One month of free later premium on me.
This is a really awesome thing to leverage, especially if you want to keep track of your
prospects.
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up everyone.
Welcome back to my channel, the best place for new coaches, content creators and entrepreneurs.
In today's video I want to talk about some Instagram algorithm updates.
These are updates that I have been really loving on the platform and that I've actually
been leveraging in order to get more sales in my business and also grow my account.
That's why if you are curious to know how I've been leveraging a lot of the little updates
that Instagram has been doing, then this video is going to be perfect for you, but as always
before we dive into today's video, we've got some important shout outs that are in order,
so let's dive right into it.
Before we dive into this week's awesome video, we want to shout out the comment and YouTube
channel of the week.
Thank you so much relieving these kinds of messages onto last week's video.
Not only this, we also want to shout out the Instagram story and profile of the week as
well.
Thank you again for shouting out our videos.
Now if you're watching this and you're wondering how can I get featured in the next video,
it's very simple.
Number one, you could either leave a comment below on this video or you can take a picture
of this video and share it with your audience on Instagram.
Just don't forget to tag me now with that out of the way, let's just dive right into
this week's video.
All right guys.
Now, the first update that I have for you isn't necessarily something that you can do
natively on the Instagram platform, but I find it to be a really exciting update.
So I'm going to include it in this video anyways and that is the ability to schedule the very
first comment on your post and you can specifically do that now with later, later is the Instagram
management tool that I use to schedule out my content and I love using it so, so much
and it's really exciting now that they've released a feature to allow us to be able
to schedule that very first comment.
Now, just so that you know, this feature is specifically exclusive to the premium suite
within later, but I do have a gift for you if you are someone who has never tried the
premium level of later before, or maybe you're on the fence of whether or not it's worth
it.
Well, I have a code for you that you can use so that you can get one month of free later
premium on me.
You know when you use a relater premium, you're able to schedule carousel posts, you're able
to access amazing features like this one so that you can schedule that very first comment
and so much more.
And so I really want to make sure that you guys have a code and I personally reached
out to later to ask them for a code for you guys so that you guys can test out the features
that I'm talking about in this video.
Now with that out of the way, now that you have this code, I really want to explain to
you why having this new feature is going to be really beneficial for your business, for
your account, and just for any of your social media efforts as of before with hashtags,
you would either have to put it in your caption directly or you would have to put it in the
comment section.
For me, for a long time I used to put my hashtags in my caption, but over time I really didn't
like the aesthetic.
I really didn't like the fact that it took up my character limit.
And so that's why as of recently I stopped using hashtags all together and because for
me, I schedule out a lot of my content in advance.
I don't necessarily have the commitment or the dedication to go into my account and manually
upload that hashtag group on the first comment.
So now that we're able to actually schedule that comment in advance, that means that myself
and yourself are able to actually schedule out your hashtags in advance, plan them in
advance, and actually schedule out that first comment so that your hashtags aren't number
one, taking space in your captions.
And number two also not ruin the aesthetic that you want on your actual posts.
And so this is a really, really awesome feature that I definitely wanted to make sure that
you guys knew about and that you guys can take advantage of, especially now that you
have my code to try out later premium for free for one month.
Now if you have questions regarding hashtags, my strategy when it comes to optimizing them,
do you make sure to check out this video that I have right here because I do dive into hashtags.
How I do my hashtag groups and what to look out for when you're thinking of what hashtags
to put in your posts.
Now moving onto this second update that I've been really loving with Instagram and I've
been really leveraging for my own business and that is the primary versus general inbox.
I am obsessed with the fact that there are two inboxes now and it's been like that for
a while, especially if you have a creator account, but recently even for business accounts,
you now have two inboxes and for someone like me who gets a lot of DMS, I really enjoy this
feature because I'm able to put my family, my friends, and my students in my primary
inbox and then everyone else in the general inbox so that I can keep the two separate.
But regardless if you have a big audience or not, a really creative way to leverage
these two inboxes, especially if you have a business, is to actually flag your hot prospects
into your primary inbox and everyone else in your general.
