{"id":36292,"date":"2018-04-06T07:43:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T14:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/?p=36292"},"modified":"2018-12-12T03:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T11:54:06","slug":"sell-instagram-even-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/sell-instagram-even-bother.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Sell on Instagram and Why Even Bother"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Instagram community has grown to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.instagram.com\/post\/165759350412\/170926-news\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">800 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> monthly active users, and 500 million of them use it on a daily basis. 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