Best time to post on Instagram to sell my glass pendants and pipes?

May 15, 2021 10:16 AM

I sell everything from glass blown yoshi eggs to artistic water pipes, using Instagram as my primary vehicle. I took a break for awhile and came back and am getting almost no likes or interaction even though I’m still using the same hashtags and stuff. Is there a good time of day or a good day of the week for sales posts?
posted by jitterbug perfume to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

10:00 am-3:00 pm central is usual around the best time (hitting pacific people at their desks and eastern folks at lunchtime.)

But what probably pooched your engagement the most was taking a break, that will kill you every time, unfortunately.
posted by warriorqueen at 11:24 AM on May 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

As an aside, have you looked at selling on Glass Grab? They are a marketplace for glass art and a lot of glass pipes, etc. (On Instagram, they are @glassgrabapp). The app is a central market for buyers and sellers of glass art.
posted by AugustWest at 11:29 AM on May 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

Are you engaging with your followers' posts? That will let Instagram know you're not dead.
posted by DarlingBri at 1:54 PM on May 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

Instagram has messed with the algorithm again, and posts aren’t being seen. They want you to buy ads. What I see in my feed nowadays is basically two posts and an ad, two posts and an ad. And the posts I do see are from the accounts I follow with huge numbers of followers, I never see the little accounts unless I look for them.

And then as was said above, taking a break will kill you. You have to post every single day or Instagram punishes you.
posted by MexicanYenta at 5:00 PM on May 15, 2021 [2 favorites]

Also, FWIW, my posts that do the best are the ones I post on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings. I expect the Saturday evening ones to stop working as well as things start opening up, and people return to going out on Saturday night.
posted by MexicanYenta at 5:02 PM on May 15, 2021