Here listening to the gold digger bad guest episode, number two hundred and three yup there are positive aspects to anything, and today is dedicated again to one of my favorite things in years. Instagram. Now I get it. This will act, can make your head, Spain, with algorithms and cohesive feeds, and that dreaded follow unfollow game, but I do I want you to forget that this is a free way for you to reach your dream: clients amen now it is safe to say that I have learned a thing or two or a million things about this absence growing my following from zero to over a half a million in just a few years, and this is I wanted to cover the nitty gritty details of your instagram questions. Severe wondering how the hell to appear engagement when you should be posting turn, followers into paying clients, how do you do it, but actually so much more, is epizootic is for you. I did

Every single one of these questions from the gold digger insiders, Facebook group so maybe ear those answered on air keep listening To find out before we I'm on it, and I want to read the review of the weak from Amy from Lake Tahoe. Title love, love, love being an entrepreneur. Has ups and downs, sometimes you feel like you- are the bat, his boss, lady, ever in other times, you feel you have no clue what you're doing negative thoughts and that your crazy, the gold digger podcast, helps to put these moments into perspective, what you can do, how you learn from it and grow We all need a little tribe of amazing humans and I truly look forward to this podcast. Always for better, never stop, learning! Jenna. Thank you for everything you do. You are being so many individuals with your knowledge and positivity. Thank you so much Amy for this review. I cannot wait to see if your review will be the next review of the weak so without further Ado

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but I'm gonna, give you my first piece of feedback. It is this show up, show up consistently and be willing to engage with other people. Now I call it posting and ghosting, and you don't want to do this and I see this happen so often is people throw up opposed, they have a call to action and then there's just crickets and so when, if their people are engaging, they don't feel seen or heard so here the nitty gritty strategies you can use hashtags, that's a great way, to find a broader audience use GEO Tags and our kind of explain some of that in a little beds. You kids hag other people, whether it's an account that your featuring, their entrepreneurs at your working with You can utilise poles. You can ask people a question like what your number one pain point with Instagram like we did for this episode. But here what you need to have in every single post, a call to action. What action do you want? Your followers?

to take after their done reading your caption. Do you want them to double tat? Do you want them to come at below? Should they click the link in your profile should they go, encourage someone else, Ortega friend below and say you want make sure that at the end of every single caption, you ask yourself So what do I want these people to do because the terms were not even inviting engagement. Then, if you look at your own use, your habits, your likely just scrolling you're, not leaving stopping the devil's Hap you're, not leaving comments in. So how can you expect other people to do that? If that's, not your own user behaviour, and so I like to think of myself as the queen of engagement, but I genuinely show up. I mean Make sure that what I'm writing is worth reading and then I hang out for a while and encourage the other people to engage, because let me tell you when people

see that I am online in engaging in commenting back on comments. They are far more likely to engage with my post. Tory K asked what are your top tips for feeling confident while recording an instant story video or in insecure him alive. Now I love this question and if you recently tune into the pot gas in opposite number one. Eighty one we had a how to rock your interim stories and use them to be the owl even so that episode has a ton of amazing content in tips, but here's the deal Instagram stories. Is this unique way for people to see behind the scenes? we can already see her beautiful curated feed and see that perfect grid that you meticulously plan. But Instagram stories fell so much more organic and often and so you just want to show up just as you are in me, the person that people expect you to be in what I

we have found when it comes interim stories? Is it's a really cool way to invite engagement? So all ass people send me over your quest. Ends and I'll answer them or ask them a poor question and give them a yes or no answer, and so when you are worried about like how can you feel confident it really just comes with time in practice, oh. When I first started doing, then I would do like five takes before I was I go out and is mediocre enough to posts and now let em fly inside the more you. Do it the more comfortable you get but treated as if you're talking to one person and not a hundred or a thousand or a hundred thousand, when I think of it as if I could just slide into my sister's DMZ same video erosion, eight. So much more than being like hello, everyone and addressing a crowd and so that we might it for you tory I lean says, can you tell me how I can best use the featured in surrender stories, so featured story icons. You can

find out my answer to this and get resources on how to utilise them at genoa. Could your dot com flash featured stories, and I love that that is now a you're on Instagram, because here's the deal when we You were looking at the initial time. Investment of Instagram stories, which was beyond is it's pretty minor. Thereabout fifteen seconds in length so began commit fifteen seconds to your strategy. Then we got to talk, but I love that the features stories can allow your stories to live beyond twenty four hours, and I think that that is huge, because it shows you that it's worth investing in like this isn't just gonna disappear to Morrow. It has the opportunity to live on in so when it comes to featured in surround story.