This means that if you are following up with a prospect or if you have some really hot
leads coming through into your business, you're able to see that right away in the primary
inbox and to take it a step further, what I like to do, especially if I noticed that
there are some hot leads coming into my business, maybe prospects that are interested in joining
my program, the boss Graham Academy or anything like that, I actually take a step further
and I flag the message as well.
This allows me to immediately see who I need to follow up with in my prospects list and
again, to take it an even bigger step further.
What I also do is I use the filter functions and I filter the flag messages first so that
the prospects are the people that I'm keeping tabs on.
They'll appear automatically and nothing else is cluttering my inbox.
So again, it doesn't matter if you have a lot of people deeming you or not a lot of
people deeming you.
This is a really awesome thing to leverage, especially if you want to keep track of your
prospects.
Now onto the third update that I've been really leveraging and really obsessing over and that
is the Instagram of story mentioned.
I am obsessed with the fact that now I can actually see who has mentioned me on their
stories.
This allows me to engage with the people that share my work or mention me in their stories
even faster versus back then when I'd have to comb through my inbox and actually see
who mentioned me.
This is a really great opportunity to actually open up conversations with people who like
your work and also an easy way to get into their DMS, especially if you have a business
so that you can really warm up those prospects even more, really nurture those relationships
and hopefully lead to an eventual sale for your products or your services.
Another thing is is that I love the law of reciprocity, which means that if you do something
nice for me, I do something nice for you and so what I do is when someone mentions me on
my story, I generally like to mention them back on my story and this allows my community
to see that, Hey, this girl actually does repost and that's why more and more people
will actually shout me out on their stories hoping that I will actually repost them.
This is an amazing strategy if you want to really grow your following because the more
people who actually share your work, the more likelihood their audiences are going to be
able to see your profile, click through it and eventually follow you if they like your
content and when it comes to creating that share-ability factor.
I talk a lot about that in this video right here where I really go over step-by-step what
my personal Instagram strategy is for this year and this year.
For me, it's all about creating shareable content, all about making sure that people
are sharing my work so that I can increase my profile visits, get more traffic and therefore
potentially get more leads and followers coming into my business.
Not only this, especially if Instagram is making it a lot easier for people to track
their story mentions.
This means that people with big followings can also track them easier.
There is a reason why I've been able to repost so many people who share my content and that's
because Instagram has filtered it for me.
This means especially if you have a smaller account, if you actually mention a larger
account shout their account out.
That larger account is probably going to see that and that's going to increase the likelihood
of them resharing the fact that you shared their story and that's going to drive traffic
to your profile.
So keep that in mind because of this amazing update.
Now bigger accounts can actually have way more visibility on the smaller accounts that
are shouting them out and that it a lot easier for them to repost.
So have that in mind and really think about that when it comes to your Instagram growth
strategy.
Now I do want to mention something though and that is with my experience of really leveraging
this amazing feature, I noticed that it doesn't necessarily show me every single person that's
mentioned me on their stories.
And so as a bonus tip, this is what I like to do instead when I'm posting a piece of
content on my feed, I actually like to click on the three dots, look at my story.
Reshare is click on that and then actually see all the people who reshared my work.
This allows me to actually dive into each profile, thank them for sharing my work, repost
it, and really capitalize on the fact that people are sharing my content.
So I just wanted to make sure that you knew this bonus tip because I feel that Instagram
doesn't tell you every person that mentions you and sometimes you might need to do a little
bit of manual work.
Now.
So far in this video, I have shared with you three updates either on Instagram or outside
of Instagram, but still relates to Instagram that I have been really, really loving and
I would love for you to comment below and let me know if there's any exciting updates
that you've noticed that you've really leveraged to either grow your business or grow your
following on social media.
Now, while you guys wait for next week's video, I do want to let you know that I do more videos
about social media marketing and entrepreneurship as well.
So make sure you check out these two videos that I have right here as well.
I promise you it's just going to be as kick ass as this one.
With that being said, guys, as always, thank you so much for watching today's video.
I appreciate you.
I hope you guys have a great day, a great week, and a great life, and I'll see you in
the next one.
Bye guys.