New Instagram Stories features, Pinterest rolls out hashtags, and e-commerce tips to build customer loyalty

Welcome to the 12th edition of Three on Thursdays, a series here on our blog devoted to sharing a few of latest marketing and PR insights and tips to help grow your brand and business. Every week, we'll handpick three good-to-know tips or resources that can help educate and inspire your own efforts. Be sure to sign up for our weekly newsletter below to get these and other tips delivered to your inbox every month!

Here are this week's highlights:

1.) Instagram releases three new Stories features.

Instagram has unveiled three new features for Stories this week: a sticker to poll your followers, plus a color picker for text and brushes and an alignment tool for text and stickers. Learn more on the Instagram blog.

2.) Pinterest rolls out hashtags.

While you could have always hashtagged your Pinterest posts, it was just recently that hashtags became clickable and searchable as a feed on the platform. This is huge for the platform which has long been used for its search capabilities. Pinterest is recommending not more than 20 hashtags per post at this time. Read more on the Pinterest blog.

3.) Eight e-commerce trends brands need to incorporate to ensure customer loyalty

Here at FACTEUR, we are big fans of PR Couture. Currently we're reading this article on e-commerce trends, which actually sound less like trends and more like actionable advice to us! It's all about the sensory and simplicity. Read on!

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