10 Best Instagram Marketing Hacks To Boost Your Business

Instagram is one of those platforms where you can reach a huge amount of followers in a short period of time through attractive posts, images, videos, GIFs and hashtags. A combination of images, hashtags and catchy captions play a key role in making your post reach the correct audiences. This plays a key role in generating valuable leads and revenue for the businesses.

Here are the 10 best Instagram Marketing hacks to boost your businesses:

• Efficient Use Of Hashtags: If you want that your page should rank on top of Instagram search then Hashtags are a must for you. As per a survey done after reviewing 650K posts it's highly recommended to use 5-7 hashtags if you have more than 10K followers. Use 2 hashtags if you have more than 10K followers. Well, these are just some tips whereas you can use all 30 hashtags also as per your wish. Try to hide hashtags in your captions or first comment for a clean look. Use popular branded hashtags like #marketing #blogging #inlfuencerstrategy and #branding. These will make ensure to rank your post-high on the top Instagram search and you might get a chance to gain a good amount of followers.

• Post between 9-11 AM for Higher Reach: According to the surveys conducted, these are the best timings to schedule your Instagram posts if you want more followers, engagements and reach. However, time varies during the weekends. Post timings also depend upon the behaviour and habits of the audience. You can post after 4PM on the weekends as the audience reach is higher at that time.

• Post 2-3 Times a Day: According to the research done by the marketers and the specialists it's very important to post at least 2 times a day so as to get more followers and post engagements. This should be the optimal frequency of the posts. You can test this for better results rest everything depends on the audience behaviour you must be familiar with the audience demands and post accordingly.

• Focus Quality Posts & Content: Quality posts with eye-catchy images and creative content plays a key role in getting a good amount of followers, engagements and quality leads for your businesses. You can also use stories for more reach but as per the surveys done from thousands of posts and stories, it's diagnosed that posts have higher engagement than stories. Accounts with less than 10K followers have a 26% engagement rate on posts while in stories it was around 8.5%.

           

• Follow a Routine To Increase Your Followers: you can do this by following these simple steps first thing is to reply to your valuable comments, identify your premiere followers and leave at least 3 comments on their post per day, post 2 times a day, post at an optimal time, use 12-15 hashtags (research on the best and top-notch hashtags which are to be included in your posts so as to rank higher on Instagram search), write creative, amazing captions to attract valuable audiences and follow 3 relevant accounts per day.

• Tag Other Users in Your Posts: If you are posting something relevant to other Instagram users ensure to tag them in your posts. The most engaging posts on Instagram have tagged an average of 2 users. It's very much important that the tag should be relevant to the theme of the post. 

• Do Your Competitor Analysis Very Well: It's a must to follow your competitors and do observe their posts on a daily basis. Also, have close look at their strategy of posts and stories they share on their handles. Try to adapt those strategies to your posts by doing this you can achieve a great number of engagements on your posts. This strategy is extremely good when it comes to product promotion and marketing. You can also enable push notification on the competitor's profile page it will play a key role in giving you updates about their posts and activities. This is a key hack to success in Instagram marketing.

• Try Switching To a Creator Account: Creator account gives you multiple options right from a public figure, influencer, artist, content creator and blogger. You can select a relevant option for your business. Creator account also gives you detailed analytics about your account visitors and engagements in your account. It also gives additional facilities like simplified messaging, advanced analytics and additional tools.

• Use Geo-Tagging: Add geotagging ion your posts it will be very beneficial in the case of a local business. This will play a key role in helping you get the local searchers. Add location to your images and don't forget to add catchy stickers to Instagram stories. This will enable you to reach your stories to the local city page.

• Keep Yourself Posted About New Updates: keep checking on new updates like Instagram recently announced Instagram reels where you can create short videos by using AR filters, audio tools and easy to use text. This will play a vital role in boosting up your post engagements. Likewise, Instagram announces major updates on a yearly basis where some new tool is introduced so it's important to keep updated with that.