I think it's an incredible way to expand your brand beyond just what you do and what you sell, and so, if you ve ever heard me teach about the J K, five or having five Brian categories where a lot of them are just for connection sake. While there are one or two that actually include your offer, you can use featured stories to clued and encompass the J K five, and to give oh, really well rounded, look at you the brand and not just the business, and so my favorite featured stories in the ones I get viewed. The most are actually the ones like marriage and travels in things beyond just what I sell, because I think people are genuinely curious and they want an excuse to like you, and so I would say you know pick those top reforming stories. You can definitely curate the featured stories in a way that helps expand your bread and give people this resource to kind of see beyond the curtain, and I really love it so again. If you need help with those, I also

sell featured sorry icons at shop, Jenna Culture, but if you just had to dot com, slash featured stories, you can get all of my insight and really learn how to create them, how to make them pretty and how to use them so carry Rogers is my biggest frustration, translating engagement into actual purchasers. I guess new followers and legs, but I'm lacking I using Instagram to actually get sales, and I love this question, so we often hark about how profitability is so much more important than popularity. Anything that so often we get it twisted, because our egos get involved, and we get really emotional about the number under our names. But I want to remind you kara that in Sir Graham should not be the end game and so you're looking at getting purchases directly from instead, I am more girl, you are on an uphill battle, and so what I think is

important about turning just average followers enshiu raving bans into actual purchasing clients is its this journey, and so there are a few tips I do want to share to you today, the number one you want them to know. You too, like you and trust you and so a lot of times of war, who on selling then were constantly giving market? pitches instead of actually giving connection pieces in our captions and in our posts, and so when I- look at my feet. I wanted to be less than twenty percent of selling and when I say selling, I'm not actually talking about selling products, I'm talking about getting them off of Instagram. So and I can get in touch with them in a more intimate way. Number two: is you don't own your instagram followers mark Zuckerberg does and what a lucky son of a gun. He is and so, if you putting so many eggs into the Instagram basket, then I really want to challenge you to you.

Use Instagram as a way to fuel, something that you have more control of in that you own, which is your email list? No, We actually don't do a ton of sales directly from Instagram, but yet we use in Graham, is away to convert those followers onto our email list so that we can serve them. We can figure out what they need and that we can present the right offers at the right time, and so when businesses get it twisted, it's usually because our trying to drive actual sales immediately from Instagram and to be honest, I don't know a ton of companies at find true success in doing that, and if they do, they probably dont have a backup plan, and so I want for you to figure out

How can you, instead of turning followers into purchasers? How can you turn followers and defence? How can they back you up? How can they respond to your cause to action? How can they click off of Instagram to access something that you're giving them? How will they truly become a part of your trial, and so I love to teach. The instagram is not the end game, its merely the handshake, and you want to invite them off of that platform. So you can fly into their embarks? Add really reach them in a far more intimate in friendly way came a baker Gomes wants to know, how do you get genuine interaction on your posts? So I have a very, very loyal following I don't love you guys notice but like I can put up a picture of my dog and get hundreds of comments because people genuinely care, and so I think that you have to really make people care and be this human

to them. And so, when we talk about genuine interaction, I really want challenge you to utilise things like Instagram stories to kind of paint, a bigger picture beyond your grid and so him, I'm not sure if your using Instagram stories, but I think it could be a huge way to actually build that trust and make people feel like they know you, because the best compliment I can ever get is when I meet someone for the first time- and they say I feel like I already know you that's exactly what I want now another tip for this is when you are typing up captions? I want for you to ask yourself: why does this matter? Am I doing this story? Justice? Am I actually reaching people in a form of connection, and so, if you're not- getting genuine interaction. I would probably pushed back and say that you're a either just talking about your product in service, in your only reaching people. Currently need your product in service and no one else or be your speaking

