 What's up everybody once again is praying man Sean and I got seven engagement tips for you to use on Instagram. You probably haven't heard all of these tips before so go ahead and listen up. I'm gonna go ahead and hop into it. Number one, using these stories like Twitter. Now what I mean by that exactly? Well think about the fact that Instagram has now made it easy to share a post that you see that you like on your story. So now it's essentially retweeting if you actually see a post that you like and you say hey I want to share this post instead of sending it to somebody I'm just going to share it on my story. That's one of the easiest things to keep your engagement up and post frequently on your stories and why is that so great? Well the stories are not only a lot better than the Instagram feed which we all know has died off over the last you know two years. But Instagram is still encouraging people to post in their stories and utilize their stories so you get incentivized to keep posting stories because you'll stay in people's top of mind by moving to the front of their story feeds. Use your story like Twitter it's so easy to just type a status or a thought it's so easy to repost things it keeps you from having to create a lot of original content. Now number two ask a question this is either in your stories or your post of course in your stories you can literally just ask a question you can also post some sort of poll but again you can do this in a regular post a lot of people are familiar with this. But there's a second part to it that a lot of people don't necessarily utilize and that's if there's something interesting that people say in response share that because one by asking questions is going to increase your engagement that's a great part about it but when you share it you get another post which also increases engagement but better than that you're basically employing your followers to create free content for you. If I ask followers a question and then I get 50 answers to that question and I find something interesting that the other followers would like to see I repost that and then I get more engagement off of that again and maybe even more engagement on that than I got on my original post it's a win win for everybody you gave somebody a good look. The Instagram got the likes and the you know algorithm pushes that they like to see and you got benefits from both sides whoever's following you probably likes the fact that you showcase them your other followers appreciate good content and then Instagram gives you a pat on the back for continuing to be engaged on their platform and having good engagement with them. Number three note to emojis yes to words what do I mean by that well a lot of people are familiar with the fact that the more you talk in the comments the more engagement in your comments the better the algorithm works right I kind of just went over that and one hack people start to get on to is hey well if I respond to 10 comments then I'll have 20 comments and that's going to work for my algorithm but a lot of people start to get lazy and instead of responding genuinely authentically with real words and things of that nature instead they just do you know a peace sign a fist and that's cool when it's genuine and you just want to do it but if you're doing it just because you think you're going to get boosted engagement and you're responding to 10 comments only with some basic emojis Instagram is not going to reward you for that from the research that I've seen you should be typing and responding with at least four words and then you'll get those little benefits and of course the more details you respond with you know when it's longer there might be some benefit to that as well but that's besides the point in this video number four if you promote too much it may kill your engagement so while a lot of things are encouraging your engagement doing things that I talked about so those things bring you more engagement this one is talking about something that you can do that actually will hurt your engagement in some weird way so think about this if your Instagram and somebody on your platform starts to pay for all of their posts to be promoted why would you allow them to get as much organic reach as they can you might just say hey you know what I'm gonna make them pay for all of their posts and that's kind of what is being said that Instagram is doing if you're boosting every single post that you do Instagram obviously is going to just say hey man just let them pay we don't want to show it to anybody but there's still I don't know the exact formula but there's still a certain amount of promotion and certain amount of your post where it could stand to hurt some of your organic reach not because the content isn't good just because you know why give them something free that they want to pay for number five use Instagram live if you were doing Instagram lives and good engagement on it it's going to help you with the algorithm number six now this is a bit of a revival tactic now a lot of people find that at some point they get less engagement than they typically have and there's this weird thing and there's actually multiple reasons where at some point Instagram might not be revealing as much of your content to as much of your following and actually in some cases is not necessarily Instagram trying to work against you it's actually just them trying to benefit people by showing them more of what they like and things can just get lost in the algorithm but either way it goes a good way to solve this it's simple it's manual but go through one of your photos that people liked or go to one of your videos that people liked you know a lot of them one of your more popular ones and then go back through them like those people's post engage with those people somehow maybe comment on their stuff actually look through their stuff authentically and dim them engage with those people reach out to them because a lot of times it might not be that this person decided that they don't like your stuff is just that they kind of forgot about you because they haven't seen you in a while because for whatever reason Instagram has not been showing your content to them again that's just a revival tactic and some people's accounts need to be brought from the dead and number seven do some sort of followers shout outs or acknowledgment at some point maybe you came across somebody who has a dope album or they use one of your products and you see that they got results from that product post them on your profile and shout about somehow it's something that people appreciate not only does it have benefits from a branding standpoint but again back to this video's purpose engagement it does help with engagement you engage and then it brings other types of engagement when people see that you're engaging with people that are following you even if it's not them they can appreciate you acknowledging people that are following you and that's it for now so if you have any kind of additional tips go ahead and add them in you know the comments that's always helpful and other than that though if you like this video go ahead and like button if you like you might as well share it and if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe