How To Manage Your Instagram Account

Instagram is a photo/video blogging service that allows you to broadcast photos/videos and short messages to the world.

First and foremost, link your Tumblr account (if you have one or if one was created for you by MyDigiBrand). Tumblr is a blogging site that is highly indexed by search engines. Therefore, by connecting your Tumblr account to your Instagram account, you can post on both accounts simultaneously.

To link your Tumblr account to your Instagram account, do the following:

1. Login to Instagram (instagram.com);
   1. Username: Your social media handle provided to you by MyDigiBrand
   2. Password: The password provided to you by MyDigiBrand
2. Click on the sprocket in the upper right hand corner. This will display your Instagram options.
3. Scroll down to settings, and click on ‘Linked Accounts’. This will display your ‘Share Settings’.
4. Click on ‘Tumblr’, and enter your Tumblr credentials. If MyDigiBrand created a Tumblr account for you, use the credentials that MyDigiBrand provided to you.
5. Click the ‘Done’ button to save your settings.
6. Click the ‘Home’ icon in the lower left hand corner to return to the home screen.

NOTE: DO NOT link your Facebook or Twitter accounts here. Linking these accounts will result in duplicate postings, as MyDigiBrand has already implemented tools that will automatically take your Instagram posts and post them to your Facebook and Twitter profiles.

To post a photo on Instagram:

2. Login to Instagram (instagram.com);
   1. Username: Your social media handle provided to you by MyDigiBrand
   2. Password: The password provided to you by MyDigiBrand
3. Click on the camera icon in the bottom center of your screen;
4. The Instagram camera feature will appear. You can do any of the following:
   1. Take a new picture using the Instagram camera feature;
   2. Take a new video using the Instagram video feature; or
   3. Choose an existing photo from your photo library.
5. Once you have the photo or video, you perform the following edits on it:
   1. Scale and/or crop it;
   2. Apply a filter to it;
   3. Enter a caption on it. NOTE: Be sure to use hashtags! Hashtags are keywords that proceed with # (i.e. #socialmedia, #digitalmarketing, #instagram, etc.). Hashtags are used by the social media platforms to group relevant content together, making it easier for people to search and find exactly what they’re looking for. As a general rule of thumb, you should think of hashtags as words you would type in Google to find your picture; and
   4. Share it on other social media like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.
6. Once you have edited your photo, click on the Share button.

Responding to comments and/or likes on Instagram:

1. Login to Instagram (instagram.com);
   1. Username: Your social media handle provided to you by MyDigiBrand
   2. Password: The password provided to you by MyDigiBrand
2. On the bottom of the screen, there is a bubble with a heart in it. If you have new notifications, a number will appear over that bubble. To view the notifications, click on the bubble.
3. To respond to any comments, simply click on the appropriate image in the right hand column;
4. At the bottom of the screen, click on the ‘Comment’ button;
5. Enter your comment. If you would like to ‘tag’ a specific person in your comment, use the @ and start typing their name.

Disclaimer: At MyDigiBrand, we assist small businesses and individuals with establishing and maintaining a powerful and engaging online presence via a strategic combination of a variety of third party products, tools and services. MyDigiBrand is proud to provide our clients with the information contained herein to assist them with managing and maintaining the services we have provided for them. Unfortunately, due to the sheer magnitude of features that are available through these third party services, MyDigiBrand cannot and does not provide training to our clients beyond what is available in these How To’s.

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