Social Media Apps used to make posting easy:
- 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)
How to add our logo to a photo in Canva: (watch video or read instructions below the video)
- 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
Posting to Instagram Main Page: (watch video or read instructions below the video)
- 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
What Content Should I Create for Instagram Posts (to main page)
- 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
What Content Should I create for Insta Stories
- 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