Instagram Stories:- Increase your Followers and Engagement

Instagram stories with hearts images

LOCATION 

To be discovered, add a LOCATION STICKER. It could be a sticker of where you are or where your target market is.

Location image

 

 

#HASHTAGS are important, choose carefully.

  • You can use up to 11 Hashtags on every Instagram story
  • Make sure they are relevant to your post 
  • They should be something your target market are searching for
  • Aim for hashtag popularity of 50,000 to 500,000

@MENTIONSTICKERS allows you to tag users within your instagram post.

  • Tag up to 10 users in Instagram story
  • It should be relevant 
  • Good way to get featured in someone else account so they can reshape you story.
  • This feature only works when you are @mentioned in a story
  • When you tag someone they will get a Direct Message saying you have tagged them with blue text asking them to add this to your story, making it clickable which will lead to more traffic.
Ipad image with swipeup text

 

SWIPE-UP is a feature only available for users that have 10,000+ followers plus a business account.

  • You need to post regularly
  • Add links to service, product, blog, post or video
  • Think about what you want your audience to do and simply link to it.
  • If you don’t have Swipe up, add link to your bio of whatever you want them to access.

 

A CALL TO ACTION button should tell your audience exactly what to do. Example

  • Send me a DM
  • Swipe up
  • Visit Bio/latest post
  • Like your latest post
  • Answer a question
Call to Action button in organge colour

With POLLS AND QUESTIONS feature, viewers can type in their response

Questions 

  • Ask what your audience needs
  • Create content that solves their problem
  • Encourage engagement

Polls 

  • Ask yes/no feature to gain insight into what they want to hear/see or what they like/don’t like
  • Gather and use data generated via analytics

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