According to statsbrew, Instagram has 1393 million monthly active users in 2022. Instagram is a truly powerful social media platform for Etsy sellers. It is a focal point of building a huge audience and selling your shop’s products. When it is used properly, it may make a huge difference in the success of your Etsy shop.
However, you need to know the best way to write Instagram captions that engage your readers and get them to like or share your post. If your captions are flat, worse, or boring, they will not read them and take action as you want them to.
So today, I’m going to talk to you about how to write Instagram captions that will help you increase your Instagram sales for your Etsy products.
As Instagram is a visual platform, it’s easy to say that pictures are the most important that you post. It’s true that having attractive images makes people stop scrolling.
But if you don’t have a fascinating caption below that image, the most you’re going to get is random, like no sell. So how do you write an engaging caption that makes people want to take more action, like engaging in the comment section or visiting your Etsy shop and buying your Etsy products?
I have 8 guidelines or tips that will take your Instagram captions from average to amazing. Here are the tips:
At the start, your main purpose should be getting engagement and reach, not selling products. 80% of your posts ought to be there to build trust and engagement, and just 20% of your posts ought to be there to sell your product.
Your target should be the audience’s feelings and emotions. Tell them your product-oriented brand story, which can be related to anyone’s life.
For example, if your product is a sports shoe, then share an inspirational story or traveling story rather than saying that it is comfortable for playing football or traveling. The emotional connection is very important for branding any product.
As you know, Twitter never shows us full Instagram captions at the start. It shows one or two lines of a caption at the beginning. So when an audience reads the first line and if he feels that is interesting, he will definitely click on the More button to read more.
If your first one or two sentences do not seem interesting or catchy, you probably will not get any sales from the Instagram post.
The call to action button refers to what to do next. A call to action (CTA) is the most important part of your Instagram caption. Now it is not necessary that the CTA will always be an external link. You can ask your audience to share, to write their opinions in the comment box. It is good for increasing engagement and reach of your account.
Your call to action may redirect users to your Etsy shop page or your specific product page. But I would recommend using a landing page here. Because it makes, making a purchase easier for them. And you know that customers are always seeking the easiest way.
It is also a significant part. It may affect post-engagement.
When normal people post something on Instagram or chat, they mostly use informal language. So, write your whole caption in informal language as you are posting for your audience. Don’t make captions hard to read for the customer, if you do this it is likely they will just skip your post.
Create urgency in your Instagram caption, make an interesting offer for a limited time. Like this special offer is available till upcoming Friday, or something like that, “Only the first 100 customers can get this offer.”
You can also offer a promo code to purchase. This type of post or caption will directly increase your sales. You can make some special offers that will only be available for Instagram users.
Normally, your audience will not care about the facts. Do not show them feature names, show them the benefits that they will get from this product. So try not to be factual in a product description while writing a caption. It helps to make captions interesting.
Normally, users do not read hashtags, but you need to include this in your Instagram captions. Because it helps your post to get more reach. It helps in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Use hashtags at the end of the post and try to separate them from your main caption. You can use a maximum of 30 hashtags, but it is not necessary to use all hashtags every time quality over quantity with hashtags.
Nowadays, Emojis are used in every caption. It makes the captions more interesting. You can use emojis but do not use them too much, because it badly affects the readability of a caption.
Look at the screenshot of how the captions and emoji are used. At the very beginning, he created interest by asking his audience what is his favorite drug.
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In conclusion, I would like to advise that you try to write captions relevant to the picture you use, and keep it easy to read. Target your audience and write about something special for them, which will help you to convert the targeted audience into a customer.
Do not write something that is personal to anyone or any culture in the caption. And most importantly, think before you write.
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