How to use Instagram stories to promote your business
Instagram has been a big hit since its inception. It has now 1.2 billion users across the globe and makes up at least 28 percent of the world’s internet users. From being the audience of only the youth company, Instagram has widened its consumer population from small children to old persons. It has become a community where diverse groups of people can interact with each other.
But the most revolutionary use of Instagram has been its use in business expansion. The business community has utilized this tool for promotion, new announcements, special offers, and whatnot. Today’s customers sit behind the app and order customized products from the whole world. The best use by businesses is through product advertisements. YouTube ads are easy to skip through, here is where Instagram marketing comes in. Instagram stories are like conveyor belts. You start going through your friends’ stories and advertisements kick in. In a matter of time, you have gone through many ads without even realizing it. And the best part is, it is rarely skipped. Instagram stories can be made more interesting by using additional features. We can create a poll and get to know what the customer’s demand, what is the current trend or simply which colour the customers will prefer. You can easily create a grievance redress mechanism by simply asking the question: How can we make our product better? Now hundreds of suggestions will pour in from the customer base. In this way, the product can be improved without any expenditure. You can simply ask: what are you expecting? And we will get suggestions from our customers about what they want next. What products are they looking forward to? That is the beauty of the integration that Instagram provides us in the market environment. The traditional conventional market environment is replaced with an adaptive, responsive, and transparent ecosystem that will lead to the welfare of the customers by getting what they desire and the increasing profit of the business because they know what their customers really want.
Say your business is launching a new product. Get a countdown timer in your story. This is what glues the audience. Do announcements on Instagram in short clips so that the target audience does not get bored and consume the product without even knowing. This is what makes this platform ideal for business promotion. With a wide range of businesses working simultaneously on this platform, it is easy to find similar businesses for effective collaboration and subsequently general improvement in your line of products. What to know about the mood of the audience after using your product or services? Just add a reaction slider in your story and you get a work of one day done in minutes. If this is not effectively working, what is? But what makes your story above others? Or what is the probability that your story is in the feed of 9 out of 10 customers? This is where the sweet effect of hashtags comes in. Use common or prevalent words to put your story at the top of the crowd. This helps in improving brand recognition. The live feature is equally important. Use it to show behind-the-scenes to customers to get them integrated into your business ecosystem. Before the launch of a product, show clips of the entire setup that is going on behind closed curtains that you are just about to put in front of the world.
Instagram provides a wide array of opportunities and possibilities. Those who can use it effectively will master the art of business and its aspects.