who abroad audience and not making any one feel like you're speaking directly to them. So when I drafted the caption I imagine that I'm sitting in a room with one person, This is my message to them and I think that it makes people feel like I am speaking directly to them instead of a crowd, and I think that really helps get that interaction and again use call to actions. Christie Raoul says what are the benefits of a business account verses approach no account I'm sure there are tons. I am just clueless so I have shared my theory on this before and it truly hasn't changed yet, and this has been a couple years. So here is my theory, I don't believe you should switch to a business account, a couple reasons so back in the day when we are all so busy on growing our fanned pages on Facebook, everyone is putting so much time and energy into that. Only to find out,

years later that our reaches would be so limited because Facebook wants to make money. There ultimate goal is to get paid, and so if they want to get paid men, you have to pay for ads in order to get your posts scene and guess what Facebook owns Instagram and so What I think happened is when they release business accounts. They made all of these features, so so awesome so that people would switch over to a business account with a plan to be calm similar like Facebook because I think about it. If you are signed up as a business account than Instagram is gonna, say Europe using our service to advertise for free you're driving profits for free on our platform. So I think you should probably have to pay in order to reach your fans, and so I actually have never switch to a business account. Because

the added features. They don't really excite me all that much think about it. Have you ever contacted vendor directly from Instagram, because when you switch your business account you get that little contact or email or call, but have you Actually we're done that casino. I then I will go to their website read about them. First figure out. If it's right there and then goes you their contact form No another shiny thing about business accounts is, if you have ten thousand followers- and you are a business account, you get this white up feature and no for a lot of people, that was what got them to sign up for a business account, but here's the deal I chose, I five hundred thousand dollars and I still chose to say personal and descend. People too link in my profile, because I don't think that that feature alone is worth making the switch. Now

I'm verified. So I got this. Why but feature I get the insight that the business account gets without actually having to switch to business. I'm super super fortunate here, but it comes to things like analytics that you get with the business account, you can get that from other acts. I can see my analytics inside of plan their noise in depth, but there still enough for me to know exactly who my audience is, and so my theory that has stood for a few years and it could obviously change, but for now it is staying sound is, I would say, personal because here's the deal my group and I am not selling things in every single posts. In fact I rarely and seldom actually sell actually uttering. Remember. Last summer I sold directly from my feet, so I don't care or myself a business account. I am a brand, and so I want to make sure that I keep that personal piece of it, and that is why I'm sticking a personal account, it's a totally different decision for everyone and if you already said she

in his account and try to switch back. I don't really know I feel like they're still getting categorize you as a business account knowing that you're trying to be sneaky, but there is zero confirmation on that. That's just my theory. Reilly, Lynn, Smith or men, says I'm wondering what tips now for using ads on Instagram, I feel, like my clients, hang out uninstall, but I just I haven't been able to get in front of them enough through hashtags alone. I would love to know how to spend Instagram add money effectively. So I have We had my ad expert on the show, carry sweat men and she helped me with Instagram ads in you have run Instagram ads for the last few years and I heard recently in the Instagram story episode that actually Instagram story ads are the cheapest, converting ads for my business and they moved the needle the most because people just need a swipe up to access whatever it is, I'm giving them. So

I've been a hundred and twenty million clicks generated from Instagram ads in the past six months, and there are so many Bennett, but here are my tips for you: Riley Slimmer, one catch their attention, quick, so a lot of times people make the mistake. Trying to make their ads blend in to the feed. But I think what happens as people just scroll pass them, and so, instead of having beautiful white bright, lay flat take adds. I have right yellows and reds, and I want people to stop in their tracks. To read the post, you don't necessarily want or freestyle your add. You want to make sure you have a very clear message in graphic. So what are you offering? What is the promise? How are you getting people to take action on it, and so we found for us very bright, colors and then a very, very easy statement that says want to learn how to grow your email list or

are you using Pinterest write, something like that? Will really help get people converted over just trying to put a pretty picture and sell sending in the actual caption? And then you want to make sure that there is a very, very clear call to action. Swipe up to get my freebie click here to save your seat and what we found when it comes, you're. Not necessarily selling something through them, but you're, actually getting people converted onto your email list onto your email list, so that you can serve them before you ever go to sell to them, and so we use Instagram adds every single day and were constantly testing out different images. Different copy, we're seeing our audiences, responding to what their clicking on and, of course were using Instagram story adds as well. Delaney Anderson says people come at more on my personal photos. Then my product photos. They don't want to see my work so first things first

