- Instagram is one of the most powerful platforms
to build your audience and grow your brand.
The good news is, you can do it with just your smartphone.
Today, I'm going to give you 10 Instagram growth hacks
in about five minutes to help you grow on Instagram.
Hey, everybody.
This is Roberto Blake,
helping you create something awesome today.
Welcome back to the channel.
For the new people here, my name is Roberto Blake.
I'm a creative entrepreneur, a public speaker.
Today, I want to talk to you about growing on Instagram
so that you can build your brand or your business.
We're gonna cover 10 tips in five minutes starting now.
Tip number one, you can use If This, Then That,
which is IFTTT.com,
I'm gonna link it in the description for you,
as a way for you to automate
some of your stuff on Instagram.
My favorite hack for this is to actually share
your Instagram post with the photo or video
over on Twitter automatically.
The reason this hack is so good
is you can get a whole new audience
to go to your Instagram profile and to engage with you there
by tapping into this.
If you can combine it with hashtags, it's really powerful.
Tip number two, if you do instablogging like me
and you do long-form post in your captions,
then you want to make it look a little bit pretty.
You can do that by actually doing a line break and a period
twice in a row.
That will actually help you format paragraphs
in your Instagram post when you're making them longer.
This is a really interesting hack.
There's not really a lot to it.
It will help you make those posts
just look a little bit prettier.
Tip number three, this one is for Instagram Live.
If you do IG Live, then you can actually invite somebody
to share the stream with you.
I don't recommend inviting strangers from the audience.
Invite somebody from your community to stream with you
that has a following that you might want to tap into.
Maybe you guys are the same size
or they're a little bit bigger than you.
You can actually get new followers
because Instagram Live notifies their audience
that they're live with you.
This is an opportunity
to get new followers instantaneously.
You could do this, you could do this every week.
This will help you grow on Instagram a lot faster.
Hack number four, you can use the Instagram name tag.
This is similar to a Snapcode.
It's like a QR code.
You could use this in print material.
You could put it here up on your YouTube screen
if you want to.
But I think if you do guerrilla marketing with print,
you can actually grow an audience an interesting way
if you're a photographer for example or a model
by using contact sheets and flyers or even a T-shirt.
You could do this in terms of some local guerrilla marketing
or do this at events and get followers that way.
I think that's actually a really cool tactic.
Number five, getting verified.
Anybody can apply to be verified now
in their Instagram settings.
Now I would recommend that if you apply to be verified
that you do it when you have somewhere between 10,000,
20,000 followers to start.
You should also consider having something noteworthy
that you've done in your Instagram bio.
You'll want to have
a completely filled out Instagram profile.
If you do that, you have better odds of being approved.
It's great now that you can actually apply to be verified.
Hack number six, this one is for photographers, shoot loose.
Shoot with things not cropped all the way in
so you have flexibility to use these photos
for Instagram stories and Instagram posts
and format them the way that you want to.
I know that usually you shoot it perfectly
the way that you want.
But with Instagram,
you want to have that little bit of extra flexibility.
Whether you want to put it in Instagram story or the Grid,
you'll have options.
Tip number seven is for hashtags.
There are two apps I'm gonna recommend
to help you optimize and analyze the best hashtags to use
on your Instagram post.
One of these is called the Preview app
and the other is called the Hashtag app.
These are really great.
I'm probably gonna do some in-depth videos on them
especially when I do another video
that I'm planning to drop in a couple of days
around Instagram hashtag strategy.
But these apps are really great
if you want to maximize and get the most out of hashtags
to increase the exposure of your Instagram post.
I would definitely check them out.
Number eight, this one is for Instagram stories.
If you have 10,000 followers
and if you don't watch my video
on how to grow to 10,000 followers,
but if you have 10,000 followers
and you have the swipe up feature,
you can link out from Instagram, but that's not the hack.
The hack is using something called Linktree
so you can actually post multiple links
and get to take advantage of that.
If you need to post multiple links for whatever reason
attached to that Instagram story,
then Linktree can let you do it.
You could also do this in your bio as well.
If you have a lot of other social media profiles
that you want to promote for some reason,
this is a great little hack to do that.
Number nine, speaking of Instagram stories,
you can actually post from your Grid to IG stories,
which means that if you've been doing IG stories,
you could hype up your audience,
tell them that you want comments on this specific post,
share that post with them,
and then drive attention and traffic to that post,
get more engagement on it.
This is gonna really help you
with just getting more of those likes,
more of those comments by taking advantage of IG stories.
Finally, tip number 10, the closeout here,
if you have an Instagram business account,
and I'll do a whole video on businesses accounts
versus personal accounts,
but if you have a business account,
you get a lot of features that most users don't.
This includes the ability to use
what are called Instagram Insights.
These are detailed analytics.
They can tell you a lot of things about your Instagram posts
and about your profile overall.
They're gonna be adding some new features
that I'm gonna cover in my 2019 Instagram updates video.
One of the best features I think they're getting ready
to add is one where you can see which hashtags
were the most effective for getting engagement on your post,
which is really killer.
You want to take advantage of Insights
if you have a business account.
If you have a profile that's a normal account
and you're just trying to build yourself up,
maybe you want to keep that profile to get more reach
but later, if you're doing anything as an influencer,
you might want those analytics
and you might want to switch to a business account.
Just a thought.
There you go.
I think I covered 10 Instagram hacks for you
in about five minutes.
Let me know if you like these concise videos
with a bunch of quick tips.
I'll see if I can do more of them in the future.
Question of the day:
what is your best tip for growing on Instagram?
I would love for the community to share some information
and some advice.
I think this is gonna be helpful.
I'm also gonna link in the description
to more of my videos that talk about Instagram specifically
so they can help you grow there.
Also, I'm curious about how many followers
people in this community in Instagram
so I can gauge where you're at
'cause I think some of you are good with the beginner stuff
and I think there are few of you
who needs some more advanced tactics
to help you either monetize your Instagram,
grow it properly, or get brand deals.
That's definitely something I would love to talk about.
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Take care.