How to Create the Perfect Instagram Bio for Your Acting Career
Optimizing your Instagram profile bio is one of the easiest ways to make your social media profiles more attractive to casting directors and agents. It’s also a vital component if you are trying to grow your Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok accounts with the right kind of followers who will be excited about your acting career.
Ultimately, the goal of your Instagram profile is to catch the attention of a potential follower, clearly explain who you are and what you have to offer them, and encourage them to follow you. In order to do this, you want to make your personal brand crystal clear and easy to understand within a few seconds! While each actor’s social media bios should be customized, there are 4 specific areas to consider when making optimizations for yours!
Your user name should be your name you use for acting (either partial or full):
No crazy names/spellings
No numbers
Consistency across all social media platforms
This makes it easy for people to find you!
You must have a brand-specific, consistent profile photo on all social media accounts:
Should be reflective of how you actually look right now, and high image quality (no grainy or blurry photos!)
Many actors opt to use their primary theatrical or commercial headshot
Alternative option to use a great, brand-specific editorial shot
Use the same photo on all social media platforms so it’s easy to identify you
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Your social media profile’s bio section (where you can write whatever you want!) should answer these questions:
Who are you?
What do you do? (Actor & anything else? Singer, dancer, comedian, fine artist, etc?)
Where are you? (This could be the city or market you are based out of and/or the agency you are represented by)
Why should people follow you? What topics can they expect to see on your social media?
Take advantage of the link option on your profiles:
Utilize a “link tree” so that your one link in your bio expands out to all of your links for your acting career.
Links could include your IMDb, Actors Access profile, personal website, other social media channels, etc.
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In this video, Alison walks you through 4 key areas of your social media bio to tweak and provides examples of how to update your profile! Have you made these updates?
