Should Instagram Be Part of Your Marketing Strategy?

If you don’t spend much time on Instagram, it’s easy to assume people who do are just there for the fitness models and tropical beaches. In reality, Instagram is a place people turn for inspiration on just about anything, including their future home design, remodeling projects, and even real estate investment projects.

Reach Current and Future Home Owners

As with any marketing channel, whether or not Instagram makes sense for you depends on your target market. Instagram’s demographic skews young, so it’s a good bet if you’re targeting first-time home builders or those renovating fixer-upper starter homes. Given the popularity of hashtags such as #homeinspo, it’s clear any type of home improvement service will find an audience.

On the other hand, if your target market is primarily interested in commercial and industrial building projects, such as warehouses, office complexes or retail shopping centers, Instagram probably isn’t the best place to connect with future clients.

Ultimately, deciding whether or not the platform can benefit you requires a little market research. Spend some time on Instagram browsing popular hashtags related to your specialty, such as #homerenovation, #luxuryhomes or #kitchendesign, to see if your potential clients are active there.

Market More Efficiently

Some social media platforms quickly turn into a time sink because they require several posts a day and lots of audience engagement to bring you any results. Instagram, however, is an ideal platform if you’re pressed for time. Just one or two posts a day is enough, and even less often than that can work well, too. Consistency is more important than frequency.

If you’re regularly taking good quality photos of your finished and on-going projects, your workers on the job, and day-to-day happenings at your office, you already have material to post. Write a descriptive caption, add some relevant hashtags, and you’re done. You can then work on getting your name in front of potential clients by liking, commenting, and following in your spare time.