Utilizing Instagram Stories can be an extraordinary way to expand expose for your account, and thus, get more followers and likes. Be that as it may, do you think that its hard to concoct new thoughts with extraordinary ideas to what to post in your Stories?
Dread not – in this post, I’ll give you nine Instagram Story thoughts that you can use for your image or business.
Lets begin…
1. Go Live
The first Instagram Story idea I want to put out there is to go live. Live recordings have a a lot of effect, and you can utilize the live video streaming to integrate some of the ways we’ll go over later on in this post.
Live Stories Q&A’s
Live Stories Q&A’s give such a great amount of significant worth to your followers.There are two approaches to making these for your image or business – you can have followers send their inquiries in advance, and you can answer them in an Instagram Live Story, or you can ‘Run Live with a Friend’ and pick a viewer at an opportunity to hop onto the live-stream communication to make inquiries.
Live Stories With A Friend
Another option to going on Instagram Live alone is to have somebody go along with you (as noted previously).
The distinction with this Instagram Live thought is to have a conversation with an industry leader, or an influencer for your intended target followers or audience. You can direct the conversation without anyone else, or once more, you can have your adherents submit questions or inquiries in advance – you can even take inquiries as individuals write them amid the broadcast.
2. Direct people To Your Website/Blog Post
A basic Instagram Story idea for your business is to utilize Stories for promotion of your blog posts, services, or to drive traffic to your site.
In the event that you have more than 10,000 followers, you’ll have the privilege to the “Swipe Up” feature, which gives you a chance to connect inside the story itself – and should be utilized to advantage.
3. Polls
Instagram Stories has an element that adversaries like Twitter include that I cherish: Instagram Poll Stickers. Presently you can include a question with two answer alternatives to your Instagram Story picture or video – your audience just taps on the appropriate response they’d like to go for.
Surveys and Polls are an incredible method to scrounge up interaction and engagement on your Instagram account.
4. Off camera/Sneak Peeks
As continually, taking your followers in the background, or giving them a sneak peek of an up and coming event or campaign, is dependably a very smart thought.
Through this, you can create your own network exclusive posts and content, gather buzz around your new activities and influence your followers to feel extraordinary.
5. Themed Days
A simple way to remain consistent and get the most out of Instagram Stories is to make a themed day. For instance, you may have a ‘Tuesday Tip’ theme, a day of the week where you spotlight an influencer, a day where you share quotations, or your Live Q&A day. Having a themed day (or a few themed days) can enable you to create a lot of great content in bulk, or if nothing else is ready you just need to put on some Instagram Story on each specific day.
6. Records/Round-Ups
The Instagram Story format of tapping to get to the following screen is additionally extraordinary for making round-ups and lists. Tell your supporters and followers as to what the best posts on your blog were, transform a blog entry into an Instagram Story list, or put the spotlight onto your best most loved assets of the previous month. Make sure to keep it brand related and esteem for your followers.
7. Feature User Generated Content/Shout Outs
In case you’re sufficiently lucky to have heaps of follower sent content, you can likewise utilize that in your Instagram Stories. You can likewise utilize stories to give a shout out to your most loved posts, pictures or other related content of different brands. This will enable you to build your B2B connections, and in addition let your followers realize that you think and care about what they post and are engaged in.
8. Feature Local Happenings/Neighborhood Events
Is there an event happening locally? Discuss it in an Instagram Story. This is a decent method to interface with your group of followers – particularly in the event that you have an area based business. This additionally makes an incredible open door for tagging locations, utilizing location based hashtags and particular location stickers, both of which can possibly enable you to increase additional exposure, resulting in more followers, likes and reach to your posts.
9. Vlog It Up
The most easiest approach to utilize Instagram Stories for your business is to utilize the tool as a smaller than usual vlog or the mini vlog. Despite the fact that this format appears to be laid back, it can work in the B2B space similarly and additionally it can for an individual, or a B2C based business. Bring your followers into your every day life, demonstrate your work-space, feature representatives and play around with the process. This approach can enable individuals to become more acquainted with the individual, or individuals behind your brand, and include those superb human and personality elements that pull in your optimal customers and clients.
General Tips for More Instagram Exposure Using Instagram Stories
Location Stickers – Location stickers can enable your story to get maneuvered into the bigger city stories, which show up in everybody’s Explore feeds.
Hashtag Stickers – Hashtags likewise have stories, and clients would now be able to take after hashtags which pull posts from the hashtag into their home nourishes.
Mentions and Tags – Mentioning or tagging various different accounts in your stories can prompt additional presentation. They may share your story to theirs, or take a screen capture to share it. Saying different records can likewise “warm” them up in the event that you intend to get in touch with them for associations and so forth.
Utilize Apps – There are such a large number of, similar to Adobe Spark Post, with pre-assembled layouts to enable you to make delightful Instagram Stories pictures and videos.
I trust this posting has demonstrated to you how straightforward it can be to make content for your Instagram Story strategy, and has made them consider how you can take advantage of this fast developing social option.
About the Author
Ramiz Al Jalbani
Ramiz is a content writer and a supply chain professional focused on IT and Trading. He has a wide experience of using the new and latest technology to trade businesses. A true Middle Eastern and South Asian Market insider, Ramiz shares his thoughts and opinions in the form of weekly essays that you can subscribe to via subscribing to blog of Ava IT Solutions or email. He has written numerous essays, articles and blogs which have been featured and quoted in different journals around the globe. The topics range from Digital Marketing, Social Media Trends, Technology Trends and Integration of Business Processes to IT.