Are you DONE with the low engagement on Instagram? Spinning your wheels on how to increase your engagement rate and get the visibility you desire?
In this episode, I share the two HOTTEST TRENDS right now that will boost your engagement rate and kick your VISIBILITY into high gear! (It’s easier than you think!)
Snag my Instagram Reels Workshop for just $17 (lifetime access).
Jump into my Facebook Group, Social Media for Mompreneurs, for the Email list/Engagement challenge and get your hands on some templates and grow your community as well.
Full Transcription at the bottom of this blog post.
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Full Transcription:
Welcome back to a bonus episode. I am coming into your earbuds today, and I want to talk about the two hottest Instagram trends that are happening right now. As of today, as I’m sitting here in my pajamas on Wednesday morning, April 14th, the two hottest Instagram trends right now are Instagram reels and carousel posts.
Why? Well, let’s talk about why, no matter how you feel about Instagram reels, either you love them or you hate them. But right now, reels are currently getting up to 10 times more views than when it premiered. And the reason for that is as of today, there are no ad opportunities for Instagram reels. So everyone on Instagram is getting the same opportunities to get the visibility and get the engagement on reels. What also is really cool about reels is they make up a greater than 20% of the real estate on Instagram. And when I’m talking about real estate, I’m talking about how much space on your screen. Something takes up. So reels are getting their own tab and they’re dominating the explore page right now. And Instagram reels takes up more than one fifth of the space on Instagram. So guess what? When you use Instagram reels, you are not only maximizing your visibility, the possibility to get pushed to the Explorer tab, but you’re also taking up most of the screen on Instagram.
All right, let’s jump to number two. Carousel posts what’s happening right now is a lot of users. A lot of people are complaining that they are having the lowest engagement ever on their typical feed posts. And when I say typical feed posts, I’m referring to their standalone single photos in their newsfeed. But on the flip side of that, the highest engagement rates right now are not only happening for Instagram rails, but they’re also happening for carousel posts. Now, carousel posts are those posts that have multiple images within one post and the carousel posts that are performing really well right now that are getting the highest engagement rates are the how to the step-by-step tutorials. You’re teaching your audience something. So they want to learn something for you, from you on the carousel posts, they have to literally put their finger on the post and swipe left to see the next few images.
So carousel posts are getting a really high engagement rate. So what should you do if you’re someone who’s trying to get more engagement on Instagram right now, you want more engagement. You want to maximize your visibility. You should be focusing on creating reels and carousel posts. Now I’m not saying you need to do these every single day. You need to mix these in, within your weekly strategy. So maybe you want to show up with a reel, maybe one to two times a week, and maybe you want to do a carousel post, maybe one to two times a week. That doesn’t need to be hard. Now, if you’re still stuck and you’re like, Alison, I don’t know about these Instagram reels. I watch them. They annoy me. You know, the tech scares me right now. If you go to boss, lady and sweat pants had.com, I do have an Instagram reels training slash workshop.
I walk you through exactly how to create a reel. I even show you how to create reels outside of the app and how to batch them. That way you can, you know, set time aside, you create one to two reels and then you post them on Instagram. When you’re ready, I walk you through the tech. I show you exactly how to do it. I even give you content ideas to get you started with your own Instagram reels. So if you want to snack that workshop right now, it’s only $17 you guys. And when you’re in the workshop, you have lifetime access. And I’m always adding to the trainings. I just did a bonus training for Instagram or reels. I put that in there. So once you snag it for $17, you have lifetime access to that training. And we know that Instagram is always changing.
So I’m always going to be adding additional workshops or bonus trainings to that Instagram reels workshops. So you can’t beat it. $17 one-time price and you have lifetime access. Now also I have a Facebook group challenge going on right now in my group. And this is a challenge for the month, how to grow your email list and boost your Instagram engagement in guess what carousel posts is a part of that challenge right now. And I even give you a Canva template. All you have to do is pop in your information, put it on Instagram, post that sucker and get the engagement. And we’ll also be doing an Instagram reels at the end of the month. So go in the show notes, go snag the reels workshop and make sure you’re in my Facebook group. So those are the two hottest Instagram trends right now. If you want to maximize your visibility and you want to boost your engagement, start making reels and carousel posts as part of your strategy until next time.
