How To Rapidly And Effectively Gain Followers On Instagram

By Keith Williams, a social media analyst, with resource information from diylikes.com.
 

Instagram was introduced by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in October 2010. Since then, it has grown rapidly into one of the most popular social media networks among millions of people across the world. Aside from being popular among individuals, this social media platform is also becoming a reliable and effective promotional and marketing tool for businesses.

As a business owner, if you have just learned about the value of having an Instagram account and you want to build a community around your account, there are several ways you can quickly and successfully gain followers on Instagram.

Tips For Gaining Followers On Instagram
 
Below are some pointers business owners can keep in mind to gain followers on this popular photo social platform:

• Put in a considerable amount of time and effort to make your account look great. This entails building a quality portfolio of great photos that should match your business's core products and values. When choosing and uploading pictures about your product or services, put yourself in the shoes of your followers and ask if you will like seeing those photos on your own feed or not.

• Use your other social media accounts to promote your new Instagram account. Share your uploaded Instagram photos on Facebook and Twitter. Promote your Instagram link on these other social media platforms as well. Put an Instagram widget on your website that will redirect site visitors to your new account.

• Interact with your followers and other users of Instagram. Leave attentive comments on the photos of your followers. As an additional tip, avoid begging for follows from people you do not know though.

• To sustain the interest of your account’s followers, you need to always engage with them and reply to their comments.

• When it comes to choosing which photos you should comment on, search for photos that have hashtags that are related to your business. Post comments on the latest images that have a fairly low amount of comments. This is because if you comment on photos that already have hundreds of comments, yours will not be noticed or read easily.

• Finally, you can also consider buying Instragram followers. When you buy followers for your account from a trusted service provider, you can start growing your community and other followers will join it with hardly any effort on your part. Take note that with this with option, you do not have to worry about your account being suspended or banned because this is a legitimate course of action and the followers you will invest in are high quality.

Different Website Verification Seals Your Business Can Invest In

By Josie Tood – Content Resource from ValidSafe

 

A trust seal is an image that you can display on your site in order to increase visitor confidence and trust. Also, this will significantly increase your sales or conversion rates. For you to be able to display website verification seals, a third-party organization must verify first that your venture is indeed legally registered, that you have as well as practice privacy protection, and that you follow excellent security practices.

There are actually different types of trust seals. Depending on your site, you might be able to benefit a lot from having all of these seals included on your site.

Types Of Trust Seals

Security Trust Seal – This will indicate that the site has been verified to be secure in some way. Know that there are actually 2 types of security seals – one that will indicate that the site has been scanned for malware and one that will signify that the site makes use of an SSL certificate. Always be reminded that your site having a secure website will involve more than SSL and malware scanning. Visitors may not know all these security seals, but you must know all of these. After all, all the sites on the world will not make any difference if somebody will steal all your clients’ data and trashes your reputation.

Business Trust Seal – This will verify the identity as well as the reputation of your business. The most common business seal is offered by the Better Business Bureau; however, there are similar services that are being offered by companies like ValidSafe that will allow you to capture user feedback as well as efficiently manage your reputation.

Privacy Trust Seal – This is being given by a company that verifies that your business has a good Privacy Policy and that you actually follow it. This will further mean that if you want one of these trust seals, you have to disclose your policies on collection and use of personally identifiable information such as your email address and name, as well as provide your visitors with control on how their information must be used and shared.

Trust seals certainly come in several different flavors, and each has different requirements and cost. How efficient a trust seal is can be affected by a lot of important factors. As a business owner, know that trust seals do less in order to make your site more secure. You really have to take many other measures to make sure that your site will stay secure at all times.