How To Create A Month Worth Of Instagram Content In 10 Easy Steps

Let me give you 5 easy steps for creating a full month worth of engaging content for your Instagram and Instagram stories.

1. Remember the word “Bucket” and use this process often. Bucketing is the most amazing strategy for coming up with great looking, eye-popping visual content that will create high engagement. Bucketing is to take a day when you must go out to a great location or get dressed for photos and plan about 30 minutes to an hour and just shoot photos. Get someone to go with you or use your cell phone on a selfie stick with a remote shutter. Try to take at least 10 or 15 photos and a couple videos. You do not need to know how you will use them, just take the photos and videos.

1. Think of popular topics or holiday themes. Think of ways you can center a photo around a popular hot trend. Make your own creative version of the holiday or topic. Great ideas can come from events, milestones, nature and so many simple daily things can be turned into a beautiful Instagram picture and post.

2. Always make a new hashtag list. You know you should never use the same hashtags over and over. When you create new exciting images create a few new hashtags to go with the topic or theme. Make the hashtags match the image and central point of the post.

3. Set a publishing schedule for Instagram. I have a separate Instagram calendar with upcoming days or places I will be visiting. This is a reminder to take photos everywhere I go. Even if I don’t use them right away or know when I will use them, I always have a huge storage of images to edit for future posts. It is important to keep them in a file on your computer and categorize sub files by date, season or topics.

4. Always keep adding to your group of top followers, brands, influencers or Instagramers you want to be involved with. Don’t forget to tag the appropriate people in the appropriate Instagram posts. This is an important Instagram growth strategy. Therefore, it is important to know other people on IG and not just slap up a post and run. If you don’t get involved, you will not have a growing Instagram account.

5. Don’t make your Instagram account all about you unless you are the subject. If you are modeling clothing or sharing cosmetic tutorials you may be the subject of most of your photos. In this case set up a spot in your home or place to shoot photos and videos. Make sure the lighting is good and be mindful of staging and background settings. If it is not about you, give value. Use quotes, humor, warm and personal photos to grab attention. How to Tips and many other valuable offerings and topics.

6. Don’t be a salesperson. On Instagram you should be real. Personalize your posts as much as possible so that others can relate to you. This is key to getting more likes per post.

7. Don’t forget to edit. This is probably the most important thing to so. Use free photo editing like Canva, Pic Monkey and others to correct or add shades of color to your photos. If desired, use text on photos when appropriate. Be sure to properly size photos for Instagram square or stories format. Here is a great tool to help you size your Instagram images. https://later.com/blog/instagram-image-size/

8. Test your posts and find out when you have the most interaction from your followers. Set your publishing schedule to this time.

9. Share your Instagram link across other channels and request followers. Consistency leads to rapid and quality followers.

10. You must post every day. If you let your account sit you will see decrease in activity. If you can’t get the photos, don’t know what to post or how, then you should outsource for help on your Instagram account.

For $79 per month our professional team of writers, graphic designers, video producers and audio specialists will create custom branded content with your company logo. For the $79.00 we can send your content each month or we can handle the entire account management, content creation and posting for you. All you have to do is pop in and engage and talk to people. Your content will be a mix of videos, engaging images, quotes, special days, holidays, national recognized or themed days, general Tips or How To posts relevant to your niche, polls and more. We will create the full month of content and send it to you in a zip file. All you have to do is open the file and post to your pages. We will even make sure your content is sized for Facebook, Facebook stories, Instagram and Instagram stories.