How To Pin Comments On Your Instagram Post
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Author: Rwithu Menon
First of all, why should you pin a comment on your Instagram post?
Pinning your favourite comments to the top of your postâs comments section helps to define the tone of the conversation. Itâs a way of moderating the comments by highlighting valid and positive discussion points. It also discourages and pushes down any negative comments further down the thread.Â
When you invite opinions from the audience through a post, you may find several responses interesting and noteworthy. We say, pin your favourite ones! The pinned comments here can pose as conversation starters. The first time a person goes over the post, they read the pinned comments at the top and would be better prepared to voice their opinion.Â
Another use case is to highlight positive customer testimonials that appear in comments. For instance, if your post advertises a product or a service, you may find actual customers leaving comments about their own experience. Go ahead and pin those lovely comments!
When you receive valid questions from the audience, answer them in the comments and pin them to the top of the thread!Â
Now on to the best part.
Thatâs it, your favourite comment is now pinned to the top of the thread! Pinning a comment will notify the person who wrote it. You can pin a total of 3 comments but you canât pin your own comments. Be sure to choose those 3 comments wisely.
Try it out and let us know what you think! Stay tuned for more such tips on our Instagram account and on this site.
Author: Rwithu Menon
Consistency is paramount when managing social media accounts. Itâs essential to show up regularly, whether it is daily, twice or thrice a week or 5 days a week, and make your presence known. At some point, though, you can feel blocked and not know what to post anymore! Thatâs when this list will come handy.
Here are 25 useful post ideas that you can use to create content for social media and keep your handles active throughout the month.
If you havenât done it already, right now is the best time! Talk about your brandâyour vision, your goals, how the brand came about and how it is going. The more your audience knows about the brand, the more connected they feel with your content.
People will appreciate any useful information you provide. Give the audience tidbits, helpful tips or references to learn more about a specific topic. Additionally, encourage them to share your posts and even save these tips for later.
Feel free to include a related story, thought, or advice in the caption.
Always keep an eye on whatâs happening in your country or the world. Connect with your audience by providing content related to topics they care about.
Let others know about the latest developments in your field to help them stay informed.Â
You can boost audience participation by encouraging comments, sharing, or tagging friends. Bring in questions/puzzles/teasers to keep the audience’s interest.Â
Announce contests regularly, especially around festivals and holidays with gifts for the winner. This is a great way to promote your brand and give away your products.
Involve your audience in celebrating your hard-earned success.
Your dedicated social media community deserves special treatment! Consider making free consultations or product discounts available for a specific period of time to encourage timely action.
It’s a good idea to reflect on your journey so far and share it with others.
Introduce your teammates, have them see where you work, show them your work routine and more!
Build trust by sharing positive reviews of satisfied customers.
Display your best works to the world and let them know what you are capable of!
Share quick how-to’s, behind-the-scenes, etc. with short videos to let your audience follow along with you.
Showing your face is one of the best ways to make a deeper connection and engage in real time with your audience.
Share your personal take on the latest memes that the internet is raving about!
Make use of Throwback Thursday or Flashback Friday to remember happy times!
Tell your audience a little about what you are working on, in order to get them excited about it.
Let people know your other handles to stay well connected.
Build credibility by showing real life examples of how customers use your products or services.
Try friday quizzes, monday motivation quotes, or other similar themes to build a routine every week.
Make it personal by sharing tidbits about your daily life. Discuss what you have planned for the weekend, what goals you have set for the week or perhaps even a to-do list you plan to complete in the coming weeks.
Every other week, choose one of the most commonly asked questions and answer it.
Use social media to promote your products or services regularly. Don’t be afraid to do it!
Keep it light by getting the audience’s help on something you’re struggling with, be it movie recommendations, places to visit or something more serious.
Keep track of the social media content for each month by creating a monthly spreadsheet. Are you ready to tackle your content calendar for next month with all these content ideas for social media?Â
Visit www.owlspire.com to learn how we do content creation for social media, come up with social media strategies for businesses, manage social media handles on behalf of all of our clients and more. Give us a hoot for any enquiries!
