4 Tips On How To Create Engaging Instagram Stories
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Maybe you already heard but I just launched my unique Instagram Sticker to customize your Instagram story.
Instagram Stories are very important for your business and these stories can help you grow Instagram followers. If you don’t use them effectively you might be losing business. It's important to maximize your story efforts with these four Instagram tips.
The biggest challenge with Instagram Stories is stopping your viewers from skipping your content. In this post, I’ll be showing you four simple ways to create more engaging Instagram Stories that will give your viewers a reason to keep watching. It's time to step up your Instagram marketing.
1. Clip Compilations
Social media users are becoming immune to sponsored, or irrelevant content from brands that are trying to make a connection with their audience through the power of Instagram Stories.
Most of the time users are exiting the first story if they think the content is boring or simply does not connect with them.
Here’s what you can change. Compile 1-second clips into a 15-second story. This will not only make your brand stand out in the pool of stories but also keeps viewers engaged.
You can download the app called “1 Second Everyday”. This free app also offers paid plans to include royalty-free music, exclude branding from your produced videos, and more.
After you signed in to the app you simply upload your videos. Tap on add snippet to upload a clip to the timeline.
Keep in mind that this app uses the landscape format to create videos. You can work around this by shooting your videos vertically.
The good thing about this app is that it automatically compresses your uploads into 1-second clips. You can adjust and trip the video to its most eye-catching part.
After you choose 15 seconds worth of clips (15 clips in total), click on mash. This will finish up your video next save it to your camera roll.
All you have to do now is to share this clip in your stories.
Are you struggling with ideas? You can share fitness moves, behind-the-scenes of how a product is made, show your product with 15 different backgrounds.
2. Giveaways
Giveaways are a great idea to reward your loyal viewers and to build a relationship between you and your viewer.
You can tell your viewers to follow you and post their own story tagging you in it for a chance to enter.
I recommend taking screenshots of every entry because these stories disappear after 24hours.
3. Story Design
This is something often overlooked but a great story design is key to keeping your viewers engaged. A great way to do so is by adding frames, emojis, and fun sayings to your story. If you think about how in the world am I supposed to create these things. No worries. I created different Instagram Story Sticker Packages for you to customize your stories.
When creating stories also always include a short written summary of each story that you're talking about. This is helpful because not everyone has their phone on loud.
4. Story Poll
The beauty of Instagram stories it's that they don't need to be perfect. Social media users love a story that feels authentic so don't over-edit your stories. the most engaging stories are the ones that combined creative and interactive content to engage your viewers.
A great story feature that is doing that is the Poll feature. First, think about a question for your target customer so they are more likely to engage with you. For example, if you are in the beauty industry, you could ask do you prefer lipstick or lipgloss. Or do you wear SPF every day?
You can actually use the Story Poll function to understand what your customers prefer or where there is space for you to educate your customers more.
Keep in mind that the poll sticker will cover most part of your story so you have to adjust your pictures accordingly. I would also recommend using your brand colors and fonts that best reflect your brand so people know it's you.