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In this article, we will talk about the best tips and life hacks, as well as how to become an expert on the social network Instagram.

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Instagram has long won the hearts of many Internet users. In particular, this applies to foreign audiences, since if we talk about the Russian audience, then it amounts to only 15%.

But it is worth noting that even 15% of the Russian audience is more than enough. After all, the total Instagram audience today is more than 400 million registered accounts. At the same time, it is on Instagram that the female audience predominates.

Keep a strong grip on content

The main success of many users on Instagram lies in interesting and unique photos. Therefore, if you want to achieve a multimillion-dollar audience, then you need to follow this advice.

Never take a photo using the Instagram app, as the photos taken through it are very inferior to the photos taken using a standard camera. Use only manual setting cameras, play with light sensitivity and shutter speed, try to bring the photo to the maximum quality.

Get creative with the editing and filter selection process

Under no circumstances should you apply thousands of different filters to your photo, as this will only ruin its atmosphere. Better use special program for photo editing, which has much more settings than just playing with color filters.

Design your profile in more detail and quality

Don’t forget that it’s important not just to post good, high-quality photos, but also to present yourself correctly to the audience. Thus, you need to approach the design of your profile more responsibly, and fill it out to the end, in as much detail as possible.

Eg, if you are a model, then write in the field "About Me" a short biography of your career.

Be careful when using #hashtags

The easiest way to promote on the Instagram social network is to wisely use popular and least competitive hashtags when you publish your next photo. Thus, you need not just to write them, but to bring them as close as possible in terms of the meaning of your photograph.

Keep in touch with your audience

Did some stranger like or follow your Instagram profile? Then this is a good reason to start getting to know him. If someone commented on your photo, it wouldn’t hurt for you to reciprocate either.

Well, let's list some tips you need to follow on Instagram.

What life hacks are there on Instagram?

Hide unnecessary/unused filters

Despite the huge number of color filters on Instagram, most of the audience still uses third party application to edit and improve the quality of photographs. But as you remember, Instagram gained its popularity precisely because of the mass of interesting color filters. Therefore, if for some reason you only use 2 or 3 filters and want to remove unnecessary ones, then you can do this without much difficulty.

In order to hide unnecessary filters or sort them on your Instagram profile, you need to follow our instructions:

• First of all, you need to upload a photo, that is, only in order to get into the settings for choosing a filter for the photo.
• Now you just need to swipe right and go through all 40 filters, and only then you will see a gear button with the name "Manage", which you need to click on.

• Then you will be taken to the settings menu for the filters themselves, where you can either remove them and leave the most necessary ones, or sort them at your discretion.
• To lift up the filter you are interested in, you just need to click on it and pull it up, as shown in the picture.

• Now, if some filters bother you or you don’t use them at all, then to remove them, you need to click on the checkmark to the right of them.

Hide a bad profile photo

After all, not every selfie and photograph comes out with a good frame, a smile or the right light. Therefore, if you found a similar photo on your profile and did not want your subscribers to see it, then you don’t have to delete it, but simply hide it out of sight.

In order to hide unwanted photos on your Instagram profile, you need to follow our instructions:

• First of all, you need to go to your profile, and then click on the portrait icon.

• After that, you need to tag one or more photos, and then click on the button "Hide from profile".

We follow the interests of our friends/subscribers

An excellent opportunity that is available only on the social network Instagram. Thus, to find out what your friend or colleague is interested in, you just need to find an alternative feed with the best photos that they have selected for themselves.

Looking through the photos you liked

Surely a popular life hack for all users of the social network Instagram, since sometimes it happens that you are scrolling through your feed and cannot find the photo you like.

We publish a photo for “our friends”

A typical situation occurs when you are running a business account and would like to inform your colleagues about something new and interesting. Therefore, if you want to publish a photo for a narrow circle of people, you need to use the function « InstagramDirect".

Send your favorite photo from your feed in a message

We get a huge number of likes on a photo

Statistics have shown that bright and rich photos get much more likes. Therefore, if you want to significantly increase the number of likes on your photos, then you need to add brightness and rich colors to them; this can be done using a regular graphic editor.

• Photos with a blurred background or so-called "Bokeh effect" get much more likes than photos without a blurred background.

