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What is Highlight?
A highlight is a story you have saved permanently to your profile, grouped under a labelled cover circle beneath your bio. Highlights turn a disappearing feed into a menu. Somebody who lands on your profile from a Reel has about eight seconds of curiosity, and highlights are what they tap in that window — which is why the labels matter more than the covers. Each highlight can hold many frames and you can add or remove them at any time, so a highlight is a living page rather than an archive. Unlike a feed post, highlights carry no reach of their own; they exist entirely to convert profile visitors into enquiries.
What does Highlight mean for a business in Pakistan?
For a twin-cities business the four highlights that do the work are Prices, Location, Reviews and Before/After. Pakistani buyers ask 'rate kya hai' and 'kahan hain aap' before anything else, and if the answer is not one tap away they leave for the next page. Put a screenshot map for your sector or market inside the Location highlight — nobody wants to read an address.
A worked example
An I-8 optician replaces 11 unnamed highlights with 4: Frames from PKR 3,500, Eye test PKR 1,200, Reviews, and Find us in I-8 Markaz. Profile-to-DM conversion goes from 3 percent to 9 percent on the same 700 monthly profile visits.
Terms that go with this one
These come up in the same conversations and are worth reading together.
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Highlight — quick answers
What does Highlight mean?
A highlight is a story you have saved permanently to your profile, grouped under a labelled cover circle beneath your bio. Highlights turn a disappearing feed into a menu.
Highlight ko Urdu mein kya kehte hain?
ہائی لائٹ — though in practice almost everyone in Pakistan says "highlight". For a twin-cities business the four highlights that do the work are Prices, Location, Reviews and Before/After.
Why does Highlight matter for a business in Pakistan?
For a twin-cities business the four highlights that do the work are Prices, Location, Reviews and Before/After. Pakistani buyers ask 'rate kya hai' and 'kahan hain aap' before anything else, and if the answer is not one tap away they leave for the next page. Put a screenshot map for your sector or market inside the Location highlight — nobody wants to read an address.
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