- [Instructor] In this video, I'm going to show you
how you can modify your Instagram settings.
And I'm going to highlight a few settings
that I think may be useful for businesses.
To access your Instagram settings from your profile page,
tap on the three lines at the top right,
and then tap on Settings.
So here we are in our Instagram settings.
And again, I'm not going to mention
all of the different settings,
but you can take a look
at some of the ones I don't mention on your own,
and see if they might be beneficial for your situation.
So, first of all,
we can go down here to the Business section.
And in here, we can see any payments
that we've made for promotions
in the Promotion Payments section.
So you can see how much you've spent,
you can look at your transaction history,
you can change your billing info, your payment methods,
all of that sort of thing.
Let's go back from that for now.
There's a few other things in here.
This is where you can set up Instagram Shopping.
So we're going to talk about how to do that
a little more in depth,
but if you just want to kind of jump in
and get started with that, this is where you can do that.
You'll see the blue link at the bottom.
Let's tap on the Branded Content section.
If you're going to be using some influencers,
so maybe you have some influencers on Instagram,
and you want them to promote your products,
you can actually manually approve them in here.
You can see the section that says Approve Content Creators.
If you tap on that,
you can then search for the content creators
that you'd like to approve.
And then when they upload a sponsored post from you,
you have the paid partnership label
that will be officially from your Instagram account,
that they'll be able to display in that post,
because they need to, legally.
So if you're going to be using influencers,
you definitely want to come in here
to the Branded Content section and do that.
Let's go back out for now.
I think that's enough in the Business section.
In the Privacy section,
this is where we can manage some of the interactions
that we have with the community on Instagram.
So if we tap on Comments,
notice in here that we can block comments
from specific people,
we can create our own manual filters.
By default, Instagram does have some filters set up.
And you can see that it's turned on
to hide offensive comments.
But if you are seeing certain comments
that are getting through that filter,
and they have certain words in there that you see commonly,
you could come in here and you could turn on
the manual filter, as well.
So I think that's pretty important for a business account.
You can also manage all of the interactions
on your different post types.
So your story, your reels, your guides, your regular posts.
Generally, I'd say, as a business,
you want to keep it pretty open.
You want to reach as many people as possible.
But if you have a particular reason
why you'd want to limit the visibility of certain post types
and that sort of thing,
you can come in here to the Privacy section and do that.
Let's go back for now.
In the Security section,
this is where we can change our password
and view login activity and that sort of thing.
So if you think there's something
fishy going on with your account,
you definitely want to come in here to the Security section.
In the Promotion Payments section,
this is just an easier way to get to
all our transaction history
and how much money we've spent on ads.
Again, we could get through there
from the Business section, as well, as we did earlier.
In the Account section,
there's a few interesting things in here.
First of all,
this is where you can request verification.
So I think that's an important thing
that a lot of businesses want on Instagram.
Notice towards the bottom,
we have the link to request verification.
And you kind of have to go through a process
of it's not guaranteed that you'll get it,
but that's where you get
the blue checkmark next to your name.
And we're going to be looking at a few verified accounts
later on the course, so you'll see that.
And you can go ahead and submit
your request for verification.
You have to upload a document
that proves you are who you say you are,
and you have to kind of confirm a few things,
add some links to websites,
and maybe a Wikipedia page, if you have it.
So you can go ahead and try to do that,
if you want to be verified.
You can also change a few other minor things in here.
You can change your language, if you'd like.
And if we scroll down,
this is where earlier in the course
I showed you how you can switch your account type
from a personal account to a professional account.
So if you wanted to switch it back,
you can do so at the bottom.
So obviously, there are some more settings in here
that you could take a look at on your own,
but I did want to point out a few of the settings
that I thought were most important
for businesses using Instagram.