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Instagram Auto Post: Planoly

June 1, 2018 By Joni Kinney 1 Comment

I love Instagram and my new favorite tool, Planoly! There are some visually stunning posts on Instagram and if you are into the Instagram Grid you will find some amazing creativity. With that said, I am always forgetting to actually post on Instagram. If you are stuck on what to post on Instagram, check out our article on types of photos to post.

Let’s face it as someone who is trying to increase their social media awareness you can’t afford to forget to post on one of the social media channels you are trying to build. I am a planner and like to spend a few hours at the beginning of the week creating all my graphics and posts across all of my social media channels. My one missing piece was a way to auto post on Instagram. So I was super excited to find Planoly which will auto post for you!

Insert my new best friend: Planoly!

This amazing little tool of creative goodness let’s you set your images to auto post on Instagram! This is a game changer for those who like to plan ahead and set up their social media posts.

Some great Features include:

Visual Organization: You can see how your posts look together and create a cohesive brand awareness by seeing how your images work together before they actually post.
Pre Write your Posts: Yay! I love being able to plan out what I want to say. This is especially helpful if you are using an challenge or prompts to create your posts.
Analytics: You are going to want to at a minimum check out to see how your posts are doing and see which ones are getting you the most bang for your buck. Therefore creating more posts like the ones that do well and minimizing the ones that don’t.

Let me know what you think of Planoly by commenting on this article!

Direct Sales: What types of Instagram Photos should I post?

May 23, 2018 By Joni Kinney Leave a Comment

Instagram is an amazing tool you can use to express your personality for both personal and business. However many people wonder what are the best Instagram photos to post? Here are some different types of instagram photos that will allow you to help maximize your engagement and interaction.

Instagram Photos with Quotes

The first type of photo you will often see is something with a fun quote. These quotes are often motivational and inspirational. They can be so fun to read what others think people need to see. Keep these types of posts short!

Current Events

By being responsible and posting to relevant current event hashtags will pull people to you. If you combine this with good hashtags, great content and useful ideas/perspectives on things happening around us right now will help boost your posts. Make sure you are not taking advantage of social situations or current events though as that would do the opposite of what you are trying to accomplish.

Organizational Photos

There is something to be said about a well lit, fun photo of objects. This is another great way to help push forward your brand awareness. Read more about how to brand yourself if you don’t already have a personal brand established.

Seasonal Photos

There is just something fun about Christmas Lights, BBQ photos, Valentines hearts and fun loving photos around holidays that make people happy. Your audience should want to get to know you and what your family is doing. That doesn’t mean you have to always share overly personal things, but giving your audience a glimpse into your life makes you relatable. That makes people want to get to know you, and to ultimately follow you on social media.

Selfies

Look to take selfies in unique places to provide fun backgrounds. I’ve recently taken some selfies in hardware stores, craft stores, and randomly along the road. Try to mix in your unique personality with your selfies and show your audience a variety of things and unique color blends to stand out.

With all those ideas the number one characteristic of amazing content that will attract new people to your photo is the ability of your audience to relate to the photo. If you are being authentic, sharing good content, fun ideas and being genuine people are sure to find you.

Great photos and an awesome hashtag strategy are sure fire ways to get you more followers on Instagram. If you want additional tips on how to rock out Instagram I suggest you check out the Suite Success with Instagram video course! This course will help you set up your profile, content and hashtag strategy!

5 Apps to use for your Direct Sales business

February 16, 2018 By Joni Kinney Leave a Comment

There are so may apps to choose from and so many that I found useless when I was first starting out. I found myself getting so discouraged and I don’t want you to struggle like I did. So I am going to give you a list of my favorite 5 apps to use for your Direct Sales business.

1. WordSwag

The first of the apps to use for your direct sales business for me is WordSwag. This app is used to create graphics. Since I work a full time job, I need something that I can easily use on the go. The interface is easy to use and provides me a variety of fonts that can be added to pictures. I can grab pictures from my camera roll to customize or use a preset background image available on the app. I love that I can add my watermark to my photos as well. It’s a MUST have!

2. YouCamMakeup

My second favorite of the apps to use for your direct sales is YouCamMakeup. Since I am always taking selfies to post online for my business page, Instagram or my Facebook group page this is a much utilized app. I love the different settings and you can make yourself look awesome without having super expensive equipment or completely distorting your image.

3. Tailwind

Another highly desirable app that I recently discovered is Tailwind. You can use this to schedule Pinterest posts as well as Instagram posts. This makes life so much easier and I can schedule them ahead of time and then just post them at the right times. This is a paid app, but I think it’s so worth the cost.

4. Snapseed

I am in the clothing business for Direct Sales and having an app that I can quickly use to edit my photos, balance the white and make sure the colors are pulling through correct is a necessity. There is so much you can do with this app for editing pictures and it’s FREE!

5. Ripl

Ripl is another favorite of the apps to use for your direct sales business, and one I use often to create little animated videos to post. This comes in handy for Instagram and my Facebook business and group pages. There are a lot of quick animation templates to use and many of them are FREE. You have the option to upgrade but I haven’t found that necessary.

What is your favorite app to use?

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