#SideHustleMillionaire: 'Mixing It Up' -- Using #Instagram and #Pinterest for Business

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    #SideHustleMillionaire: 'Mixing It Up' -- Using #Instagram and #Pinterest for Business



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    Instagram.com and Pinterest.com are the top 2 fastest growing photo sharing social networks. It's beautiful to use for building an online business. Even better for finding new customers. It's a virtual must to have profiles on these social networks to increase business and online profit potential.

    Instagram is a photo sharing network owned by Facebook. Like Pinterest, you sign up for free account and fill out the about section with information about yourself personally or your online business. After doing so, it's good to include a link to your URL address in your profile so people will become familiar with your Internet business. Once that's complete, you can download the Instagram picture sharing application either from the Google app store, or, download a special application which will allow you to create a free account and photo sharing tool Bluestacks.com. Blue Stacks has a wonderful application for people to download to their laptops and PCs allowing you to use your computer to create an InstaGram account without having to use your cell phone.


    Instagram Hashtags for Business

    Now your profile is ready to go and upload photos to. You hope to make your uploaded photos and photo descriptions interesting to viewers. The first thing you want to do after uploading a photo to your InstaGram is take time to write a unique description. In the body of the photo descriptions, include relevant hash tags what your photo is about. Be sure to include a link to a specific page in your blog or website so people will follow the link to learn more about the content that's on that particular page. Once your photo description and link has been added, be sure to click save.

    Related: Pinterest vs. Instagram Marketing - Which Is Right For You? - TailwindApp.com

    A smart thing to do with increasing visibility to your photos is include anywhere from 7 to 12 relevant hash tags in your photo description. Take time to write a small paragraph and not just a one or two sentence description. Everything you write in the photo and description will be indexed by search engines and listed in search engine results pages, thus, helping you to potentially increase traffic and get more customers to your online business. InstaGram for business is a wonderful way to advertise your site for free and increase your customer and web profit potential.


    Pin Daily to Pinterest for Business

    Pinning to Pinterest daily is a wonderful thing. Pinterest pins, like Instagram photos, or crawled and indexed by major search engines such as Bing.com, Google.com, and YaHoO.com If Pinterest users like your pins, they will reap into their pin boards giving you free advertising. The in result is increased traffic to your blog or website and possibly a nice bump in online profits. It's all in how you uniquely market yourself on Instagram and Pinterest.

    Like Instagram, using hash tags in your Pinterest pins is a wonderful thing. It helps people discover your contest. It increases awareness about your business on the web. People love looking at photos. They just may re-pinned to their pin boards because your image is appealing to their eye. This will help you increase business and profit potential using both social networks daily.


    Moving Forward Faithfully

    Can you build an Internet business from scratch just by writing unique content such as blog posts and web pages and using social networks as a form of free advertising? Like former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin would say "you betcha." It's all about believing in yourself as an entrepreneur and doing the transformation work. Success on the Internet will not occur instantly. As mentioned in previous threads, you must be dedicated and in this line of work long-term. Continue moving forward faithfully even on days you read zero profit from your online business. Entrepreneurial trial and tribulation falls upon the best of the best. To achieve you lead status entrepreneurially, you must be willing to go the extra mile even when your mind can't fathom success or see the staircase. Take the first leap of faith and just do it.


    Believe and you shall achieve. Most importantly, don't overlook using Instagram, Pinterest, or any other social network as a free and effective means of building your business from scratch. 2 to 3 years later down the line you'll be glad you did.
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