Saturday Sharing: 8 Ways to Use Instagram for Business

Instagram provides many different ways to help you with your business. Whether your marketing your products, sharing behind the scenes images or any number of possibilities that can be shared via photo or video, Instagram can help you with it.

This article provides 8 different ways to use Instagram to market or brand your business. Check out the tips via the links below.

Article link: http://www.designinfographics.com/social-media-infographics/8-ways-to-use-instagram-for-business

Pinterest Link: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/37014028164692554/

Enjoy!

Friday Facts: How to build a brand on Instagram

Check out this blog and video by Alex Beadon regarding how to build a brand on Instagram. She has some interesting points that might be useful to anyone working on building their brand on Instagram.

Check out the post and video here: http://www.alexbeadon.com/2014/08/12/how-to-build-a-brand-on-instagram/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-build-a-brand-on-instagram

Friday Facts: Instagram and Pinterest Marketing - A List Of Holiday Social Media To-Dos

The holidays are almost upon us - well, close enough as holiday season starts next week with Thanksgiving and runs through the next month with Christmas and New Year.  Holidays are often busy with vacations and extra work coming down the line when you're trying to make holiday sales as well as market your brand.  If you have branched your brand into Instagram and Pinterest, now is the time to take advantage of those platforms with the tips this infographic provides.

Today's post links to an infographic I found on Pinterest here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/381539399656082323/

The original article can be found on Digital Information World here: http://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2014/11/leverage-pinterest-and-instagram-to-drive-traffic-and-revenue-this-holiday-infographic.html

A couple of their Pinterest tips:

• Share the joy. Add Pin It buttons to all on-site holiday creative. (Allrecipes drove a 900 percent lift in Pinterest clicks by adding the Pin It button to their site).
• Build a holiday board to highlight you ho-ho-hottest pins.

A couple of their Instagram tips: 

• Create and promote a holiday hashtag. All I want for Christmas is... UGC (user-generated content)? Ask fan to share selfies and tag your brand.
• Celebrate UGC in a holiday gallery on your website. Brands that have brought UGC on site are driving a 15-30 percent lift in click-throughs to shop.

They have 10 tips for each social media site. Read more: http://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2014/11/leverage-pinterest-and-instagram-to-drive-traffic-and-revenue-this-holiday-infographic.html#ixzz3IdnzB9ly

Good luck marketing this holiday season.