Don’t be eye candy, be soul food

Do you feel these vibes of love? They’re coming from every side, and pretty soon you’ll get lost in tons of heart-shaped cards, candies, and beautiful flower arrangement. The love words will turn your newsfeed into the endless sugar song warmed up with pink and red heart emojis. Valentine’s Day is coming.

So if you want to show your audience how much you love them, it’s the right time. Cupid’s bow isn’t a must, all you need is content made with love. Show them how their well-being is important. Show them that Valentine’s Day is not just for couples. Show them the importance of being blissful.

As the saying goes, “Don’t be eye candy, be soul food.”

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Repost on Instagram: How to use it for business? Simple advices

Content creation is probably the most important part of social media activity for all people who want to grow their brand through these platforms. People who work with Instagram now how tough it could be to generate qualitative content that all your subscribers will enjoy. And, marketers often face one huge problem – they don`t have prepared content for posting. They need a fresh post for tomorrow, and they know that they don`t have time to prepare it. But what if we tell you that there is an escape plan here? It`s called reposted content. People often forget about it because it`s less popular on Instagram than on other platforms like Twitter or Facebook. However, we know that if you will regularly repost someone`s content to your timeline, it will help you to stay alive and get the same engagement as it was from your original content.

First of all, you should orientate in the sphere that you are working in. With it, you are able to understand what content should appear in your timeline and which one should not be posted.

When you choose an image for a repost, you should realize how your audience will react on it. If it is an informational post or a list of advices for businesspersons like you, it should appear in your timeline. People are always looking for new knowledge from their sphere to become better, so such content is required.

Don`t forget to give a credit

You must learn this point, because it`s important in every sphere where you need to work with images, especially on Instagram. When people make reposts, they usually match the picture`s owner in description or tag him on the photo. Why is it important? First of all, you show user that you are working with his content, so there will be no problems with copyright. Second of all, you show your subscribers that you work with tested people who also achieved success in this sphere (if they weren`t so popular, you wouldn`t have worked with them).

Create a hashtag for this type of content

Sometimes, it could be hard to find the right content for reposting and getting engagement from the reposted content. To make this process, easier, you should use the power of hashtags. inspire your users, customers and community to post about your business on Instagram by creating a branded hashtag. In fact, you are giving people an opportunity to show their own opinion about your brand and then, you pick the best posts with your hashtag(s) and repost to your page.

When new users visit your page, they see how people react on your brand and what they think about it and, as a result, they can decide whether to follow you or not.

Get permission to repost on Instagram

If you decide to repost someone`s image to your page, you need to get permission first. Some people don`t want to see their posts on other users` pages, so they refuse to pick their images. Make sure that you ask for permission first to avoid any rises later.

Some brands enjoy when you repost their content, so they create special hashtags for such situations. You repost images and add a hashtag to the description, so marketers are able to see how many people saw this current post and how many new followers they could get.

Curate and plan repost on your profile

Of course, reposted content could be mixed with your own, but you also need to have a best post planner. If you will make reposts at any time you want, you can break down your posting calendar, and that`s not what you need. Make sure that all reposted images will be added according to the plan.

Conclusion

Reposting on Instagram can give you a huge advantage against your competitors – you just need to use it right. Get permission, give credit, use hashtags and include reposted content to your schedule. Then just start working, and the result will come!

Unusual mental health tips for social media managers. Try them now!

Every social media manager could agree that his job is not easy. You need to spend hours in the social media chatting with other managers, marking new tasks for your team and your brand, post new content and keep an eye on trends. Of course, if you are getting busy at least six days per week, you can go crazy after a few months of work. You could hurt your mental health or become angry in a flash. You need something to calm yourself and return to usual working schedule. How can you do it? Easy – just read this article and you will learn great mental health tips for social media managers. Let`s go!

1. Find time for a daily meditation

Sitting in front of the computer for at least five hours per day isn`t good for you. you need to distract for at least ten minutes and relax. The best way to relax for social media manager is to meditate. If possible, go to another room, take comfortable pose and forget about work for at least ten minutes. Think about yourself, your family, your future vacation. Don`t let anyone interrupt you!

2. Control your social media feeds

You may not know this, but social media feed could play a huge role in your everyday work. For example, if you were scrolling the news feed in order to find something important and found something that you like, you may have a bad mood for the rest of the day. You don`t need to work with a bad mood. Never. You can add wrong post or write wrong information in a post`s description. You don`t need such problems, so you should filter your feed on every platform.

Unfollow every account that don`t make you feel good. If you don`t like the content they post or you don`t like their design, stop following them. Of course, if it`s your friend and you don`t want to unfollow him, you can mute his account, so you won`t see his posts.

Follow only those profiles that generate positive content that makes you feel good. Sometimes your work can bring you negative emotions, so you need to go through it, and the best way to do it in the social media is to look on “positive” posts.

3. Monitor your screen time and set limits for each platform

The fact that you must work with the social media every day doesn`t mean that you must spend the whole day there. An average person spends at least 2 hours liking, commenting and sharing in the social media. Of course, social media managers should spend more than 2 hours per day for work, but if it starts to heart their mental health, they need to do something with it.

