That is really good. I've used various forms of advertising to reach customers in the past, and it can be very expensive to reach customers. Sounds like you have a great solution with your IG setup.
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It didn't happen quickly. It took 4 years to hit 10K followers but this was without doing anything except posting pics of new inventory two or three times a week. It's only within the last 6 months that I started paying to boost my now once weekly post. This has really started moving things along.
Part of this IG success is luck and part of it is some level of talent, but mostly it is The Lord providing for me after years of hard work.
I take it what you're selling are high dollar items?
No, I wouldn't consider my inventory as high dollar. Lots of $20 and $40 items. But I do bundle deals so some customers will buy 10 or 20 items at a time. I sold a hundred dollar item yesterday that I bought 2 years ago for five bucks and two weeks ago I sold an $800 item that I'd bought the day before for $400. So it varies. I sell a lot of collectibles and antiques. Margins are great but sourcing inventory can be a problem (think American Pickers... lots of driving). Instagram helps with the sourcing issue too though (as does Craigslist).
Sounds really interesting I do e-commerce myself, I asked because I figured if you're only posting a few times a week then it was higher dollar stuff but when you say posting I suppose you mean multiple items not just one.
I only do one post a week now detailing the newest inventory that my customer base hasn't seen before. With Instagram you now get 20 pics per post and each pic might have four or five items in it. E-commerce is only about 30% of my sales though. The other 70% is done in person in a retail space (and at specialized trade shows and events). The IG post items can either be bought online by the customer and shipped anywhere in the world or if they're local they can come into the retail space and buy them in person.
I agree. We can put it under the languages sub-forum. I've studied a dozen different languages on Duo and have run across a lot of "propaganda-esque" samples, especially for languages from woke countries, like Sweden. Even their corny avatars that they use are woke (again usually only for woke countries' languages). So you'll see purple haired lezzie types complaining about her girlfriend, but you won't see that if you study Arabic (at least not last time I checked it).