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Jon Glaser

6 Years Ago

Update On Automating Social Media

I have gone the full circle of using quite a few different programs to automate my SM.. These are my personal experiences with them. Most are a pain the buttocks for me to figure out and use proficiently.

Twitter: I use buffer and Hipplay. Buffer costs $10 per month but only allows 100 tweets in their queue(storage area). I use Hipplay to automatically refill that. Keeps life simple for me when tweeting. I will add a couple of new tweets every couple of weeks to keep it fresh.

Instagram: I tried a few and ended up using gram dominator. Then I stopped. The program is ok but you have to monitor it constantly and I dont really think instagram is the way to go. So, instagram sits idle now..I might come back to it, but not really interested in that platform.

Pinterest: This is my second SM marketing outlet I use. Thanks to Mathias, I took his course and I have really improved dramatically over there. I use Tailwind to automate my pinning. I have over 200 boards. My main boards are obviously photography, but also have boards on decor, travel,plants, and foods. Just to keep it varied. I started aggressively marketing in October/November and as of this morning my Landscape Photography board ranked on the 6th row when doing a search. The higher up on the board rankings,, I believe the more opportunity to get pins seen. I started also using Pinpinterest over there back in October also. I thought it was too pricey so I looked into other programs. After countless hours of searching, configuring, scheduling and reprogramming other ones, I came back to Pinpinterest. Its the easiest to use for automation. And its rather simple for repinning, which is my main objective and I believe in why I have improved rankings. Repinning other pins and people repinning those pins seems to help..IMHO.

So to sum it up,,,im only using Twitter and Pinterest at this time..Both seem to be working well for me. Pinterest never seems to be done because now im about to start using Canva to create more vertical pins.

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Dan Turner

6 Years Ago

Do you have sales you can trace back to this activity?


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

 

Jon Glaser

6 Years Ago

unfortunately no,,,but January was best month ever...

 

David Bridburg

6 Years Ago

Jon,

Is that because of Gallery or Local sales?

Or can we begin to assess that a lot of activity means some sales?

Dave

 

Jon Glaser

6 Years Ago

David, I have one local sale in a year.People from florida do not want to buy a photograph from Wyoming, Iceland or ??? They want images from florida.

i am no longer going to show at Art Basel and what not..well,,one local gallery, but thats it..all my sales were online,,

Everything is online, whether its from activity or not,i would like to think so,,I think it has to do with google searches and cross linking with that..Images coming from everywhere...

 

Lisa Kaiser

6 Years Ago

I use Facebook successfully, got two sales over the weekend, however, I need more than two sales, not for money, but for getting rid of my excess art.


Facebook is challenging because you have to sell by connecting with people. You can't just throw your beautiful images out there because on Facebook, users want to talk. The two sales I got occurred by conversation and not even about art.

 

Kevin OCONNELL

6 Years Ago

I find that with Instagram you can't change gears after you build your audience. So you need to be very specific in your profile name and description from the beginning. It would be fine if those things say your a travel photographer, but cant make the mistake of adding to many images of the same place for a long period of time, or when you change to a new place, your audience will leave or become dis-interested and not engage.

I had to delete many images from Antarctica and other places around the world in my account because of this. Once I established mostly Chicago images, that is what my audience expected to see from me. When I changed to even an image elsewhere that won international awards, my audience did not like or engage.

Once they understand you as a landscape photographer who travles to many places, they will be more interested in the images from all different places rather than expecting to see one place. Then your work will come into play instead of the location is was taken @

 

Kevin OCONNELL

6 Years Ago

For instance, I tried to integrate my street photos and did not get much of a reception because my other images are all urban scenes. Even that close of a change will drop your engagement. So I have been integrating my street images every third post now. After a month, they are starting to do well with lots of engagement. So now I can post both urban and street photos without loosing my audience.

https://www.instagram.com/chitown_storyteller/

 

Bill Swartwout

6 Years Ago

That's all well and good - as long as there is nothing in the TOS of those SM sites against automated posts. Just sayin...


 

Jon Glaser

6 Years Ago

Kevin,,thats an interesting observation..it makes sense though thinking that people clicked on our account because they were drawn to a specific genre..but you get stuck with that.

Lisa, I wish I could get sales from there..just dont have time yet or the desire because FB is full of the political crap too..

 

Jon Glaser

6 Years Ago

Bill,,of course there is..I use a proxy most of the time when on the internet...

 

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