Organise Your Stories With Highlights
The beauty of Instagram stories is that even once they disappear after their 24 hours is up, Highlights give you the ability to keep your stories up on your profile. This is done by choosing them from your archive and categorising them into groups. This feature makes it really easy for you to organise your […]
Question Time Quiz Sticker
Instagram’s most recent add to the sticker collection is the quiz sticker. A new fun and relaxed way to interact with your followers that can also help them learn something. Educating your followers could create more trust between you and your customer. Using the Instagram quiz feature, you can do so many things; including drive traffic to […]
Put The Poll Into Practise
If you don’t know much about them already then read on to find out what Instagram polls are and how to use them for your business. One of the most powerful features that Instagram stories offer is the Instagram poll sticker. These can be used to gather your customer’s opinion on something. Essentially, this can […]
#HowToUseTheHashtag
Hashtags are a great way to spread your posts beyond your following. Since Instagram first came around in 2010, hashtags have been in its blood. Found on the Instagram explore page is a search button where any Instagram user is able to search for people, locations, hashtags and more. If a particular person has an […]
Let Them Locate You
Let your followers come and find you by using the Instagram location sticker to tell them where you are. There are many reasons you could want to use this, including to invite your followers to an event, or to show off that you are on a business trip abroad. As a company, you want to […]
Q&A Queries
This Instagram feature is commonly used to give your followers the microphone and let them ask you some questions. Social Influencers do it regularly to keep the conversation going between them and their following. You are able to see who is asking you these questions and choose whether to answer them publicly on your Instagram […]
eCommerce at Creative Bedfordshire
We’ll be talking eCommerce for the small, creative business (with a focus on Shopify), at the Creative Bedfordshire event on 3rd Nov at the Gordon Arms on Castle Road, Bedford. To find out more about what we can do for your business, check out our eCommerce info, or get in touch. We’ll be giving a quick-start guide to […]
Where to Report Phishing & Suspicious Ow.ly, Bit.ly, T.Co, Bit.ly & Goo.gl links
Spammers and phishing scams are increasingly turning to url shorteners like Bit.ly, goo.gl, owl.ly etc to mask the dodgy links they send out in emails, text messages and social media posts. Some of these messages are quite convincing and the unsuspecting public can easily click on a shortened URL and get taken to a phishing, malware, or spam site. […]
The Value of Experience
Sometimes it can be tricky to explain why Narrative’s 20+ years of specialist digital experience and expertise can be so powerful when it comes to helping businesses perform better online. Then, today I heard this little anecdote that sums it up quite nicely. One day, the Experienced Man, who had been the engineer at Big Company […]
I love LAMP
At Narrative, we work with a lot of Open Source, often referred to as the Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP (LAMP) stack so, of course, we love LAMP too.