Instagram Influencer Spotlight On: S Firmansyah K @sfirmansyahk

1) Tell us a little about yourself. What are you doing now and where do you come from?

Salam and greetings to everyone!! I am originally from Malang, East part of Java island, Indonesia. Currently i am residing in Kuala Lumpur and been living here over 20 years. About me? hmmm simple. A person who passionate enough about photography.

2) What are your topics of interest? What do you post on Instagram the most?

I really enjoy taking photos about urban life, nature and also architecture and this become a short term as UNAX

3) How did your Instagram name come about?

Actually i changed my username twice, first @sandyfirman (if i am not mistaken) second @sfirmansyahk. My username of instagram is actually derive from my name Sandy Firmansyah. The last letter "K" is actually not my name but my father’s name.

4) What are some apps you use to edit your photos? Share with us your photo-editing routine!

Nah this is the most important part. To be frank, i always uses Adobe Lightroom for my editing part. Even though this apps is quite difficult, but if learn you to master it, it will become the most interesting daily activity. In some cases if i feel like too lazy to edit my picture, i will just use mobile apps VSCO on my phone. It is so instant and much faster. The result? Good enough to act like a pro.

5) Any Instagrammers whom you really like? Which Instagrammer inspires you the most?

Jude Allen and Asteryx. Both of them are instagram famous and professional photographer

6) If there’s one thing your fellow Instagrammers just gotta try now, what’s it gonna be?

Try new technique of photography? hmmm ntah la..

7) What’s your favorite part about being an influencer?

I wish i could inspire people from my way of creativity. For me, being unique and acceptable is something that is really crucial especially for a good media content.

8) What are some of your top tips to brands for running campaigns? How do you maintain authenticity?

1) Try to to some research about social media campaign and strategy. It really helps you a lot to increase engagement.
2) A good media content will increase engagement from a certain targeted group of people. The content must be creative enough, unique, original copyright and acceptable.
3) Post your media content everyday to maintain and increase level of, impression, engagement, reach, comment and likes.
4) Try to be someone knowledgeable of who you consider to represent you, it’s a social business, you wouldn’t want misrepresentation
5) Try to work with more than one influencer, the goal is to get the brand more exposure and increase engagement. Collaboration is really good where you could catch your collaborator’s followers at the same time.
6) if your influencer, then it is representing you so why not include them, tell the influencer about upcoming products that haven’t been released yet. you don’t want them to get the same information the same time everyone else does, Making a influencer feel special is a way to keep them motivated to stay with you. Marketing through your connections can be one of the most cheapest marketing

9) What would your advice be on the importance of quality and original content?

1) You need high quality content to rank in Google. High quality content has many characteristics and one them is original content. When Google is crawling a page and detects that the content of the page is already available in their index then most probably they will simply ignore it. If this happens for a lot of pages of the same website then it will gradually harm the performance of that website is Google Search.
2) Because you need good content to do well in social media marketing: Besides Google if you want to succeed in social media marketing and encourage users to engage with your content then you need something which is at least unique (original of course is always better)
3) It’s the basis of any successful content marketing campaign: Content marketing is of course about content and if you don’t provide for content that is of high quality, then most likely your content marketing campaign will fail creating a negative impact on your search engine and social media marketing.

10) What do you like best about partnering with brands?

Experience? hmmm yeah

Topics:

• Animals & Pets
• Architecture
• Design
• Education
• Fashion
• Film, Music & Books
• Nature & Outdoors
• Photography
• Technology
• Travel

Country:

Malaysia