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Hello to all you creators, dreamers, and doers out there. I'm Nathan Chansky, photographer, business coach, and your host.

After starting my photography business and nearly giving up after a rough first couple of

years, with God's help, I transformed my business and became the multi-six-figure business owner

here with you today. I'm here to drop weekly episodes full of everything I've learned in the

process while bringing on some of the biggest experts in the industry. This podcast is for

photographers, creatives, and anyone wanting to build a business

and life of your fullest God-given potential. Welcome to the show, my friend.

All right, so welcome back to the show. You guys, today we are going to be discussing

should you get Instagram verified or meta verified? Should you get

the blue check or blue tick, whatever you call it, a verification on Instagram? So we're going to

dive into this because I've actually been meta verified for the past, I want to say like two or

three months. And so I want to, it's really

interesting too because I didn't think I need to do an episode on this. Like I was like,

this isn't really something that I feel like would take up a whole episode or I just feel like

people wouldn't be that interested in it. But I honestly have so many people asking me about this.

I feel like I have someone asked me about this at least once per week. And like, hey, what are your

thoughts on it? Should you do it? What's your experience with it? So I'm like, all right, I will do

an episode talking about the Instagram blue checkmark. And if you should do it. And I will say I do

have some thoughts. I do have some info, intel, if you will, on whether or not you should do it, in my opinion, and just kind of like what's it all about, what is it? So first, I want to talk through exactly what this is. So again, it's a little blue checkmark right next to your name. You'll see it on maybe some, you used to see it

on accounts that were more like, quote unquote, famous outside of Instagram. And the whole point

of Instagram verification or anywhere verification was basically to verify that somebody was the

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