What are Instagram hashtags? And why is it important to start using hashtags in your instagram post.
Today I want to show you 5 ways to use Instagram hashtags to grow your business with Instagram.
Hashtags have become part of our marketing stagetry from helping with organizing and categorize our content to having our brand become discovered by other people on Instagram.
Lets face it we love adding hashtags for the possiblilty of finding new targeted followers or customers who will enjoy our content or become a future customer an build a long term relationships with over time.
So what exactly is an Instagram hashtag let me answers this in a simple form. Its just an word or phrase with an pound sign (#) in front of it, which is comprised of numbers and/or letters, that is used to categorize and also discover content around a certain topic on Instagram.
Now that we know what a Instagram hashtag is lets get to the juice part getting more targeted followers.
So how do you use hashtags to Grow your Business and attract new targeted followers to your profile to get even more likes, comments and engagements on your post.
1. Monitor your competition – One way to use hashtags to find out what is working for your competition. Monitoring and learning what the influeners and leaders are doing can give you data on what content is working well to increase engagement.
2. Using Communities hashtags – Community hashtags are hashtags that like minded people use on a certain subject like #married #healtheating etc…
3. Creating Branded Hashtags- A branded hashtag is a unique hashtag to your business that allow followers to search for just your brand content. This is an excellence strategy to help your audience get to know your brand. Here is an example of an hashtag I created so followers can see all of my content on Instagram #askanthonyjohnson
4. Research which hashtags your target audience is using So how do you find these people, one way is to look at your competition its most-likely they are already targeting your ideal audience. Once you found a few start using the hashtags that they are using in their post.
5. Use Suggested hashtags Finder
Tailwind Hashtag Finder suggests Instagram hashtags as you are writing your post. With the Smart Schedule Tailwind also harnesses the power of intelligent recommendations to guide you to post when your followers are most engaged on your Instagram account.
The Hashtag Lists feature also allows you to save a list of your favorite hashtags to use later so you dont have to keep remembering the best hashtags for certain post.
Learning how to grow your instagram followers can be a task but having a instagram hashtag strategy can really boost your engagement, and followers. Take these 5 tips and start growing your followers. And alwasys remember to use hashtags that are relevant to your post or our brand and spend a few mins a day engaging with your audience to build a relationship with them this will take so much more farther.
Hope you like this post if you thought it was helpful make sure to drop a comment and if you have a great idea to gain more followers leave it in the comment section happy hashtaging!
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