There should be no surprise. I always talk about how people actually care way more about you, then what You do in a lot of times feeble pushed back on this, but it is so so true. If you go You episode one fifty five. This was one of my most powerful pact episodes and it's all a how I doubled my instagram growth in one month and it has everything to do with the ladys question so. I remember a time when I had posted a beautiful wedding image of my clients. And I was so discouraged because posts of puppies and MAC and cheese we're getting like double the engagement than my actual work was like. I need to pay my bills. If we don't care about my wedding work like how am I going to make this like people care more about pasta, then what is bringing in income, and so I did a little test and enough. First photo that didn't get a engagement. Whenever I went to talk about

I work. I got all clam united know what to say, and so I just Kennedy said head to the blog to see, more of Andrea Adams wedding Day, so he started really dig in and say. Well, why is this happening? Why does nobody care- and I thought about it- I said You're just seen one picture of adamant Andrea. They don't know who they are. They don't where they got married, they don't are, they should care and they sure, as Hell, are not going to click off of my instagram to see more of these strangers just basis of one photo, and so few weeks later I shared the exact same photo, but I changed the caption and I said, Andrew WAR. The wedding dress that her grandmother war years ago and as the church doors open and I wash your groom, see his bride for the first time I glanced over at her. Grandmother and saw her. Why prettier from her eye? I imagine She was thinking about the day that she went. Andrea's, grandpa click to my boy,

to see more of this story and to see the image that will bring me to tears for years to come. Some them like that, and you know what a got tons of engagement tons of ink because I gave people a reason to care. I told them. Story in a new way, and I helped people to understand. Why it mattered in July. It is time delay any when people are looking or commenting on your product photos. It's because your caption probably sucks. I hate to be blunt, but it's probably is like hey. I created this new thing had to the shop to purchase it like I know why you created it. I dont know what inspired you. I don't know about your process, I don't know how much it costs and I sure, as hell, I'm not gonna click off the apt to figure all that out for myself in so whenever you go to share your work, you guys We have to make sure that your tell in some sort of story you're telling people why it matters and you're giving a really clear call to action so that they can say yes, it is,

for me or no, this prize in for me, but at least I can double tap on it Yo Keynes as what are your top tips for engaging with your audience? How do you keep them coming back for more as a dedicated followers so I've already shared a few of those, but my number one tip is to engage back now for awhile. I fell into the trap of believing I have too many followers. I can't keep up with comments indictments, but guess what, if you sit down any set a time for twenty minutes every day, you would be shocked much engaging you can get in with your audience I time to send back is mesdames, as I can. I think I get about five hundred times a day and so all set a timer for twenty minutes. Don't try to respond to those genes are also do that or comments. If you look at any of my posts, I try to comment. When people take the time to comment, and I want them to know like I'm, not just asking you to engage for engagement sake like I want to know who you are. I want to know why you're following I want to know how I can help you

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capella dot, Eu Slash, Jenna so Jack. Meanwhile, boom says: how do you get people to actually go till Lincoln, your buyer, when you have less than ten thousand dollars and don't have the swipe at feature a village? I dont have a direct way They send followers to links. I want them to go to so I recently just recently got this wiper future things to getting verified, but before then I literally just send people smuggling and my bio and guess why very few people actually had this white but feature because of the stipulations connected to it so you can do a call to action in your stories. You can create a hook in your caption you're, sorry and say to by no more go to the link. My bio or click here to learn more you can do in Instagram, live and send people to that link. You can run and add the link or Can video chat yourself talking about the products that people actually want to click? The link that you have to

you're saying that asking people to click off of Instagram is a big ask. You're saying I want you to stop what you're doing for follow this link, and so, if you are going to ask people to do that, you have to be so. You're about? What's in it for them, what are they gonna get when they click the link, what are they gonna see when they click the link? Why the action? They click the link, and so I think that it is totally find to say Lincoln Profile, Lincoln Mile. I did that for ever and my audience got used to it and so sure it would be awesome for everyone have this. Why but feature frankly how often our use wiping up anyways right so I have received a countless questions about hashtags how to use them, how to create them where to enter them in your happen in so I thought it would answer hope, Gryphus question, which is how you you do hashtags on Instagram Jenna, there are, so many opinions on this. It's over welcoming said she

