Hi there. My name is Rebecca Portsmouth and I’ve been a full-time professional photographer for more than 15 years and on Instagram for more than five years.

Instagram is the social media platform of the moment where you can talk directly with your target market today, for free. You can also connect with others in your niche or industry, a likely source of referrals.

I’ve put together this course so that you can make the connections that will take you forward, even when you sleep. It takes you through the exact steps you need to build your profile, a month or more of photos that show who you are on a good day and how to start and continue conversations that can lead to sales.

I built Instagram with Integrity after spending a month going ‘all in’ on the platform.  I had perfectly good photos and knew who I wanted to connect with but just wasn’t getting any traction, despite hours of liking and commenting. The things I had done a year ago on Instagram just didn’t work any more.

So I became a guinea pig. I tested different ways of talking with people, shared a lot of love, spending hours every day to see what worked and what didn’t. I was adamant I did not want to go down the road of following people to see if they followed me back and unfollowing them if they didn’t – one of the main pieces of advice for building your followers.  That is not how I want to show up in the world. And if I couldn’t find a way to connect with people genuinely, then I was going to leave Instagram or at least take a long holiday from it.

Happily, I found ways of connecting where I could be my authentic self, find other people who wanted the same thing and fell in love with Instagram all over again. My engagement rate went up, heading for double figures (a typical engagement rate is 1-3%). This course shares the tools and techniques for you to do the same, without having to spend a month of your life figuring it out on your own.