• Photos that are heavily blue-colored get 26% more likes than red-colored photos. Eg, a photo with a blue sky will get more likes than a photo with red roses.

• Photos with one dominant color in an image get more likes than photos with multiple dominant colors.

• Lower the saturation level in new photos, and only after that publish it on your profile.

• Photos with clear texture get 82% more likes than photos without texture.

The above life hacks will allow you not only to get much more likes, but also to capture more attention of the general Instagram audience, and thereby possibly gain subscribers.

Well, today we have analyzed a huge number of life hacks and told you the best tips that, if applied, will make you an Instagram expert.

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If leaves fall from a tree in the forest and there is no one to take a photo of it happening, can we really be sure that it happened? Instagram largely foresaw the development of such a scenario, and, as a result, became one of the most popular applications for social networks today. Below, we've laid out our best tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Instagram.

Using your Instagram account

If you've found this page, we'd venture a guess that you're already on Instagram, and we don't need to go into detail about how to get started on the app. Instead, we will present you with a number of tips and tricks on how you can make better use of your Instagram account.

Saving Photos to Instagram

The Instagram app doesn't allow you to automatically save photos (or even zoom them in). By the way, images on Instagram can be enlarged with using Android, but in our case, you will need a dedicated application to save photos.

So, you need to do the following:

• install the InstaSave application;
• open it and login with your Instagram credentials. The process will be presented in the form of icons that can be selected, just like in the Gallery application;
• find the image you want to save;
• click on the “Save” icon in the upper right corner of the screen, which looks like a computer floppy disk;
• you'll see the folder's save location, which you can then find in your Gallery app.

Saving your own photos to Instagram

If at any time you turned off the auto-save feature in order to save memory space, you can re-enable this option. If you've never tinkered with Instagram settings, then you're in luck, and the app should automatically save photos uploaded to your device. But if you're not sure about this, then double checking clearly won't hurt the situation.

Your actions:

• open Instagram and go to your profile page (far right corner of the screen);
• click on the menu icon in the upper right corner in the form of three dots;
• Now go down until you see the words “Save original photos” and make sure that the slider is in the “On” position;
• you can do the same for your video files. They will be saved in a dedicated folder in the Gallery.

Download Instagram Photos to Your PC

Let's say you lost your phone and logged into Instagram from a new device. You'll probably want to download copies of all your Instagram photos to your device or create an archive on your PC. Well, it's very easy to do, although you'll have to deal with your computer and not your phone.

Your actions:

• go to the Instaport website on your PC;
• Sign in using your Instagram credentials;
• choose whether you want to upload all photos or only some;
• save the selected images to your computer;
• if you want to see images saved on your PC on your phone, connect your device to the computer via a USB cable and copy the necessary files to your phone;
• After that, save the copied images to your Instagram folder in “Gallery>Photos” (or wherever you would like to save them).

Adding Music to Your Instagram Videos

Adding music to your Instagram videos is not a native feature, but you can still attach audio files to your video content. For this you will need music app, such as Spotify or Deezer.

Follow these steps:

• activate the speaker, then play the music you would like to add to your video;
• open Instagram and go to the tab Instagram Stories(just swipe left);
• start recording your video. The music may stop playing for a few seconds, but once it starts again, it will continue playing from where it stopped.

Instagram will then play your video with the added soundtrack.

Finding your friends and contacts on Instagram

Like many other applications social networks, Instagram provides the ability to find people who have a profile using your contacts. This can be a convenient way to find out who tried to call you if you don't know the number:

• add the number of an unknown subscriber to your contacts;
• open Instagram and tap the icon located in the lower right corner of the screen to access your profile. After that, click on the icon in the upper left corner;
• select “Connect contacts”;
• Now any of your contacts who have Instagram accounts will be shown with links to their profiles.

Let's also say that the same rules apply to contacts you know.

Zooming in on your Instagram photos

Typically, Instagram does not allow users to zoom in on any images, and one of the reasons for this is to this application worked as quickly as possible. What if we told you that Android has a built-in zoom feature for Instagram? This feature is called Magnification Gestures, and is a system image scaling using gestures, which can be found in Android settings Accessibility. Let’s also add that Magnification Gestures works on any Android application, including Instagram.

