I joined Instagram in January this year and I am increasing getting addicted, I LOVE IT! It’s such a lovely community and a great way to share your work, behind the scenes action and reach a wider audience.
Folksy and the lovely Viktorija from And Smile have created some great Instagram tips, have you read it?
My Instagram is a bit confused I think! I set it up as Dottie Designs but it has become far more me, my life, my Slimming World journey with the occasional crafty thing! http://instagram.com/dottiedesigns Feel free not to follow if you don’t want to see random food photos lol!
I have been on IG for quite a while and have built up quite a large following which generate lots of sales both direct and to my Folksy shop. Must work on my own hashtag now.
I love it, it is addictive if your nosey but there is such a community feel to it. Give it a go.
Have been inspired by the folksy blog posts (always was a late adopter), so am following all now. Not really worth looking at mine yet…so far only a moody pic of MrHbyH (which he’ll probably be cross about if I don’t remove).
Not sure I understand the use of hash tags though (oh, I know they’ve been around for ages, but like I said, I’m a very late adopter!). Can anyone explain them to me…simply!?
Not an expert, but on IG you can search for things via hashtags. The search section is the second icon along the bottom on IG page (does that help).
I really need to get #handcraftedlove going as my hash tag. Some customers have already used it for me and if I search #handcraftedlove photos of my creations come up (plus other junk tho).
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I’ve just been researching a bit to try and understand how Instagram works. I read this article which talks about the licensing implications of the images you share and wondered if anyone had any thoughts on it.
