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- 0:00Speaker 1: Here's the deal. As of today, Instagram has over 1
- 0:03Speaker 1: billion users. That's billion with a B. And it's got
- 0:06Speaker 1: over 500 million daily users who log on and check
- 0:09Speaker 1: things like their stories. People are also spending an insane
- 0:12Speaker 1: amount of time on the platform, with the average user
- 0:14Speaker 1: currently logging about 28 minutes per day on Instagram. And
- 0:18Speaker 1: if you're convinced or you have the notion that your
- 0:21Speaker 1: target market just isn't active or present on Instagram, I'd
- 0:24Speaker 1: like to argue against that because it's a pretty equal
- 0:26Speaker 1: split between men and women, something we've seen change over
- 0:29Speaker 1: the last couple of years. But here's where things get
- 0:31Speaker 1: really interesting for you as a business owner or an
- 0:34Speaker 1: entrepreneur or a marketer. When surveyed, 75% of businesses said
- 0:38Speaker 1: that they're planning on using Instagram to market their business
- 0:41Speaker 1: into this next year. So if you're in the 75%
- 0:44Speaker 1: of businesses who've decided to use Instagram to market your
- 0:46Speaker 1: business moving forward, well, then we need to make sure
- 0:49Speaker 1: that you're doing it right. And if you're in the
- 0:51Speaker 1: 25% of businesses who've decided to put off Instagram marketing
- 0:54Speaker 1: for maybe another day, we need to make sure that
- 0:56Speaker 1: you're making the best and the most strategic and the
- 0:58Speaker 1: most logical decision. And hopefully by going through this video,
- 1:01Speaker 1: you'll be able to decide if it's right for you.
- 1:03Speaker 1: and possibly switch over. But seeing as you're here now,
- 1:05Speaker 1: I'm gonna safely assume that you are interested in learning
- 1:08Speaker 1: how to maximize your results using Instagram to better market
- 1:11Speaker 1: your business, to get more results, to get more leads,
- 1:13Speaker 1: more customers, more sales, and grow your revenue. So with
- 1:16Speaker 1: all that said, let's dive in, starting with the basics.
- 1:19Speaker 1: All right, so when it comes to Instagram marketing, one
- 1:21Speaker 1: of the very first things that you need to do
- 1:22Speaker 1: to make sure that you're putting your business forward in
- 1:24Speaker 1: the best light possible is to optimize your bio. This
- 1:27Speaker 1: is kind of like your business's homepage or website, I guess,
- 1:31Speaker 1: in regards to Instagram. So this is the place where
- 1:33Speaker 1: your users and your followers and your audience can go
- 1:36Speaker 1: and they can learn a little bit more about you.
- 1:37Speaker 1: So you really need to make sure that you've optimized
- 1:39Speaker 1: this and you're putting your best foot forward. After all,
- 1:42Speaker 1: as they say, you never get a second chance to
- 1:43Speaker 1: make a good first impression. really want to make sure
- 1:45Speaker 1: that you're covering all your bases here and you're giving
- 1:48Speaker 1: people a really compelling, really valuable reason that they would
- 1:51Speaker 1: want to follow you and that they would want to
- 1:53Speaker 1: engage with you and consume your content. The most important
- 1:55Speaker 1: thing here is to accurately and compellingly describe what you
- 1:59Speaker 1: do and why someone should care. You really want to
- 2:01Speaker 1: be empathetic to your ideal target market and to your
- 2:04Speaker 1: audience and try to understand All right, what value would
- 2:07Speaker 1: they get from following your account and from consuming your content?