Once you have activated the above feature, you only need to triple tap anywhere on the screen to enlarge the image. When you do this, an orange frame will appear around the perimeter of the screen, indicating that the image is in zoom mode. You can also use two fingers to swipe to pan and use regular gestures to zoom in or out. To exit zoom mode, triple-click again.

In addition, you will be able to temporarily zoom in without fully entering zoom mode. To quickly enlarge a picture, triple-tap any area of ​​the screen and hold your finger on it. After that, you can swipe to move the enlarged image in different directions. By the way, sometimes gestures may not be available for some unknown reason, but, nevertheless, this is a much more intuitive way to quickly zoom in on an image.

Canceling messages in Instagram Direct

Instagram Direct allows you to undo any messages you've sent, including photos or videos you may have sent to friends or groups. Using Instagram Direct, any content will be deleted from both your device and the recipient’s device, without leaving any traces of its deletion. This is a useful feature for those who made a mistake or regretted sending a particular message.

Your actions:

• open Instagram and click on the flat sheet of paper icon located in the upper right corner;
• open the dialog in which you want to cancel the message;
• Select the text, photo or video message you want to delete and tap on it for a few seconds. After that, select the “Cancel message” option;
• select the “Cancel sending message” option.

Protecting your Instagram account

Like many other social media providers, Instagram takes security seriously. There are a few important points, which you need to be aware of before you change your settings, such as determining who can see your comments or any other information, how to exclude a follower, or how hashtags work in private mode. Below we provide answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about how to best protect your Instagram account.

How to make an account private?

Instagram gives you the option to make your account private. This means that your posts can only be seen by approved followers. The process of transferring your account to private mode very simple:

• go to your Instagram profile;
• Click on the three dots menu icon to access your settings;
• activate the “Private account” setting.

If you later change your mind and decide to reach a wider audience, then follow the same steps to disable your account privacy settings.

If your account is private and you add a hashtag to your post, then that post will not be publicly displayed on the corresponding hashtag page. Please note that only followers you approve will be able to see your posts on hashtag pages or Instagram messages Direct.

Who can see the posts you like if your account is private?

Under normal circumstances, if you like a photo on Instagram, it is visible to everyone who can see the posts.

If your account is private, then:

• only your approved followers can see your posts, including any likes and comments;
• Likes on your posts will not appear in the “Activity>Following” field.

If you like a public post, your like will be visible to everyone and your username will be clickable under the post, although only your approved followers will see your posts.

Are my comments and mentions hidden?

If a user with a private profile mentions someone who is not one of their approved followers in a photo or video, then that person will only be able to see part of the comment in the “You” subsection of the “Activity” section. Plus, such people may receive push notifications (if such notifications are enabled), but will be able to navigate to any photo or video at a private level.

If someone with a private profile leaves a message on a photo of someone with a public account, then such a comment can be seen by any social network user who has access to the photo and video.

What happens if a post is published on another social network?

If someone (like you) shares a link from their Instagram photo, the social network displays a “404 – Page not found” message. When a user with a private profile posts a photo or video to another social network (Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare) using Instagram, the image will be available for viewing on that network, and the permalink will be active. In other words, the photo will be publicly available to anyone who has access to its direct link/URL.

How do I remove a follower from my private account?

If your account is private, you can remove anyone from your list of followers. To do this, follow these steps:

• log in to your profile;
• click on “Followers” ​​at the top of the screen;
• Now click to the right of the follower you would like to remove, then select Delete.

When you delete your follower, they are not notified that you deleted them. If the account becomes public again in the future, the removed follower will be able to see your content again. However, if you keep your security settings active, none of your content will be available to the previously deleted follower.

How can I make sure that my profile does not contain offers to become someone's follower?

When someone clicks on the “Follow” icon on an Instagram profile, that person will see offers from similar profiles that they will want to accept. By the way, yours may be among such profiles. If you do not want to see such offers to become someone's follower, then you can refuse them as follows:

• go to instagram.com from a desktop PC or through your phone’s browser;
• tap or click on the top right, then select “Edit Profile”;
• Now click or click next to “Suggestions from similar accounts” and select “Submit”.

