Today’s youtube is all about Instagram Story Ninja Tips! Instagram stories are used daily by nearly 250 million users. The average Instagram user spends nearly 28 minutes a day on the app, which averages over three hours each and every single week.

Instagram Stroy Ninja Tip 1 - You Don’t have to Upload in Real Time
This is something that I've leveraged for a really long time. Oftentimes you'll find that you'll be like, Hey, I could totally Instagram story of this, but it's actually taking you away from your focus. I highly recommend, rather than using the Instagram story app, you use your camera on your phone or the video recording capabilities on your phone to record the moment.

Instagram Story Ninja Tip 2 - Story Storms
What the heck is a story storm? I recently learned this term a couple of weeks ago when I was doing research for this YouTube video, however, I’ve been doing story storms for several years. Story storms are multiple instagram videos when put together create one longer video piece of content. On instagram you can only upload 30 seconds of video at a time, so a story storm, is multiple 30 second videos when combined together create one big story.

Instagram Story Ninja Tip 3 - Tools
The tools are a really fun way to differentiate yourself on Instagram. For example, you can actually write with your finger with the different markers or crayons or whatever tool you’d like to use. You can add type to you stories or stickers. These are great ways to up engagement and really just make your story more visually appealing. Most story viewers don’t actually watch stories with their sound on.

Instagram Story Ninja Tip 4 - Hashtags, Geolocation, & Tagging Accounts.
Hashtags, geolocation and tagging other accounts are great ways to increase the number of viewers on your stories. All too often people throw up stories and neglect to add hashtags, tagging accounts or their geolocation and they are neglecting to get the biggest reach they could possibly get

Instagram Story Ninja Tip 5 - Questions and Quizzes
I am a huge fan of creating engagement inside of my Instagram stories and quizzes and polls are a great way to get the people who are actively watching your stories involved. I've leveraged instagram stories and polls on many occasions to find out what kind of content my ideal client wants me to create. I've also used it just to see how people's days are going.

Instagram Story Ninja Tip 6 - Consistency
Getting consistent, like any other marketing effort, Instagram stories are going to benefit you most when you are consistent. If you haven't already, check out our video on creating content consistently however the biggest thing that I recommend is batch creation. Block times a few times a day two upload instagram story content.

Instagram Story Ninja Tip 7 - Collaboration
Collaboration on Instagram stories is a huge way in which you can grow your audience and really create amazing engagement. Perhaps as an Instagram takeover or a giveaway or interview. There are so many different ways in which you can increase your exposure and really collaborate with other brands and other businesses on Instagram stories.

Instagram Story Ninja Tip 8 - Calls to Action
Ultimately the goal of Instagram stories is to get your ideal client to take that next step in your client journey for example to go read your blog or perhaps it's to sign up for your email list. Whether that's simply to click the link in the bio to swipe up to send you a DM, whatever it is, encouraging the people who are actively viewing you stories to take that next step is key to conversion.

Instagram Story Ninja Tip 9 - Being Authentic
I've said this over and over and over again being authentic and really sharing with your audience what is going on in your world is going to be a game changer. I've seen so many different bloggers, brands, influencers really get raw and real when it comes to Instagram stories. This is not the days of the perfectly curated Instagram feed.

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