Best time to post, for small businesses.
Your customers are on their phones around their own working day, which for most local businesses means early morning, lunchtime, and the hour after work. The useful thing is that this is knowable rather than guessable: your own audience's active hours are reported by Instagram, and for a business with a physical location they usually line up with when people are deciding where to go.
When small businesses are actually reachable
Early morning
Before the day takes over. Something short does better here than anything asking for ten minutes of attention.
Lunchtime
The window where somebody decides where to go later, which for a business with a door is exactly the decision you want to be standing in front of.
The hour after work
The longest of the three, and the one where a person will actually read a caption to the end or send you a message.
how this audience spends its day, not hours read from anybody's account
The hours every posting-times guide repeats describe everybody rather than small businesses, and we have not checked them against any account. They are set out in full on the posting times guide.
Your own hours beat any average
Connect an account and the guessing stops. Synclify reads 90 days of your own audience's hours, day by hour, in their timezone, and a week's plan schedules into them.
read from your posts and your followers' activity, per account, never from an industry average
All twenty audiences, or connect your account and see your own hours.
Stop guessing your post times and read them instead.
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