Showerthought: I was posting at 9am for 8 months like a chump

I run a small woodworking page in Bellingham and I always dropped new posts at 9am sharp because some blog said that was peak time, then one Tuesday I posted a shop tour at 6:45pm on a whim and it hit 40k views while my morning stuff was lucky to get 900. Turns out my crowd is scrolling after dinner, not during their coffee break, and I felt like such a dope for not checking my own insights tab this whole time. What time did you figure out your actual audience was awake, and did you find it by accident too?

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ryanm6022d ago

Ha, I was the exact opposite and swore mornings were king for like two years. I ran a little local blog and kept forcing 7am posts because some "best time to post" chart told me so, and my numbers were flat the whole time. Then I got busy one week and started posting around 8 or 9 at night, and suddenly comments and shares doubled, which blew my whole theory up. Never bothered to open my own stats page until that happened, which is kind of embarrassing to admit.

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