Buffer’s 101 Guide to

Instagram for Business

Use Instagram to grow your business and brand by getting strategic, leveraging the right tools, and sticking to a consistent strategy.

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Step 1

Define your Instagram marketing strategy

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Step 2

Simplify your Instagram marketing workflows with trusted tools

Using a social media management platform helps you batch your work, get more strategic, and save time. We built Buffer to make life easier.

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Queue up your Instagram posts & stories from one place

Schedule posts and stories, create & approve drafts, and view your content on an elegant calendar with our publishing solutions.

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Seamlessly integrate Instagram into your campaigns

Share your creative across channels (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and more!) with one click. We make it easy to schedule multi-channel campaigns while customizing copy.

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Drive more sales through Instagram

Connect your “link in bio” to multiple URLs viewed on a beautiful shoppable page so you can move customers from Instagram to checkout, faster.

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Step 3

Track your Instagram performance, iterate, and evolve

Sort for your top-performing content, learn what day, time, and frequency is best for your audience, and quickly create reports with our analytics solutions.