Hey, welcome back to the Six-Figure Mastermind. Marianne DeNovellis here. Today
we're getting efficient with Instagram. Stay tuned.
If you know me, you know I'm all about efficiency. I mean, I'm a mom of 5 kids.
I can't afford to be wasting time doing anything, okay?
So, every little bit of streamlining that I can do, I do it. And I have just found a
streamlining hack that I'm going to give to you. If you use Instagram at all for
business and you should be, you may find yourself going between your computer.
Maybe a second computer and your phone and you're running three screens all at
the same time. Trying to do everything all at once. And maybe you're wasting
seconds or milliseconds or even minutes waiting for one thing before you can
move on to the next. Forget all of that. Let's streamline and put everything in
one place. I know that Instagram for a long time has been a mobile only app. But
now our computers are starting to catch up with that and make apps downloadable
on computers. So, I'm going to teach you how to use Instagram on your desktop, so
you can save yourself just a little bit of extra time which will add up in the
long run. So, if you go with me on to your webpage, you can actually go to Instagram.com
This has limited features. So, Instagram.com will allow you to see... You
can interact a little bit and you can actually, you know, like photos and see
what's going on here. In another one of my videos, you can kind of see how I
talked about Instagram stories. Look at the Instagram on the desktop in the
browser. Look at the Instagram stories here. Every Instagram account that you
see on this bar, on this right side has a story. So, that's what I'm saying,
stories are so important. So this, you know, it has a few features but they are
limited. You can like posts, you can check on your profile here, you can check your
notifications here, you can even do searches here. But it is a little bit
limited. You know, you get... You can even scroll and see larger pictures. But what
happens if you want to upload an image? That's been the outcry of everyone
that's been using Instagram is saying, "Hey look, I love it. I love it on my phone.
But if I want to upload something from my computer, I can't." That means I have to
download a third-party app onto my phone to get a high quality photo. It means I
have to do all these other things and all these extra steps in. And that's just
simply not the best use of time. So, let's take
to the next level. If you actually go to your App Store, whether you have a PC or
a Mac, you can download Instagram as an app. I've already done it on this
computer and if you look down at my toolbar down here, you're going to see the
Instagram app icon. So, if I open up Instagram here it's going to actually
function just like the app on my phone. Which means guess what? If I'm taking
professional-grade photos on my DSLR, I can just upload them directly from my
computer. And this Instagram app behaves exactly like the Instagram on your phone.
You can see, you can scroll, you can add photos, you can do likes, you can do
comments. This is how you want to walk through this, okay? Look right here, you
can press the home button. It's just like looking at a blown-up version of your
phone. If you go here, you can check your messages, you can answer messages there.
In fact I was on Quora this morning and someone asked "How do I send messages
from Instagram on my computer?" This is how it's done.
Download the Instagram app on your PC or your Mac. You can also... And check this out.
I had these photos right here which means, check this out,
you can use your library, you can use your photos, you can like tap into your
camera, you can tap into video here and that will turn on the camera directly
from your computer. So you can do videos, you can do selfies, wherever you're at.
Which means, you're not having to switch between your phone and your computer and
do that whole mess. Especially if you're involved in Instagram pods. So, I have an
Instagram pod that I'm involved in through Facebook. And if I'm not using
the... But if I'm not using the Instagram app on my computer, you know, I
have to do? I have to go through my phone, find the Instagram account that I'm
trying to interact with and it's just a waste time. Here, I can click directly on
the link, it'll take me directly to the Instagram without having to waste time
going between devices. so, the secret key is this. Download the Instagram app on
your device. Whether it's a Mac or a PC, pin it to your menu so you can use it on
a regular basis without having to search everywhere else for it. And interact as
you normally would right on the app of your phone. Hey, thanks for watching. I
hope you're saving just few more minutes every single day and
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