- 2:10Speaker 1: And then make sure that you're spelling it out really
- 2:12Speaker 1: clearly so they have a compelling reason. Also make sure
- 2:14Speaker 1: to give them a call to action or CTA, which
- 2:16Speaker 1: is going to explain what you want them to do
- 2:18Speaker 1: next if they wanna learn a little bit more about
- 2:20Speaker 1: you or a little bit more about your brand or
- 2:22Speaker 1: your business. All right, the next thing that you need
- 2:24Speaker 1: to understand when it comes to Instagram is while there's
- 2:26Speaker 1: a number of different features, including the ability to go
- 2:29Speaker 1: live and a separate app entirely now on IGTV, The
- 2:33Speaker 1: two main things that you want to focus on are
- 2:35Speaker 1: feed and stories. The feed is what most people associate
- 2:38Speaker 1: with Instagram. It's the grid that you see. It's what
- 2:41Speaker 1: people typically scroll through. It's what is tending to be
- 2:44Speaker 1: a little more polished, a little more professional, and you
- 2:46Speaker 1: want to spend a little more time here posting probably
- 2:49Speaker 1: at least one time a day to your feed. The
- 2:51Speaker 1: other side of the coin is the stories feature. These
- 2:53Speaker 1: are those vertical types of content. They only last for
- 2:57Speaker 1: a little bit. They are a lot more raw, a
- 2:59Speaker 1: lot more authentic, tend to be a lot more engaging,
- 3:01Speaker 1: certainly what we're seeing right now, And you want to
- 3:03Speaker 1: create probably as many of these as you can. So
- 3:06Speaker 1: to say three to five a day is probably conservative,
- 3:08Speaker 1: but fortunately they don't need to be as polished. They
- 3:10Speaker 1: don't need to be as beautiful. They just need to
- 3:12Speaker 1: be some kind of value or a behind the scenes
- 3:14Speaker 1: look at your business or at your day-to-day life. All right,
- 3:17Speaker 1: the next Instagram marketing basic I need to make sure
- 3:19Speaker 1: you understand is the hashtags. Now, hashtags are really just
- 3:22Speaker 1: a way of categorizing or essentially allowing your content to
- 3:26Speaker 1: be found for certain keywords or certain content themes. So
- 3:29Speaker 1: it's really hard for me to just give you a
- 3:31Speaker 1: broad recommendation of which hashtags are best because it's going
- 3:33Speaker 1: to be very subjective on your business, on your industry,
- 3:36Speaker 1: and most specifically on what kind of content your ideal
- 3:39Speaker 1: target market most wants to consume. For example, let's say
- 3:42Speaker 1: you have a digital marketing agency. Well, you're going to
- 3:44Speaker 1: want to include hashtags like marketing and digital marketing and
- 3:47Speaker 1: digital marketing strategy, digital marketing tips, maybe SEO, maybe Facebook
- 3:51Speaker 1: ads and so on. Now what's important to note here
- 3:54Speaker 1: is that you do need to do a sufficient amount
- 3:55Speaker 1: of research because all the hashtags that I just listed
- 3:58Speaker 1: are very competitive. They're very broad hashtags with a lot
- 4:01Speaker 1: of volume to them. So you want to do something
- 4:03Speaker 1: called long tail hashtags, long tail keywords, which allows you
- 4:06Speaker 1: to get a little more focused and a little more
- 4:09Speaker 1: niche down and really find the specific types of content
- 4:12Speaker 1: that not as many people are searching for that you'll
- 4:14Speaker 1: have a higher chance of ranking for. A good general
- 4:16Speaker 1: rule is to include a variety of different hashtags with
- 4:19Speaker 1: your posts. Some very competitive, some medium competitive, and some
- 4:22Speaker 1: not very competitive at all, which will give your content
- 4:24Speaker 1: the greatest chance of success. All right, the next thing
- 4:26Speaker 1: you need to understand with Instagram is that timing really
- 4:29Speaker 1: does matter. So when you post your content, is going
- 4:32Speaker 1: to make a big impact on what kind of people
- 4:34Speaker 1: see it and how many people see it and whether
- 4:36Speaker 1: the algorithm decides to push it out to more people
- 4:38Speaker 1: or just hold it back and not show it to anyone.
