Embracing social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok can be a game-changer for poets seeking a wider audience.
Yet, to truly maximize their reach, understanding the strategic use of hashtags is critical.
The digital landscape is filled with numerous tools, but the power of hashtags stands above the rest.
They can propel poets to wider recognition beyond their usual circle.
This article will delve deeply into this tool, shedding light on the most effective poetry hashtags that can supercharge your visibility.
With a blend of research and practical examples, we will explore how you can use these hashtags to your advantage.
Ultimately, this guide aims to equip you with practical skills to expand your digital footprint as a poet.
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You must post relevant content as well.
For example, on Instagram, if you use hashtags, you will need to make sure that whatever you publish is related to them.
This will help you build and grow your engagement as opposed to just copying and pasting irrelevant hashtags in there.
The good thing is, we have put them into groups of 30.
This makes it easy for you to come back, and copy a different group every time you are posting in the same niche or about the same topic.
Always remember that any of your posts can get featured in the top section of a certain hashtag on Instagram.
This will dramatically bust your post impressions and will increase the chances of getting more followers, likes or comments, so be prepared for that in case it happens by always posting high-quality content.
Take a look at #poetry on Instagram:
As you can see, a lot of people are using this specific hashtag every day.
You should also use it if you are in the poetry niche.
By the time we are writing this, about 24M posts are being featured in this section.
That’s a lot.
A good thing about this hashtags is that it is very searchable, meaning, that people would type it in the search bar if they wanted to find that type of content.
See how others are using hashtags in this niche:
I found that same post above by @poemsofhealing through #poetry, it was in the top section of the hashtag.
You can bet it was also on many explorer pages.
As you can see, all the hashtags are in the first comment, which is something that you should be doing as well.
They will work as if they were in the caption and will get featured in the hashtags sections.
Just make sure to post that first comment with the 30 hashtags right after you publish.
If I was the owner of that account, I would try to make others engage a little bit more with my content.
For example, ask a question or make others tag their friends.
A simple:
What do you think about this? Is it true or not? Tag somebody and don’t say anything.
… seems to be working for a lot of users.
R.M Drake has about 1.8M followers at the time of writing this article.
That’s a lot if you ask me; he deserves it.
The amount of value that he gives it’s just insane, and people can see that.
Plus he always comments a short idea on his captions that always complements the posts themselves.
You can do that too; there is an audience out there waiting to follow you; your job is to reach them.
One thing that I wanted to talk about is how you can make money with a poetry account in the future, or now, depending on how many followers you currently have and how much they trust you.
You can make a living out of it.
How?
This is how…
How to make money with a poetry account?
There are many ways in which you can make a living out of a poetry account on Instagram.
Have in mind that you will need a considerable amount of people engaging and liking what you do.
People could make money in this niche by:
1- Selling a book
We have seen it all the time.
Aside from the poetry that you post on social media, or Instagram, you can create a book and sell it to your followers.
If you are good at what you do, and everything is a result of your intellectual property, then you could make a serious living out of it.
Imagine just having 100k followers and having a 2% conversion rate on a 10$ book.
That’s 2000 people buying and giving you a revenue of $20,000 (100,000/2%=2000 x $10=$20,000).
I think you can see the potential of doing this.
It won’t be easy, we’re not saying that, but it’s definitely possible if you do it the right way.
In order to make a physical book, there is usually a lot going on.
So, a good way to go around this is to make it an “e-book”.
You could create it in a .pdf file, and sell it that way through Shopify, or any other online shopping platform.
Just always make it clear that it will be an e-book in a .pdf file, so people don’t expect a hard copy.
2- Promoting something through affiliate marketing
If you don’t want to be creating a book and having to deal with all the work behind that, then promote somebody else’s book.
There are many platforms to do that, for example, Amazon.
By using their affiliate program, you could make a commission every time somebody buys a product using one specific link that they give you.
The amount of money that you will male might be less compared to selling your own content, but something is better than nothing.
You could promote books or anything that you think your audience will want.
3- Working with big brands to promote their services
The classic Paid Partnership/Advertisement.
If you get to a point where you can reach thousands or millions of people through your poetry, then you are valuable to advertisers.
They want your audience, and this is where you could start getting some good deals every now and then.
I said “every now and then” because you don’t want to base your entire career or page in just making money through this, people don’t like it when all you post is ads.
As a rule of thumb, always make sure to give more value than the one you take.
4- Driving traffic to a blog or website
This is one of our favorite.
You can start driving traffic to your website, in where you should have even more valuable content for your followers.
Maybe get an email list and then you can do #1 and #2 all over again?
The possibilities are endless.
You can even apply later on to have ads on your site.
I mean…
You can do anything, really.
But again, just make sure to always be on track and give people what they want, valuable poetry and content in general.
Don’t make the business part be so important that you forget why people follow you in the first place.
5- Creating a YouTube channel
With a YouTube channel, you can make money through ads, and pretty much all the previous points that we mentioned.
Maybe talk about your poetry and how you come up with ideas?
Teach others how to write good poetry, and share some tips about it.
These are just video ideas that I’m sure a lot of people might be interested in watching.
I would watch it, to be honest.
But what’s important is that if you already have a following on Instagram.
Then it is just about time to get them to be your YouTube subscribers, just let them know, and do a little bit of marketing through your Instagram stories, etc.
Very important, and we really want to say it as many times as possible…
Make it about your poetry and not about the money.
It’s extremely important that you do this if you really want your followers to perceive your content as something valuable.
