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So why Instagram by now you probably know that Instagram is a powerful platform for creating visual

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content for your business.

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Instagram generates 120 times more engagement per follower than Twitter Instagram makes it easy to share

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your visual content to other marketing channels.

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Instagram makes it easy to discover new photos new people and new businesses.

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You can search via people hashtags or places so to get started with Instagram.

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First install the Instagram app on your Android iOS smartphone device.

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When you open the app you'll be prompted to sign up.

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So click that enter your email address and click next.

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On this next screen create a username for your handle your handle and your password.

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Fill out your profile info then tap done we'll get into greater detail on the profile optimization later

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but for now we just want to get your handle locked up on Instagram.

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One hack proof tip here though.

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Create two G-mail email addresses similar to your social media handle or username.

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So why two emails.

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The first e-mail is to register your social media account and not tell anyone about the second your

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to list in your social media account bio or about a section for people to reach out to you for advertising

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partnerships or general questions.

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Never use the email you register your social media account as your contact email.

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This really increases your vulnerability to hackers.

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So if your handle is fitness guru lock up the G-mail email for fitness guru at G-mail.

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That will be your direct contact email to put in your About Us Your bio in your actual post but lockup.

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Fitness guru one for your registered email.

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The one that you sign up for Instagram with Facebook with Twitter with and so on.

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Make sure the contact one is really clean and really similar.

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Hopefully the exact same as your username handle or domain name handle.

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Avoid using underscores or periods in your email address as it can translate to errors when people try

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to reach out to you which ultimately equals lost revenues for you.

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So next we want to get into your account settings.

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You can get into your account settings by going to your profile and tapping in the top right corner

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of the Instagram app.

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For iOS the little year for Android it's a vertical dot dot dot.

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And then for Windows Phone It's at the bottom of the screen and it's the horizontal dot dot dot.

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So on this account settings we want to make sure we're public in order to get discovered on Instagram.

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You want to set your profile to public.

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So on the settings page simply toggle off the private account setting.

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So let's navigate Instagram on the bottom left hand corner is the home button.

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This is your actual feed in the feed.

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You can see posts from the people you're following.

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Next is the search function in your Instagram app.

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Here you can explore post trending tags people other handle's locations and more next on the far bottom

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right.

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That's your profile.

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So this is going to pull up your profile image your edit profile page how many posts you've had your

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followers your following your bio your web site and then as you scroll up you can see your past post

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on Instagram.

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The next thing in the nav bar is that hard in it that's the Instagram activity tab.

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So in here you can look at activity of your following.

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And for you.

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So under the activity you'll see people who liked your content commented on your content tagged you

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in a post and so on.

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Under the following activity it's here you'll see people that you actually follow such as when someone

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you follow comments or like Suppose you'll see it here.

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And finally is the Instagram camera this is in the center bottom of your nav bar.

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So you have three options when you open up the camera feature you have the gallery where you can pull

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photos from your Smartphone or device you can just upload that past photo and click the center button

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to take a live photo or you can click the third option of video the video on Instagram enables you to

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take a 60 second video for uploading just like an image.

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Post.