Instagram as your Guide to the World - How, What and Who to Search and Follow on Instagram to Help You Travel the World.

by Katja Presnal, Chris Brogan (Foreword)

This easy-to-read book will help you to learn to use Instagram effectively as a travel guide. The book will teach you how, what and who to search and follow on Instagram to make your next travel planning a much more pleasant, even fun experience. You will learn to connect with real travel experts; tourists exactly like you and local people, and they can tell you the secrets the tourist guide would never reveal. This book gives you a fresh new way of seeing how, what and where people, like you, travel. It also helps you to find an amazing community of people and see different perspectives of our world.The "Instagram as your Guide to the World - How, What and Who to Search and Follow on Instagram to Help You Travel the World" - book is a technical how-to book with real life examples from travels explaining how the tips help you to use Instagram as a travel guide. In addition to explaining how to use Instagram, the book will introduce how to plan trips with friends by using Google Plus, how to create travel planning boards with Pinterest with Instagram photos, and how to create Foursquare to-do-lists with the photos and information found on Instagram. Above all, the book will teach you how to effectively search Instagram photos and how to connect with travelers like you. The book is written by travel expert and a social media strategist Katja Presnal, who is the owner and the editor-in-chief of SkimbacoLifestyle.com online magazine. You can find Katja on Instagram as "Skimbaco." The book will also introduce the Skimbaco team and how Skimbaco Lifestyle uses Instagram to share travel photos from around the world. In addition you will discover over 30 travel experts and companies to follow on Instagram to get you started with finding the best travel tips on Instagram. You can join the movement of sharing your travel photos and tips on Instagram by using the hashtags #skimbaco or #IGtravelbook and find many more travelers on Instagram.

114 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 13, 2013

About the author

Katja Presnal is an American Advertising Award-winning marketing strategist who has worked with Fortune 100-companies and startups. She founded Insider Society together with Candice Kilpatrick Brathwaite to help womxn entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses faster. Their book "Big Rich Money: How To Turn Your Business Intentions Into A Profitable Company" was published in August 2021.

Katja is a pioneer in influencer marketing, both as an influencer with her blog Skimbaco Lifestyle and as a marketing strategist.

Katja has spoken in conferences around the world and featured in magazines like Forbes and New York Times. Katja has created a digital marketing career while living and traveling around the world with her family. She currently lives in Helsinki, Finland, where she owns a marketing agency called Presnal5. Her mission is to help people to live life to the fullest.

Katja met her American helicopter pilot husband in Germany. They lived in multiple states moving around the USA and the world for 20 years until thinking about settling down in Finland, where they now live. They have three children, who were all born in different countries.