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#BeAnAngelDay

Be an angel and perform some random acts of kindness today.

August 22nd

What Does #BeAnAngelDay Mean?

Be An Angel Day on August 22nd encourages random acts of kindness - big or small. Created by Jayne Howard Feldman, the day asks people to step up and do something kind for a stranger, friend, or community member. It could be as simple as holding a door open or as meaningful as volunteering your time for a cause you care about.

How to Use #BeAnAngelDay

Share what kind act you performed today or encourage your followers to pay it forward. Great for community organizations, wellness accounts, and anyone spreading positivity.

Be An Angel Day

If you have a social media account, there is a good chance you'd like to increase the number of followers. One of the best ways to do this is to learn as much as possible about hashtags. This is important because hashtags are used as the main search method for both Twitter and Instagram. They're also being used more often to search on websites like Pinterest, Youtube, Facebook, and Snapchat. Understanding the importance of hashtags and how best to use them will give you an edge in picking the correct ones to use to help grow your social media accounts.

A good example is simply how people use hashtags. It's common for the hashtags to be chosen quickly at the time of posting, but those who are experts know that it can be quite beneficial to pick out a hashtag in advance and create content around it. While this won't work for everything, it can be quite successful for the many days celebrated each year.

Chances are you're quite familiar with Valentine's Day, Father's Day and New Years Day. You're probably not familiar with Be an Angel Day and the hundreds of other niche days celebrated throughout the year. In fact. you'll be surprised at how many of these days exist when you use Hashtag Picker to search for them.

#BeAnAngelDay is held each year on August 22 (created by Jayne Howard Feldman in 1993), and it's a day when people are encouraged to do random acts of kindness throughout the day. The act of kindness can be as small as holding the door open for someone or as big as helping your neighbor mow the lawn. You can use your creativity to come up with the perfect idea or you can use a random acts of kindness generator to come up with some ideas.

There are a number of reasons you should consider creating content for Be an Angel Day and use the #BeAnAngelDay hashtag this August:

It's Good: Even if the post wouldn't help your social media numbers, it would still be the right thing to do. We should all be doing random acts of kindness on a daily basis and this day is a great reminder. If you can encourage even one more person to participate in the day, you have succeeded in spreading kindness in the world and that's good.

Increased Shares & Likes: There's a good chance that most people aren't familiar with Be an Angel Day. There's also a good chance that if your followers are made of aware of it, they are more likely to participate in the day. If they do, they may also share and like you post to inform others about the day. All this can lead more people to your social media account and an increase to your following.

Competition Advantages: Days like this often go unnoticed until the actual day when there is a surge of publicity. That means if you create content specifically for the event, you will have less content competition at the same time there is above average publicity about the topic. This can be golden for your social media accounts.

There is really no reason not to try using #BeAnAngelDay in August. The benefit comes in the actual event day and those who participate, and if it also happens to help your social media accounts, that's simply a wonderful bonus.

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Quick Info

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#BeAnAngelDay
When to Post
August 22nd
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