Guide to the section "Interesting and searching" in Instagram. Instagram selection: how to create, new opportunities What is a new Instagram collection
A selection of Instagram: how to create and what opportunities it gives, about all this and more, you can learn from this article. The new feature greatly simplifies and streamlines saving photos to your Instagram account, and it also helps to increase sales.
Instagram selection
If you like to save not your (or your) photos from the Instagram feed, then you already know about the button " save". This is the button on the screen, under the photo on the right side, in the form of an inverted flag (hereinafter “ checkbox«).
How the checkbox works: you scroll through the feed, like the photo, click on the checkbox and the photo is immediately saved to your Instagram. But what to do when a lot of photos are collected and all of different subjects?
To solve this problem, Instagram has created a new function “collection” - which allows the user to select from the created ones or create a new thematic album before saving the photo.
The screenshot below shows how to do this: choose the photo you want to save, click on the checkbox and hold it until the window “ New selection"(New album), give a name to the new collection and press" Done". Please note that if you already have created collections, then they will be offered for saving, or you can create a new one.
All your selections are saved in your instagram account. To see them go to your profile and click on the checkbox. A window with two tabs will open: “ All"And" Collections". In the tab “ All»All photos you have saved are placed. And in the tab “ Collections»All created albums with sorted photos. If you delete a photo in a tab, “ All“, It will disappear from the album, and if you delete a photo in the album, it will disappear only in the album. The same photo can be stored in different albums. Photos can be transferred from one album to another.
Already created folders (albums) with photos can be renamed. To do this: click on three vertical dots (3W), in the menu that opens, select " Edit selection"And change the name.
If you suddenly change your mind and decide to delete the directory, then just click on 3BT, and press the button " Delete collection “, The folder will be deleted.
Please note that only you and no one else can see all your saved photos and catalogs.
How Instagram selections can help increase sales
As an entrepreneur and owner of an online store on Instagram, I know from personal experience that when there are a lot of product photos on your account, it happens that you do not notice a customer's comment or do not have time to respond to it in time. And then by accidentally opening a photo or receiving another question, you find a comment from a week ago. It is clear that the customer most likely left and bought the same product elsewhere (from your competitor).
So, to avoid such a situation, you can now group photos of the best-selling products by albums. This makes it possible to constantly monitor photos in which the likelihood of comments is the highest and you are already the least likely to miss a hot buyer.
Now time is significantly saved on searching for missed comments and there is a great opportunity to respond to them in time, which is very important in sales.
If you have any questions, subscribe to my instagram account @andrii_pavlenko and write to me directly.
I use SMMplanner and Flume - where I reply to comments and private messages.
2. Post as part of a large picture
Subscribers look at photos not only in the feed, but also in their accounts. To stand out from the crowd, some users use the big picture technique. Take a large image which is cut into small ones. It turns out this is such a joke, like the Micah404.
3. Links in the account description
Now I’ll say a banality, but in publications, even if you insert a link, it will not be clickable. And if your PR manager or requires to insert links, change your job or PR manager. These are sick people, they can think of something else wild.
Work with a webmaster, let him register a short domain for your site, and set up a redirect to the main site through a short domain. Let's say you have a flower shop with the address cvetoteka.ru, short domain cvet.ok. Now on Instagram, you can place a shortened page on some bouquet, for example, cvet.ok / rose.
4. Your list of filters
There are over 40 filters on Instagram now! I am using 2. To clean up the workspace, I can hide filters, or change the order of filters to be more convenient.
Hold the filter and drag it to a more convenient place or remove ...
or scroll to the bottom of the filter list and select "Change".
5. Filter intensity
You can get amazing results by clicking on a filter and changing the intensity of the filter. In addition, in this mode, you can overlay a frame.
6. Edit your photo
If you don't like any filter, you can use fine editing. In filter selection mode, click Change.
7. Draft on Instagram
When you apply a filter to an image and want to go back, Instagram will offer to save the post to drafts. In the evening I made two drafts, and published them in the morning and at lunchtime.
8. Deny comments
Before publishing, scroll down and click "Advanced Settings". Turn off the comment. Now your photo gets only likes. Convenient if you are constantly bombarded with spam comments.
9. Monitor publications of selected users
First, subscribe to the desired account, then click on the settings button, and select "Enable post notifications". If you have 2000 - 3000 subscriptions, this button will help you not to miss the really important publications. And also, this function can be used to monitor competitors or guard their comments, hijack leads.
10. Likes history
You can always find a list of those publications that you liked. This is how I check the quality of the massliking service.
Go to your account settings, swipe down to the "Posts you like" item.
11. Bookmarks
When I first learned to photograph, I took hundreds of screenshots to capture an impressive shot. Now Instagram has bookmarks, and it is not necessary to take screenshots.
