Topic: Social Media

How to Write Captions for Carousel Posts

How to Write Captions for Carousel Posts

For a long time I treated the caption as the thing I typed after the real work was done. The slides...

Best Caption Ideas for Product Launches and Promotions

Best Caption Ideas for Product Launches and Promotions

I’ve written the launch caption nobody read, and I’ve written the one that emptied a stockroom by lu...

How to Add Keywords to Social Media Captions Naturally

How to Add Keywords to Social Media Captions Naturally

For most of last year I had a bad habit. I would write a caption, drop close to thirty hashtags unde...

How to Add Keywords to Your LinkedIn Profile Naturally

How to Add Keywords to Your LinkedIn Profile Naturally

I spent ten weeks last spring treating my LinkedIn profile like a lab experiment. LinkedIn refreshes...

How to Balance Educational, Promotional, and Engagement Posts

How to Balance Educational, Promotional, and Engagement Posts

For most of 2023 I ran the Instagram and LinkedIn accounts for a nine-person software company, and b...

How to Create Platform-Specific Posts From One Original Idea

How to Create Platform-Specific Posts From One Original Idea

For about eight months I ran four accounts the lazy way. I wrote one caption, copied it, and pasted...

How to Rewrite a Generic AI Caption in Your Brand Voice

How to Rewrite a Generic AI Caption in Your Brand Voice

Last month I dropped a photo of a hand-thrown ceramic mug into a popular AI caption tool and asked f...

How to Write a Bio That Clearly Explains What You Do

How to Write a Bio That Clearly Explains What You Do

A few years ago I sat in on a round of introductions at a workshop where twenty people read their ow...

The Ultimate Guide to Using Hashtags Effectively

The Ultimate Guide to Using Hashtags Effectively

I have been putting hashtags on posts since the era when thirty of them stacked under an Instagram c...

Why Your Username Matters For Personal Branding

Why Your Username Matters For Personal Branding

The first username I ever picked took me about ten seconds to choose, and it cost me years. It had a...

How AI Bio Generators Help Improve Your Profile

How AI Bio Generators Help Improve Your Profile

My old LinkedIn headline said Marketing Professional, Passionate about Growth. It sat there for thre...

The Perfect Bio Formula for Creators and Businesses

The Perfect Bio Formula for Creators and Businesses

The first thing I ever wrote that got tested by strangers was not an article or a landing page. It w...

How to Create Captions That Match Your Brand Voice

How to Create Captions That Match Your Brand Voice

I have written, rewritten, and quietly deleted more captions than I can count. The problem finally c...

How to Write a Creator Bio That Attracts Brand Deals

How to Write a Creator Bio That Attracts Brand Deals

I have rewritten my own bio more times than I want to admit, and I have sat with a handful of other...

Best Poll Strategies to Increase Comments and Shares

Best Poll Strategies to Increase Comments and Shares

Over the past year I ran polls across LinkedIn, Instagram Stories, X, a Facebook group I help modera...

How To Write Curiosity-Based Hooks Without Clickbait

How To Write Curiosity-Based Hooks Without Clickbait

I've been writing hooks for a living long enough to have been on both sides of this. Years ago I ran...

How to Use Hashtags on Reels, Stories, and Carousel Posts

How to Use Hashtags on Reels, Stories, and Carousel Posts

I manage Instagram for two small food brands and run a modest creator account of my own, and Decembe...

How to Create a Winning Hashtag Mix for Every Post

How to Create a Winning Hashtag Mix for Every Post

I rebuilt every hashtag set I manage in the first week of January, and not because I wanted to. Inst...

Best Call-to-Action Ideas for Your Social Media Bio

Best Call-to-Action Ideas for Your Social Media Bio

THE SHORT VERSION→  A bio CTA is the one instruction under your name that names a visitor's sin...

Instagram Search Query Optimization, the Data First Way

Instagram Search Query Optimization, the Data First Way

A small thought experiment before the charts and checklists. Sometime this week, a real person opene...