default template.
I created my own.
So I use text-based replies.
You can add a widget.
Here's the example of a widget.
Like I can add a text-based response,
quick question, an image, notification, a gif.
And I respond with the same thing every time.
Hey, I just want to say thanks
for mentioning me in your story.
I really appreciate it.
Hope all is well with you.
And then a user can reply to texts.
I could add another widget here.
Let's say if I want to show an image
and I can show an image
after if they respond with something.
In other words what I'm doing
is I'm creating canned responses
and this creates more people
when they mentioned me in a story
to feel like I'm giving them a personal response.
And yes, it is a canned response, but I do follow up
if they respond with a personalized response.
And by doing this, it's building more of a loyal following.
Then as they create more content, publish more stories,
more people are going to mention me.
And typically if you just push out good content,
people will mention in their stories.
But to really get that loyal following,
where they're more likely to mention you, like your posts,
comment on it, you need to engage with them.
That's the whole concept of social media.
Responding to everyone takes a lot of time
tracking and logging into Instagram
to see who mentions you within the story every hour
is really inefficient.
So I just do this.
I just create a canned response.
It's been working super well for me.
I've been engaging with people.
As you can see, not everyone responds
but roughly half the people do and it creates that loyalty.
And again, if they ask me for anything,
I'll be there to respond and help them out.
And that you want to manually do.
You don't want to continually use canned responses,
but if you just do this, it's a simple hack, right?
You just go to the chat bot section
once you're logged to Mobile Monkey.
Click on Instagram story mentions
and then create your first one
and you can just copy what I did, right?
It's just a widget that you create
and they give you a generic template.
It's a text-based widget that I use.
And you can just copy my response.
Hey, I just want to say thanks for mentioning me
in your story.
I really appreciate it.
Hope all is well with you.
I tested a few others, this one tends to work the best
in getting the most responses
and the most people hoarding your message
in which they're saying like, I like it.
Try it out in the long run.
This will help you get more story mentions
and build a much more loyal following on Instagram.
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