Instagram offers endless possibilities to create content. Its latest format, Instagram Stories, has created positively huge waves that are continuing to inspire many brands and companies to dive in and give it a try.
In this article, we’ll be sharing tips to help you get creative so you can create more compelling IG stories that attract attention and revenue. We’ll also be showing you some tricks that can help you go one step further as you learn to share stories that are different from your competitors’. Take note, because the examples here might just have the potential to boost your business.
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Before taking a peek at the funny side of Instagram stories, pay attention to these 4 hacks that can give your content a more special touch.
The first thing we will see is how you can create a composition on the background of your story without the use of external tools.
The idea is to add other images or photographs that you have already have stored in your mobile phone’s gallery so you can make a “collage” type composition.
To do this, here is the step by step guide with a sample Instagram story created with an iPhone:
Imagine wanting to add a photo with an eye-catching background and some highlighted text. Here is how you do it:
To achieve Version B of this trick to add interesting elements to your photo, you can:
You can type your preferred text and create an identical copy in another color. Slightly superimpose both texts to create a highlighted illusion. You can also expand a period or an arrow to make a larger icon, and create geometric designs.
Instead of choosing the traditional poll sticker, which only lets you decide between two options, you can also create one from the stickers menu that allows your Instagram followers to rate the level of a certain reaction (depending on the emoji you selected).
Here, you can see an example of an Instagram story created with the poll slider option. With this, users can choose their response by moving the indicator to their desired range.
Here are some other examples of funny Instagram stories. Many of them were shared by our own followers who have explored the hacks shared in this article. Enjoy!
The use of compositions within stories is great not only to share thematic content with beautiful designs, but also to create fun effects like the one you see in the example below.
If you have already mastered the super trick to highlight positive testimonials from your Instagram followers in your stories, you can find other ways to use it here.
There are many other original ways to connect with your Instagram followers using polls. Look at how cool these are!
GIFS are very useful. On top of animating a story or giving it a touch of humor, they can also work very well to give us the motivation to start the day, or call our attention to certain elements with a few simple movements.
We just can’t get enough of them! We hope you got a healthy dose of creativity and fun with the samples that we shared with you here. You’ll have more people to share your funny stories with once you gain more Instagram followers in the future. If you want to fast track that into 30,000 followers in under a year, visit Simplygram for a free trial now.