the story is is it is so hard to keep up with hashtag best practices, because there so many theories out there and no one can really get a hold of instagram to have them answer it for us, and so here's the deal there is a lot of grey area when it comes to hash. Taking the only people that live We know this secret are the head, haunches, Instagram and so on we can never be one thousand percent sure of any one method. There are some general things to know how things are: huge way. You can increase your chance of being discovered by new accounts. I don't already follow you so obviously of Your goal is to grow your account. For any reason, your hashtags try g is essential to the growth of your account and your business fun fact posts with at least one hashtag just one tender receive twelve point, six percent, more engagement, that is huge and so here are a few ways to create them and follow them. One you

make your own branded hashtag and encourage your followers or clients to use it. So I the hashtag Jenin. Could your weddings for my wedding photography and never my clients posed. A photo of my images are don't use Jenin could your wedding so that there's almost like this portfolio that isn't just were alive. I mean you can also follow trends and tying them back to your business. So see kind of what training and how you can kind of influence at trend with your posts. Using certain hashtags You can search, so you want to think of almost search engine, optimization which we recently talked about, and I want for you to search and think about what people would type if they were looking for so go to episode, one. Seventy seven, the entrepreneurs guide to S E. Oh, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, but when I think my wedding work. I would do

Stag Wisconsin wedding, Hashtag, Wisconsin, bride, Hashtag, Milwaukee, wedding, Hashtag, Milwaukee, ART Museum wedding, and so I actually just took a lot of the things that we taught in that as CEO episode and kind of applied them, and now. There is also a new feature, which is that you can follow a hashtag. Much like following an account then say you. Do this for your favorite hashtags in order to say up to date in relevant, and so I just want really think about life. How can you create sound? that'll be brain consistent for you in your clients, but also how can you keep a pulse? certain ones that are going to help you stay inspired or connects. You two accounts that you want to be connected to soap, let's gonna, dig into the general rules of hash shaking use.

How shakes her instagram makes your content more discoverable. You do not need to use thirty hashtags in every post. In fact, I think less is optimal. So, according to sprout social we know you can use thirty hashtags using eleven, which is such a random number, is the optimal number. It isn't really matter if you post them in your caption or comments, but one benefit to posting them in the caption is because your posts is being analyze the moment. It goes live into. You how shakes get out there sooner than the delay imposing them in a comment. So what I found myself doing- is posting one. Two three hashtags in my caption and then follow. Going that caption with a comment of other relevant hashtags and guy The other days where you can just make a list of thirty ash eggs and use that list on every single post, because Instagram is so much smarter now, so you boys to picture

a tree and you have shaken bride and they kind of figure that out, like it is going to say you are not relevant or you are trying to key word stuff innocence. And so you want to make sure that the hash eggs you are using actually applied to the exact image you just shared so you want to make sure your hashtags are relevant and not banned cuz. This happens more often than you think, so you can check which ones you're going to do and you'll kind of see if it's banned, no post will show up, for that and then you can use trending hashtags and tie them back to your company, so it there are certain hash. Eggs doing really. While you want to make sure that your post actually pertains to that- and you can measure the performance of your posts and most engage hashtags of shared above were all shared again. We use the app plan within my company to plan R. Instagram posts, its p l, a an end in sight, It tell you your top performing hashtags in Seoul

I did. I'm just has to do with the continent you shared and if you have taken in the first place, but it kind of helps us to see what are Audis engages with and how hashtags are playing a part in our overall strategy. Tessa in is a better deposed, more often with less genuine words are less often with more meaningful genuine words are less often with more meaningful words. Are they so here's what I think TAT S a either? First, you have to commit to quality posts over quantity. If you are just posting for posting sake and people are engaging, it's gonna tell Instagram that people don't care, about your content and even if you, both a meaningful photo and caption people, probably aren't gonna see it because in certain things are not relevant, so I want for you to commit to something that you can stick to to create a system. So for me I do about five posts