- 4:40Speaker 1: Now again, just like hashtags, the time of day, the
- 4:43Speaker 1: day of the week, all of those things are really
- 4:45Speaker 1: going to vary and be dependent on your target market
- 4:49Speaker 1: and your market and including your geography and what part
- 4:51Speaker 1: of the world that you're in. See, different people are
- 4:53Speaker 1: gonna log on to Instagram and consume content at different times.
- 4:56Speaker 1: So you really wanna dive into your analytics, you really
- 4:58Speaker 1: wanna try to understand your audience and figure out the
- 5:00Speaker 1: best times and the best days to post your content on,
- 5:03Speaker 1: which will give it the greatest likelihood of success. Here's
- 5:05Speaker 1: a general rule that pretty much applies to every single
- 5:08Speaker 1: social media network, and definitely Instagram. In that, the closer
- 5:11Speaker 1: to the time of the post, the more important and
- 5:14Speaker 1: the more weighted it is. Meaning that the first 30
- 5:17Speaker 1: minutes of a post are the most important, and they'll
- 5:19Speaker 1: give the algorithm all the signals that, yes, people like this,
- 5:22Speaker 1: we should show it to more. Followed by the next
- 5:23Speaker 1: 60 minutes. Again, if a lot of people are still
- 5:25Speaker 1: consuming the content and engaging with it, they'll show it
- 5:28Speaker 1: to even more people. And then the next 24 hours,
- 5:30Speaker 1: and the next seven days, and then it kind of
- 5:31Speaker 1: falls off a cliff. This is why one of the
- 5:33Speaker 1: greatest predictors of success for pretty much any social media
- 5:36Speaker 1: content is how it's going to react in the first
- 5:38Speaker 1: 30 minutes, the first 60 minutes, and the first few hours.
- 5:41Speaker 1: So anything you can do to increase engagement, to get
- 5:43Speaker 1: it in front of more people, to share it, to
- 5:45Speaker 1: make sure that people know when you're posting, all of
- 5:48Speaker 1: that is going to help. All right, another important thing
- 5:50Speaker 1: that you need to understand when it comes to marketing
- 5:51Speaker 1: your business on Instagram are the two different paths that
- 5:54Speaker 1: you can take. The organic path, which pretty much everybody
- 5:57Speaker 1: talks about, and the paid path, which not enough people
- 5:59Speaker 1: talk about because it's really the more powerful path. But
- 6:02Speaker 1: more on that later. You see, when it comes to
- 6:04Speaker 1: almost any social media network, there's always those two different
- 6:06Speaker 1: ways you can go. You can go the organic route,
- 6:08Speaker 1: which is the free route. Basically posting all sorts of
- 6:11Speaker 1: different content and not putting any money behind it. Just
- 6:13Speaker 1: posting and hoping for the best. Or you can go
- 6:16Speaker 1: the paid way, which is running Instagram ads. Or on Facebook,
- 6:19Speaker 1: it would be Facebook ads. Or YouTube, it'd be YouTube ads.
- 6:21Speaker 1: You get the picture. There's a time and a place
- 6:23Speaker 1: for both strategies. But it is important to understand, especially
- 6:26Speaker 1: when we're talking about Instagram... that Instagram is so incredibly competitive.
- 6:29Speaker 1: It's so saturated that the organic reach is just really
- 6:33Speaker 1: limited compared to where it used to be. So if
- 6:34Speaker 1: you really wanna go out there and develop a killer
- 6:36Speaker 1: strategy that's gonna reach more people and impact more people
- 6:39Speaker 1: and grow your business, you're probably gonna wanna take a
- 6:41Speaker 1: look at Instagram ads sooner than later. All right, so
- 6:44Speaker 1: now that you've got the basics covered, it's time to
- 6:46Speaker 1: move on to Instagram marketing tools. See some of the
- 6:48Speaker 1: tools that are available at your disposal to help grow
- 6:50Speaker 1: your business and really leverage the true power of Instagram. Well,
- 6:53Speaker 1: seeing as we just talked about the difference between organic
- 6:55Speaker 1: and paid, there's probably no better tool to talk about
- 6:58Speaker 1: right now than the Facebook Ads Manager. I can hear
- 7:00Speaker 1: you saying, Adam, I thought this video was about Instagram.