First of all, you can set time limits on your phone. When the time will come, phone will notify you about it, and you will be able to close an application right on time.

4. Set self-care goals

If you feel yourself stressful, it`s time to take care of yourself. You can spend the whole day working in front of the screen and forget to do simple, but important things (drinking water, eating, sleeping at least 7 hours). When you see that you start to forget about such things, it`s time to set yourself self-care goals.

This mental health tip won`t prevent you from doing your social media manager`s job. You can use notifications in your smartphone, but don`t forget to turn on the sound. You won`t forget to drink at least 1,5 liters of water per day, eat your dinner on time, take at least 10 minutes for daily meditation and finish your workday before midnight.

5. Take a break from social media

Sometimes social media could become a drug for people. Every day, when they wake up, they stretch a hand to pick up a phone, open Instagram, Twitter or any other app and start to scroll down the news feed. If you see that the same thing happens to you, it`s time to take a break.

Finish your posting schedule and ask someone from your team to help you. Make a small vacation for your mental health. Remember that you are a human, too. With your position in a company, you have a twice more work to do than other workers have. Relax, forget about posting, reposting, liking, measuring, scheduling and other things that appear during the day.

6. Listen some mental health podcasts

Don`t think that you are the first person who faced mental health problems. People analyzed their condition and find something that helped them and could possibly help other people. So, they created special podcasts that could help people to solve their problems. We recommend you to listen these podcasts:

• Holding space with Dr. Cassidy Freitas. A mental health therapy about struggle and joy, people`s experience and human`s connection.
• Jen Gotch is Okay…Sometimes. A mental health podcast that from the founder of Ban.do, chronicling her journey with bipolar and anxiety in an open, honest and sometimes humorous way.
• Selfie. A self-care podcast hosted by a lifestyle blogger, which explores themes like getting enough time for sleep, healthy nutrition, body, mind and balance spirit.

Conclusion

As you see, it`s not so hard to take care of your mental health if you know what to do. If you feel yourself bad or something is getting wrong, use our recommendations. We tested them for a few times and our team said that the result was incredible.

How to use Instagram for social media customer service? Simple tips

Today, every successful brand has its own profile in the social media. They use it to advertise products, sell it, connect with customers and perform other actions that they can do only in the social media. In easy words, they use Instagram as social media customer service, so when customer opens your profile, he can find everything he needs.

However, creating a profile with your brand`s name is not enough. You need to know some specific tips that will help you to use Instagram profile as social media customer service. Get ready, because here we will show you such tips.

1. Switch to an Instagram business profile

When you open any brand`s profile on Instagram, you can see a specific mark in their bio (words like “brand”, “clothing shop” or something else). If you see one of these phrases in profile`s bio, it means that this profile is switched from usual Instagram`s account to a business profile.

If you will be working with a business profile, you will be able to promote your posts to other users and have access to Instagram Insights. You can add contact information like email address or phone number, so people will be able to get in touch with you.

2. Use the right tool for the job

If you spend most part of the time working with the social media, it doesn`t mean that you don`t need any extra tools. We highly recommend you to use “Search&Repost” tool from Late service. Our team has tested it, and it showed us good results. You are able to manage comments on your Instagram posts, so you won`t miss any comment that will come from other user(s).

If you afraid that you could miss comments from older posts, don`t worry – every comment will go through “Search&Repost”, so you won`t miss anything.

3. Connect your Instagram DMs to Facebook

This current tip is important only if you are working with both platforms: Facebook and Instagram. You can consolidate your messages by sending your Instagram DMs to your Facebook Messenger Inbox.

If you`re managing your Instagram comments and direct messages from your desktop, it will be good for you to create a list of pre-written answers to some of the more common questions that come your way. However, don`t copy and paste your replies every time you need to answer. Change your answers, orientate on customers and, of course, address the customer by name.

By using Instagram as social media customer service, you create personal connection with your audience. However, you must be sure that they are interested in what you are doing.

4. Speak your customer`s language

Customers hate when marketers and brand owners are talking chatting with them like robots. They use similar phrases, and none of these phrases show their real emotions. If you want to be in a good relationship with the customers, you should speak their language. If they use emojis and smiles in their comments, you should do the same. If they are writing short phrases like “Great!” or “Thank you!”, you should use the same phrases in your answers.

Of course, if you have a huge audience and every post has thousands of comments, you shouldn`t respond to every comment. Answer to the longest comments, and put likes to others that are repeating. Your task here is to show that you are not skipping people`s comments and they are really important for you.

5. Move conversations to a private channel

Like Twitter, Instagram gives you an opportunity to send direct messages to other users. If people want to contact you, they need to send you a message, and you will reply to it. However, in some cases you will need to move your conversation to a private channel. There are three main reasons for this:

• When you need to protect customer`s private information
• When you need more words to solve an issue
• When it`s a unique problem of circumstance

Of course, you should always analyze the situation and decide whether you need to use your private channel or not.

Conclusion

With these small, but workable tips, your Instagram profile will turn into a real social media customer service. Just follow them, and you will see positive changes in a few days.