Bluewire News – 23rd February 2016

So are you on Instagram yet?

TL;DR version

I’m hosting a free Instagram Masterclass with Nathan Chan on How To Rapidly Grow Your Instagram Following from 0-500k in 12 months

Thursday 24th Feb at 11am AEDST (Melbourne/Sydney time)
// 7pm Wed 23rd Feb EST 

Register for free here >>

You’re going to learn:

• The 5 key steps to explode your Instagram account.
• How to create epic content that gets shared by celebrities.
• Hashtags – The ultimate tip.
• Influencers – Who are they, and why do they matter.
• What is an S4S? And why is it the most important acronym on Instagram for growth. Yep, count me in >>

(Btw, are you not interested in Instagram or Nathan Chan?
 No stress, click here and I won’t hit you up with more emails on this topic)

Longer version…

I’ve been dabbling in Instagram but when Nathan Chan’s free training was released last week, I decided to commit.

You know what’s happened?

I’ve overcome the ‘barriers’, I’m loving posting images and quotes, and I’m seeing more followers, and MORE email subscribers.

It’s not just me either.

Fellow Bluewire News reader Andrew Sparks from Sparks Elite sent me this email today.

Check it out on Instagram and maybe follow me ;-)

I’ve read that Instagram is becoming the fastest growing channel for smart marketers to get more traffic & more leads.  When I saw the stats, the first thing that came to mind was “whatever..”

MySpace, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, YouTube, InstaGram, WhatsApp, SnapChat…

Over the years… It’s been hard to keep up sometimes, right?

Some of these things go on to dominate like Facebook and Twitter. Others do “OK”, and others just vanish into oblivion… Personally, I tend not to get excited until things are proven…

So I sat down to talk to Nathan Chan, the owner of Foundr Magazine about what he thought of Instagram as business strategy.

Sitting down with Nathan Chan and friends – via @thedannorris

Well it turns out speaking with Nathan he is crushing it with Instagram as a way to growing his followers base fast, getting thousands of leads per week and consistent sales.

In fact, Nathan told me that the secret to his success was that he was able to take advantage of Instagram to go from 0 to 500,000 followers in just 12 months!!!

I’ve interviewed him for our podcast and I’ve spent time on the phone asking him stuff I wanted to know.

For example, I never knew how to re-post an image that I like — after all there is no “re-post” button, but I saw it happen all the time.  Nathan told me to screenshot the image and post it (with attribution of course).  The screenshot gets cropped perfectly inside Instagram — I never knew this — and it’s so simple now that I know!

I kinda knew to include hashtags in the first comment so I could increase visibility, but I never knew which ones.  Thanks to Nathan’s free training, I now swear by TagsForLikes.com to work out the most popular hashtags to get more people to see your posts.

It’s all such good stuff.

Plus I use a call to action (aka a CTA for you marketing nerds) in Instagram posts directing people to download our 33 marketing templates.

You know what ..!?  It is converting and our email list is growing because of Instagram. This is where the real value lies!

Anyway Nathan has agreed to do a webinar on this for you and fellow Bluewire News readers on how they can get more followers, leads and sales with Instagram?

So we are doing a live WEBCAST EVENT on — Thursday 24th Feb (in Australia)  // Wed 23rd in USA — to teach you everything you need to know about how to use the power of Instagram to build a huge tribe, get more leads to your business and convert more leads into sales.

Register for the Instagram Masterclass with Nathan Chan and Adam Franklin >>

So join us for the event here and all will be answered.

I will be on the call and Nathan and I will answer all your questions live at the end of the presentation

See you at the live webinar.

In the meantime, get prepped with his free Instagram training material. (PDF opt-in required for each download).

Download #1: How to get your first 10k followers

Download #2: 14 tools you need to explode your Instagram  
Download #3: How to convert followers into dollars

Talk soon.