- 7:02Speaker 1: Why are you talking about Facebook? Well, it's no surprise
- 7:05Speaker 1: that Facebook owns Instagram. They bought it years ago for
- 7:07Speaker 1: an exorbitant amount of money, and this is both a
- 7:09Speaker 1: good and a bad thing. Actually, from where I sit,
- 7:12Speaker 1: it's really just a good thing. Because what this allows
- 7:14Speaker 1: us to do is really look at Facebook for clues
- 7:17Speaker 1: and for evidence of what's going to happen next on Instagram.
- 7:19Speaker 1: And sure enough, by tracking Facebook and by watching the
- 7:22Speaker 1: limited reach and by watching the proliferation of ads, well,
- 7:26Speaker 1: we've really been able to see that, all right, this
- 7:27Speaker 1: is coming to Instagram. And if you're able to get
- 7:29Speaker 1: ahead of the trend, well, you can really ride this
- 7:31Speaker 1: wave all the way to the end. Specifically though, the
- 7:33Speaker 1: main tool that I want you to focus on here
- 7:35Speaker 1: is Facebook Ads Manager. Because if you do want to
- 7:38Speaker 1: run Instagram advertising, you will have to do it through
- 7:40Speaker 1: the Facebook Ads Manager. Because again, Facebook owns Instagram. And again,
- 7:44Speaker 1: the beauty of this is that the Facebook ads manager
- 7:46Speaker 1: is one of the most robust and yet at the
- 7:48Speaker 1: same times, one of the most simple and easy to
- 7:51Speaker 1: use ad platforms available today. You've just got an incredible
- 7:54Speaker 1: amount of targeting options and copy options and design options. Really,
- 7:59Speaker 1: there's nothing quite as simple as doing it. So if
- 8:01Speaker 1: you want to run Instagram ads, you're going to need
- 8:03Speaker 1: a Facebook ads manager account. And then all you have
- 8:05Speaker 1: to do is go in, create your ad, and then
- 8:07Speaker 1: select Instagram as the placement rather than Facebook. Though it
- 8:09Speaker 1: could be argued that you may want to try some
- 8:11Speaker 1: Facebook ads as well. that's another story for another day.
- 8:13Speaker 1: All right, the next tool that I need to share
- 8:15Speaker 1: with you is something that I'm going to call schedulers
- 8:18Speaker 1: or planners. And there are a ton of them out there.
- 8:20Speaker 1: And really, it's tough to say which ones are better
- 8:22Speaker 1: than the others, because they're all going to be great
- 8:24Speaker 1: in certain areas, and they're all going to have drawbacks
- 8:27Speaker 1: and limitations in other areas. So my advice here is
- 8:30Speaker 1: to really just test out a whole bunch and find
- 8:32Speaker 1: out which one works best for you and your flow
- 8:34Speaker 1: and your business and the way you like to do things.
- 8:36Speaker 1: These are tools like Planoly and Hootsuite and Buffer and
- 8:40Speaker 1: Sprout Social and essentially anything that allows you to upload
- 8:43Speaker 1: content in a separate piece of software and schedule it
- 8:46Speaker 1: and design it. And then that'll go and upload it
- 8:48Speaker 1: to Instagram for you. The beauty here is that it
- 8:50Speaker 1: really allows you to stay on top of your content.
- 8:52Speaker 1: It allows you to design a really nice looking grid.
- 8:54Speaker 1: It allows you to schedule things so you never really
- 8:56Speaker 1: fall behind. and a lot of them have community management,
- 8:59Speaker 1: so you can respond to comments, and engage with your following.
- 9:02Speaker 1: You can upload videos or posts or whatever you need
- 9:05Speaker 1: all in one easy to use location. The plus side is,
- 9:08Speaker 1: is that they do make organization and community management a
- 9:11Speaker 1: little bit easier. The downside is, is you're gonna require
- 9:13Speaker 1: a separate piece of software, which can often be cumbersome
- 9:16Speaker 1: and kind of confusing and can often get in the
- 9:18Speaker 1: way of doing what you're trying to do, which is
- 9:19Speaker 1: just create really good content and engage with your followers.
