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27 Effective And Powerful Instagram Marketing Tips

Instagram has around 1.074 billion+ of active audience, has less competition and has the much more engaged audience than the other social media giant like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat Or LinkedIn.


If you are one of those who uses Instagram daily then you should know that how effective and powerful this social network is as to use in a form of marketing platform.


It is one of the best places to promote your product or services, connect with your customers and reaches to the new peoples within your target market.


Effective And Powerful Instagram Marketing Tips


In order to increase or improve your Instagram marketing, you must have to increase your following on a constant or a steady basis.


The more you engage peoples with your account or with your brand and follow you on Instagram the larger amount of audience is reach to your posts.


This thing gives an opportunity for your business to market their products and reaches to the targeted audience without spending a single penny on the paid advertisement.


So, Here Are The 27 Instagram Marketing Tips Which You Can Use:

1. Shoot Square

You Instagram feeds looks good due to your photographs in your accounts posted by you.


So, it’s better to start with the high-quality photos which make your Instagram marketing more useful and effective.


Shoot square is one of the largest and the best way to save your time and it is better to compose your photos for Instagram is to shoot square photos.


It’s really easy to do with many of the other digital cameras and smartphones which have amazing functions in them by using them you can do this easily.


This thing lets you save your time as well as your money on cropping. Because the shooting of the photos inside the Instagram would be limiting and you can do it in a limited way.


2. #Hashtags

This is also one of the best ways for marketing on Instagram. Hashtags are a great way to reach your posts to a large amount of audience and sometimes hashtags have become trending and those types of hashtags were spreads like fire in all over the social media platforms.


Hashtags Like: #holiday | #success | #business | #marketing | #sundayholiday etc.


If the hashtags which are trending and also relevant to your brand then you must include them in the timely posts to aid discovery.


In searching for the topics, Instagram also gives you the opportunity to search by emoji as they introduced this feature also.


If the emojis are good for your brand then make sure that you will think about it and think about how you can make a great channel in an appropriate way to convey.


3. Instagram Sweepstakes

The Instagram Hashtags contests are awesome but you must also consider Instagram sweepstakes in case of targeted your brand and your targeted audience.

The entry process is a little bit different in Instagram sweepstakes.


By using the contest app which you can choose according to your choice Build a sweepstakes page using featuring information about your contest and your prize with an information which you want to collect from the entrants.


After that, you have to schedule an set of Instagram stories or an Instagram posts which informs followers about a sweepstake with a call-to-action button directly to their newly-created page.


The best practice about Instagram in this is that you can put a link in your bio or in your stories so that peoples can easily see and click and enter whatever you are showing to the peoples.


Instagram sweepstakes work very well when you have a good amount of budget because Instagram ads are one and the only way to send peoples to an external link within the post and sending peoples to your sweepstakes page which is crucial to collecting their emails and getting entrants.


4. Discounts & Coupons

Peoples on Instagram browse their newsfeed without much content which they usually do it and also on the latest with their connections and do past at the time.

If you wanted to drive sales with the help of Instagram It’s important for you to engage followers with the content which turns them into active viewers rather than the passive followers.


Generally, most of the peoples will react well to the promotions when it combined with appealing posts of products.


You must have to showcase your offerings with a product photo and add text which highlights from an offer or a coupon code in order to engage more audience towards your posts.


The best practice in this is to connect sales and offers discounts on an occasion like a Black Friday or a super bowl.


5. Product Posts

Marketing on Instagram is really simple. It is simplest in consisting of products photos but it’s not a strategy which you should take lightly!


The combination of both the things an great photography and an action-oriented caption will definitely lead to the success of the Instagram marketing.


One of the best strategies for brands on Instagram is that to periodically post photos of your products with including some information about the thing which you are promoting into the captions.


In each of the captions always trying to highlight the things which are related to the product selling instead of that you must include the price of the product or and direct peoples where you send them to so that they can get it.


6. Instagram Live

Instagram live is also one of the best and awesome avenue to explore but you can do this well if you have a fan base to do it. It is one of the best ways to interact with your audience or followers on a more personal level.


You can do your live broadcast in a different format a few which works well are like make Q&A live session, Products launching and an influencers takeovers.


Whatever the case or whatever your formats for live are but you make sure that you must announce your broadcast in a proper way on your story, on your social profiles or on your social media posts and always trying to give your broadcast in the best possible way and shoot at performing level.


[ If you have something goal of some sort of your broadcast it doesn’t matter whether it is to get peoples to your website, enter your contest or buy a product you must have a specific contest in your mind which will help you in focusing your mind to your broadcast and push peoples to convert ].


