Instagram Story Ideas For Entrepreneurs | Episode 227
She's Equipt with Jennifer Allwood | The Christian Business Coach for Women
Jennifer Allwood: Christian Business Coach
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Today I want to give you some creative Instagram story ideas. Because if you aren't using Instagram to engage your potential customers - you are really missing out. Instagram is one of the best ways that I build the know like and trust factor for my business. I looooove stories in particular and am always brainstorming Instagram story ideas to post. Instagram stories are what start great conversations in my DM's, building relationships, and engage future customers. Today I want to give you a few creative ideas for using Instagram stories as an entrepreneur. I also have a free gift for you in this
podcast 😘
Grab FREE 50 Story Templates
These 50 story templates are completely customizable in Canva from your phone or desktop! We will also send you a super quick tutorial if you need any help getting going!
Hit the Highlights
(07:28) How to get more followers on Instagram with Instagram Stories.
(09:57) Use Canva templates for beautiful, professional-looking stories.
(12:06) How to put captions on your Instagram Stories.
3 Instagram Story Ideas
- Talk about someone in your industry or niche and tag them in your stories.
- Skip the graphic designer and use Canva templates.
- Use the captions for every Instagram Story video you make.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, this is Jennifer and this is the Jennifer Allwood show, the podcast for women who want to find freedom in both their life and in their business. |
| 0:07.5 | I help women find the courage to fulfill their calling in life without sacrificing their faith or their family. |
| 0:13.7 | In this show, I give you my very best life and business advice, plus bring you world class guests and give you a healthy dose of Jesus every single time. |
| 0:22.0 | So buckle in my friend, I'm so excited you're here today. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey guys, it's Jennifer here and this is the Jennifer Allwood show. This is podcast episode number 227 where you're going to ignore my dirty desk. |
| 0:37.0 | That's right behind me if you're watching on YouTube and I'm going to talk to you all about Instagram stories. |
| 0:42.0 | So I love Instagram stories and can I just like be real honest with you for a second. |
| 0:47.0 | So, you know, I fell in love with social media with Facebook, 10, 11, 12 years ago. |
| 0:53.5 | And when Instagram started and people were going to Instagram, like I kind of didn't get it. |
| 0:59.0 | I wasn't really sure what the appeal was. |
| 1:01.5 | And then when having like the most beautiful feed ever was really what was, you know, hot. |
| 1:08.0 | I just, I couldn't like, I'm just not fancy enough to have a beautiful feed like I want to. |
| 1:15.0 | You know, but my life is really more chaotic. My style is really more chaotic. |
| 1:20.0 | And so I kind of felt like I was never going to be successful on Instagram simply because my feed didn't look beautiful. |
| 1:28.0 | You know what I mean? Like home bloggers were able to make their feed look beautiful. |
| 1:31.0 | By the way, I do have two different Instagram accounts. One is Jennifer Allwood and then there is Jennifer Allwood home. |
| 1:36.0 | That is where we will be releasing. |
| 1:39.0 | Well, am I able to say this? |
| 1:42.0 | I think I can say this. If I can't say this, my team will do it. |
| 1:45.0 | But we'll be releasing a product line in the next four to six weeks on Jennifer Allwood home. |
| 1:50.0 | And this is where you're going to hear about the condo that my husband and I have just recently purchased in Florida on 38 that we're pretty excited about. |
| 1:58.0 | So we do have those two different Instagram accounts. Right. So one of them is like a home account. |
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