- 9:22Speaker 1: Over the years, I've used almost every single one that
- 9:24Speaker 1: is out there. I've tried them all. None of them
- 9:26Speaker 1: are amazing. All of them are pretty good. So my
- 9:29Speaker 1: advice again is, Really just try them and see which
- 9:31Speaker 1: works best for you. All right, the other two tools
- 9:33Speaker 1: that I want to make sure you know about are
- 9:35Speaker 1: Canva and Photoshop, both a free version and a paid version. Now,
- 9:38Speaker 1: when it comes to creating content for Instagram, probably no
- 9:41Speaker 1: surprise here, it's got to be pretty. It's got to
- 9:43Speaker 1: be visually appealing. It's got to look good. Maybe not
- 9:45Speaker 1: as good as it used to have to look because
- 9:47Speaker 1: we're starting to move into more of an authentic and
- 9:49Speaker 1: raw kind of image, but it still has to look professional.
- 9:51Speaker 1: So how do you do that? Well, this is where
- 9:53Speaker 1: tools like Canva and or Photoshop come into play. Canva
- 9:56Speaker 1: is a great tool. It's free to use. You can
- 9:58Speaker 1: create graphics. and quote cards and all sorts of stuff
- 10:02Speaker 1: that makes your stuff look really good. And of course
- 10:03Speaker 1: you have Photoshop, which while not free, certainly isn't incredibly expensive,
- 10:07Speaker 1: but it does have a much steeper learning curve. It
- 10:09Speaker 1: gives you just an amazing amount of freedom and the
- 10:11Speaker 1: ability to create all kinds of different content. My recommendation
- 10:14Speaker 1: here is if you're just getting started, definitely take a
- 10:16Speaker 1: look at Canva. But if you've been at it a while,
- 10:18Speaker 1: you're familiar with Canva and you really want to take
- 10:20Speaker 1: it to the next level, take a look into Photoshop
- 10:22Speaker 1: and just see if it works with your workflow. All right,
- 10:23Speaker 1: so now that we've got all that covered, let's take
- 10:25Speaker 1: a look at exactly how Instagram works so you can
- 10:28Speaker 1: better understand the secrets and the technology and the infamous
- 10:32Speaker 1: algorithm behind the platform so you can leverage it to
- 10:34Speaker 1: the best of your ability. So the first and single
- 10:36Speaker 1: most important thing that you need to understand about Instagram
- 10:39Speaker 1: is that the entire platform, like most social media platforms,
- 10:42Speaker 1: is governed by the algorithm. Now, the algorithm is really
- 10:45Speaker 1: just a weird math equation that kind of runs behind
- 10:47Speaker 1: the scenes that analyzes thousands, if not millions, of different
- 10:50Speaker 1: variables trying to put the right content in front of
- 10:53Speaker 1: the right people. That's it. Like, seriously, that's really it.
