From the mouth of babes, dept….

I use Instagram almost entirely for personal enjoyment, although I have used images I’ve taken for blog posts and other material. (See the last resource for free and cheap stock photo sites for your blog.)

However, I know some people and brands use it to build an audience.

My 10 year old is on it now, so I follow all her followers to make sure they’re friends, and not creeps.

One girl who’s a family friend gets over 100 likes on each pic she posts! Argh! A good “engagement” for me is 10 likes.

So I ran into her the other day and asked her what she does. She gave me one really good tip:

Take a screen capture of someone else’s feed and upload that as a new Instagram pic, then tell everyone to follow that person.

This type of selfless promotion gets people to bend over backwards to like and comment on her pics. 

Great tip I thought, so I’m sharing it here. 

Does anyone else use Instagram for marketing or networking, and do you have any tips?

I downloaded the app to my iPhone but have never used it.  I don’t really see how it would help me as a business consultant.  Have any other consultants out there used it?

I use instagram too, and even when I have tons of pictures, and work quite hard in all of them, I see other accounts have tons of followers and likes and they don’t even have original content. 
I doesn’t matter how hard I try, I still have a miserable amount of followers… I guess I don’t understand how instagram work anymore. Maybe if I just post cute pictures taken from Google I would have tons of likes…