7 Instagram settings worth changing today
Most of these are buried three menus deep and each takes under a minute.
Settings rather than tactics, because tactics change monthly and settings tend to stay put.
Turn on the professional dashboard properly
Most business accounts never finish setup, which means half the data is missing and some features stay locked. Ten minutes once.
Set your contact buttons to something you actually monitor
An email button pointing at an inbox nobody opens is worse than no button, because it absorbs the enquiry silently.
Add alt text by default
Accessibility first, discoverability second. It also forces you to describe the image, which occasionally reveals that the image says nothing.
Auto-crossposting everything to other platforms
Different platforms, different norms. The crosspost is always visibly a crosspost and it signals that nobody is really here.
Review who can tag and mention you
Takes thirty seconds and prevents a specific category of unpleasant surprise.
Hiding like counts, for a business account
Fine personally. For a business it removes a signal that prospects use to judge whether you are worth following.
Set up a scheduled quiet period
Notifications off outside working hours. Nothing on this platform is urgent.
None of these will transform anything. Together they take fifteen minutes and remove a set of small ongoing costs.