Week 8 Part B: Your Instagram Hashtag Use

For this week, I had to play a bit of catch-up but I was able to post on the days that I wanted to-the middle of the week. I wanted to keep my posting to the middle of the week because I did not want to post on weekend days when more people would be out and about enjoying their time off work and school; I also want to restrict myself from working on/posting on the weekend to keep myself off social media more on these days. Tuesday around 4pm seemed to be the most effective post so far; I reached more accounts and was able to get more likes than the other 2 from the following days at later times. Hashtags that I used were specific to my business all relating to art and I'm refraining from using print hashtags because I will not be offering prints at this time. I am using big hashtags such as digital art, art, procreate. I'm also using smaller hashtags for artists, genres, and studies like mapcrunch/mapcrunchstudy, creepycute, ghoulcrush, sketchprocess, and various artist support hashtags; In my experience, using these smaller hashtags with under 100k posts helps reach more people because there are less people posting and competing for people's attention to their posts. I found most of these hashtags from other smaller artists I follow and from typing in similar hashtags to find the less posted versions of it; for sketchprocess I started by typing in sketch and scrolling through other suggested hashtags and chose to use that one because it had 13.3k posts as opposed to sketch which has 139M posts in it.

This exercise has shown me that it is more beneficial to post earlier in the day and to utilize the facebook sharing feature to help keep up with multiple accounts. I think that using the facebook and other social media sharing feature is a great way to keep content updating on multiple platforms while still being able to pick and chose what will appear on both(or more) platforms.