7. Comments Responding

You might think that this is completely waste thing in terms of promotion but what happens if I tell you that it will work and work well in terms of getting business towards you.


If your posts are getting hundreds to thousands of comments then you must reply to every comment I know this thing is awkward for you but you must reply to every comment because for small types of businesses which are looking in growing their business it will help more in getting customers.


I know this strategy is less feasible but responding to each and every comment will get you in an amazing way to build your personal relationship with the both potential and the existing customers.


Comments will make your brand or your product or anything which you are promoting feel more personal and your connections with your targeted audience will be more strong.


8. Partnership With Other Brands

As a marketer, you will easily understand the concept behind this.


This is one of the greatest trends of social media which drastically increase the numbers of collaboration between the brands, making of some of the most compelling marketing I have ever seen.

It is not mandatory for you to change the marketing game, consider this partnering with the brands whose products which you will complement your own to join the marketing campaigns.


9. Set Your Instagram Business Account

If you haven’t your Instagram business account then, you just need to create this account for your business.


If you have your own Instagram business account then this thing allows you to get the unique metrics on your posts and stories, into the insights of your followers and also add information about your company like your businesses hours, your location and your phone numbers and all the necessary details.


10. Make Shoppable Feed

It is tough to get peoples from your Instagram pages to your website without helping of the ads or through your story.

Only a few or maybe zero peoples will make it to your bio and click on your website link and visit your website and most of the times you can also give the only link to your one page at a time i.e that link need to either remain or the same as all the times or changes every time you post.


You can also use these type of tools like Curalate’s Like2Buy and Have2Have.

It is that which makes your Instagram feed shoppable and very impressive.


They will create a page which will replicate to your feed and which allows peoples to click on the specific photos to get information about the product which is featured in each one of the images.


This will be very beneficial for the companies which have multiple accounts which allows you to link to a single place which is from your bio that acts like a hub for all the links and products which are related to you.


11. Add CTA [ Call-to-action ] In Bio

This is one of the underappreciated parts of an Instagram which is in bio in your profile.

This is the place where peoples can easily get the information about your product or service.


Add a CTA [ Call-to-action ] to it can increase the amount of traffic which you will drive from your account to your website or a store.


12. Tag Influential Accounts In Posts

This is also the best way to get your accounts noticed by other by tagging the big influential accounts in your posts while posting.


Find some high or big accounts within in your industry or in your niche and tag them directly into your photos to get the attraction of those audiences which is already engaged with those accounts.


By tagging them your posts or photos will be put in the news feed of those which you have been tagged in and increase the likelihood of those peoples who don’t currently follow you and by doing this you will stumble upon your account because you are the only person who is tagging those accounts which are related to yours the peoples who came across then they will be more likely to be in interested into your brand, product or service o whichever thing you are selling.


13. Instagram Advertisement

The Instagram advertisement is also an incredible way of marketing your service or product over Instagram because Instagram ads also look like and native ads besides the small “sponsored” types of text ads which are above the image.


Instagram ads look like that they are a part of a user’s news feed.

They are also good and more beneficial from other platforms ads because they give you an option for adding the CTA’s [ Call To Action ] button in your ads.


They look like simple photos and you can also link them to your landing pages, content and many more.


14. Show Product In Action

You must show your photos or products in action so that your followers should fee more relatable towards the thing which you are promoting.


By showing your products in front of your followers it would be much easier for your followers to relate to your photo, by putting them in the mindset of your followers.


If you show regularly your products in front of the peoples in the form of your follower then they will see that regularly and habitual of that and there are more chances of buying that product.


15. Build Community

Many of the big businesses and big companies use Instagram to connect with their customers on a personal level.

You can easily do this thing by reposting the customer feedback and photos that featured your product or service.


You should also say thank you to them for a shootout for your product and mention their username in your posts so that your posts can also reach to those peoples which are connected with that account which you mentioned in your posts while posting on Instagram.


By doing this essence thing you easily build an online community that is not just about or for your business but that was also about customers as well.


16. Paid Shootouts

If you have a little bit amount of budget then the paid shootouts will be a very effective way for your business.


You have to pay a certain amount of money to the peoples who will record a video or a photo in the form of a shootout about your product or service and then you can post that video or a photo into your posts so that you can reach your that post to more peoples and promote your service or product.


These shootouts are like the free cousin and if you are using paid shootouts promotion then make sure that you want to be to make your campaign are worth the investment.


While doing the paid shootouts you can easily get the best solid results and if you are really want to step up your game then you must try this tactic. 