- 10:56Speaker 1: And once you understand that, once you understand that the
- 10:59Speaker 1: goal of the algorithm is to put the right stuff
- 11:00Speaker 1: in front of the right people to get them to
- 11:02Speaker 1: spend the absolute most amount of time on the platform possible, well,
- 11:06Speaker 1: your entire strategy can change along with your mindset so
- 11:09Speaker 1: that you can approach all of your Instagram marketing with
- 11:11Speaker 1: that one single intention. How can I create content that
- 11:14Speaker 1: engages the audience and gets them to consume as much
- 11:17Speaker 1: as possible so they spend as long on Instagram as
- 11:20Speaker 1: humanly possible? Which, as I mentioned before, right now is
- 11:22Speaker 1: around 28 minutes a day, but it's only climbing. Now,
- 11:25Speaker 1: the morality of this, the ethics, the discussions and deliberations
- 11:29Speaker 1: on how this is destroying today's... attention spans and the
- 11:32Speaker 1: youth's ability to concentrate and focus, that's irrelevant. I mean,
- 11:35Speaker 1: it might be a conversation for another video, but when
- 11:38Speaker 1: it comes to marketing your business, you really want to
- 11:39Speaker 1: leverage all the tools at your disposal, which means creating
- 11:42Speaker 1: really bingeable content. Unfortunately, because the algorithm is such a
- 11:45Speaker 1: complicated beast, well, really figuring it out is kind of
- 11:48Speaker 1: complicated too. Also, it changes all the time. Yay. Which
- 11:52Speaker 1: means as soon as you think you've cracked the code, well,
- 11:54Speaker 1: it's going to change again, which means the single best
- 11:56Speaker 1: thing you can do to really master the algorithm is
- 11:58Speaker 1: to watch and to learn and to experiment and then
- 12:01Speaker 1: to analyze. Try to figure out what kind of content
- 12:03Speaker 1: works best for you. What kind of content works best
- 12:05Speaker 1: for your colleagues and your competitors? Really try to consume
- 12:08Speaker 1: as much as you can and try to understand the
- 12:10Speaker 1: trends or the features or whatever it is that they're
- 12:12Speaker 1: doing that's increasing their reach and allowing them to get
- 12:15Speaker 1: in front of more people. And then do that. So
- 12:16Speaker 1: once you understand that the algorithm is really the one
- 12:19Speaker 1: in charge, it really is in your best interest to
- 12:21Speaker 1: understand not only how it works, but also understand what
- 12:24Speaker 1: it doesn't like. And really never try to play outside
- 12:27Speaker 1: of the rules, never try to game the system or
- 12:29Speaker 1: find any hacks or tricks or things that Instagram just
- 12:31Speaker 1: isn't going to like. because they'll punish you for it. Again,
- 12:33Speaker 1: we're seeing the same thing happen over on the Facebook
- 12:35Speaker 1: side with all kinds of different ad accounts getting banned
- 12:38Speaker 1: and shut down and ads getting disabled because people are
- 12:41Speaker 1: pushing the terms of service just a little bit too hard.
- 12:43Speaker 1: And they're really cracking down because they've come under a
- 12:45Speaker 1: lot of heavy fire in the past for all sorts
- 12:47Speaker 1: of questionable things. But regardless, just follow the rules and
- 12:49Speaker 1: you'll do a whole lot better. Really what this comes
- 12:51Speaker 1: down to is just not trying to beat the system.
- 12:53Speaker 1: No spammy tactics, no using automated bots, no follow, unfollow,
- 12:58Speaker 1: none of those tactics that really look bad to everybody,
- 13:01Speaker 1: not just Instagram, but to your audience and to your
- 13:03Speaker 1: clients and customers as well. So obviously step one is
- 13:06Speaker 1: understanding the terms of service, understanding what you are allowed
- 13:08Speaker 1: to do and are not allowed to do, and then
- 13:10Speaker 1: making sure you don't do what you're not allowed to do.
- 13:12Speaker 1: But the other side kind of circles back to what
- 13:14Speaker 1: I talked about originally there, which is analyzing and understanding,
- 13:17Speaker 1: seeing what kind of content works best so you can
- 13:19Speaker 1: design more stuff like that. You see, Instagram really wants
- 13:22Speaker 1: you to succeed That's what a lot of people don't
- 13:24Speaker 1: understand is that it's in their best interest that your
- 13:26Speaker 1: stuff does well. And they're giving you cues and clues
- 13:30Speaker 1: all the time. After all, when you create a post
- 13:32Speaker 1: and they show it to more people, well, that's a
- 13:33Speaker 1: clue that what you've just done works really well. And
- 13:36Speaker 1: if you create content and they show it to nobody, again,
- 13:38Speaker 1: that's a clue that what you've just done. It doesn't
- 13:40Speaker 1: work so well, so you might want to try something else.
