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3 Ways Restaurants can use Instragram.

It has been several years since we all hooked up into the Facebook wagon and along has come many other media sites that have caught our attention andforever change the way we communicate. Instagram arrives to form part of this and revolutionize the world of images that is so appealing to all of us. With Instragram we cannot just post pictures aboutevery single detail we would like to share of our everyday life, but we can also add effects to make them look prettier and professional!

As every social media, Instragram is not only for fun. It canbe a powerful tool for businesses and companies. Restaurants specially can find it to be a very helpful tool to connect with their customers and should never hesitate to open an account for it! Youcan share your food, drinks, place, special events and anything that happens on them, in fact, consider it as a free way to advertise, engage and communicate with your audience and we will show youhow:

* Advertise: You have a ton of pretty pictures of your dishes and drinks, but how can you attract more people to follow you? Use hashtags with keywords! Keywords are as big on Instragram asthey are in Twitter and therefore are your connection with the outside world! Remember your pictures have to look impeccable and you should use popular tags such as #food or #foodlove.

*Engage: attract people with unique and different images! Even people from outside your area may be interested and befriend you. You want to have a network as big as possible and get people talking aboutyou, but the only way is to have out of the box imagery and a delicious look

* Communicate: An image says more than thousand words; you can use this Instagram to communicate everything on yourbusiness, new dishes, new drinks and news in general about it. Remember that people are often visual creatures and they are more likely to remember something through a picture than through words.