Author:Â Rwithu Menon
In a world where the average human attention span is 8 seconds (less than that of a goldfish!), eye catching visual content has become a necessity and not just a nice-to-have. It grabs peopleâs attention and increases engagement and click-through-rates (CTR) on any social media channel. Your audience will also be more likely to retain more of what you convey through visuals than those with just textâalmost 6x times more!
For nailing the perfect social media creative you also need to adhere to each platformâs recommended dimensions. The right sized image or video tends to generally perform better becauseÂ
You should keep in mind that visual content here refers to all the creatives that you upload across any platformâprofile photos, cover photos, timeline photos, videos or even the content you share as stories.Â
Now letâs look at the recommended dimensions you need to know for most common social media platforms.
With 2.6 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the biggest and one of the most prominent social networking platforms used by brands and customers alike. To bring your content to your audienceâs attention while they relentlessly scroll through their feed, you need to first do your research on what content works best and deliver the best quality posts, adhering to the Facebook post guidelines.Â
Did you know?
According to Facebook reports, it has reached an advertising audience of 2.14 billion through its ads.
You can reach an even larger audience by running ads on your posts. The results from these ads largely depend on the quality of the visual content used, thus bringing us back to the main point – stick to the recommended dimensions for best results!
Did you know?
81% of people use Instagram to research products before buying.
This very popular platform is a great place for businesses to market themselves. They can even sell products directly through the app!Â
From your profile picture and feed imagery to your IGTv and Reels video, you absolutely need to pay attention to the size guidelines to stand out in this photo-oriented platform.
Twitter acts as a useful platform for posting your companyâs updates, retweeting news related to your industry and responding to customer tweets. According to reports, 82% of B2B content marketers used the platform for organic content marketing in the past one year. So seize your chance with top notch posts on this platform in 2021!
A social media platform that emphasizes career networking, LinkedIn is best for building awareness for your brand, to engage and establish credibility in industry related discussions, to connect with other business professionals, and to reach out to and form relationships with your potential customers.
Did you know?
Brands that post weekly on LinkedIn see a 2x higher engagement rate.
According to LinkedIn reports, users are also 20x more likely to re-share a video post. Start marketing your brand on this highly popular platform if you are not already doing it!
Though not as popular as the rest of the social media platforms, Pinterest remains an important platform for marketing. Because of the highly visual nature of its feed, Pinterest is also positioned for higher engagement levels from its users.
By sticking to recommended dimensions, you ensure best image quality and also allow your pins to occupy maximum space on your audienceâs feed.
The bottomline here is that before posting, you should adapt all visual content according to the guidelines of each individual platform to get optimum results. Itâs the small details that matter, which can set you apart from your competitors!
We at Owlspire love to create content that pops out among the sea of posts and brings best results for our clients. Contact us for expert assistance on your brandâs social media handles.
Author:Â Rwithu Menon
Pinterest is a paradise for those looking for inspiration, tips and information on any topic under the sun and also a way to keep those ideas organised. Whether it is related to your hobbies, next travel destination, or the latest trends that you are interested in, Pinterest has it all.
With over 442 million monthly active users, it is time to embrace this visual social media platform if thatâs where your brandâs target audience spends most of their time.
By providing relevant information on a single pin, you are effectively cutting down the time for conversions considerably compared to those from other social media handles. Owing to the highly visual nature of its feed, Pinterest is also positioned for higher engagement levels from its users.
Like any platform, it helps if you have a checklist to get you through the basic setup of your business account that is optimised for maximum results, be it to increase sales or traffic to your website. Letâs get started!
A Pin is any image content that is saved by you, as a bookmark. You are also saving a short description of what it is all about and additionally, a website link where you can find more information about the Pin content.
As a brand, the Pins you create must be designed with your clientsâ needs in mind. What are the products that you sell? How can your services help your customers? Can you offer some information that your audience can save for later?
Pins can be grouped into various boards on your Pinterest profile, based on your intent. For instance, you can create a board named âBedroom Goalsâ to save decor inspirations for bedroom renovations. If you sell home decor products, this is a great place to give ideas to potential customers on how to use your products!