her weak, so I'll usually do Monday through Friday and then maybe a Sunday post and I love to sequence. And on that, but I want every posts to be meaningful. So I ask myself why it is this matter. Am I doing this story justice? And why should anyone care about this, and I Would you say that if that sounds overwhelming to you, I know drew posts probably three times a week and he spent a lot of time on his browser. Take some awhile. I can whip of opposed, really fast I'm so familiar with the way that I type in speak to my audience, and I know what action I want people to take but Would you say consistency is huge and war. On the street is, I Instagram is looking our engagement in. So it's looking how you're using the app are you engaging with other peoples, content are using fee. Yours, like dams and instruments stories, and I D Tv, Are you using hash eggs? Are you commenting back and it looks at your entire user? How

it's in that can help you get scene with the algorithm more enjoy say being an active user is very important. Would you say, quality over quantity times, a million Christina Robinson, says I would like to know what are the legitimate s time suppose, there's so much confusing information out their partly due to the ever changing algorithm. So you're wrong on that angers much information out there, because everybody's audiences are different. There isn't a great one. Size fits all best time deposed because some But our posting and their audience works and ninety five simply bar closing in their audiences home during the day semi or browsing they're, not even sure who their audience is, and so you have to figure out why? Is your audience engaging with content and the cool thing about it? algorithm is that it's actually help here, want to be seen at times that are most likely be engaged with, and so on We spend a ton of time focused on what timed opposed, but instead I asked

self is now good time like do? I actually have twenty minutes to devote? engaging with my audience as they engage with me, and so instead of Oh, my gosh, I need a posted, seven p m tonight in its dinner time. I'm in a quick in my power Seven, then a mental log off to eat supper. I don't do that. I want to be able to post and commit to a little bit of time. So that my audience knows. When I ask him a question, I actually value their answers and so there is not a legit best time. Two posts is based on you, your business, your honor and in when they are online and there are different as second help. You find that again, the act that we use is pie, an pollyanna, I'm not getting ready to talk about them and they, when your best times two posts are an if your business account. You can also see that in your analytics, Annie MC a size. I can't wait for this. My biggest struggle is with a consistent, color story on the grid. I can't seem to get it right yet so

I would see any there are a few tips for this. I want for you too. Make sure that first year, just it inconsistently. So, if you're not efficient, river editing my totally freak you out by guess why there are so many different apps you can even your images inside of instagram- but you want to create some sort of consistency when it comes to editing. I also Now my added increases for light room inside of shop Jenna Culture, and that can help you this figure out, which precept is right for you, so that you your images have a similar color tone in so, if you actually look at my feet, it all kind of feels like a goes together, because at every image. The same way consists lighting is gonna play a huge part on this, and I know Some people almost back themselves into a corner with their grid, and so I want to caution you from doing that into just create a system that allows you to post a little bit more and not work

so much about the overall static, but to create sort of parameter. Where you say is this instrument really or should I just maybe positive it. My stories are put it on Facebook. I before I go my camera alive I use ever apps, there's a color story. There is after like that, just help you edit, and I just created a very, very simple, routine, so that every image kind of got the same treatment and then using programs like plan or plainly where you can layer your great and kind of your options helps you to just make sure it's pretty so all dragged about five. For us at a time in kind of moving around and see what looks a vast and then that will help me create my plan for the Weak Kendall says: what are your thoughts on sharing, only professional photographs on your main feed, I'm not a photographer, but lately I've been bringing in a photographer to do day of content creation for my business and I'm

having our feed looks now, but my concern is, if I lose that small family run farms vibe. I still boast a ton of Instagram story, so people see the unfiltered version. I just love having a bank of photos to draw from so I can spend more time better caption. So for me, I'm a professional photographers. So years ago I made the decision. I was only going to share professional images in my feet now for me, it works, because I have access to cameras and editing, and that is what my aesthetic is both for. The average person Roy. Nor can it be that easy to do that and for me, it's like of ivory tools given to me and I'm not using them, I'm showing people that I don't actually care about my craft and I really really really do and so on that you're bringing in a professional photographer, and I love that you're still using Instagram stories to share the unfiltered version and so on. You're gonna lose authenticity using professional images, but the challenge for you is cat

