Most people use IG for cpa offers etc., and post a url in the bio.
But has anyone tried selling a service on IG, i.e. a real brick and mortar business that wants people to call a phone number to make an appointment?
I mean Services like diet/nutrition specialist, that doesn’t sell products online, but rather meets people and gives them advice.
Will this work on IG?
Anyone see IG accounts that do this?
Any tips are welcome.
Don’t know of anyone doing this, but you can add a phone number (which is accessible via the “contact” button) when you convert your profile to a business profile.
I suppose you reference the contact button in your post.
That’s a good point, although I think converting a personal profile into a business profile will reduce your organic reach…
Well that may be an old wives tale… but if you’re a business? Really, your only other option is to post your phone number in your caption & ask people to call you.
You don’t necessarily need to do this on the Ig profile. You can just as well have a site for all the selling and contact info and link it from your bio. Use Ig to get traffic to that site.
Well that may be an old wives tale… but if you’re a business? Really, your only other option is to post your phone number in your caption & ask people to call you.
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In the caption and/or as a watermark on my photos.
Thanks for your input.
Thanks.
Have you seem anyone doing this on IG? Most people here promote cpa links, not services with phone numbers…
I haven’t as I don’t spend much time clicking IG links 
but I don’t see any reason why people wouldn’t do this. It wold be better than CPA anyway as the account will last a lot longer.
Also, if other people are not doing it, it doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea…maybe you just found the golden idea on how to promote on IG
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maybe you just found the golden idea on how to promote on IG
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Well, the basis you need for those businesses are completly different. For CPA offers it is ok to have a spammy profile because usually there is an offer, which is getting something for free, requiring the person to do some actions like filling out a survey before they receive anything. Everyone knows this is spammy shit but for some people it´s still worth doing it.
If you wanna sell a service like diet/nutrition specialist, you will need a legit profile. People need to have some trust. They will also ask a shitload of questions about that topic in the comments. The next question is: Are you going to put your own number there and sell them your service or will you have a partner who is already in that field and you´ll get paid by leads?
Depending on that the amount of work and at the same time the amount of profit per lead will vary.
And if you say:
You have to think about, you can only target IG accounts based on a local area. People are usually not willing to drive 5 hours or fly to another country to get their service 
It will work 100% sure. It will just require more work on the content and business side. Resulting from that, this idea is not scalable to 200 Accounts 
Something I forgot to mention. This might also depend a lot on the country you live in. In South East Asia for example many people sell stuff on IG. They usually have no website and their shop only consists of IG. Thus people are used to buying stuff on IG. They will text them through a messenger and let them know the order.
That’s great input. Thanks!
