Let`s Start this Blog Post by giving an explanation about Instagram as a social media app, and then continue to explain the usage of it when aiming to increase the Instagram audience of a fast food restaurant business.
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First of all, Instagram is One of the top most known apps all over the world having a total number of 500 Million users per day. Instagram is a social networking system where users can log in for free and upload their pictures or short videos where they create a specific content under their name. The second feature of Instagram is the followers and following list which shows the total number of people that follow your content and the number of users your account follows as well. Instagram provides to the users the feature of sharing the location of the posts, Tags, Hashtags and can be directly linked with a specific location around the world shows that the user with the specific content is located at a specific area of the world.
Instagram accounts can be viewed as public as well as private which is a very good feature because some users do not like their content to be available for everybody therefore they share their content only with specific people, while at the same time business users usually allows their content to be seen from everybody because that`s how they aim to attract attention.
Since Instagram is part of the social media network, it is very easy to connect it with other social media apps such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and every other social media app. This connection is quite good because it provides the ability of users to share their content in every social media app where they get the chance to get likes, comments, reviews and the most important which is attention from the audience.
Clearly it is understandable that social media is all about the audience and how to that audience is used, At the other side Instagram as a company knows this as well, therefore, they usually keep providing new features to the individual users as well as business users so the Account audience can be used to make Money as well.
According to Instagram websites, the advertising tool of Instagram provides more than 1 Million advertisements daily worldwide by giving a change to more than 1 Billion users around the world to discover new products, services, and a very diverse content by users. This advertising opportunity offered by Instagram provides an opportunity to businesses to promote their content to a specific audience on a specific location, age and gender therefore in a way or another Instagram gives an opportunity to businesses to already segment their market.
Following the upper explanation, Instagram businesses daily tend to create trends on their content so they can be noticed by a wider audience which will bring them more market share and attempt engagement with the specific audience. It is very understandable that as much audience you have the possibility to use that audience as your market is quite high. As the point of this blog post is to explain some of the most known trends Instagram users can do, to create an audience can be found as follow:
- Account content is still the most important
- Instagram stories as often as possible
- Attempt connections with influencers
- Use IGTV as well
- Make your content as real as possible
- Use daily basis situations to makes Instagram stories
- Use Marketing for promotion
- Engage with audience in all forms
- Be different from other users
- Unique style of content makes other notice your account
Let`s narrow down the topic a bit more and take the example of Instagram content for Fast food restaurants Businesses and focus on what they should do to engage an audience that increases their business Instagram page reviews.
Considering all the explanations above we already saw that Instagram is a great tool and is also seen as an opportunity for everyone to show what they do, their creativity, uniqueness, life, stories, locations, and all other features available. Fast food restaurants should follow this Instagram strategy as well by sharing exactly what they do in their daily basis at their business but at the same time transform all that real-life work into a content of Instagram account.
The key idea of how to create a connection with an Instagram audience can be explained by the following actions:
1.Start creating a good content
Content is crucial because that is the main image the audience will see when visiting your page. Therefore, it should be very detailed, creative, unique and show a real content that is believable for the audience.
2.Share daily basis work into Instagram stories
The work process, the happy clients, the restaurant facility, the positive comments and the happy employers should be on their stories showing that the Restaurant is a happy and positive place where everybody can visit.
3.Use Hashtags and tags
e.g. Hashtags Used By Instagram of CznBurak
4.Instagram Advertisement
Promotion Button In Instagram
5.Connect with Instagram influencers
6.Host Instagram Contest
This is seen as one of the top trends of 2020 because through this Instagram business owners are giving their Instagram audience hopes on winning prices. The contest Is usually organized in a form that the prices are given after 2-3 months and the only thing that the audience should do is to follow and like the posts of the Business Instagram account. This is seen as a very productive tool because it allows two parties to win something. On one side it is the business that creates an audience and on the other side there is the audience that is getting a gift in the end.
7.Give gifts
8.Monitored the engagement process and Engage with the comments of audience
9.Focus more into videos
10.Engage with the competitors’ followers
By engaging with competitors audience it means, If the Instagram account followers of some competitor of yours will not like the content of your competitors they will have to choose another company to follow which probably can be your Instagram account. Therefore if you work towards attracting this kind of audience they can be very easily attracted. One example of this can be take the coca cola and Pepsi drinks, they both work on gaining each other audience by showing how good they are in a comparison with the other. At one-way Coca Cola shows how much better they are than Pepsi and at the same time Pepsi shows how good they are in a comparison with coca cola. In the end they both functions properly and use each other properly as competitors. But the real fight to gain more audience is only by showing how good they are in a comparison with the rest of the products.
In order to sum up this post Of course it is true, that Instagram users can follow lots of accounts at the same time and they will follow some of the more interesting ones that create curiosity for them, therefore creating an action plan and engaging very often into Instagram is very crucial because even if the audience is created it can be lost as well, Only if the Instagram business accounts do not engage with the audience into daily basis.
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References:
-https://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/Instagram#:~:text=Instagram%20is
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-https://sproutsocial.com/insights/instagram-for-small-business/
-https://influencermarketinghub.com/instagram-marketing-trends-2021/
Denis, thank you for the post! I agree with your points and think that the quality of content is crucial, people should get to know the restaurant: its offering, promotions, get to “feel” the ambience and overall atmosphere before their visit.
I would love to hear more about the setting up of Instagram advertisements and ways of measuring their effectiveness!
Thank You Sofia