Grow Your Bookstagram Account This Year
Grow your bookish social media account with these 10 tips to gain followers on bookstagram!
1. Write a Great Bio
Your bio is the first thing people see when they click your account. Use this space to make set your page apart and show your bookish personality in an engaging way.
2. Develop a Clear “Brand”
What makes your bookstagram account stand out? Will you feature a specific genre of books? Will you focus on aesthetic posts? Reviews and recommendations? Consider using the same colors, tone of voice, type of posts to create a bookish brand personality.
3. Use Your Bookish Hashtags
Hashtags are a time tested way to reach more people and gain followers on instagram. Use your favorite bookish hashtags and research ones that are specific to your niche or your post ( i.e #romancereads #nonfiction #stmartinspress )
4. Create Your own Bookish Hashtag
Make your own hashtag, use it and encourage others to use it too! Consider making a stack challenge and tagging other bookstagrammers to do the challenge and use the hashtag. You’ll get free user-generated content as well as publicity, which can help you reach more people and get more followers.
5. Come Up with Creative Captions
Use your captions to tag people, ask questions, or start conversations. The more you can get your audience to comment the more likely they might tag their friends to join in on the discussion.
6. Love Local
Use like other social apps, local hashtags and geotagging work for Instagram. You can meet other local bookish friends and create a local audience for your content!
7. Run A Contest
A contest to celebrate your followers, a holiday or to show off a new book. Write a caption that encourages people to tag friends who might be interested in your content. You can offer an “extra entry for people to tag a friend in the comments to reach even more people!
8. Make Reels
Reels are just another way to get your content in front of your bookish audience. Be sure you post them to your feed, tag authors or friends and on-screen text and subtitles for those of us who have everything on mute!
9. Add Polls or Questions to Your Story
A poll or question is great way to interact with your audience and drive more engagement for your account. Don’t forget to share the answers to the question or the poll in future stories!
10. Promote Your Account on Other Social Media
Don’t be afraid to share your IG on your other social accounts! By adding your bookish instagram account to your TikTok profile, your Facebook or even your email you’ll reach a new audience and gain new followers.
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