12. Clear search history
By default, Instagram stores your searches. If you were looking for a gift for your wife, and are afraid that your surprise will be revealed through the search, you can clear the search history, and no one will find anything \u003d)
Click on your account settings, and scroll down to "Clear search history".
13. Activity of subscriptions
Since ancient times, you can find out what your subscriptions have liked, commented on or who subscribed to. But few people use this to analyze their target audience. So you can understand what the target audience likes, what is trending now and adapt your content plan.
In the notifications tab, click on "Subscriptions" and analyze the activity of subscriptions. This is how you can find subscriptions that use mass following.
14. Multiacc
This is my favorite Instagram update of 2016. Now I can simultaneously sit and monitor notifications, comments and messages from five accounts. Unfortunately, when you have five accounts connected, the application sometimes glitches and resets the password for the account, or in one account displays private messages and notifications of another.
In the account settings, find the item "Add account", enter the login and password for the new account, and switch between the account by clicking the avatar icon in the lower right corner of the application.
15. Share a link to an interesting publication with your friends
16. Photo preview
When you are watching someone's account, a long press on the post brings up the "preview" mode.
17. Photo enlargement
Previously, it was impossible to see small details on the screen? Use two fingers to spread the publication.
18. Save photos
Sometimes you need to quickly get hold of a photo that you recently posted on Instagram. Turn on the "Save photos" and "Save videos" settings in your account settings.
19. Save other people's photos
SMMs should use user generated content to enhance their brand reputation. There are three ways to use a subscriber photo.
- Repost application.
- Paste the link to the publication in Telegram, and you can download the picture.
- Download the picture through the page code. Right-click on the page with the publication → select the item "View page code" → press the keys "Ctrl + F" → start typing "jpg" → copy the first line that will be highlighted. This will be a direct link to the high quality image.
20. More than one filter per photo
Sometimes, you can get the desired visual effect only if you apply several filters. To do this, first apply one of the filters. Then turn on Airplane mode and post your photo. You won't be able to publish, but the desired photo will be saved in the gallery, you need to apply a new filter to it.
21. Business account
Business accounts on Instagram were introduced recently, not everyone is still used to them, but there are already different myths:
- The coverage of publications is decreasing.
- The likelihood of getting into the Top by geo and hashtag decreases.
- People are afraid of business accounts and leave them for normal accounts.
Whether to transfer a regular account to a business account or not, the smr should decide, I made my choice.
22. Clean up spam comments
The number of comments raises the ER and, hypothetically, this is good for an account in the era of algorithmic feeds. Only spam comments with a job offer can spoil the whole impression of the account. It is better to delete such comments.
You can delete any comment on any post. I do not recommend removing the negative. A properly processed negative comment sells as 4-5 good reviews.
23. Automatically monitor comments
If you got fake accounts that are spamming in your account, or you do not allow swearing in your account, you can set up automatic verification of comments by keys.
Every time I get a stream of spam comments, I pick keywords and put them on the list of prohibited comments.
24. Remove or hide marks on photos
Sometimes it is necessary to remove some photos from the “photo with you”, this is especially true for large brands that are constantly featured in photos.
Go to "Photo with me" → select an unwanted photo → click on the tag → "Remove tag" you remove the tag from the photo, if you move the slider, the photo will not be displayed in the "Photo with me" but the tag will remain.
25. Paragraphs or how to make indents in texts
Anything you write on Instagram can be glued against you! Therefore, instead of readable text, you can get a sheet of letters.
To prevent this from happening, after the dot, there should be no sign. Emoticons, spaces, letters, dashes, brackets are signs. Helps to compose text in notes or a notebook, and then insert it into Instagram. But it's easier and faster to use our service. It doesn’t skew lines and paragraphs don’t slip.
26. Videos with different scenes
You can create real sketches and meaningful videos using only the video camera application on Instagram. It's not as professional as inviting a videographer and shooting a video in six months, but quickly.
We pressed the shooting key and filmed the desired scene and released the key. You can continue to shoot further.
27. Video without sound
By default, Instagram videos are broadcast without sound. If you were shooting in a natural environment where there was a lot of noise, it is better to turn off the sound.
28. Change video cover
Click on the invisible "Cover" button in the filter selection mode, and choose a suitable cover for your video. In SMMplanner you can upload your own video cover.
29. Selection of hashtags
As long as there is a myth that hashtags help to promote a brand, any tools for searching and selecting hashtags will be relevant. In the Instagram search, enter one hashtag, and Instagram itself will suggest others with which this hashtag is often used.
30. Photos from archives in Instagram stories
Instagram stories were conceived as an alternative to Snapchat, so that only mobile content could be uploaded to Instagram here and now. Luckily, you can download cool photos to your phone and use them in your stories.
