4 Jul 2018

When should you post on your social media?


Did you know that there are over 3.196 billion people active on social media! That’s 42% of the world population! Obviously, your main focus would be those in your local area, but social media has all of the tools to ensure that you are approaching your target audience. It is important to make sure that you are posting on a number of different social media platforms, however the time you post could massively impact how well your tweet does and how many people it reaches. There are thousands of articles out there that go into when the best posting times are, but don’t worry you’re going to go to go searching through them all, I’ll do that part for you!

Instagram
There are two factors that can influence the best time to post; the day and the time. From doing some research I found that in the UK the best days to post are on Monday and Thursday, with Sunday being the worst in terms of engagement. The best times to post are between 8-9am, probably because this is when most people are travelling to work and 5pm when a lot of people will be leaving work, surprisingly, 2am is also one of the best times to post 🤷‍️.

Instagram in particular has some great tools out there for businesses that allow you to see what your best posting times are. By making your salon Instagram a business account you will also be able to access these tools, giving you a better idea of when your best posting times are in order to ensure you are receiving a high engagement.





















Facebook
Facebook is probably the most used social media platform by salons, its not often hat you will search for a salon and a Facebook page not come up (if you’re reading this as a salon owner and don’t have a Facebook page I would highly recommend making one). In terms of the best posting day for Facebook, Saturday and Sunday have the highest engagement, along with Thursday and Friday also having a relatively high engagement. The best times to post are 9am, 1pm and 3pm, 3pm giving you the most clicks and 1pm giving you the most shares.

Similar to Instagram, Facebook also has analytics allows you to view all of your likes, reach, visits, people – basically it sums up all of the information and data that your page is receiving and puts it into groups and summaries for you. This will allow you to target your posts towards a specific age group or gender, which will further allow you to improve your Facebook posts.

Twitter
For a lot of you I would presume that you don’t have a twitter page for your salon, but for those of you that do the best days to post are on the weekend, with the best times coming at 12pm, 3pm, 5pm and 6pm. The peak time seems to be Wednesday between 5-6pm, again I think this is because this is when many workers are leaving their offices.

By finding out the best posting times for you and your salon, you will be able to increase your engagement, and hopefully this will also result in an increase in customers! Once you figure out the best time for you to post on your social medias you will be able to post your offers during these times to ensure that they receive a higher number impression and reach your target audience. I hope that this will help you improve your social media and increase the engagement and impression you are receiving on your posts.

Salon Tracker x

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