17. Don’t Over-post

Don’t post over-post into your Instagram accounts especially for newbies because peoples think that if they post more and more content then more and more followers will engage with their self but this is not true and if you do this thing then you will move steps forward to say no-no to Instagram.


18. Use Analytics Platform

To get some analytics to your Instagram business account you might want using a platform like an Iconosquare to take a look at your performance of an Instagram.


Manage your content by output with an scheduling you can also these types of analytics platforms to measure the growth of your followers and see the performance of your Instagram accounts, posts engagement and the timing of an optional post.


19. Use Instagram Pods

This is also a good way to marketing on Instagram.

This will helps you in engagement i.e you like others peoples posts and then post your image in the pod and on behalf of this peoples will also do same for you in return. You can find relevant Instagram pods in the facebook groups.


There are lots of different type of groups which is based on the niches, followers counts and it doesn’t matter whether you like and/or comment on a certain amount of posts.


Usually, pods are set-up on a messaging app which s called Telegram and you can also do same for pods.


20. Cross Promote On Other Social Media Channels

This is also one of the best and the effective way to increase your reach in order to promote your Instagram on the other social media platforms.


You may also have fans and followers on other social media channels like Facebook, Twitter And LinkedIn etc who know you and who trust you. So, why you invite those peoples to follow you on Instagram also.


If you will do this thing by cross-promoting then you will be able to generate the more exposure to your Instagram content and improve the image of your brand and also bring down the cost of a creating an new content.


21. Content Strategy

You must create a killer content strategy for the success with the Instagram marketing because without the useful and the relevant content strategy you must face hard time or maybe too much time for grabbing the attention of your customers or your targeted audience towards your product or service.


You have to find out that which type of content will give you an magic to attract the attention of your audience.


You must post more photos and videos about your product or service if you want to grow more awareness about your product or service and if you don’t want this thing that then you may want to showcase the company culture and give followers behind of the scenes look.


Focus on the thing which you want from Instagram and start working on that thing.


22. Follow Peoples

At first, you have to follow peoples on Instagram in order to increase your followers.


If you follow peoples on Instagram then they will also follow you in return back and in this way, your followers will be increasing day by day.


If you reach one stage around thousands of followers then at that stage peoples will automatically follow you and start engaging with your content.


If peoples are engaging with your content and your content was unique then you can easily promote your product or service over Instagram.


23. Include Emojis

Emojis were considered as a universal language which is used on Instagram by peoples.


It was stated that around 50% of all the captions and comments used on Instagram by peoples now have a one or two emoji and more also.


Emojis Are searchable thing on Instagram in both in the hashtags or in your username and people can easily find you based on the which emoji you use.


24. Engage With Followers

You must have to engage with your followers in order to make a good relationship with them.


If you engage with them then there are great chances for the promotion of your products or services by your followers.

You can engage with your followers by various ways of sharing their posts, chatting with them, commenting on their posts, sharing their contents etc.


If you do all these things then they will also do same kinds of things and the possibility of reaching your posts or content to peoples would be increasing and you can also get more followers with your account.


25. Use Location In Your Stories

If you want to reach your things to more and more peoples then you must have to include the location in your stories while posting your stories because this would affect in a great way and reach your content to peoples who are living in that location.


For Example: If you are living in New York and you include New York location in your stories while posting the all the peoples who live in New York will see your stories.

They may be your friends or maybe not and also it doesn’t matter that the peoples who see your stories will be connected with you.


26. Contests And Giveaways

Yes, this is the killer way to get more followers and in the branding of your products.


Contests and giveaways can really help you in getting more followers within a single post and all of your other posts within a month.


You have to collaborate with a couple of influencers and some active followers and you can also use skyrocket for your giveaway’s success.


You have to put something in front of your audience which you will giveaway in the form of the gift.


27. Manage Posting Times

You must have to see the time when you are posting your content on Instagram. You must know on which time your posts will engage with most peoples.


Every audience has different mindsets and a bit different from each other but it doesn’t mean that you are left that thing for guessing.


According to a study, the most effective time to post on Instagram is Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and posting your content around 5 P.M EST  usually gets you a much higher engagement. So, It would be better to post your content on Instagram on Friday around 5 P.M EST and see how it works.


You Don’t stick to this time you must try posting your content on different time and see that which times work best for you and you can choose that time for posting.


Wrapping Up

Instagram is an easy platform to gain lots of followers and it really doesn’t matter that what type of account you have.


Each and every Instagram account is totally different from each other but the motive of all the accounts is to engage a large amount of audience of loyal followers.


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So don’t sit free and start implementing in one or two tactics and start growing your Instagram account and see which tactic will work better for you.

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