Prototyping

I have been experimenting abit with my digital artefact in the past couple of weeks, trying different types of content and hashtags to see what engagement it receives, however the biggest experimentation was through the use of Fiverr services.

Through Fiverr I bought a service from a man located in Israel, in which he described an increase in followers and interaction on a business instagram account. Being unfamiliar with the site and its reliability I chose his cheapest option of $20, from this he requested my account details and took control over the account for six days.

In the following days I received constant notification on my phone of new followers, likes, and comments. As seen below (before on the left, after on the right) the increase in interaction on my account grew throughout the week, and left my account in a better position than what it was.

However what I continue to struggle with this semester is getting users to like my posts, the number of likes my content is receiving is significantly lower than those received on my content posted during the BCM112 course. Ive concluded that the major influencing factor in this is that Instagram had removed the number of likes seen on posts during mid year holidays, I say this because my posts this semester have been seen by the same amount of people, if not more, that those of last semester (last semester on left, this semester on right).

As you can see the number of likes are significantly down on last semester, I am yet to find a method that increases reach to like ration, this will be looked at further before the end of this semester.

Overall I am relatively happy with what I have produced so far, I think I am learning alot through studying the insights and numbers on my posts, aswell as the experimentation with Fiverr has opened up a new service that can help with my DA moving into the future, it is a slow build but I feel it is going in the right direction.