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Instagram in 2026 rewards originality, social SEO, and real connection. Here’s what’s actually driving engagement for service-based brands.

Instagram in 2026: The Shifts That Are Actually Driving Results

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February 10, 2026

Hayley Peters

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The latest digital marketing updates, tests, trends and industry news you need to know (summarised into bite-sized blog post pieces of goodness)

September 8, 2020

4 ways to use your “Close Friends” list on Instagram as a biz!

Ever seen this little green circle around a story and wondered what the sh*t it was?⁠

Well this, dear friends, is Instagram’s “Close Friends” list. It’s designed so that you can choose a select list of followers to show your stories to exclusively.⁠

Hayley Peters

4 ways to use your “Close Friends” list on Instagram as a biz!

The best investments we’ve made in our biz so far….. time-saving tools.⁠⁠Yup, we’ve learnt A LOT the hard way over the last 3 years. But we’ve got our systems pretttty well in shape now. For two extreme workaholics, it was a necessity to cut down on tasks that waste our time and speed up our […]

Time-saving tools that we couldn’t live without

July 2, 2020

Kaitlyn Gillies

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July 2, 2020

Kaitlyn Gillies

We’re ALWAYS banging on about how followers and likes don’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. So why do we really care? Well… one reason, we can now add links to our Instagram stories…which minimises the risk of losing potential sales by asking followers to follow directions to our Instagram bio, for one […]

How we got to 10K followers on Instagram

July 2, 2020

Kaitlyn Gillies

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February 25, 2020

5 Misconceptions about Influencers BUSTED

So we recently put up a story asking for everyone’s opinions on influencers. We wanted to get the good, the bad and the ugly, so we could address some common misconceptions about influencers that so many of us have, as well as share some quick tips on how to avoid them! Let’s dig in. Misconception […]

Kaitlyn Gillies

5 Misconceptions about Influencers BUSTED

Licensing vs White Labelling

We asked our audience what they love (and hate) seeing brands do on social media. We recently asked our incredible Instagram fam to share with us some of the things brands do on social media that they absolutely love (or hate). Why? Sometimes as marketers we can get so caught up in our own ideas […]

How does your audience really feel about your social media ideas?

February 10, 2020

Kaitlyn Gillies

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February 10, 2020

Kaitlyn Gillies

When it comes to writing for on-page SEO – you’ve probably heard that it has something to do with knowing what content people are searching for – and then creating content in response to this (with the benefit, of course, being more relevant traffic on your website). You might also think about what terms people […]

Writing for SEO – and humans.

January 27, 2020

Kaitlyn Gillies

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