Is it worth paying someone to get verified on Instagram? | Episode 220
She's Equipt with Jennifer Allwood | The Christian Business Coach for Women
Jennifer Allwood: Christian Business Coach
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
I want to be super transparent with you about getting verified on Instagram. It's important for me to talk about some of the background stuff about growing your Instagram that no one else will talk about. So let's answer this question once and for all - do those DM's about getting verified on Instagram actually work? Well, we decided to try it. Spoiler alert: there is no fast track to success. It's all ego in the end. The best way to get followers on Instagram and get verified on Instagram is organic with fabulous content!
Hit the Highlights
(2:30) Why you want to get verified on Instagram.
(3:56) How to get verified on Instagram.
(16:46) How people get scammed when trying to get verified on Instagram.
(21:45) Can you pay someone to get verified on Instagram?
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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 |
| 0:04.4 | to find freedom in both their life and in their business. I help women find the courage to fulfill |
| 0:09.7 | their calling in life without sacrificing their faith or their family. In this show I give you my |
| 0:14.9 | very best life and business advice plus bring you world class guests and give you a healthy dose of |
| 0:20.4 | Jesus every single time. So buckle in my friend. I'm so excited you're here today. |
| 0:24.5 | Well hey friend welcome back to the podcast. This is podcast episode number 2 2 0. |
| 0:33.6 | The one where I might have a vulnerability hangover afterwards because I can't even really |
| 0:39.8 | believe that I'm about to tell you the story that I'm about to tell you. Have you ever done |
| 0:48.0 | something in your life or your business where you know darn good and well. This is not a good idea. |
| 0:54.0 | This is not a good plan but what if like there's this 1% chance that it's maybe not a bad plan. |
| 1:00.9 | What if there's like this sliver of a smidgen of a possibility just like this little tiny possibility |
| 1:07.3 | that it actually could work even though everything inside of you's screaming this is probably |
| 1:11.7 | not going to work. Anybody is it just me just me. Well I want to tell you the story of how I just |
| 1:21.1 | let's let's just call it tested something for you guys in terms of getting verified on Instagram |
| 1:28.0 | and I want to tell you how this situation went totally sideways okay and what not to do |
| 1:36.1 | and why you should do as I say and not as I do and how those other things but this is going |
| 1:40.8 | to be fun and hopefully I won't regret this in the morning. So should you pay or somebody to |
| 1:48.4 | verify you on Instagram now if you're like what's verifying me. Well it means like you have a |
| 1:54.5 | blue check mark behind your name. Why would you want a blue check mark behind your name? Well because |
| 1:58.4 | that's like the sign of being an authentic you know influencer or public figure or big business |
| 2:06.9 | or looks like you made it and see that's that's right there why they never asked me to actually |
| 2:14.8 | sing in church right there that was it that was it that's this is why I don't sing and I coach for |
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