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Instagram Comment to DM with Manychat in 5 Steps

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By Robert Breen · Published · From the free lesson Turn Instagram Comments into Booked Consultations using Manychat

A step-ladder guide: turn Instagram GUIDE comments into a DM with a booking button and a tag using Manychat, left as a draft, in 5 steps.

  1. Answer every GUIDE comment in seconds. Comment, DM, button, tag. Left as a draft until you switch it on. Step 1: Price the quiet comments. Step 2: Start from a blank canvas. Step 3: Set the trigger. Step 4: Write the DM. Step 5: Tag it, preview it, keep it off. By Robert Breen. Stepthrough, free at learn.ynteractive.com.
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  2. Answer every GUIDE comment in seconds. Step 1: Price the quiet comments. Count the comments nobody answered, then use your own fee and win rate. In the lesson, 11 of 18 waited a day. By Robert Breen. Stepthrough, free at learn.ynteractive.com.
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  3. Answer every GUIDE comment in seconds. Step 2: Start from a blank canvas. Open Automation, click New Automation, then start from scratch. A new automation is a draft. It sends nothing. By Robert Breen. Stepthrough, free at learn.ynteractive.com.
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  4. Answer every GUIDE comment in seconds. Step 3: Set the trigger. Choose Post or Reel Comments, pick one post and add the keyword GUIDE. Keep the public reply that points to the DMs. By Robert Breen. Stepthrough, free at learn.ynteractive.com.
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  5. Answer every GUIDE comment in seconds. Step 4: Write the DM. Use the person's first name and add a button that opens your booking link. Say what they will get, in plain words. By Robert Breen. Stepthrough, free at learn.ynteractive.com.
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  6. Answer every GUIDE comment in seconds. Step 5: Tag it, preview it, keep it off. Tag people who want a call, preview the flow, and leave it a draft. Test on your own account before it goes live. By Robert Breen. Stepthrough, free at learn.ynteractive.com.
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  7. Practice it free in a copy of Manychat. Turn Instagram Comments into Booked Consultations using Manychat. 41 steps, about 18 minutes. By Robert Breen. Stepthrough, free at learn.ynteractive.com.
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Comment, DM, button, tag. Left as a draft until you switch it on.

Step by step

  1. Price the quiet comments

    Count the comments nobody answered, then use your own fee and win rate. In the lesson, 11 of 18 waited a day.

  2. Start from a blank canvas

    Open Automation, click New Automation, then start from scratch. A new automation is a draft. It sends nothing.

  3. Set the trigger

    Choose Post or Reel Comments, pick one post and add the keyword GUIDE. Keep the public reply that points to the DMs.

  4. Write the DM

    Use the person's first name and add a button that opens your booking link. Say what they will get, in plain words.

  5. Tag it, preview it, keep it off

    Tag people who want a call, preview the flow, and leave it a draft. Test on your own account before it goes live.

Businesses and people in the examples are made up (Menon Tax & Advisory is a made-up business). The steps, screens and wording come from the free lesson and the Stepthrough glossary and prompt library.

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Turn Instagram Comments into Booked Consultations using Manychat. Price what unanswered Instagram comments cost a small firm, then build a Manychat automation: someone comments GUIDE, gets a direct message with a booking button and a checklist button, and is… You do every step yourself in a practice copy of Manychat, it checks your work as you go, and “Do it for me” finishes any step you get stuck on. Free, and nothing touches your real accounts.

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