Majority of the physical businesses are seeing a drastic fall in their business. However, social media marketing is getting a boom and is helping many businesses to sustain during this challenging phase. Each social media platform has its own benefits and helps businesses to speed up their promotions quickly, and one such platform that is leading this space is Instagram.
Instagram is one of the best tools to generate valuable leads for your business and to create brand awareness. I am sharing with you a few tips on how to generate more leads using Instagram.
(1) Profile bio with business page link
In Instagram, the profile bio section gives the first impression to the audience about your business. Draft a perfect bio and convey the value that you offer to the market with the USP of your product. Provide your product website or quick enquiry form link in the bio section to grab the lead details.
(2) Add contact options to grab the attention of the lead
Once viewers get satisfied with your bio, there is high chance that they may try to contact you. Instagram does have solution for this need, by adding a contact button in your profile section. This lets the audience to quickly contact with you through email call or WhatsApp as you had set. So, don’t forget to give your business contact information on your profile.
(3) Add quick Action Buttons
Action Buttons connect your Instagram profile with other online services directly; this helps the customers to quickly interact with your business right from your profile.
(4) Post description
Posts are generic things in Instagram which showcase your business. You can post your pictures and videos. Post description is part where you can describe about the posted picture or video. In post you can include hashtags which are key things to get more reaches to your post and profile. Use trending and relevant hashtags. There are lots of third party platforms available to analyze better hashtags for your post and profile.
Also add a statement “Link in Bio” at the end of your post, to guide audience to the enquiry form link in your bio, to convert the view as a lead.
(5) Promote your post using Instagram ads
Instagram allows you to promote your posts. Promoting a post increases the reach to a large set of audience. More value adding options are also available to make the most of your ads by defining the type of audience you want to target, and the call-to-action links. From the post, you can navigate your audience to your promotion page. The promotion page may be your Instagram profile or product website or instant product enquiry forms.
Posting a promotion would cost you, based on the audience you target and the numbers of days you run the ads.
And the best part of Instagram ads is that you can analyze the insights of your promotions in terms of the reaches, number of people who landed on the promotion links and peak hours based on audience activity.
The promoted post looks like above image with bottom portion in your post.
(6) Instagram stories with enquiry form
Instagram story is one of the popular features in the recent times. The story allows you to post photos & videos, add sticker for viewer’s feedback. From this story, you can direct the viewers to your promotional page like product website, enquiry form, and Instagram profile. For each story, you will be able to get the viewer’s list and option to connect with them, also you can grab interested leads name.
(7) Go Instagram Live
Instagram live is a live video session conducted by the profile owners. If you start a live video; notification will send to all your followers and following list. You can conduct a video session on your product tour, demo or feature explanations which attracts more people. Prior to your live video session, you can add a few posts to announce about the live session to bring in more audience and to get more mileage.
(8) Direct Message (DM)
DM is sending a personal message to whom we follow and our followers. It is like face-to-face interaction and you can share your product / business details with external links, pictures & videos related to your business. Also you can video call a person through DM section.
Using this direct message option, you can connect with your followers for business engagement but remember not to spam.
Another tactic that you could adopt is to send a direct message not only for your followers but also to post likers, commenters even if they are not following your page. It will help them to follow and go through your page and business.
(9) Similar person search in Facebook
In Instagram, you can find your Facebook friend’s Instagram profile, if they are available. Follow the below steps to grab all your Facebook friends in your Instagram account,
- In your Instagram profile page, click on the three horizontal line at the top-right corner of the screen
- In the drop-up box , tap on “Discover People”, you will see a “Connect to Facebook” option, tap “Connect” and log into your Facebook account
- Once done, you will find your Facebook friends appearing as suggested accounts in Instagram do follow and gain more engagement.
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