Keep in mind that if you decline an account's offers to follow on your profile, you will not appear as an offer to follow on anyone else's profile.

How can I remove my images from Google Search?

Your images may appear in Google search results if you are logged into your Instagram account through a website that allows you to access your profile and images. These third party sites have been created using the Instagram API, although they are not directly affiliated with Instagram. If you don't want your photos or videos to appear on Google, setting your account to private mode will help.

Instagram encourages its users to cancel access to third-party websites and set their accounts to private mode. It may take some time for such sites and Google to re-index and remove the images, even if you delete your account. If you need to contact an application that transfers your images to Google to speed up this process, we provide links to support pages for popular third-party services that use the Instagram API:

How can I delete or deactivate my Instagram account?

When you delete your account, your profile, photos, videos, comments, likes and followers will be permanently deleted from Instagram. Once you delete your account, you won't be able to sign up again with the same username, and Instagram won't reactivate deleted accounts for any of its former users. If you still want to permanently delete your account, follow these steps:

• First you need a PC. You can only delete an Instagram account through the website, so don't try to do it inside the Instagram app;
• go to the page for deleting your account;
• Select “Why are you deleting your account?” from the drop-down menu. and re-enter your password. The option to permanently delete your account will only appear after you have selected a reason from the menu;
• Click on the inscription “Delete my account forever.”

Once you delete your account, you will not be able to register again with the same username or add that username to another account, plus you will not be able to reactivate deleted accounts. If you're not sure you're ready to give up your Instagram account, you can temporarily disable it. To do this, follow these steps:

• gain access to your PC. You can only deactivate your account on the Instagram website;
• click on the profile icon in the upper right corner and select “Edit profile”;
• scroll down, then click "Temporarily disable my account" in the lower right corner;
• Select “Why are you deactivating your account?” from the drop-down menu. and re-enter your password. The option to disable your account will only appear when you have selected a reason in the menu;
• Click "Temporarily disable account."

How can I block or unblock someone's story?

The easiest way to do this is to use Instagram Home. If you don't want someone's story to appear in the top bar of your feed, you can turn it off like this:

• At the top of the feed, tap and hold the profile picture of the user whose story you want to mute.
• select "Lock History" (username).

To unblock a story that you previously blocked, repeat the same steps and select “Unblock (username).

Stories you've blocked will appear at the end of the line at the top of the feed, and won't have a bright ring around them when they're updated. Blocked stories will not automatically appear when you view stories.

I think someone hacked my Instagram account

If your account is hacked or you simply forgot your registration data, then this, of course, is bad, but control over your Instagram profile should not become your headache.

If you still can't log into your Instagram account, there are some things you can do to secure it:

• change your password or send a message to cancel your password;
• enable two-level authentication as an additional security measure;
• Block access to any suspicious third-party applications.

In the worst case scenario, you will no longer be able to log into your Instagram account, but here comes the help of Instagram app:

• open the Instagram application on your mobile device;
• On the login screen, click on “Get Help” before clicking on “Login”;
• Click "Use username or address" Email» and enter your username or email address;
• click on the arrow in the upper right corner;
• Click on “Deny access to any of them?”. Then follow the instructions on the screen.

Attracting More Followers for Your Instagram Account

Thanks to Instagram, the principle “Pictures or it didn’t happen” was born. If you're just posting photos of your cat's antics, home renovations, or Niagara Falls you visited, you're missing the point of Instagram. Here are some tips on how to get more followers on Instagram.

High-quality photos for the post

It's a simple rule: if you post poorly shot, blurry photos with fingerprints all over the lens, you shouldn't be surprised that no one is interested in following the old Instagram account a la Grubby McBlurry.

Instagram is great for sharing photos straight from your smartphone, but not all smartphone cameras are created equal. If your phone isn't exactly great at taking photos, then you might want to consider taking photos with a DSLR and uploading them using your PC. Remember: Instagram should be a photographer's dream, not a nightmare.

Using a hashtag

Hashtags allow you to quickly connect to communities. Add a trendy hashtag to a post or take a photo that targets a similar hashtag and track the level of interest in what you post.

