Instagram launched Instagram for Business giving businesses more functionality and better features when connecting their Instagram account to Facebook. Many of our clients use Instagram for Business, here’s some additional features that you may be interested in:

1. Easier for followers to contact. Rather than followers having to click on your website to contact you, they can now click the new ‘Contact’ button on your profile. The contact button then asks whether they want to e-mail you, call you or find your location on a map.

2. Better Instagram analytics. Helps measure impressions, reach and follower information within the past week.

3. Easier to create Instagram ads. You have to link your Instagram account to your Facebook page to create a business account, but this also gives you the ability to create Instagram ads through Facebook.

Summary

We’ve seen Instagram for business work for several of our clients. The increased insights and analytics allow us to create content that resonates with the audience, while the new ‘contact us’ button has allowed for better communication between business and audience. Additionally, Facebook ads are easy and straightforward to use, so the additional benefit of being able to use Facebook ads to create Instagram ads allows us to create more effective advertising.

Please let us know if you have any questions, our team will be more than happy to help in any way they can. Contact Ann Davies via her LinkedIn profile or via our contact page.