Instagram and Other Social Media

Instagram and Other Social Media

Likewise, you can also integrate your social media accounts with Instagram and you should. Luckily, Instagram makes this very easy by allowing you to tick the other accounts you want to share to when you upload. This way you can easily have your Instagram posts appear on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest etc. as well. When writing your description and tag, think about how this will play on your other social media.

For accounts that aren’t integrated with Instagram, you can use the awesome tool ‘IFTTT’. IFTTT stands for ‘If This, Then That’ and it allows you to link all kinds of different social media accounts, mobile apps and web apps so that an action on one leads to a result on another.

So for instance, this might mean that when you upload something to Instagram, it automatically gets uploaded to your WordPress site as well as a new post. This can also be useful for a host of other things –for instance you can get all your Instagram images to be added to DropBox as well so that you have them backed up.

So sharing across accounts is easy. At the same time though, you should also think about updating your various social media profiles so that they all feature consistent branding. Make sure that on Facebook, YouTube, Google+, LinkedIn etc. that your cover image and your profile image are consistent and that they include your logo. Likewise, use the same username so that there’s no confusion.

Finally –and this is something that will work on your website too –don’t be afraid to outright ask your followers on other social media to start following you on Instagram too.