The question sticker asks for more than a poll does. Someone has to type, which means the prompt has to be worth the effort, and vague prompts like “ask me anything” get either nothing or the same three questions every time.
The prompts that work are narrow. “Ask me anything about running” gets better answers than “ask me anything,” because a narrow question tells people what you can actually help with and gives them a reason to think you will reply.
Q and A prompts
- Ask me anything about my job
- Questions about the renovation, I will answer all of them
- Anything you want to know about the move
- Ask me about training for a first marathon
- Questions about freelancing, no topic off limits
- Ask me anything about the business, including the numbers
Recommendation requests
- Give me one album to listen to properly
- Best book you have read this year
- Recommend a series I will actually finish
- One restaurant in your city I should try
- What is the best thing you cooked this month
- Podcast recommendations for a long drive
Getting to know your audience
- What do you do for work
- Where are you reading this from
- How did you find this account
- What made you follow
- What is something you are working on right now
- What is one thing you want to learn this year
Business and product research
- What would stop you buying this
- What size do you wish we made
- What is the most annoying part of this process for you
- Which of our products do you actually use
- What would you want covered in a guide
- What question do you get asked most in your own work
Advice and help
- What are you stuck on, I will try to help
- Send me the thing you are avoiding and I will tell you where to start
- What is one decision you keep putting off
- Ask me for feedback on one thing
- What do you need a second opinion on
Fun and personal
- What is a small purchase that improved your week
- What did you believe confidently at 22
- What are you weirdly good at
- What is your unreasonable food rule
- Which city surprised you
- What is the last thing you finished and enjoyed
- Tell me something good that happened this week
Prompts that lead somewhere
- What should I make next
- Which of these two should I post
- Do you want the long version of this
- Should I turn this into a guide
- What is missing from this list
Prompts for a slow week
- Tell me one good thing from today
- What is a small habit that stuck
- What is on your list that you keep moving
- Send me a photo of your view right now
- What did you learn this week, however small
For a new audience
- What brought you here
- What do you want more of from this account
- Which post made you follow
- What should I explain that I have skipped
- Are you here for the work or the nonsense
How to pick one
Narrow the topic. The single biggest improvement to a question sticker is replacing “anything” with a subject, because it tells people what you know and filters out the questions you did not want. Ask it while you have attention, so straight after a story that made people care, not as a standalone box on a quiet day. Answer publicly and quickly, since visible replies are what convince the next person to type. Do not post a question you have no intention of responding to, because an unanswered box teaches your audience to stop bothering, which is expensive and hard to undo. For business accounts, ask the questions whose answers would change something you are working on. If you want more prompts than you can use, the Instagram post ideas generator will keep going, and the AI hook generator helps you word the story that leads into it.