turning them in a way that makes the moment still feel authentic instead of being like this is from a, Photoshop from a month ago. I want there to be stories being told in I've, so many friends where there like yeah people, just don't like professional images, I feel- and I say well, let me look at your feet. Row, quick and I'll- take a peak and its because they don't know how to talk about professional photos. Nobody wants to say I paid survey, you take my picture and here's the picture that they took, and so you have to just really be strong in your captions when it comes to that, and I am proof that people do respond to provisional images is more about the way that you speak about them in craft, a story around them than the actual quality of the photograph sky. I clearly says that a weird you create your content, what tools used to push it over to social and how far in advance, do you plan content out for So I create my comments:

in life and I am very, very adamant about only shooting up my cameras that I'm not always on my phone. So when we gone trips often leave. Phone behind and just bring my camera in that way. I have to take the photo and until later to edit it and be in pensioners about the story, I'm telling and so I share all that gender good, your blog dot com, slash apps, and that really helps to show my process what apps I'm using for, while how I'm playing things out in how I'm kind of seeing what the overall aesthetic of the grid is going to look like. I usually well play on my content about a week in advance, all dragging the furrows I'll make sure Things are well spaced out all start to ride up captions because sometimes when you're, trying to think of something at the last minute, it's not your best posts and so again JANET your blog dotcom, slash, apps, and that's why I share all the acts that I love to use when it comes to social media.

Blair at Cowardly says besides photos with you in them. What other types of posts are you seeing with an overall Coming amount of legs This is just such a specific question and I think it's gonna look different for everyone, but I think that people want to see where you are so, whether it's your home, whether its trips, you ve, been on people kind of want to set seen in so behind the scenes? Furrows always do so well, because it helps people. Imagine you. Working in your space helps you will Jane where you live or where you do life or what you're up to, and so mostly, I sure images of mean now based on that episode that I shared earlier, but I think that people respond to obviously pretty things or

things have a story behind them, and so I love seeing those behind the scenes of people's homes, people's work, people's travels people's offices and just because it paints a picture of their life a little bit more. I right we are down to the last three cos. Genes. Amanda Burg says how should your little Bio Buren? Are there any secrets? So I would say this secrets are that you want to tell people exactly what you do, how you serve the world, potentially where your located, if that influences any of your services or offers, I want some fun fact that can connect Me too, you beyond what you do and I just want to feel like I know what I'm about to sign up for, if I am to click, follow And so I dont think their secrets, but look around, I differ pupils bios and figure out what made you click follow on them, because that's gonna give You're, really good gauge to figure out how you can write years, shameless guy

Lauren, says abundant interesting, called the actions it with your audience that they cannot resist following through with what are they so I would saying double tap. If you agree, whenever we Things like I have the bat withdrew that if this post gets ten thousand like so Gimme a foot rub that always does really well. We asked people to crowd source our captions handing of anything witty to say we say what would you say for this calves in we have you bore gas, like where we are or what we're doing. We asked for a question. From people. What are you wondering about? What can we answer for you when I asked you the tag other people below to inspire other people that does really well and then obviously when I offer some sort of freebie or something that's gonna help people to click the link in my bio. That's also a huge call to action ass

the De Luca says: who is your ultimate tat person that you follow on Instagram? Oh man? I should read these questions or, for I took this one who do I loved it? Follow I love following tomorrow, Maori from sister sister. She just posts image, real life, seven or family, as so adorable, but my brand the re segue free to you was a bachelor at hard Zack. I love seen what's up in her life and she is ours, so so adorable on earthy gusher. Just so many. That have been on the show that I love following the litter guy, it is an amazing account. Gosh urges so many boards impossible. But maybe I'll do around up some day of my favorite accounts at inspire me. Obviously, all different women featured in their products. So many amazing accounts, so there you guys added ashen, aiding about Instagram ahead,

there, you guys have it. I should even about Instagram. I hope that this ever so do so help over you today, no matter where you're on your instagram journey. Just remember that you have a platform of influence, whether you have ten followers or a hundred thousand, and I really want to encourage you to use our platform to inspire, encourage and put out all the positive vibes until next year, gold diggers, cuban digging your biggest gauze and hey. If you still have more questions about Instagram come on over the gold digger pod gas to me, and we'll make sure to do apart, suits this episode so that you get your biggest instagram questions answered. Thanks for listening to the gold digger podcast, dive into the show notes for this episode and all past episodes at W W W dad gold, digger pot cask dot com. If you love the show share it with a friend the more the merrier thing