To do this, take an old photo and edit it in any graphics editor. After that, the photo will be updated with the creation date.
Go to stories, and swipe up from the bottom of the screen, there will be photos and videos taken in 24 hours.
31. Built-in Boomerang
Boomerang is an app that helps you create looping gifs. In a recent Instagram update, the developers have built a boomerang into stories. Now you can remove Boomerang from your phone and use Instagram.
We went into history and chose the Boomerang button.
32. Stories for the elite
Post Instagram Stories to your favorites.
33. Hide stories from favorites
You can not only show stories only to selected accounts, but also hide them from other prying eyes. To do this, go to the account settings and the stories settings, in the stories settings select those people who do not need to show stories.
34. Complementary colors in stories
Select text or a brush. A palette appears at the bottom of the screen. By holding down one of the colors, the expanded palette panel will open.
35. As many stickers and text in Instagram stories as you like
Press the sticker, or text key. Insert, resize, reposition, and press the sticker or text key again. So you can build various wonderful structures.
36. Tags in Instagram stories
Just start entering the target account login via @
37. Save stories in the gallery
If you use boomerangs, then stickers, then brushes, you can get a cool story that you want to save to your phone.
38. Skip boring and uninteresting stories
If you find yourself on a line of 25 photos of the same, feel free to skip. Double-clicking on a story will skip one scene from your account history, and swiping will take you to the next story.
Let's summarize
We have considered 38 tricks of working with Instagram and the features of working with them. Let's recall all the tricks voiced in this article.
Forty-six percent of Instagram users have tried using the new Bookmarks feature since it came out in December 2016. Now, not only can you save images and videos that you want to watch later, you can also organize them into collections. If it sounds like Pinterest, you're right. Each collection is like a board and every image or video is like a "pin".
This is how it works:
- A window will open. Click the plus sign (if you already have collections and need to create a new one) and give your collection a name.
- Click "Done" and the image or video will be saved in this collection.
Ok, I just created a selection. How can I add something there?
Adding to your collection is as easy as pinning an image to a new Pinterest board.- Click Collections at the top of the screen.
- Click on the collection you want to add to and click on the menu icon at the top right of the page.
- Select "Add to Set".
- Click on the entries you have already saved and click Finish.
Second option:
- Press and hold the bookmark icon below the photo or video.
- A window will open. Click on the collection to which you want to save.
- Click "Done" and the image or video will be saved to this collection.
Is there some way to organize the material that you have already saved in new collections?
Just follow these steps:- Go to your profile and click on the bookmark icon.
- Click the "+" sign in the upper right corner.
- Instagram will ask you to name the collection. Do this, then click Next.
- The app will take you back to your saved images and videos. Tap the saves that you want to add to the new collection, and then tap the "Done" checkbox.
How do you find these great collections?
To find your collections, simply go to your profile and click on the bookmark icon. Then tap the Collections option at the top of the screen.Can collections be deleted?
Of course! Here's how: - Go to your profile and click on the bookmark icon.
- Go to your selections, then click on the one you want to delete.
- Click on the menu icon at the top right of the page.
- Select Edit Assignment.
- Click Remove.
What if I only want to delete one image and not the entire selection?
You don't need to delete everything. You can also get rid of single messages. All you need to do is click on the bookmark icon below the entry and click "Delete".Can I change the title of the collection?
Yes. Just follow the steps as you would for deleting a set and select "Edit Set" and instead of "Delete" enter a new name and tap the checkbox "Done".Can other people see my collections?
No, your selections are for your eyes only. Perhaps in the future, Instagram will provide users with the ability to have shared boards, I mean collections, but so far the developers have not made any announcements.The "Saved" section on Instagram is designed to save photos and videos to which the user wants to return again. A similar function is implemented in the Vkontakte social network, where there is a separate album for photos.
What is "Saved on Instagram"
Thanks to the "Saved" section, the user will be able to postpone the pictures that interested him in a separate folder on Instagram. By clicking again, he will get to the same publication. The exceptions are deleted photos and videos, as well as changes to the privacy of other accounts.
You can postpone any publication: both IGTV and posts from personal pages. A special icon in the form of a flag is located under the record. With its help, add new content to a collection or shared album.
Where is "Saved" on Instagram:
The same is available from the computer version. Going to your profile, you need to turn from the main section " Tape»To the right - Saved. You can add new publications to the section both from a computer and from a smartphone. From additional settings - an entry from "Saved" can be deleted by clicking again on the icon " checkbox».
It's more difficult with IGTV: the video will be added to the personal channel, from where the page owner can watch it again.
Why do we need "Saved" on Instagram: to quickly find interesting photos, return to publications, without copying the link. That is, if the user liked any photo, he can return to it again. Also, this section helps you not to lose important materials.
