Week 8 part B

1. For my three posts, I used quite a few different hashtags based on the post. All of them were associated with beekeeping and I used the search feature on Instagram to confirm they were the hashtags I wanted to use. They included:

     #beekeeper #queenbee #bee #pollinators #savethebees #varroa #varroamites  #healthybee #beekeeping #beekeepinglife 

   The hashtags are very specific to the business to ensure that those interested in beekeeping could see the posts based on the tags. The goal is to ensure that I reach a little bit of a larger audience. For the posts, I don’t think that times or days released was necessarily as relevant as the posts themselves with the appropriate tags. The release times did not relate to any major event or something that was taking place in the market so I felt that the content was the most important item versus the timing of the posts. My learnings included that the content is important, my posts did not receive a lot of response so I clearly have work to do to engage other social media users to expand the value of the information. My thought is that my media probably needs to be custom video that allows users to learn or provide more meaningful content so they engage my business posts.