[If you already use and are familiar with Instagram – this post is probably not for you. You know who you are. The three minutes you’d spend reading this and finding my errors/bad advice could be better spent watching reels of kittens running and jumping on dog’s faces, or 20 year olds offering their sage advice on how you should live your life.]
Full disclosure here – This is Geoff here. So, any bad jokes (like above), etc… are mine. Please don’t lower your opinion of April because I’m a goof.
We use Instagram for a few reasons. First, it is a way to let current/prospective jewelry customers see what April is working on, how she makes the work, and to let folks know where they can see or purchase her work, when to expect a new collection release, etc,… She also likes being able to follow other artists and friends all over to see what they are up to. It can also come in handy for trying to figure out what part of the globe our boys may be in at any particular moment – and whether they have made it off of the mountain or river, etc….
I was not born knowing how to navigate Instagram. I think modern babies might be. But, in this way, I guess I am not modern. For my contemporaries out there, who may have a few things to learn about navigating the Insta world, here’s a couple of pointers.
First, if you are on April’s mailing list or found your way to this blog by some other mysterious wandering path – and you don’t ‘follow’ her on Instagram – you can at least see what she’s been up to by putting https://www.instagram.com/ into your web browser and then type April Ottey Jewelry into the search bar at the top. This will show you her ‘Profile’ and then a block of images below that (see below) shows the most recent items we have put on Instagram. On this page, you can click on an image and it will either be a ‘Post’ or a ‘Reel’. A reel will have a little white box with a triangle in it. Posts will have some text and one or more images you can look through. You’ll also see ‘Comments’ over on the right side. There is also some text that goes with a reel – to see that you’ll need to click on the white text at the bottom of the screen just under the circular picture of April once you have it playing.
If you decide you want to ‘Follow’ April on Instagram – you’ll have to get the ‘App’ and set up an account (free; go the App store on your device and search for Instagram). If you go through with getting an Instagram account – and you decide to Follow April (hit the blue button that says ‘Follow’ after you have found April on Instagram using the search bar – or by typing in april_ottey_jewelry), then when we put something on Instagram, it will show up in your ‘Feed’.