Inspire Magazine Inspire Magazine Issue 103 | Page 10

The New Business Card In this day and age for content creators, Instagram is the new modern day business card. With social media like Instagram, you can get discovered by a lot of people Instagram is brilliant because you get to showcase who you are, your talent, your hobbies or your business to the world for free! You can be on the discovery page if you put in the every day – including businesses alike. So many people use Instagram to see how good of an eye someone has or how good of an editor someone is. Chances are your business can reach out millions of people without you knowing it. It all boils down to your connections, and your connection’s connection, makes sense? It’s like a domino effect. Instagram boomed simply because people nowadays are more visual, they prefer infographics than reading a paragraph. They tend to watch videos rather than reading a whole story. If you have images it’s more likely going to get attention than the traditional way of advertising. Instagram nowadays took a whole new level, it’s now part of our modern day lives. May it be for personal use or for business use. hard work. Your feed is a collection of whatever you do in your life. A glimpse of who you are. You can even create your very own hashtag and people can contact you right away on the info’s you provided on your profile. Isn’t that what business owners’ aim for? To be known, have exposure and more prospect clients coming their way? I knew someone who made a living solely because of Instagram. She’s a dressmaker for children clothing. She puts in the effort, took creative shots, stick to her theme and constantly posting on her account every day. I can say her feed looks so cool, it gives you a certain delight and a pinch of joy looking at her feed. They have the same color pattern, brightness, pictures are crystal clear and when she posts, it garners real audience response in no time. .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8