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Engaging with Your Instagram Followers

There are so many tips and tricks to getting more likes and followers. From Hashtags to Geo Tags Instagram provides so many tools to connect with your followers. We want to share a few of our favorites.

Hashtags

Using the right hashtags will help you to engage with new and relevant followers. Your stunning photos need to be accompanied by appropriate hashtags to grow your Instagram following. For example if I owed a Flourist and was selling wedding bouquets for 30% off what are some hashtags I could use? #Floral, #Sale, #Wedding, maybe include the season #Spring2020. There are many options but using hashtags that are relevant to your product or service will drive traffic and sales. 

Try using hashtags on your next post. You can check out how many people are using a hashtag by searching it on Instagram. 


Schedule post

It's important to be active when your followers. Scheduling post to try and align with your followers activity will increase visibility. Check your insights to see when your audience is online most. 

There are many apps you can use to schedule post and stay ahead of the social media game. Check out Over, we just reviewed it this week! 

Geo Tags 

Geo Tags help you to engage with local followers. This can be vital for many businesses. Using Geo Tags will increase local visibility and connect you with members of your target market. Whether you're sharing your exact location or your area try using a Geo Tag in your next post.  

Highlights

Organizing your stories into highlights will convince new followers to engage with your Instgram profile. Story highlights give potential followers a quick glance at you with out having to search through your entire profile. 

Highlights have a short life of only 24hrs. Give them a longer life by adding them to your profile! 

These are some of our ways that we engage with our Instagram followers. Comment below to tell us some of the ways your engage with your followers!