How to Use Instagram for Lead Nurturing 2019

How do you turn your Instagram followers into valuable prospects, customers and brand advocates?As the quarterly campaign approach is replaced by a continuous dialogue, Instagram can help you listen in to what your target market is talking about. Part of a nurturing strategy should find you joining in the conversations in a timely and appropriate way.Conversations can quickly and effectively boost your business both in stature, leadership and expertise. Effective listening, quality content and conversation are key to cultivating a long-term relationship with prospects. Repeat sales, brand building and trust should be all part of your nurturing.Here are six important areas to consider as you embed Instagram into your lead nurturing process.1.      Creating Leads - Relationships can make Instagram work to create leads. Primarily you need to spend time cultivating conversation with the group of people who are interested in your knowledge and expertise. These people will share your knowledge outside of your immediate network. Build your follower base and actively engage with people that are likely to be interested in your brand. Keep your ratio of followers to following, at 1:1, this can provide a better impression, one which shows you are listening and also being listened to.
 2.      Nurturing Leads - Conversation and content is what Instagram is all about. Think of the buying process from the customers point of view. Provide useful and interesting items that are relevant throughout the key stages of awareness, consideration, shortlisting and buying. Ask for feedback from your prospects, discover their needs and interests, which in turn will help you recognise when they are ready to move to a sales-led conversation.


 3.      The role of Content - Include links in your Posts to engage people and provide them with information about your specialisation. Post about your new products or services in moderation and aim for the number of conversational Posts to be more than marketing messages. Remember to include a call-to-action, ask people to respond, if your Posts is useful or valuable and re-Post. This will spread the word beyond your network of followers.
 4.      Sales Messaging - When engaging with a brand on Instagram, people expect a certain amount of marketing but it's not the same as subscribing to a newsletter. Followers can quickly punish companies whose content is heavily loaded towards sales pitches. Building brand and trust should always be uppermost in your Posts. The use of offers and sales messages will depend on your company position. Similarly, whichever industry your business is in, will determine what your offers are. Service-led businesses will be more interested in case studies and benchmarking stats, where as price-led businesses will respond to special offers and Buy Instagram Followers UK.
 5.      Tracking with Technology - There are numerous tools available that monitor and manage your Instagram feed. Which one to use will depend on your objectives, complexity of Instagram management and whether you intend to align other social channels. Track all outbound links and monitor your site for visitors referred by Instagram. Identify your key conversion goals and track, check where your Instagram activity is leading prospects along your nurture path.
 6.      Posting Responsibility - B2B marketing strategy doesn't stop at the sales department door. With a nurture approach to lead generation, managing the overlap between functions gives a better result. To be of value, contacts need to be qualified and profiled before being passed on to the sales team. How and when leads are handed over will depend on your product, organisation and how you have structured your Instagram account.
My name is Tamara Baranova. I run TJConsulting and I help small business owners grow their business by delivering effective online marketing mentoring, support and training. My clients see their business succeed, grow fast, and generate healthy profits through online marketing strategy that works.Want to know more? Go to my website http://epicfollowers.co.uk/ to grab my free eCourse 7 Steps to Online Marketing Mastery and learn how to plan your unique social media strategy. Use our step-by-step jargon-free guides to master all popular online marketing tools: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, email, blogging, and more!
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