{"id":4252,"date":"2018-05-03T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T09:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dental-focus.com\/marketing\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T07:40:15","slug":"ideas-for-your-instagram-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/ideas-for-your-instagram-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideas for your Instagram stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0582-e1525425826665.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram Stories are a great way of increasing the exposure of your account to new and existing followers. If you\u2019re a practice on Instagram and struggling with ideas for your Stories here are a few to help you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go Live: Using the Live feature on Instagram has a lot of impact because it alerts your followers to tune in. With this in mind you could hold a live Q&amp;A session or Live Interview. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drive traffic: You can use stories to drive traffic by highlighting your website, blog or treatment. If you have over 10,000 followers you can also include a link within the Story. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Behind the scenes: Create a buzz by showing exclusive behind the scenes content for a new treatment or event. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Polls: Use the polls sticker to get engagement from your followers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vlog &#8211; You can use Stories to create an everyday mini Vlog and take your followers through the day to day workings of your practice, highlighting the employees and culture. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have these ideas inspired you to create more Instagram Stories? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Dominic Haslam<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Social Media Guru<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Check out the lectures we will be delivering at the Dentistry Show &#8211; NEC, Birmingham <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/events.html\"><b><i>here<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Learn more about Dental Social Media <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/dental-google-seo.html\"><b><i>here<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Call me on 020 7183 8388 for a friendly chat!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Instagram Stories are a great way of increasing the exposure of your account to new and existing followers. If you\u2019re a practice on Instagram and struggling with ideas for your Stories here are a few to help you. &nbsp; Go Live: Using the Live feature on Instagram has a lot of impact because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doms-social-media-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dentalfocus.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}