- 13:42Speaker 1: It sounds so incredibly basic. You'd be amazed how many
- 13:45Speaker 1: people miss this mark. And again, this is why it
- 13:47Speaker 1: does pay to have that basic marketing understanding, to do
- 13:50Speaker 1: a little bit of research into customer behavior and consumer
- 13:53Speaker 1: psychology and all the kind of nerdy marketing stuff that
- 13:55Speaker 1: really makes your Instagram strategy that much more effective. All right,
- 13:58Speaker 1: so with all that said, it's time to talk about
- 14:00Speaker 1: what I believe is the single most valuable part of
- 14:03Speaker 1: the entire Instagram marketing ecosphere, which is Instagram advertising. Like
- 14:07Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, because Instagram is so popular, and it's
- 14:10Speaker 1: so saturated, and there's just so many people out there
- 14:12Speaker 1: creating so much content, it really is hard to compete organically. Meaning,
- 14:15Speaker 1: if you just create content and don't put any money
- 14:17Speaker 1: behind it, the odds of it reaching all of your
- 14:19Speaker 1: people are basically zero, and even most of your people
- 14:21Speaker 1: are pretty much slim to none. Now, a lot of
- 14:23Speaker 1: people get angry about this. They complain, and they moan,
- 14:25Speaker 1: and they leave the platform altogether. But this is the
- 14:27Speaker 1: complete wrong strategy, because... Instagram's a business, and the beauty
- 14:31Speaker 1: is is that the more people complain and get angry, well,
- 14:34Speaker 1: the less people that are gonna be using Instagram ads,
- 14:36Speaker 1: which means you're still gonna be able to find some
- 14:38Speaker 1: really good bargains there and be able to show your
- 14:40Speaker 1: stuff to a whole lot more people for pennies on
- 14:42Speaker 1: the dollar when compared to traditional advertising. So let's dive
- 14:45Speaker 1: in Instagram ads now, starting with the four different types
- 14:47Speaker 1: of Instagram ads that you can run. Number one is
- 14:50Speaker 1: just a pretty basic photo ad. If you've never ran
- 14:52Speaker 1: an Instagram ad before, this is a great place to start.
- 14:55Speaker 1: Just start with a really good post that looks like
- 14:57Speaker 1: it belongs on Instagram organically, Make sure you've got a
- 14:59Speaker 1: good call to action because there's no point running ads
- 15:01Speaker 1: that doesn't lead anybody anywhere. And then put a few
- 15:04Speaker 1: dollars behind it by going through the Facebook ads manager,
- 15:06Speaker 1: which is a huge thing you want to do here.
- 15:08Speaker 1: Anytime you're running ads, make sure you're designing them from
- 15:10Speaker 1: the ground up through the Facebook ads manager. It gives
- 15:13Speaker 1: you way more control, way more flexibility and way more accountability.
- 15:16Speaker 1: Next up, you've got video ads. If you're a little
- 15:18Speaker 1: more experienced or you don't mind being on video, video
- 15:20Speaker 1: is a great tool to use. Whether we're talking about
- 15:22Speaker 1: the vertical video or the square video or whatever other
- 15:24Speaker 1: kind of formats they're going to come out with later.
- 15:26Speaker 1: Video just is a great tool if you can't be
- 15:29Speaker 1: face-to-face or in person with somebody. Next up, you've got
- 15:31Speaker 1: carousel ads or multi-photo ads or essentially any combination that's
- 15:35Speaker 1: going to allow you to put a whole lot of
- 15:36Speaker 1: media into one single ad. These are great if you're
- 15:39Speaker 1: doing e-commerce or you're selling physical products or you have
- 15:41Speaker 1: a number of different services or you even want to
- 15:43Speaker 1: tell a story. So if this is something that you've
- 15:46Speaker 1: never played around with before, it's a great way to
- 15:47Speaker 1: kind of get in there and start playing around a
- 15:49Speaker 1: little bit to see if it can deliver good results
- 15:51Speaker 1: for your business.