If you're already using hashtags, look at photos using that hashtag and see which ones have the most likes and followers. Keep the winning formula in mind and watch your followers grow.

Mention of users

If you're on Instagram, then you probably follow people who post things you like. If you become their follower, you should interact with them. If you can reach someone who has more followers than you, their followers may click on your profile to see what you post, and if you followed our first tip, this should result in you you should quickly gain followers.

Posting at the right time

This advice is etched in stone on the list of social media commandments. No matter what platform you are on, think like your victim. Who are you targeting your posts for and what are the habits of such people?

If your post is about breakfast, post it in the morning, but be sure to post it in the correct time zone for those you want as your followers. By knowing when people are on buses and trains or on their lunch break, you know when you can get their attention.

Join your audience

You know what makes you stop and look when you're scrolling through your feed. But stopping is one thing, and interaction is another. If you post an ordinary photo but attach an amazing caption to it, the likelihood that someone will stop commenting increases.

When any user contributed to your post, you made them part of what you were doing. Asking questions and being funny or provocative are easy ways to get people to engage more with your posts.

Use Instagram more

It may sound silly, but you can't expect followers to appear out of thin air. In general, the more people post, the more followers they gain. If you only post once every six months, you can't expect to have many followers. Check out the feeds of people you like and see how active they are.

Learn from the professionals

There are many guides on how to improve your online social media strategy. Some of them are just awesome, and written by people who get paid to do such things. These guys earn more Instagram followers and can build brands during their lunch break. Learn from such people. If they share the information you need for free, you would be foolish not to use it. Check out Guy Kawasaki for beginners, the most popular guy on the Internet.

A little deception

If all this seems too complicated for you, you can cheat a little and buy followers. Most Instagram users have a few followers who only post photos about attracting more followers, and you could very well buy them.

Alternatively, you can use Google search and find yourself a paid service that guarantees thousands of real followers for really decent money. We recently came across an ad that promised 5,000 followers for just fifty dollars. That's a good price to save a lot of effort.

Posts from places of meeting and entertainment

If you've ever been to a concert or any entertainment venue and posted photos, you've probably had a bar or venue like the one in your photo. This is very important, since your potential followers are no strangers to free advertising.

Posting about your city is also a great way to get followers, either from other people in your city or from people who like appearance where you live. If you post good pictures of popular places, people are much more likely to see them and follow you to see more.

Pay attention to every post

This is the single best golden nugget of wisdom. When you consider how many posts pass by everyone's eyes every day, it's not easy to characterize your position. So don't just post a bunch of information, but treat every post you make as if it were your only one.

Put smart thoughts into your post, give it a good title, inject some humor into it, mention people, ask questions, tell people something they didn't know. Do this often enough and you'll be surprised at how many people will follow you.

This is our list best advice and tricks, but it's hardly comprehensive, and there are probably things we missed. What's your favorite Instagram tip (or trick)? How have they helped you get more out of your favorite app? Let us know in the comments.

You won’t surprise anyone with square photos with amazing filters. If previously they were available to a limited circle of people, today almost any owner modern smartphone can capture the reality around him in artistic tones.

Like everywhere else, Instagram has its own unwritten rules and manners of behavior. Due to its increased popularity, it has ceased to be associated with something unique, and the materials posted there are no longer delightful. It’s easy to find yourself on the edge of a service with a lack of likes and comments. It's much more difficult to earn them. But this procedure, like many other things, can be simplified; just follow a few tips, and you will have more quality commenting subscribers.


You shouldn't post anything that wasn't captured with your phone's camera. This includes screenshots of weather, traffic jams, player, and other information from the phone display. Some unique people even upload memes that are boring to everyone, which irritates the audience even more.
Don't write a huge bunch of tags in the title. Three short tags are allowed that do not make reading difficult and do not spoil the viewing experience.

The ideal option would be to upload three photos a day: morning, afternoon and evening. It gets boring to look at a lot of photos, so if you have a lot of footage, it’s better to distribute it over different days. This technique is especially effective when you are unable to go outside for various reasons.

You should not upload photos of food, legs, the sky, garbage, or strange objects. You shouldn’t get carried away with yourself either, even if you have the most beautiful appearance in the world. Instagram is not suitable for portraits and only spoils your appearance. It would be best to capture the beautiful reality around you (because no filters can save the ugly one).

