If you’re looking to grow your Instagram, make a fun and profitable online home for your work, and find & engage with your true audience, you’ve come to the right place.
I’m not one of those corporate ‘social media experts’, and I’m never going to encourage you to be anything except yourself. People buy from people! Your greatest assets online are quite often the very things you think that you’re supposed to try and hide.
Below you’ll find a selection of my resources to help you begin to unlearn all the BS, and start showing up in a way that’s truly easy and authentic to you.
Instagram Advice Articles
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01/20/2022"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." -- Walt Whitman A question for you, my Instagram-using friend. Do you feel like there's room [...]
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04/15/2021If you've been subscribed to my newsletters for a while, you'll know this isn't the first time I've talked about the ongoing evolution of hashtags, and their usefulness, on Instagram. Not so long [...]
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09/11/2020This post is adapted from a lesson in my Instagram class, The Insta Retreat, where I teach strategies to grow your account and your audience, while remaining authentic to yourself. Click here to read [...]
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Hashtag Authentic
The BookBoth an inspiring manual and an interactive tool, I wrote my book to give you all you need to create the images you see in your mind, and share them with the wider world on Instagram.
#TheInstaChat
The InstaChat is a monthly Twitter chat where we come together to share problems, ideas & inspiration as a 'gram-loving community.
It takes place on the last Tuesday of every month at 8pm GMT over on Twitter. It’s a chance to share tips, complaints, problems and to socialise in a different way – if you're a twitter virgin, or a little afraid of the platform, then this is the perfect way to safely dice in.
Just follow the Instachat account to get updates, see the questions and join in the fun!
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The nights draw in, the days get short. You’re spending increasing amounts of time under a blanket on the sofa, or trying to remember what your house looks like in daylight. It’s cold, it’s rainy, and it seems cruelly ironic that just when you really need the mood-boosting goodness of creativity and photography the most, there’s nothing worth instagramming in your life.
Sound familiar?
I’m going to let you in on a secret: the best time to be on Instagram is in the winter months. People are online more, which makes it easier to connect. Without the flowers and sunsets of summertime, people’s home feeds grow quieter, while we all look and hope to be uplifted. Master winter photography on Instagram, and you’ll not only make yourself feel better – you’ll take a growing community of followers along for the glittering, snow-dusted ride!
Gloom & Glow is a four-week guided tour of all the very best bits of winter photography – how to do it, how to love it, and how to use it to grow your tribe.
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One summer I grew sweet peas from seed. They shot out from the earth like fairytale beanstalks. Two foot, three – outgrowing their netting until they flopped over the fence into next door’s garden. Turns out you have to pinch out the ‘growing tip’; if you don’t reign them in, they keep on spiralling up and don’t get around to making flowers.
It’s a pretty good analogy for Instagram, I think, especially when we get our focus wrong. Sometimes we put so much energy into growth that we forget to let ourselves bloom.
This course is an antidote to that.
‘Your most engaging photo ever’
That’s your challenge during this course – to get the most likes, comments and views you’ve ever had on a post. Simply because your content deserves it – because your photos are wonderful, unique and inspiring. Because you’re in bloom, and the community is drawn to you like bees in the sun.
Oh, & nature.
Ever noticed the magic appeal of flowers on Instagram? Whether in flat-lays or as just as a small part of a wider scene, floral photography brings in clicks, comments, likes and followers.
Bloom & Growteaches you how to harness that power, and make it your own. You don’t need to be a flatlay photographer with a flowery feed; whether you’re all-white and minimal, moody and journalistic, entirely travel-based or anything else, we’ll look at ways to weave a little floral magic into your photographs.
Not that ‘flowery’ a person? No, me either, to be honest, but they’re really just a hook to get things started. The lessons I’ll be sharing extend way beyond the floral, into all areas of your Instagram photography.
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Hashtag Authentic
The PodcastEach week we dig into the different aspects of sharing creative work online and talk to the people who are making it work for themselves and their businesses. From the practical to the philosophical, Hashtag Authentic covers all areas of online creative life to dose you up on inspiration & information, and help you feel a lot less alone.
Hashtags for Instagram
Every month, I gather up a selection of winning hashtags and send them straight to your inbox, for free.
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