Topic: Social Media

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...

Social Media Post Ideas That Drive Comments and Shares

Social Media Post Ideas That Drive Comments and Shares

I want to be upfront about how this article came together. I planned to spend one afternoon on it. I...

Common Hashtag Mistakes That Limit Your Visibility

Common Hashtag Mistakes That Limit Your Visibility

Before I typed a single word of this article, I gave myself one rule: no recycled advice. Every clai...

How to Write a Social Media Bio That Attracts Followers

How to Write a Social Media Bio That Attracts Followers

Most bios are quietly leaking followers.I have spent the last four months rewriting bios. Not just m...

How to Create Shareable Social Media Posts People Send to Friends

How to Create Shareable Social Media Posts People Send to Friends

Last month, one of my posts did something strange. It picked up 214 likes, which was normal for the...

How to Find Five Relevant Hashtags for Any Instagram Post

How to Find Five Relevant Hashtags for Any Instagram Post

I have a confession. For about four years, I kept one block of thirty hashtags in my Notes app and p...

AI Content Quality Control: What to Check Before You Publish

AI Content Quality Control: What to Check Before You Publish

I asked three different AI tools to write an Instagram bio and a hashtag set for a small ceramics st...

How to Generate Username Variations Without Adding Random Numbers

How to Generate Username Variations Without Adding Random Numbers

A few years ago I sat with a friend at her kitchen table while she set up an account for her ceramic...

How to Make Your Instagram Posts Show Up in Google Search

How to Make Your Instagram Posts Show Up in Google Search

Here is the thing nobody told you properly. If you run a business or creator account, and you are ov...

How to Create Polls That People Actually Answer

How to Create Polls That People Actually Answer

You spent twenty minutes crafting the perfect poll, hit send with real optimism, and then… crickets....

How to Repurpose One Idea Into Reels, Captions, Posts and Polls

How to Repurpose One Idea Into Reels, Captions, Posts and Polls

Here's the uncomfortable truth most creators discover around month three: the hardest part of showin...

How to Write a Better Bio Prompt for AI Tools

How to Write a Better Bio Prompt for AI Tools

There is a specific kind of letdown in typing “write me a bio” into an AI tool and getting back thre...