Want to add Instagram Story Highlights to your profile? It's another great tool
to help brand yourself when somebody visits your profile. In this video I'll
show you how easy it is to do, alright? Let's get into it
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we release another helpful video. My name is Jerry Potter and by the end of this
video you'll know how to add Highlights from your Instagram Stories to your
profile as well as give them each a custom thumbnail so they look great when
people check you out. Now when we talk about Instagram Story Highlights this is
what we mean - they're on your profile so if someone is scouting you out they can
decide whether or not to follow you. You can use it to showcase some of your best
content. You can also use it to showcase different aspects of your brand. So on
mine right now I'm offering a video for people to join my email list called the
Five Minute Facebook Facelift. That's there to promote that. Then I've got
different content from my group members, or the tribe in general (people from the
YouTube channel). "My Life" which is basically stuff from my personal life,
because I've gotten to know a lot of my clients and students personally and I'm
totally open to sharing that. "Social Tips" - that's where I share different tips, and
then the trailer is just the YouTube trailer. So those are sort of the
different pieces of my brand and my life that I'm sharing there through my
Highlights. They're set up that way to reinforce what I'm all about. Even if you
never actually click and watch any of them it's sort of a way to extend your
bio by adding more things to it Your profile will hold about 5 Instagram story
highlights before you have to scroll, but you can scroll and add more obviously
Again, I don't think there's anything wrong with scrolling, although I have
seen some people where it's like "scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, and it's like, "How
many do you have!?!" I don't know what the limit is but I think somebody has
figured it out by adding just a ton of them. So there are a couple of ways that
you can add to your Instagram story highlights. One is to simply, when you're
in one of your stories, as it's playing down here in the lower right
hand corner you'll see it says Highlight. Tap that. It will ask you which of your
highlights you want to add this story to. So it'll show you the ones you have. If
you don't have any then you can hit New. Title the highlight. I'm just gonna call
it New for the sake of this tutorial, and hit add, and it says "Added a Highlight"
View on Profile." So even though your Instagram Stories do delete after 24
hours publicly, if you add it to your highlights it will stay there until you
remove it, so keep that in mind. I can hit done or I'm gonna click View on Profile,
and that'll show me that there - "New" - that's the one I just added. Now
obviously I don't want to keep that so I'm gonna tap into it and I'm gonna go
down here in the right-hand corner and click More, then I'm gonna say
Remove from Highlight. Yes, remove, and boom! Just like that it's gone. The other
way to add to a highlight is going into your archive. From the upper left-hand
corner you see sort of this clock/rewind symbol. If I tap on that it's actually
gonna bring up all of the archived stories ever since Instagram started
archiving stories. So if you had one in here that you wanted to add, you can tap
on it, and just like when it was in a live story you can tap Highlight and
it'll bring up those same options to add it to your highlights. If you keep adding
to the same highlight it'll just add more and more clips to that highlight. Now the
order they show up in is basically whichever one has been updated most
recently. So all the way over here on the right I have the trailer for my YouTube
channel and that was one that I put up a while ago, as opposed to the rest of
these that I update more regularly. So that's why it's all the way at the end
So every time you add a new clip to one of these highlights it'll move it to the
front (or to the left as that case may be) on your profile. Next I want to show you
how you edit the highlight. Well if you, again, tap the three little circles
in the bottom. Once you're in a highlight and choose Edit Highlight, this is where
you can choose what icon will show up as well as take things in and out in mass
So as you can see down here these are all the clips that are in this
particular highlight, and if I want to take one out I can just uncheck it and
then hit Done and it'll be gone. I can also change the name
Maybe I want to be social tips with a Z, yo! Obviously I don't but it'd be simple
to change the name. And then Edit Cover, this is where you can change what the
thumbnail is that shows on your profile. You can choose from any of the actual
clips in there and you can move around. This is really nice because it used to
be you had to make a specific sized image with the part you wanted right in
the middle, but now you can choose from any of these, you can zoom in, kind of
like you do with your profile picture. Choose whatever you want or you can
actually use something from your camera roll that's not even in your highlights
and choose it that way. Now on mine you'll notice I mostly have photographs
as my thumbnails. I just like the way that looks (although that one is
obviously a graphic for my Five Minute Facebook Facelift) but on other profiles
you'll actually see some people like to have icons and a lot of people like to
have super matching icons. For example on this one from Jenna Kutcher you can
see she has a little icon for each one that she created in Canva or some sort of
software program. Here's another profile from a real
estate marketer Chelsea Peitz and you can see she's made hers all this same color
to kind of go with her brand. Last tip I want to give you about titling: You've
only got so many characters that you can have here before it'll get cut off. For
example, this one is called My Life and I used to have it called Personal Stuff,
but you'll notice on here then that gets cut off and I hated that because now
it's just "Personal St..." So that's why I changed it to My Life
instead. The other thing you might want to do is actually have a slide that
explains more about that highlight just in case you don't have enough characters
For example this one says Social Tips. It's not how to pick someone up in a bar
It's not how to be less socially awkward at work. It's actually social media tips
So I'm putting this slide in and what you have to do is you actually have to
put this slide in a story and then add it to your highlights to get it to show
up there. But that way when somebody clicks on it they'll see Social Media
Tips and then they'll start watching the story highlights that show those tips. If
you're on Instagram I'd love to connect there. I'm @mrjerrypotter. Follow me,
send me a DM so I can follow you back. And another video that might be helpful
for you is "How to Add Action Buttons to your Instagram Profile"
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