
Instagram Shop Button: Social Media Goes E-commerce
Prior to this month, if you wanted to use your Instagram account to sell products, there was no direct path to take.

Prior to this month, if you wanted to use your Instagram account to sell products, there was no direct path to take.

There's a reason that diversification is a sound practice in many areas including your investing and your marketing.


Countless people use this mobile app to engage in photo sharing, direct messages, commenting, "liking", and following.

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Instagram announced today their release of Instagram Direct, a new tool for sending on the spot photo and video messages to fiends. What significant more than the 150 million who will be using this tool, is amazing potential for what could be called "residual advertising effect."

Instagram revealed that soon, users will begin seeing photos and videos from brands they don’t follow, but did not specify how these visuals will be clearly disclosed as ads.

Instagram’s 130 million users uploaded so many videos in the first eight hours that it would take you a whole year to watch them all. And it’s not going to be long before these 15 second InstaVideos become 15 second InstaAds.

Instagram is used by 67% of the top brands in the world - the top dogs cannot be wrong. Are you using it? Several smaller brands believe that companies without an Instagram business profile are wasting potential.