Can you market your blog on Instagram? Big question! Sharing links to content from your blog to Twitter or Facebook is a straight forward way to promote your blog posts on social media. It always works, right? Well, with Instagram it is slightly different: Links in image captions on Instagram are not clickable. In contrast to other social networks, a shared link in the caption of an Instagram post has no traffic power in itself. But that does not mean that you cannot promote your blog on Instagram or that you cannot drive traffic to your blog from Instagram. Since you cannot simply share links ..read more

As most social networks, Instagram asks for new content all the time. You are constantly on the lookout for creative Instagram post ideas. To be really successful, find an audience, engage with followers and grow your account you need to be active – very active. And often it is not that we do not WANT to post, it is just that we are running out of ideas. Often it is the daily routine that blocks imagination, sometimes the time we have to spend on social media is so limited that we just want the quickest way out without having to think a lot about it. That is the killer of any creativity. Comin ..read more

If you are active on Instagram you probably know that you need to come up with new posts all the time. In order to grow your account, some social media marketing professionals advise you to post a lot: Neil Patel, for instance, recommends you to post 1-2 photos, 5-30 stories, 1 video per day. If you manage to do that, that is awesome! So we all run around and take pictures, make quote images and other great images that hopefully get a ton of engagement on Instagram. And you will probably see some success: Especially if you use the best hashtags for your niche, you will see some engagement as l ..read more

For each and every social network, one of the first and most important questions is: How can I grow an audience? And by now you should know enough about us, that we will never tell you „Pay for ads“ without telling you some other methods to grow a targeted audience, first. That is no different for Instagram. Of course, you can go the easy route and pay for advertising on Instagram. And I am fairly sure that you will be able to attract at least some followers that way. But… I strongly advise you to „learn“ a little more about Instagram, your options to grow an audience without advertising – and ..read more

The following is a guest post by Lisa Michaels. Lisa is a freelance writer, editor and a striving content marketing consultant from Portland. Being self-employed, she does her best to stay on top of the current trends in the business world. Feel free to connect with her on Twitter @LisaBMichaels. As social media continues to rapidly grow, brands are looking for new ways to engage with their users. Many businesses have recognized Instagram as an effective social platform to engage teens and young adults. In fact, this audience considers Instagram to be the most important social platform. W ..read more

You have probably heard about celebrities on Instagram with millions of followers. Did you get the feeling that you need to be famous first before you can grow a following on Instagram? That is not true. Everyone can be successful on Instagram by simply following some rules and best practices. You do not even need a huge advertising budget for starting on Instagram. Success is there for you to grab it – if you have some images and are willing to learn. Before you start Instagram is not for everyone for the simple reasons that you need to be able to tell a compelling story in images or photos ..read more