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Ultimate Guide to Instagram for Business

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A very helpful book that explains why it's a find idea to also have an Instagram account for your business and how to run it.
It has some great tips and ideas on how to help build up that social media platform and if you are searching for some information on Instagram this is a good book to look at!

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Gives a simple guide to how businesses can leverage Instagram to connect with customers and potential clients

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I found the tips in this book to be worthy of being passed on to communications students.

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Social media marketing is essential if you run a business, and this book is a great resource. Advice is easy to follow and the book is also enjoyable to read, which isn't always the case with business books!

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An informative guide for anyone wanting to captivate and sell with photos on Instagram. I found it to be a little too sticky sweet and very basic info. If you've even played around on Instagram, you'll do fine without this book.

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There are currently 200,000+ businesses out there using Instagram to promote their products and services. I was hoping to get some information on just general promoting from this book but it is really geared more towards selling - but there are still some good tips that can be used in both cases. To follow up, you can also visit UGIGbook.com. Some of the tips that I took to heart are - Don't spam. Don't be too chicken to post. There is a lot of information on how to set up your account and guides to some of the photo effects you can use. There's also a list of popular hashtags - if yours are relevant that can help you get more traffic to your posts and account. There's a lot of great content on giveaways and getting interaction between your brand and your followers. You want to build trust with your followers. There's also a list of apps to check out to help out with your account, some that I am going to be checking out include: fontcandy, histamatic, Schedulegram, facetune and Later. Again, if you are someone trying to sell a product or a service, this book has lots of valuable information in it that you won't want to miss out on.

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review. I was not otherwise compensated.

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Instagram is still a relative newcomer to the world of digital marketing, so to have a reference book to help those who may not be familiar with using it as a platform from which to market a business is fantastic. I loved the fact the advice was balanced with personal notes from the author, allowing a little of her personality to shine through and turning this book from just another guide into a must read.

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Good book....its like a list of ideas for you to follow to improve traffic on your Insta! Simple and Easy to follow!

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3,5 stars for this book.

If you are new to Instagram marketing, you should definitely read this book. It's filled with interesting tips and insights, and also features interviews with successful brands.

It's heavily focused on driving sales and turning followers into customers. For me, this focus on selling was a bit too much, but I'm sure there are plenty of businesses that will benefit from this strategy.

For me personally it gave me the reassurance that I'm on the right track with my social media marketing.

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This book has a lot of good ideas on using Instagram for business purposes. I would recommend it to anyone who needs some explanation as to how it works or suggestions for what and when to post. In fact, I found it to be so useful, I purchased a copy so that I can refer to it again and again.

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Staying in touch with social media is a must in this day and age...especially if you are a small business. If you are new to Instagram and want to know what its about, how to set up an account, and the basics of using Instagram for business this book is a must for you to get started. Not too many books just about this one subject and you can work your way through it step by step to get your account going.

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Business users may be advised to ignore Instagram at their peril, or at least keep this social media service on its radar. It is not necessarily something only for those aiming at the younger market with goods or services to sell. This is, therefore, a very timely, useful and informative book that opens your eyes to the world of Instagram within a business context.

If you are already on Instagram or considering it, this can be a goldmine. As said, it provides a good level of information for those who subsequently still have no need to be on there, since things can change. The book is written no doubt with the smaller entrepreneur in mind, although it scales perfectly to even the social media department of Megacorp. A comprehensive guide and strategy is given for utilising Instagram as a marketing and sales generation channel, amply aided by other tools such as those to build following, boost one’s online status and even develop Instagram-positive content. It is no longer good enough to assume that content that might work on Facebook will necessarily work on other social media networks.

It is written in a clear, practical and actionable fashion. A book for do-ing. It may change some preconceptions, fix some bad habits and be an inspirational source for those who need inspiring.

Some of the styling may appear off-putting or less relevant in a book of this kind, such as the religious overtones in the introduction as well as an over-personalised style of writing. The former can be overlooked when you see the grand totality of the book, the latter may be harder to ‘grin and bear it’, since it can be a generational or cultural difference. Yet the book and its content remains key, so it can be forgiven for any apparent transgression.

For what it sets out to do, it does it very well indeed.

Ultimate Guide to Instagram for Business, written by Kim Walsh Phillips and published by Entrepreneur Press. ISBN 9781599186023. YYYYY

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This is a very useful guide, particularly for someone starting his or her Instagram journey. It starts from the setting up of the account until the monetization stage and beyond. In addition to describing and introducting various tools and apps that can improve the success rate, it also shares experience of successful Instagram users, which gives even more depth to the business story. Strongly recommended to businesses at the beginning of their Instagram experience.

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There aren't many books focused only on Instagram, so it's good to have a title to recommend to patrons. This book is great for businesses looking to improve their sales from Instagram, and there are even some tips that can aid nonprofits withh their Instagram growth, though there's a lot of caasual language and dated terms used throughout that might bother some readers.

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Great book with helpful ideas to get started marketing on Instagram. Recommend to anyone new to social media marketing.

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With society and release of social media which is ever-changing, this book is a must have in my book. Kim does a great job of giving the how-to’s when it comes to Instagram and how to market yourself. The book goes over other helpful tips such as how to create a sales funnel, how to connect your Facebook account to Instagram, how to determine which hashtags will help you to reach your target audience, and gives several links to helpful apps and websites. This is a book that I will continue to reference in order to improve my own visibility on Instagram.

Thank you to Netgalley, Kim Walsh Phillips, and Entrepreneur Press for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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A really comprehensive guide to using instagram for your business that can be easily adapted and applied to bloggers, vloggers, craft sellers - anyone who wants to take their instagram game to the top would benefit from this book.

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Are you on any kind of social media for your book review site, etsy store, author, or whatever. Than this is the book you should check out. It gives you a ton of information that can help you along the way and man I took a ton of notes as I read it. I think over time that this book will really help me out with posting to Instagram and other soical media accounts.

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This book is perfect for anyone who uses social media for their business or blog. I found this to be a very informative book that not only tells you how to use Instagram but the reasons why it will help. This book is a the kind of book that I will keep going back to. Walsh-Phillips helps teach you how to create the right details using hashtags, clear pictures and marketing advertising offers that are available. She also discusses how choosing a business name instead of your name will help others with the same interest has yours find you. I highly recommend this book.

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This book is one for you if you are on social media to sell your product, whatever it may be.

My friend has a business she runs on Etsy, but she also has an Instagram page too for advertising and this book shows she is doing the right thing to me and potential customers.

The book talks from Kim's point of view about how she got her business started and all the hard work for little pay at first it does take before a business flourishes.

She advises us through creating the right details in the form of searchable hash tags, clear pictures and utilizing marketing advertisement offers available. Also the importance of choosing a business name not just your name to create more chance of others finding you based on their interests.

Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book!

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