Welcome to the My Deco Marketing Blog. I guess you’ve landed here looking for Instagram tips for interior designers. Are you an interior designer struggling to get growth or attract the right type of follower on Instagram? Have you been posting beautiful pictures but you still struggle to get any engagement on the channel. Do you want to know the secret of making more connections and getting business from Instagram?

6 Instagram Tips for Interior Designers

Well here’s the one thing that you can start to do today… create an ideal target audience. This means an audience filled with your perfect customer. Want to know how? Here are 6 Instagram tips for interior designers to help grow your target audience.

1. Create the Right Kind of Content

Create content related to your niche that will attract your ideal audience. Any kind of content marketing is all about knowing your audience and creating the right kind of content which will attract them to your offer. Instagram is no different. Many times when I look at designer’s feeds and whilst I see beautiful project pictures on their website portfolios, meanwhile over on Instagram I see pictures of their cats, last night’s restaurant meal, and a wonky selfie taken at a wedding.

One of the key Instagram tips for interior designers is to only create content that informs or inspires. Remember Instagram is a free opportunity to showcase your talents, achievements, and offers. If you want to sell design services through social media platforms make sure you say this in your captions. Additionally, your images need to showcase the best of what you have to offer. It’s a great opportunity to share your knowledge and position yourself as an expert in your field.

2. Follow the Right Kind of People

If you want your Instagram to focus on bringing your business follow people in your industry. The more you follow people in the interior design niche, the more your posts will show to them.

Additionally, try and make sure you only follow accounts

who you’d like to do business with either as your client or their customer
that your ideal clients would follow
if they inspire and inform you

The Instagram algorithm works like a spider web of connections between you and the accounts it thinks you should be connected with so make sure you tell it where you want to be seen.

If you’re only interacting with celebrities or your friends and family, you’re unlikely to gain any traction and visibility in the niche of the interior where you’d really like to get seen.

3. Use the Right Hashtags

Using hashtags boosts your visibility on the platform. Make sure the hashtags you use are relevant and active. An effective hashtag strategy differs depending on the account.

Using hashtags in the wrong way can result in Instagram making your posts invisible in hashtags, so research your hashtag strategy thoroughly.

There’s no one size fits all solution for hashtags. The right hashtags to use will depend on lots of different factors including your design niche, location, and your number of followers.

Head over to our Instagram services page to book an Instagram power hour and level up your hashtag strategy.

4. Welcome Your New Followers

Send a DM to your new followers. Tell them about your business and ask them about their home. Build a relationship from the start by thanking them for following you and give them a link to your website where they can find more information about your services.

5. Engage with the Right Accounts

Don’t just post and pray. Another mistake I see a lot of is people just posting pictures then anxiously waiting for the likes and comments to drop in. You also need to take some time each day to like or comment on other accounts especially if they take time to comment on yours.

I always visit the accounts that comment on my posts and like some pictures and leave a comment as a thank you – comment on one of my posts @fiona.mostyn to see. You’ll find that the more you give the more you get. As with the earlier advice stick to people in the interior design niche and like accounts similar to yours so Instagram knows where you want to be seen.

6. Choose the Right People to Help You

Need help to grow your Instagram profile?

You could spend a lifetime searching across the internet for more Instagram tips for interior designers or you could take action today to get your Instagram working effectively with a tailored program for your interiors business.

Whilst there are lots of social media managers to choose from finding one that really understands your industry can be key to your success. Not just in growing your followers but in connecting and collaborating with the people who can build your business too.

If you’re considering hiring a social media manager take a look at their Instagram profile to see if they have built an active engaged audience in the design community.

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Whether it’s full platform management or a one-to-one power hour to audit your profile and get you started on the right track. Take a look at our Instagram services page to get started with growing your Instagram today.

Finally for more tips on marketing your design business make sure you follow me @fiona.mostyn on Instagram!