Exciting Instagram aesthetic ideas to try out in 2020

Key quotes:

• "When that business makes their first post, Instagram can see that a lot of mothers and mothers-to-be are more inclined to spend time looking at the post or reading the full caption."
• "It’s vital to make your first posts as close to your niche as possible to take advantage of Instagram’s eagerness to know about your brand new account."
• "If it’s possible then you should convert your account and maximize the exposure of the first Instagram posts for your business."
• "Before making your first post, it’s essential to let Instagram know as much as possible about who your content will appeal to."
• "One of the most significant and overlooked metrics that Instagram uses to measure the strength of your account is how long people spend looking at your content."
• "It’s also another easy and powerful way to let Instagram know what niche you’re in and who should care about your content."

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• "The colors you use, the way you arrange your images within the feed, the balance of images-these factors all work together to create a certain mood, one that may make people feel at ease or send them running."
• "That’s why, if you want to make Instagram an effective part of your marketing strategy, it’s important to cultivate an aesthetic that appeals to users and establishes a recognizable visual pattern that they will come to expect from your brand."
• "Your Instagram aesthetic will determine the colors and filters you use, the layout of your photos, the subject matter, and more, so the first step is to pinpoint the exact attitude you want to cultivate that fits with your brand."
• "A few more tips for using color effectively: Using the same color palette isn’t the only way to create a sense of visual cohesion, and often, even if you’re using the same colors, the resulting images may look vastly different depending on factors like lighting and contrast."
• "Creating a set of editing guidelines will help to ensure that each of your photos will come out looking visually consistent."

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Transcript: Welcome back I'm Sarah DeShaw, blogger and online educator for entrepreneurs over at sarahdeshaw.com. In this video, I'mgoing to share Instagram feed layout ideas with you, so you can get some ideas on ways you can design your brand's Instagram feed. Having a clear aesthetic makes yourbrand look really polished and put together, and that automatically givesyour brand a sense of credibility. If that's something you'd like for yourbrand - keep on watching! When it comes to Instagram there is one must-have aesthetic that every single brand should have. And, that, as you could probablyguess if you watched any of my videos - is a color theme. So, in the examples I'mgoing to share with you today you'll notice they all have a strong colortheme. If you want my tips and ideas on how to pick the right color theme foryour brand, scour my youtube for this video right here. Once you have yourcolor theme you really could stop there and your feed would look pretty darncohesive (and there's nothing wrong with stopping there)! But, you're here becauseyou don't want to stop there. You want to go the extra mile and find a layout thatworks for your brand. As I... See more →

Transcript: So you seem to really like the last video that I made about Instagram hack so I am back this year for a brand new round of Instagram hacks for creators 2020 let's get into it hey my name is Katie Stuckey welcome to my channel here on YouTube I like to talk all things content creation social media marketing and creative entrepreneurship make sure you that subscribe button and the notification bell so you don't miss any of my future YouTube videos I try to upload twice a week and you definitely aren't gonna want to miss a single one alright let's dive into it today I have 8 hacks to share with you all about Instagram and creating the best content for your audience let's dive into the first one which is how to add a different background to your Instagram stories a big mistake that I see a lot of people doing is posting an image to their Instagram stories when it's not the full screen and then just letting Instagram put that generic gradient background on it so if you want to avoid doing that let's go ahead and create a story so let's say I... See more →

Transcript: Hello everybody and welcome to another aesthetic video so today I'm going to be showing you how to have an aesthetic Instagram if you haven't noticed I'm like changing the way I say aesthetic because everybody's been telling me I'm saying it wrong how do you say aesthetic choose what I found on the web for how do you say yes Jessica when I posted on my Instagram a while ago asking for some video requests a lot of you asked for this so here we go and I'm not saying they're having an aesthetic Instagram is complex but it low-key is so I'm just going to break this down into little sections let's begin by the way if you want to I was interviewed for an article a few weeks ago about like Instagram and stuff so go check it out I feel like with Instagram there are certain types of feet I guess of course that's like the kind of feet where you post objects and things are visually appealing and then this outfit enough there's just a lot of variety basically but within that I feel like there are two kinds of Beach one of them is... See more →

Key quotes:

• "Having done this look ahead in design trends for several years now, I can completely agree that these trends show just how creative designers have become with making the web feel more like other types of media, such as graphic design and print design."
• "Phase3’s website is a great example of stripping things back in the hero area, and focusing only on typography (although, the color-changing background, which you can see on their site , is a subtle nice touch)."
• "You can also see this trend with The New York Times, who paired a custom font with animations for their text-only header for their Food Festival website ."
• "One of the most common bits of design inspiration that’s being used in websites today is using vintage colors and/or typography as a way to convey this feeling of nostalgia."
• "Chrissy Teigen’s new website is a great example of using a vintage-influenced font with a vintage-inspired color scheme (earthy, but bright)."
• "The popular typography trends website also uses vintage typography and colors to influence their site design while still staying modern in aesthetic."

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• "Looking back, I now realize that that was the main reason why I was able to build a large and engaged following fast — because I was highly differentiated within a content category with a relatively small number of similar accounts."
• "Unless you’re a world-class content creator, how fast you’re able to build a large and engaged following not only depends on how you use Instagram but more importantly, on the number of similar accounts within your content category and how differentiated you are from them."
• "Unless you are the account within your category that has the largest and most engaged following (which is very difficult with millions of people on Instagram), you’ll always have to price your posts based on what other comparable accounts are charging for a similar service."