{"id":59661,"date":"2016-10-28T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easypromosapp.com\/blog\/how-to-contact-followers-via-instagram\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:14:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T08:14:43","slug":"how-to-contact-followers-via-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easypromosapp.com\/blog\/en\/how-to-contact-followers-via-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Contact Your Followers Directly Through Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ways of making contact with your Instagram community<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bidirectional communication in Instagram is limited<\/strong>: you can Like or comment on a photo, or you can send a photo with a message directly to a friend, but you can\u2019t write directly to a friend unless you\u2019re sharing a photo.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Good news for personal users is that for Business Profiles Instagram is implementing a button to enable users to \u201cContact\u201d the company or brand<\/a>. However, the opposite action (Communication Business \u2013> User) is not possible aside from promotion and advertising; there\u2019s no option to send a \u201cdirect message\u201d to personal profiles unless it\u2019s accompanied by an image<\/strong>. Furthermore, this option is not an appropriate way for a brand to contact a follower as it could be taken as advertising, spam or an invasion of privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason, contests are one of the most-used tools by brands on Instagram<\/strong> for communicating and engaging with their communities. In contests, the user is the one who engages in communication with the brand by uploading content to enter the contest. This means it\u2019s possible to identify which profiles are interested in the brand and therefore predisposed to receiving information. In addition, Instagram encourages interactions which are relevant and genuine<\/strong>, and with the aim of eradicating spam, requests that you do not post fake Likes or Comments. But by asking the participant to generate genuine, high-quality new content, which is<\/strong> linked to the contest with a hashtag, you\u2019re acting in a way that\u2019s in accordance with the guidelines.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nContests are one of the tools most used by brands in #Instagram for communicating with their communities <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n

Relevant and genuine comments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In this type of dynamic, the comment is a useful tool<\/strong> for enabling the brand to communicate with the participant. Even so, it\u2019s important to keep in mind Instagram\u2019s Community Rules and Platform Policy<\/strong>. Instagram asks that you don\u2019t post repetitive comments or content and that users or brands do not contact other users repeatedly for commercial gains without their consent. In addition, Instagram encourages users to report any behavior that violates these rules via a simple integrated option for reporting such actions. It also offers users the chance to block a profile if they don\u2019t want to see it anymore, or even delete comments left on their posts. So be careful how you interact with participants!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep in mind the following when commenting on<\/strong> your participants\u2019 posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n