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Instagram for Business – Tips and Tricks: A #BufferChat Recap

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Bonnie Porter
Bonnie Porter Team Buffer
Instagram for Business – Tips and Tricks: A #BufferChat Recap

This week on #bufferchat our community discussed ways to be successful using Instagram for your business or brand. Read on to discover all of the awesome insights shared during the chat!

Catch our weekly Twitter chat, #bufferchat, at TWO times every Wednesday for valuable industry insights and to meet hundreds of other smart marketers and social media enthusiasts. Same topic, same place, just at different times – feel free to join whichever chat time works best for you!

4 pm AEDT (Sydney time)

9 am PT (San Francisco time)

#BufferChat March 21, 2018: Instagram for Business: Tips and Tricks

This week’s stats:
Bufferchat #1 (4 pm AEDT): 16 participants; reach of 965,718
Bufferchat #2 (9 am PT): 64 participants; reach of 1,141,765

Q1: What are some ways you can optimize your Instagram profile?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 1 here!

Q2: Do you have specific goals or KPIs for your Instagram presence? If so, what are they?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 2 here!

Q3: How do you make the most of your captions?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 3 here!

Q4: Have you used ads as part of your Instagram strategy?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 4 here!

Q5: Do you sell products through Instagram? How do you showcase them creatively? If you don’t, have you seen brands that do it well?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 5 here!

Q6: With the current Instagram algorithm, has the type of content or your posting strategy changed?

From the community:

See all the great answers to question 6 here!


Thank you so much to our awesome community for sharing such great insights in this chat!

Do you have any comments or answers to these questions? Leave your thoughts in the comments! We’d love to hear from you!

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