How Instagram can be used for promoting our business in 2020 ?
Instagram is the 3rd
largest social media platform used for sharing
visual contents like photos, videos and short stories.A single picture says
thousand words. People love visual content more than the long text-based
content and Instagram is all about visual content.
Instagram has a big audience base.
If
your targeting audience is between the ages of 18-34 then you should definitely
choose Instagram in your business marketing strategy.
More than 500 million peoples are
daily active on Instagram and approximately 60 million photos are posted. 25 million businesses are active on
Instagram.
60% people say they discover new
product on Instagram, 200 million+ people visit at least one business profile
daily. 1/3 of the most viewed stories are from businesses. (DATA TAKEN FROM INSTAGRAM OFFICIAL WEBSITE)
Many great brands have already used
Instagram like (@lamborghini, @audi, @reliancejio @tatacompanies, etc.) for
increasing their brand visibility, Get engaged with their audience and Take
feedback from their customers, etc.
HOW TO DO
MARKETING ON INSTAGRAM:
There are two types of Instagram
marketing
1. Paid
2. Non paid
PAID
MARKETING ON INSTAGRAM:
1.
By using Instagram ads:
You can boost
your post through ads on Instagram and reach your target audience by creating Photo
ads, video ads, story ads, carousel ads, collection ads, ads in explore, etc. on
business.instagram.com/advertising/. It’s useful for increasing reach,
increasing website traffic, making conversions, lead generation, brand
awareness, store visits, etc.
Photo Ads: It is a simple single photo ad
appears as sponsored ad when your target customer scrolling their feed. This ad
also include call to action like book now, contact us, install now, know more, etc.
Video Ads:It is a 60sec video ad it is also
appears when your target customer scrolling their feed and it is also include
call to actions.
Story Ads: This ad include image or video of
30sec duration appears when your target customer seeing stories of their
following accounts.
Carousel Ads: This ad includes a collection of
images or videos appears on target customer feed.
Ads in Explore: This ad appears when people searching
for their interest in Instagram search section.
2.
By posting your ad on other
popular Instagram profiles
You can
approach other Instagram account which have good followers base and ask them to
post your ad on their feed or stories.
3.
Influencer marketing:
Many influencers are available on Instagram. By
influencer marketing you can increase brand awareness, brand visibility, reach,
generate leads, and discover new audience.
NON-PAID MARKETING ON
INSTAGRAM:
1.
Create your business
profile:
Create
business profile on Instagram and post related to your business, tell people
about your brand values, missions and purpose. Tell about your new launching
products and services.By creating business profile, you can track your insights
of your post about reach, impressions, shares, comments, saves, etc.
2.
Engagement:
Instagram has
great engagement metrics compared to other social media platforms. To engage
your audience, you should engage with them too.
Post content
that are valuable and saveable for your audience. Write proper caption about
the post. Ask questions in your caption. Use story polling feature. Use
specific hashtag in your story and post. Maintain the consistency of the posts.
This will help in creating trust between you and your audience and people will
like to purchase and refer your product to others
3.
Follow relevant account:
Follow
accounts related to your business, like their post, comment on their post to
increase your reach.
4.
Use hashtags:
Use popular
hashtag related to your industry to increase your reach and impressions
5.
Manage giveaway:
Offer your
followers some gift or money to share your post.
If you are not
using Instagram till in 2020 then you miss a big opportunity to attract and
retain potential customers, increase your visibility and achieve your business
goals.
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