Happy New Year PEOPLE! #headshotcrew365 rocked Instagram in 2017!!

HEADSHOTCREW365

I'm fired up for the New Year and I hope you are too. We have a ton of things up our sleeve this year to keep everyone moving forward with their work. I'm excited for what's coming down the pike and want to thank all of you for the supportive environment that has been created within the Headshot Crew. 

We'll continue to come up with some fun challenges to do, so here's one! I'd like all of you to get your Intstagram accounts fired up this year and we are going to help! We are doing a 365 day challenge. I want each of you to post one shot a day for a year. Doesn't really matter what it is, would be nice to somehow be photo related although I'm sure I'll throw in some shots of my girls! Whether it's a headshot or not no biggie, the point is to post daily. I just want one shot per day for 365 days and everyone is going to hashtag it #headshotcrew365 Thanks to Karaminder for coming up with that one. 

So start tomorrow and we'll be off to the races. By the end of the year that hashtag should be packed with some really cool imagery. Also, keep track of your following, know where you started tomorrow. You can put your instagram name and number of current followers in the link below and we can cross check it a year from now! I'm peter_hurley and have 45.3K followers right now. 

Hope you are up for it.

Happy New Year!

Peter

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https://www.instagram.com/photographybyalanalee/

4369 likes on 116 posts andd 1454 followers in 2016

@jgloverphotography
76 followers - yikes that's low! Need to fix that in 2017 :-)

Hey guys,

The project sounds fun. Do they have to be headshots or headshot related or any images that we are posting?

https://www.instagram.com/laibelschwartzphotograp…

Laibel

Anything is cool. I guess photo related if you are using your instagram for other stuff. Tag the ones you think fit. I'm doing whatever I feel like.

Thank you. I try to keep a solid mix of wedding, relationships and Headshots. Have been debating starting a new one dedicated to headshots. Do you have any thoughts on the matter?

Thanks,
Laibel

Hi all,

Great to be involved - i'm https://www.instagram.com/filski/ with just over 600 followers and 224 posts.

Funny - I started my 365 project without having read this post. What a coincidence. Will use the # from now on.
You can find me here: https://www.instagram.com/claudiazurlo/
Have a great and peaceful 2017 everyone !

Oh man. I´m terrible at posting so I guess this will be a good push. Thank you Kariminder :p I´m @ryncwn and currently standing at 765 followers.
Happy New year and Good luck in 2017 everyone!

What apps do people use for scheduling posts? I travel regularly and it's not always possible or convenient to post daily so I'll need to queue them up!

Check out zapier.com and ifttt.com. I think zapier is more powerful and easier to use but costs $. Maurice uses Zapier.com I think and had a nice workflow in a doc recently, but my cursory search just now couldn't find it...

Here's the post in question by Maurice.
ONLINE HEADSHOT HUSTLE
https://headshotcrew.com/post/159385

Thanks guys, I'll check them out!

https://www.instagram.com/richmoorephotography
Just starting!
4 posts
5 followers
And apparently, at the moment, 0 likes. ; > )

Awesome fun Peter and Crew!
I be all like:
@gainsborogal with 1664 followers
https://www.instagram.com/gainsborogal
457 Posts in 2016 and 18,271 Likes

Sure... I'm in. @ian_g_mcintosh Gotta go post some pics. I've got 219 followers now and would love tons more. Here's to adding #headshotcrew365 to my tags.

Hello Ian. Your Instagram account is private. If you would like more followers, I would suggest making it public or making a separate public account.

Thanks for the tip. I thought it was public. Little wonder it's been such a slow build

I'll have to get my act together -- usually post once a month, and I think have gone 2 1/2 years between posts. I don't use Instagram to post client pics - I currently have client headshots on my website.

Will work on following others in this post.

https://www.instagram.com/maryanndavidsonphotogra…

I'm in, but maybe for only 363 since I'm starting late :) https://www.instagram.com/kathymphoto/ currently at 682 followers and 238 total posts. This challenge will more than double my posts, and hopefully my followers too.

End of year update 600 post, 1,006 followers. I posted every single day for 2017, from 9 states and 2 countries. It was challenging at times to keep up with content to post, so it pushed me to book more clients and stay on top of my personal projects. I guess I’ll keep it going for another 365. ?

I am @leticiacna, 37 posts, 125 followers

Awesome challenge and hashtag campaign!

@lmpanephotography
Currently have 577 followers

Awesome! Love it.

@TommyCollierPro https://www.instagram.com/tommycollierpro/
1,188 followers

@DenverHeadshots https://www.instagram.com/denverheadshots/
492 followers

Happy New Year Headshot Crew!

Joined my first two CrewCasts, yesterday. Insightful and fun discussions!

I'm @miguel_mfphoto with 182 followers
155 posts and 5,262 likes in 2016
https://www.instagram.com/miguel_mfphoto/

I notice many folks have many hastags in each post. How many is too many?

30 hashtags is the limit on Instagram, after that, they won't work. There are a lot of opinions out there on what is 'appropriate' but if you want your post to have more reach, then you want to add hashtags that are relevant to that reach. Here's a really interesting article about hashtags: https://blog.bufferapp.com/a-scientific-guide-to-…

Great article. Updated a year ago, wonder if anything changed. :)

I'm a couple days late, But I'm in... I need something to kick me in the ass this year and the obstacles seems to be greater up here (in Alaska) with the lack of light... I'm in the middle of learning more OCF and other things that will help with that problem. Summer is so much easier since the sun is out almost 24 hours a day. LOL Shooting natural light is a lot more my style so I'm just having to learn to work around it! Looking forward to this.

@wallyhashbrown I have 257 followers and no idea how many "likes" I have. I have a total of 505 posts for the entire time I've been on Instagram and no idea how many likes... or how to find out this information... I expect I'll be learning A LOT this year! Hahaha

Your account is private. You may want to consider making it public for followers.

Sorry for another novice question.

Does instagram really block accounts that use 3rd party apps to post content from desktop computer?

Are there any best practices for using desktop / laptop computers for posting?

Thanks, Mike

I tried later.com yesterday and it reminded me to post. So that worked pretty well.

They don't post for you, they just make it easier for you.

I'm a little late starting, as it's already the 5th of January. My bad.
Anyways my Insta is @gordonclarkphotography and I have 477 followers today.

Sounds like fun,

FYI: If, like me, you are a newbie to instagram, the number of #'s is limited to 30. I was trying to post with more and the hashtags were not showing. Counted them and had 31.

Well I gained roughly 2700 followers in January. Little less than 100 per day. It's Feb 3rd and I hit 48k. Let's see what the trend continues to produce. If you are slacking or haven't started this then fire it up now!

Count me in, too! Just joined the crew in KY.
@KDaltonphotography513 with 506 followers
https://www.instagram.com/kdaltonphotography513/?…

Late to the game on this one but as 10 Feb 17 here are my IG stats.
1620 Followers, 336 posts

www.instagram.com/photobygaryb

As of today 1807 Followers, 389 Posts

https://www.instagram.com/mclendonphotography/

995 followers (SO CLOSE TO 1000!!!)
774 Posts

Thanks!

Hi Guys, currently 187 posts, 2051 followers on @london_photo_020

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