The coveted holy grail feature on Instagram is the swipe up ability. Today’s New Instagram stories hack will grossly improve your lead generation strategy and work around the swipe up feature. If you have an account with less than 10,000 followers, you know that lead generation feels almost impossible, because you cannot use hyperlinks. This need to know hack has a picture by picture explanation below on how to create a clickable button on your stories.

Here are the steps:

1. Take a picture or add a picture that is vertical formatted 4:5 to your stories

2. Click on the Sticker Image on the top of your story screen

3. Select the mention option and type in your username

4. Grab the username and shrink by grabbing the edges with your thumb and pointer finger and pulling the fingers together until the mention is small.

5. Place the mention in the position you want to add the sticker to

6. Click on the Sticker Image on the top of your story screen again

7. Click the GIF option

8. Type in “Click Here”

9. Select the sticker you want to be your click here button

10. Grab the sticker edges of the stick with your thumb and pointer and expand them to grow the size of the sticker

11. Once the sticker is large enough move the sticker over top of your mention symbol and boom! You have now created a clickable button on your Instagram Stories.

12. Once someone clicks on the link, they will be directed to your bio.

13. Make sure your bio has a link that directs people to your call to action landing page (lead magnet or specific service you are currently highlighting) and you are good to go.

In our next post, we cover why posting carousels (multiple picture posts) on Instagram is going to get you better reach, engagement, and profile views.