Jennifer Herman - Instagram For Dummies

Instagram For Dummies

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ISBN 978-1-119-59393-5 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-119-59400-0 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-59399-7 (ebk)

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17
18. Chapter 18
19. Chapter 19
20. Chapter 21

Are you excited about learning how to use Instagram? We hope you are! Because we love Instagram, and were excited to show you how to use it and how to have fun with it! Instagram is all about entertainment and creating enjoyable content. Because youve chosen this book, we know youre ready to get started creating an Instagram account you enjoy!

More and more people are joining Instagram every day. But with that growth comes a lot of noise and saturation from people who dont quite understand how to use the platform effectively. After reading this book, youll have the tools and tactics necessary to build a successful Instagram profile.

This book helps you use Instagram successfully. Instagram really is as simple as uploading a photo and that was how the platform was initially designed. But you can do so many things with each photo or video like adding filters, writing creative captions, and having conversations in the comments. And, as Instagram adds more features to the platform, such as multi-image posts and stories, understanding how to create this additional content is just as important.

We take you through every step of setting up your profile, creating and uploading content to Instagram, writing descriptive captions, finding hashtags that help you get more exposure, building your followers, and using all the fun features built into Instagram.

You dont have to read this book from beginning to end in fact, you can use the Table of Contents and Index to find the information youre most interested in right this very minute. You dont even have to read every word. If youre short on time and just want to know what you need to know to get the job done, you can skip anything marked with the Technical Stuff icon, as well as sidebars (the text in gray boxes).

Finally, within this book, you may note that some web addresses break across two lines of text. If youre reading this book in print and want to visit one of these web pages, simply key in the web address exactly as its noted in the text, pretending as though the line break doesnt exist. If youre reading this as an e-book, youve got it easy just click the web address to be taken directly to the web page.

We made a few assumptions when writing this book. We assume that you

• Have a smartphone
• Have photos and videos you want to share
• Dont want to look like an amateur, even if youre new to using Instagram
• Are committed to devoting time and energy to build a presence on Instagram
• Want to be a part of the Instagram community

If these assumptions are correct, then this book is for you! Were confident that the tactics and information in these pages will help you achieve your goals.

To make sure you dont miss important details, we use the following icons throughout this book. Heres what the different icons mean:

Anything marked with the Tip icon is a small piece of expert advice that will save you time and make your experience on Instagram easier.

This book is a reference, which means you dont have to commit it to memory. There wont be a test on Friday! But, every once in a while, we tell you something so important that we think you should file it away with other important information, like your best friends birthday and the name of the newest royal baby.

Most of this book is all about telling you what you need to know to use Instagram, and nothing more. But every once in a while, our inner geeks emerge, and we get a little technical. When this happens, we flag it with the Technical Stuff icon. If youre in a hurry, or you just dont care about this kind of thing, you can skip anything marked with the Technical Stuff icon without losing the point of the subject at hand.