Love.Haight: Instagram

If you want to work with brands, especially as a fashion or beauty blogger, there is one simple thing on Instagram that you have to be doing.

I'd gotten really lazy about this one simple task, but one day a couple weeks ago I was getting ready to post my photo when I decided to go ahead and tag the brands I was wearing in the photo. I went to class and low and behold, when I got out of class imagine my surprise when this brand had followed me on Instagram- Famous Footwear.

I was more than a little intrigued. The shot I had posted hadn't really featured the shoes, so I decided to run a little experiment. This time I would post just the shoes as a feature. I snapped this on our road trip to MN. If you like these shoes you can check them out HERE (There's a BOGO 1/2 off right now too!)

This time, Famous Footwear regrammed my photo. Pretty cool right?

Then something even cooler happened. I got an email from one of their social media reps. She thanked me for sharing the photo, and asked if she could have my address to give me a thank you gift in the mail as well. Now it isn't that I am a famous fashion blogger, or have that big of a following. I'm still under 5k! And yet they still noticed me and appreciated my efforts of promoting their brand. (I am seriously obsessed with this company now of course!)

A few days later, I received this sweet note in the mail and two gift cards to buy more shoes at their store. The crazy thing was, this was no strings attached- no blog post or Instagram posts required. (Which of course I'll do anyway, because hello! #fashionblogger) Keep an eye on the blog for the beauties I picked out in their BOGO 1/2 off sale!