We are beyond the point where we can deny the immense influence of Instagram. Though people originally believed that Instagram was mostly for individual accounts, we’ve come to learn the marketing opportunities it holds for businesses and companies. Using the platform for your business can boost growth, awareness, engagement, and interaction with your target audience, […]
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Many companies and indie creators have turned to Instagram in order to publish their content and promote their brands. This has made Instagram as big as Facebook and Twitter in the marketing department, but it has something that both of these social media platforms lack. Instagram has been created with quick content turnover and a
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Tommy Landry, the show runner here, suggested many moons ago that I draw up a quick post to predict the social media platforms of the future. We both agreed it would be a no-brainer and, therefore, easy-to-write. And, yet… The answer was so obvious that I didn’t reckon I could find 600 words to put
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Friends, let us hope this is the last in a series on how to use, post, and sell on Instagram for small and medium businesses, nonprofits, and private practices, consultants, and service providers. We’ve discussed Instagram as a lead generation tool for your sales funnel. Which is marketing geek-speak for getting people into your store
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In our thrilling conclusion to last week’s Selling on Instagram post — or, as I’ve been calling it, the Social Media Series that wouldn’t end — we bring you a boatload of real-world ways to compel, capture, convince, convert, and cash in. Sharing is Caring: Endorsements https://www.instagram.com/p/BGsjLmPqpT-/ Actress Carrie Ann Moss, whom you probably know
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As promised, we’re back we’re going to explore the wonderful world of selling on Instagram. Sales in the Land of Instagram First, let’s define terms. I think words matter. We can all go further, together, when we take a moment to find a common starting point when we’re talking about sales or social selling — or
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As part of our ongoing series of social media for today’s one-man-band marketers and those who love them, we’ve been looking at Instagram, both why and how to use it. Last week, we covered some of the benefits of marketing with Instagram. We’ll continue that today. As often happens in life, we will uncover some of
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Last week, we looked at Instagram in the abstract — as something Margaret Atwood may have written at the turn of the century — and then, with a high-level geopolitical analysis — because I fancy the work that Stratfor and the like do for our society. Now let’s get down to brass tacks, por fin, okay? As I’ve said in
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And now, the thrilling conclusion to our mini-series: The Visual Social Platforms: Which One Should Busy Small Biz Folk Be On Now. All You Need to Know Is in the Title — Because Facebook Imagine seeing that title on the worn spine of a paperback in a used bookstore before the turn of the century, if
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Last week, we took a brief foray into the history of the digital social media so that we could make better informed, supportable decisions on how to allocate our social media and content marketing dollars and efforts. This week, we’ll dive a bit deeper into the “visual platforms” of Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram. I will
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