Don't post everything you photograph. Conduct a strict selection process. and attractive, otherwise it will be lost among the nameless templates of bad taste.

Don't forget to reply to comments. This way you will increase interest in your account(and double the number of comments if the number of comments is particularly important to you).

Don't follow celebrities (unless they are Instagram celebrities). There is nothing good there except photos of terrible quality and comments from rabid fans. You will be completely disappointed. Better and other interesting strangers, to their photographs. It’s much more interesting with real people telling the story about the world around them than with robots who just publish one photo after another, completely ignoring quality.

Do not link your account to other platforms. There is a high probability that at one of them they will unfollow you, so that no one has the desire to forcibly watch the same thing twice.

By following these simple tips, your Instagram account will become interesting not only to you, but also to hundreds and even thousands of other people who will visit you every day.

Ps: Finally, one bad piece of advice. From time to time, leave comments in Russian on photographs of world celebrities. The result will not take long to arrive.

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In order to receive continuous flow of orders through Instagram, it is important to post a certain type of content. Only in this case will you be able to close many deals, receive leads, and not just gain followers and likes using popular hashtags that attract a lot of bots and very few real people. So, where to start and what to do to make your account profitable?

Content type

1.Decide on your content type. First, you need to decide what type of account you will maintain. There are accounts that are dedicated to a single problem. They resemble a community and generate traffic around solving one problem. For example, they tell you where to go for fun in the evening. There are accounts that themselves are a product sales channel. There are those accounts that generate traffic on a certain topic and are supported by one person (blogger, celebrity, etc.). You need to decide what tasks you face now. If you just need promote your product on Instagram, then you need to devote all the content in your account to this, and the account itself should become a selling page for your product. Accordingly, you will post selling content, the main task of which is to create a desire to buy.

Show the product

2. Showcase your product on Instagram from all angles. Whatever you sell, it is important for you to show the product from different sides, from different angles and sections. It is important for the audience to see the product in volume, and this is what photographs and videos allow you to do. In other words, you need to intrigue the person, make him understand that the value you offer him is much greater than the price he pays for the product (service).

Emotional pictures

3. Take emotional photos and videos. Pictures and videos should be designed to instantly evoke emotion. You only have 15 seconds on the video, so spend as much time as possible on directing and posing the shot. Pictures should be airy, light, without yellowness or grain. This is worth learning, because beautiful photographs are important for sales.

Instagram sells emotions

4. Please note that the application Instagram sells emotions. Instagram is a very emotional sales channel. Therefore, it is important to understand that any product can be presented either very cool or poorly, which will instantly increase the negative and reduce the response. Your task is to increase resonance, to make people want to buy or at least find out Additional information. The wow effect is a must for this communication channel.

You need to create the demand yourself

5. Not every product that can be successfully sold on Instagram is already searched for by people. Sometimes you need to create demand yourself. If, with the help of search engines, people are looking for information about a specific product, service, or simply want to find an article on a topic, then as for Instagram, everything is not so obvious. Often goods for which there is no demand yet are sold here. In this case, it is foolish to hope for promotion using only hashtags or keywords. You need to use the viral effect, use all possible tools to reach your potential target audience. To do this, you need to work with bloggers, like other people’s photos, follow real people on Instagram, thereby increasing the likelihood of interest in your product.

Personal sales channel

6. Instagram is a very personal sales channel. Keep this in mind when developing your content strategy. Typical photographs ordered from product photographers will not be sold here. You need to be able to not only show the nuances, but do it sweetly and beautifully. So that you want to buy it. In this sense, the system of filters for photos on Instagram is very indicative. Everything was invented for a reason. The main idea of ​​Instagram is to convey personal emotions and mood. What is the mood for your brand right now? It's very important to show this. It is so important that people are much more willing to buy through Instagram, where the photo is not always so perfect quality than on sites with impeccable pictures, but for some reason always official and cold. The so-called “warm” type of content sells much easier and more. Also, you should not hide information about who made the product, for whom, how the idea came about, and so on. Such nuances are of great value to potential clients of your company. On Instagram, every photo tells a story.