Ace The Gram

Alex Negrete is a Webby-nominated content creator of 10+ years. He has been recognized in 250+ news outlets, founded @keeptheheat, @yomama, @animeme (1B views, 9M followers). and was 1 of 70 invited to the White House by President Obama for the Influencer Summit. Alex is the founder of Rise9, a community for top creators and influencers. Alex talks to us about Youtube Vs Instagram, how creators can make it in today’s social media world and his thoughts on the future of IGTV and Instagram. Key Takeaways: - The importance of collaboration to grow and how to find fellow influencers to collab with - The potential of IGTV to take on Youtube - Why you should embrace new app changes and platform changes to stay fresh and relevant - What the creators are doing that are succeeding and how you can do this too Find Alex on his new Instagram account @alexnegrete

Every day over 300 million people use Instagram stories. This Ace the Gram podcast episode goes through all the best ways to find content for your stories, how to make them ‘thumb stopping’, how to involve and connect with your audience and all the techniques to get more people watching them. We go over the following 7 points: 1)CONTENT FOR STORIES - What to post on stories - The importance of UGC - How to get comfortable with 'face to camera’ stories - How to do shoutouts on your stories - How to re-share posts on stories 2) UTILISE HIGHLIGHTS - create highlights for each of your core messages/offerings - FAQs etc 3) HOW TO MAKE CREATIVE STORIES - Cutstory for longer stories - Progressive text - ‘Unfold' for 2 videos on one screen etc/layouts - Using polls - Using gifs/stickers etc 4)TOP OF SCREEN TOP OF MIND - Post everyday - 3-5 a day (you want to be left wanting more) 5) INVOLVE YOUR AUDIENCE - Use Polls - Slide across emoji - Ask questions to be answered - The best way to do Instagram story Q&As (Sarahah) - Swipe up function 6) SUBTITLES - Your stories should be understood without having audio (subtitles) 7) ENGAGEMENT BOOSTERS - Use the location tag - Hashtags - Replying to other peoples stories - Referring to your story in your caption - Story takeovers - Story shoutouts

How Riley Beek and her boyfriend Blake Bell created a career from posting viral memes on Instagram. Riley and Blake are experts at building audiences. With backgrounds in Vine and Tumblr, Riley and Blake talk us through how they (along with their content creator Hau Ma) used their audience building skills to grow their Instagram account Bitc.h to over 5 million followers. Riley and Blake talk about: - How they initially drove followers to grow the Bitc.h account - The importance of giving the account a 'face' - How they utilise Instagram stories for growing their account - What a typical day looks like for an Instagram celebrity with 5 million followers - The process of monetising an Instagram account - Their tips on how to grow an Instagram account in today's world - What it's like working and living together If you're listening screenshot the podcast and post it on your Instagram Story. Tag @bitc.h to get in touch with Riley and Blake and tag @tastefullytash and @vivconway_ for a repost!

Instagram specialists Tash and Viv answer your burning Instagram questions. Questions answered: - Whats the fastest way to get organic followers - Why is my engagement dropping - How do you actually make money on Instagram - Whats the difference in an Instagram business account versus an Instagram personal account - What are the best apps to help you on Instagram Apps mentioned in the last question include: - VSCO: for photo editing - Prime: for when to post on Instagram - http://apps4lifehost.com/Instagram/CaptionMaker.html for line breaks in Instagram captions - Preview: for feed planning

Solo episode with Instagram specialists Tash and Viv. Tash and Viv go over the following 9 points about their top learnings on how to become unstoppable in business and in life. They explain how to implement the following: 1. Put yourself out there. 2. Make friends of all types/genders/ages/nationalities. 3. Be interested, not interesting. 4. The focus on holistic health & physical health. 5. Give value 6. Ask. 7. Start before you're ready 8. Surround yourself with like-minded people. 9. Mindset - personal development.

Dee Deng is head of growth and co-founder of Right Hook Digital, a Facebook ad & growth agency. He gives us the inside knowledge of the components of a successful Instagram ad & how to use stories for maximum engagement. Dee also discusses useful editing apps and programs for easily creating Instagram ads.

Yuval Rechter - Head of Digital at First Media, talks us through his experiences growing brands to 60 million Fans in 20 months with over 20 Billion organic video views. Yuval discusses how to create viral organic content and why some videos are shared and others are not. Yuval also explains the brand integrations he has been a part of with brands such as Bed Bath & Beyond, Tinder and Walmart and why branded videos can also be viral.

Want to know what it's actually like behind the scenes of those dreamy travel Instagrams you see? Today's episode is with the AMAZING photographer @carmenhuter! Carmen takes us behind the scenes of her feed, gives us her top tips for taking beautiful photos and gives us insight into how she structures her business!

Inside the Instagram growth techniques, Daniel Stephenson (@djtrix_uk) uses to make his clients go viral on Instagram. Daniel is CEO of Digital Growth & Influencer swap & Founder of the Dream Team Secrets Instagram Training Programme; Dan's companies oversee content management & audience growth for hundreds of Instagram accounts. Dan's personal Instagram network totals 1 Million+ followers, and he regularly gets approached for Instagram consultancy from the world's most powerful agency CEO's, along with with Influencers, startups, and billion dollar brands.