Instagram tips

Transparency Matters for Your Personal Brand

Instagram Transparency Matters What if you didn’t know the real names of your doctor, lawyer or accountant? Transparency matters! Most social media acquaintances aren’t exactly on a parallel plane with professional or collegial relationships — but how about your friends? In 2008 when I began on Twitter, it wasn’t unusual to see people using descriptive […]

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How to Use Tools to Automate Your Instagram Scheduling

  Instagram Scheduling For a long time, it wasn’t possible to use automation for Instagram scheduling.  People could use an application called Buffer that would send reminders that it was TIME to post an Instagram update, but that was as far as it went. Other applications got into the game. One of the main issues

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Do Instagram Captions Make a Difference?

Do captions make a difference? For the most part, I would say 90 percent of those I follow provide informational captions, identifying what is in the photo, or maybe adding a few hashtags. So I’ve wondered — do captions make a difference? Those who delve into more storytelling generally garner a greater response from their followers.

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How to Monitor Your Instagram Account

After Terri started her Instagram account, she didn’t monitor it for 4 or 5 years. She wondered how to monitor her Instagram followers? On Twitter it’s very obvious as the platform has built that dynamic and awareness into their interface. But at the time, Instagram didn’t make it very apparent. Years after Terri started her account,she

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How to Build your Instagram Following

How to Grow Your Instagram Following After you create a new account, you might wonder how to build your Instagram following? Instagram will provide you with a list of people you might want to consider following. In your settings, under “Follow People,” it could take you to “Discover People” and several tabs which could include

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