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to take your blog to the next level with top-notch content, monumental traffic growth, and multiple revenue streams to go beyond your wildest goals.

So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host, whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name is Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 61 of the blog millionaire.

In this episode, I'm going to be covering the final chapter of my Instagram growth hack.

In part one, I showed you how to optimize your profile to turn it into a sales funnel that

drives traffic from your profile onto the page that you want to get them to.

In part two, I broke down how to engage your ideal customer avatar in Instagram and turn

them into followers.

And now in the final chapter of my Instagram trilogy, I will be revealing the tie that

binds it all together.

And that's the direct message engagement funnel. will be revealing the tie that binds it all together.

And that's the direct message engagement funnel.

Instagram revealed that 25% of their users have used the direct message function.

This is a misleading stat because I'm guessing most of these people only used it one time. Over a three-year span,

the number of initiated direct messages that I have received in my personal or business

Instagram account has been a grand total of 19. This also includes a fact that I am following

about 30 to 60 new accounts per day.

The bottom line is that the majority of Instagram users are not actively sending out direct messages to their followers.

Businesses specifically are ignoring it altogether.

The main reason behind this is the fact that links to websites are not active

in direct messages. If you could click on a website link in a direct message, then I'm guessing

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