Learn here how to use Instagram to engage with Interiors designers and Architects. This presentation highlights how Instagram is the most important platform for experiential marketing (Visual marketing).
This presentation has been developed keeping in mind how to use for home decor industry.
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• Instagram is a free smartphone app used to capture and share the world’s moments
• Instagram is a fast, beautiful & fun way to share for experiential marketing through images and
videos for brands
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Mobile is at the core of
Instagram as we can
only create an
Instagram post using
smartphone
It’s made to be
mobile, so that you
take people with
YOU everyday
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Instagram is all about taking people with you.
• Great Instagram accounts take their followers with them
• on the road
• behind the scenes
• sneak preview into new products or events
• share experiences through visual medium
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Why should you work with Instagram?
• CONSUMER CHANGE
• Consumer behaviour and shift towards visual content
• 80% of the brain is dedicated to visual procession
• CONTENT IS KING!
• Instagram allows you to create and publish content
• Place to source content, get influencers and photographers to help build your content bank by introducing
your own #hashtag and republishing content (by giving credit) to content creators (when they use your # or
give approval)
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Hashtag = content distribution
• Add your own unique hashtag to source content and build a community
• Also add popular hashtags to relevant images to grow audience & engagement
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What kind of content works well in Instagram?
• Landscapes & scenery view from windows of home decor
• View from rooms, decks, roof
• Pets, cute animals in the pic has better traction
• Behind the scenes, something on the lines of contractors at work
• Groups enjoying themselves in the interiors, gives human element to the pic
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Instagram Serving Suggestions
• Frequency of posting should be 1 – 4 images per day
• Be consistent in frequency and the style of content
• Image description, better consider 140 character limits and the number of hashtags
• Use location centric & generic Instagram hashtags
• 1 or 2 hashtags in the image description
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How to repost photos
Reposting other people’s pics
• Can use apps like InstaRepost to repost other relvant images
• We need to take permission to use someone’s images if they’ve used our hashtag, they have tagged
us in the post or we have asked and received permission.
• Have to also credit the instagrammer by using i.e. @ handle in the first comment or across the
image
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Types of Instagram ads
• Direct response ads
• Direct response formats include 3rd party links with calls-to-action “Shop Now,” “Install Now,” “Sign Up,” or
“Learn More.
• Carousal ads
• Carousel ads allow brands to include multiple images in an ad without relying on a collage-style graphic. Can
include up to four photos that users can swipe through, as well as provide a third-party link to get more
information.
• Video ads
• Video ads on Instagram give brands the opportunity to engage with consumers on a deeper level and provide a
way to showcase their creativity.