Or if you are a travel agency, you may create a âTravel Bucket Listâ to list all the holiday packages that you offer.
The first step is to create a business profile for your brand by heading over to Pinterest for Business. If you already have a personal profile, you may upgrade the same instead. A business profile is essential for accessing all the analytics about the performance of your profile, your Pins and the traffic that you drive to your website.
Once thatâs done, be sure to keep these useful points in mind throughout your brandâs pinning journey!
Make your brandâs profile easily recognizable through consistent descriptions and branding across all of your other social media handles.
Be sure to include appropriate industry keywords wherever possible to come up in relevant search results. For example, if your brand sells unique, handmade, artisanal chocolates, the profile bio (160 characters) should reflect the same.
Include a clear call to action that leads pinners to your website, your shop or whichever destination is relevant to your marketing efforts. Do you wish them to download a free pdf on your website? Drop that link in your Pin descriptions or profile bio!
People often save images or blog posts from external websites to their own Pinterest boards. Similarly, to enable your brandâs website visitors to save Pins, itâs important to add âPin Itâ buttons using widgets available for your platform. This lets the reader save any image from your page to their boards.
While you are editing your profile, check out the claim feature that lets you claim your website, social media handles, shop etc.
Doing so gives you access to analytics for the Pins created from your claimed pages. These Pins will also be automatically marked as belonging to your brand so that the pinner can identify where to get more such Pins!
Make an initial list of boards that you want to focus on. Suppose your brand produces wines. On your first board, you could add listings for your wines and all wine-related information that your audience would be interested in. On another board, you could save cheese pairings that go well with your wines!
For each board, add a clear description (500 characters) that explains what it is all about and what a pinner can expect by following it. Through clear CTAs, encourage them to save Pins to their personal boards or lead them to your website for more information.
Create multiple boards that cater to different segments of your customers because not all of them may be interested in every one of your products or services. For example, a vegan pinner might follow a food brandâs vegan recipes board but not the meat recipes board.
You can further organise Pins to different sections within a board if thatâs your thing!
Now that you have a few boards ready, itâs time to start pinning!
An ideal Pin has a high-quality image/video with an aspect ratio of 1:1 or 2:3. A video Pin can also be in the aspect ratio 9:16. Unless you are pinning directly from an external website, it is recommended to use the 2:3 ratio (1000×1500 px) while creating your Pins to ensure maximum image quality. Not to mention, vertical Pins occupy more space on the feed.
It is highly recommended to include text on the image to explain what the Pin is about. This not only catches your audienceâs eye, it pushes them to save the Pin too. You can also try creating Pins with different variations of the text.
Each Pin should have relevant, concise descriptions (500 characters) and clear CTAs. All the more effective if you can include your brand name in the first sentence!
While creating your own Pins is important, saving Pins from other creators adds to your growing collection and also increases traffic to your Pins organically. The 70/30 rule is a good place to startâPin 70% of your content and 30% of others.
Group boards, with multiple contributors, are also a great way to increase traffic to your profile. You can search for and join group boards that are relevant to your industry. By pinning to these boards regularly, you can reach out to the boardâs followers through their feeds.
It is advised to save multiple Pins, from 5 up to 30 (or more) Pins a day! Make sure that you do not Pin excessively because Pinterest may suspend your account.
You can also keep your old Pins active by re-pinning them to your other boards after a considerable gap (5 to 7 days) to ensure more traffic or saves.
If you have variations of the same Pin, for example, multiple Pins leading to the same blog post, make sure you space it out so that Pinterest considers each Pin a fresh one and gives them enough importance.
Your brandâs ultimate goal should be to serve your audienceâs needs by curating a board that has a wide variety of useful Pins, both yours as well as other creatorsâ. Doing so helps you establish yourself as an authority in your industry. Pinners will then flock to your brand for credible information! Keep in mind that the other Pins compliment your brand and do not compete directly with what you do.
Thatâs it! You are now ready to embark on your brandâs Pinterest journey. If you need any assistance on any aspect of your brandâs digital media marketing journey, Team Owlspire is just a hoot, skip and a jump away! Contact us at hoot@owlspire.com to activate your brand online.
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