Welcome.
In this video, I'm going to show you guys how to add story highlights.
So you can use story highlights for a lot of things.
One of the things you can use them for is to promote your products and services.
But at the beginning, when you're just starting your account, you're trying to grow your followers.
You can just share some some business tips and some success mindset tips as well.
So what you can do is first add some stories.
So to add stories, what you want to do is first of all, let me show you guys I'm going to use the
mobile version.
So here's my account right here.
Tune to life.
So right here what I'm going to do is I find the post to share.
So in this post this man shares a business tip.
So just want to share that to your stories.
Just so what you want to do is click on this airplane like paper plane icon right here.
Just click that and click on Add to Story.
Okay.
Let's go back here.
I think okay.
Our story has been added right there.
Come back here to the desktop version.
Let's refresh.
Let's check our story right here.
Okay.
So our new story has been uploaded right here.
So we can share this.
And you can share this.
Those are going to be our two story highlights.
So you can do that on the mobile on the desktop.
So we'll have to go back to the mobile to the mobile version right here.
So to add your story highlights you just want to go to your highlights.
Just click on them right there.
So let's go to the one we want to start with.
So let's start with this one right here goes.
So you can see right here it says highlight.
So when I click here it says highlight.
So new highlight.
So we can say goes then click on add.
Okay.
Just like that.
Let's click on done.
Let's move on to the next highlight right here.
So let's click here.
And you're gonna click on new.
I'm gonna tie it to this.
I just say tips.
I can say business tips, but sometimes if you have too much text, it won't show up.
Right.
We can click on add.
All right.
So we've added our highlight so we can go back.
Okay.
So you can see right here we have our highlights right here we have business tips and goals.
So what you can do now is we can add proper covers for the highlights.
So to add covers it's very simple.
All you have to do is go to canva.com.
So Canva.com this is a free graphic design tool that you can use.
It's a drag and drop software, so it's very simple to use.
Anyone can do it.
It's free to use as well.
You can create your account for free.
So just come over here to canva.com, then sign up for an account.
Then log in to your dashboard.
So once you log in you want to come over here.
Click on create and click on this one.
The first one right here.
Just click on that logo okay.
So this right here you can see there's a box right here.
So this is where we're gonna add all our designs.
So right here you can add anything.
You can come here to elements.
Then you can search for anything right here.
You can search for bold search for that.
And you can find a bunch of these graphics you can use right here.
Every time you see one with this crown.
That means you can only use this if you sign up to the pro version of Canva.
But we do not need the Pro version of Canva for what we're doing right here.
I'm just showing you guys what you can do with Canva so you can add an element.
So let me change the background color.
So let me click on the background right here.
You can click here Background Color.
And you can change the background color to anything.
As you can see you can change the background color to whatever you want.
Just click on background here.
Click on the background color right here.
Change it to this.
You can change the color of the of the element as well so you can click on it.
Come over here.
Once you click on it go over here color and you can select the color you want for this thing.
You can change the color to whatever you want.
As you can see right here.
So anyway, so this is how Canva works.
So what we're going to do is we're going to use the same color as our logo.
Now there's this tool you can use right here.
It's called color zero.
Color zero something like that.
So you can search for Chrome extension color zero on Google and click on the first link right here.
It's going to bring you over here and just find this.
And here it's going to say Add to Chrome.
So click on Add to Chrome.
Once you add it it's going to show up right here like that.
If it doesn't just you know pin it like that.
Just come over here, click on pin and it's going to show up right there.
So once you have this right here that says color zero go to your Instagram profile then click on it.
Right.
So right here make sure you click on page Color Picker.
Click there.
Then you can select any color on this page that you want to copy, so you can copy any color on this
page using this tool.
So we're going to copy this color in the background of our image.
This gray color one takes that gray color.
But you can copy any color out here.
So let's go over here then.
Since I'm using a windows computer I'll left click on my mouse to select.
So what's happened is that it's been copied.
The color has been copied.
So what you want to do is go back here to Canva.
Then click on the background right here, click here Background color right here.
You can paste in the code for that color.
Just go ahead and click on paste.
Then select this right here.
And you see we have the same background as our logo.
So now all you have to do is now add elements.
So we have business tips.
So come over here and click on elements.
Then right here it says search for For tips or business.
Let's say business.
Let's see what it brings us.
Okay.
Let's click let's try to search for tips.
See it's something free we can use.
So if you can afford to sign up for Canva Pro it can be very useful because you can use any of these
right here.
So you can add an element that you want.
So I'm just looking for something very minimalistic.
But with Canva it's very simple and quick.
You can just search for this right here and you can use this.
You can use something like this right here.
Quick tips and you can change the color.
Something like that.
Let's say something like that.
Like tips if you like.
That could be one of your highlight covers.
So you can test multiple motivo if you want.
So we can do this.
Create another one here we can say goes, goes.
So for some consistency what we can do is we can add we can change the color of this to this.
Yeah.
So we have like some consistency right here with the blue.
Yeah I mean that's very simple.
Nothing too crazy as you can see.
Goals tips you can do this.
Add another one like that and you can do this.
And we can compare.
We can do this right here I see which one we like the most.
Do you want this or do you want this.
You know.
So we can change this right here.
I think this one looks better.
So get rid of this.
Then we need to change this.
I don't like this.
This is for a key right here.
Okay.
You can use the key.
Well, okay.
Let's try to change the color.
Interesting.
Let's make this really big like that.
Now listen to me.
Do.
So we can add those colors right here.
So.
This has to be a bright color.
Well, I guess just okay like this.
Right.
So I'm going to download both.
Go click on download then right here I download them one by one.
So start with this one.
First page one.
Click on download once.
Download the covers.
What you want to do is go back to Instagram and add those covers to your highlights.
So to do that, you're gonna have to use the mobile version.
So you can come over here to one of your highlights.
Click here and click here on more.
And Edit highlight.
Then Edit cover.
Then you can upload your cover right here.
It's very simple.
Okay.
So to add the cover just click here.
And you can select that from your you know your device.
So what are we adding.
We're adding the key right here.
Then click on done.
And done.
Okay.
Perfect.
So we can add.
Okay.
Let's go here edit highlight.
And right here we can edit cover.
Then right here we can go ahead and upload our image right here.
Done.
And done.
Okay.
We can go over here.
Okay.
So you can see our page is now starting to look a little bit better.
So you can see we have some Good covers right here for our highlights.
So we have some business tips that people can check out and, you know, learn something new or help
them make better decisions.
And to have some goals right here.
You know, this highlight right here is just there to inspire people.
That's all.
So yeah so that's pretty much it for the highlights.
So you can add some more if you want.
But for now you don't want to add too much.
You can add like an about section right here where you talk about yourself and what you offer with this
page.
Like what your goal is with this page.
If you want to help people share content, you can just say that in one of your highlights and you can
just title that about me or about.
And that's pretty much it.
So you can see right here we have our logo.
Our bio is set up perfectly.
Our profile looks clean and good.
So right now we can just focus on publishing content and growing our account.