Bog'liq 500 social media marketing tips essential advice, hints and strategy for business Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google , YouTube, Instagram, Linkedin, and more! (1)
Leave meaningful comments Replying to comments on your Instagram posts with a thank you or a friendly
message and commenting on
other Instagrammers' work is a great way to pepper
your username around the app, especially if you are complementing a customer
who is featuring your brand or product. To increase the chances that other users
will click through to check you out, leave meaningful feedback and interesting
comments. Ask questions about how a certain photo was taken, complement the
composition, politely provide suggestions to improve a shot,
etc. All of this is
good karma and will eventually lead to more followers. There are two places you
can tag (or @ mention) another Instagram user: in the caption before you publish
a photo, and in a comment. To mention someone in a caption, just type @
followed by the username, e.g.@bobthebob. When you publish the photo, the
username will be linked to the corresponding profile, and the user will be
notified that they were tagged. If you want to reply to someone's comment on a
photo, tap and hold the username and select "mention user."
Note: Responding to multiple comments within the Instagram app or even on the
desktop site
can be a cumbersome experience. To help relieve the burden, check
out the third-party "Instagram for Chrome" browser extension. This little widget
allows you to like and comment on photos or videos, get desktop notifications,
and see what filters have been used by users.
Track and analyze your Instagram activity While Instagram doesn’t have a native analytics tool, there are plenty of third
party options out there, both free and paid. Two of my favorites are Iconosquare
(
http://www.iconosquare.com
) - a free analytics service that provides a variety of
metrics for your Instagram account, including your Top 5 most-liked and
followed photos, how often you use filters and which are your favorites, and
your most engaged followers, as well as management tools like the ability to
follow or unfollow users, like and comment on posts, and use Emoji in
comments - and Collect.to (
http://www.collect.to
) – a platform with both free and
paid options that provides you with analytics and data to help you run Instagram
campaigns and contests. A paid account provides you with enhanced filtering
options for date, hashtags, locations,
etc. Whichever you choose, sign in with
your Instagram details and use the stats to monitor which of your Instagram
activity best resonates with your audience, and use this as a basis for future
content. Don’t forget, too, that you can use a service like bit.ly (
http://www.bitly.com
)
to shorten links and track their visits. Links aren't clickable within Instagram
photo captions, but they
are in your Instagram Bio, which you can direct people
to via a message underneath a photo or video that you post.