Social Media – Posting Criteria and Ideas – ASK

My Business (for posting to our Google pages) ask to be added as an admin
Instagram (you just need the page log on and you access it via your current app)
Facebook Page (you need to be added as an admin and use the ‘fb pages’ app, not your personal one)
Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest are all automatically posted to from other social sites (no management needed here)

Canva (download the app onto your device) Log into it with: [email protected] password is Canva4176!
Instructions to add logos to your photos
Step 1: Create a New Design, select “Instagram Post”
Choose Blank
Click the Plus sign to add your photo from your library (choose images)
Select Image and scale it to size to fill the space
Click the Plus sign again to add your logo
Click images again
Select ‘uploads’ from the dropdown menu
Scroll down until you find your logo (black or white are available), then click on it and it will overlay on photo
Resize and choose an appropriate position for it, either in one of the 4 corners or centred at the very top or very bottom of the photo in a clear space
Click Done and then Download and then you will find the image in your photo library

Open Instagram on your device
Click home button and then click on the camera icon in top left hand corner
Select photo gallery on bottom left hand corner
Click on the image you have just created
Swipe across image 4 times to change filter to MELBOURNE
Then click download and then X out of the story
Now you are back at the main page and click the + located at the bottom of the screen directly in the middle
Select the new edited photo, then select NEXT and then select NEXT again
Write your caption, press ok, tag anyone or any business related to the post – then SHARE
Once post is completed, go into comments and add standard hashtags (you may wish to save these in your notes so you can simply copy and paste.
HASHTAGS required on all BUNDABERG posts are: #alowishus #bundaberg #lovebundy #itsagoodday #local #cafe #visitbundaberg #southerngreatbarrierreef #queensland #thisisqueensland #instacafe #igdaily #tastebundaberg #cafeculture
HASHTAGS required on all MARYBOROUGH posts are: #alowishus #itsagoodday #local #cafe #queensland #thisisqueensland #instacafe #igdaily #heritagecity #frasercoast #maryborough #frasercoast_eats #frasercoast_foodies #cafeculture
OTHER HASHTAGS would include the business you are posting about and whatever is appropriate to the content you have posted

Team Photos (awards we’ve won, engagement or births, celebrations of certificate completion)
Quote – has to be every 7 posts
Menu Item – breakfast and lunch – grab n go
Cakes and Sweets
Gelato
Blended Drinks and MAR
Catering – packaging – environment
Anything new – products (house made or brought in) – competitions – in store promo –
Coffee (custom cups or keep cups, dine in or takeaway, coffee bean products, syrups etc, teas)
Shop Photo (internal or external) – or an Event Photo of Cart or Catering again
Something different – eg: someone’s dog, celebrity photo, magazine feature of us, event we are sponsoring, special national days (eg coffee day, burger day, sandwich day) Australia Day, Valentines Day

New Post Stories (see video on how to)
Anything and everything and all the above
Boomerangs – still photos – video – slow mo’s
Staff Birthdays, engagements, babies
Alowishus Weather posts
Outside of the cafe – surrounding businesses, buildings, parks and points of interest
Re-sharing customers photos (they need to look good)
Re-sharing other pages events that we have an interest in
Look through our highlights for inspiration

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