Tag: Instagram

Social media has become an essential tool in modern-day marketing strategies. By leveraging platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter, businesses can reach a broad audience and engage with their target audience on a more personal level. Social media allows businesses to showcase their products or services, build brand awareness, and connect with customers through regular posts, promotions, and user-generated content, and ultimately boost sales. Additionally, social media platforms offer a wealth of data and analytics to help businesses understand their audience and tailor their marketing strategies to better reach their target audience.

Instagram advertising is not recommended during the holiday season. The market on this social media platform is far more saturated during the months of October through December (which is also known as the festive shopping season). Your brand and product will not stand out on Instagram due to the flooding of posts and stories from other competitors, and there is a high likelihood your business will end up wasting money through this form of advertising. However, there are recommended alternatives to ensure your company is boosting its popularity during this season! 

Instagram was launched in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and racked up 25,000 users in just one day. The app began with a primary focus for users to feature and post photographs, especially photographs taken from mobile phones. Instagram performed exceptionally well and had a whopping 27 million users by March 2012. Instagram’s success no doubt alarmed Facebook, which purchased Instagram in April 2012 for $1 billion in cash and stock.

Ever since Facebook acquired Instagram, Facebook decided to add many different features to the already extremely popular app. These features included enabling users to post videos instead of just photographs as well as adding messaging on Instagram like Facebook, stories like Snapchat and later reels like TikTok. Maybe you’re already sensing a theme here but what Facebook was essentially trying to do is turn an originally user-focused app that was Instagram into a fighter social media platform to compete with other social media apps such as Snapchat and Facebook. This tactic worked well for Facebook initially but not in the long run. Why you may ask, well we’ll explain below.

Facebook made an announcement on Tuesday that everyone saw coming by launching its Shops feature, a service that will allow businesses to display and sell products on its platforms. Positioned to take over the online shopping market for small business, Facebook opportune foray into the online shopping market comes as no surprise.

Instagram has over 1 billion active users and is a universally prominent social media platform. It provides engaging and entertaining visual posts, that people love having a scroll through.

Creating a brand on Instagram is easy these days, but building a memorable one - now that’s the real challenge! When it comes to Instagram 68% of users regularly engage with brands. There is no doubt that effectively using Instagram can well in truly transform a small business or startup to become an ‘Instafamous’ one.

It's easy to blame it on the fact that your competitor is a self-promoter, knows the journalist or has an expensive PR agency, for them getting more column centremeters than your company, but there might be a few things you are missing.