Look at your social media posts through your customers’ eyes. Are you just pushing features about your company and products or does your message communicate ideas and observations of interest to your market, such that they’d want to show a friend.
Look at your social media posts through your customers’ eyes. Are you just pushing features about your company and products or does your message communicate ideas and observations of interest to your market, such that they’d want to show a friend.
Watch as Instagram is starting to skew older as more 45-65 year olds are using it and fewer under 20 years olds are there. Time to focus content toward the older segments of your marketing group on Instagram.
For B2B social media, many media permit you to target the job in addition to the company. So if your product is bought by research scientists, for example, you can target your message to them and improve results.
For best B2b social media success, remember to engage in addition to posting. The media works best generating online conversations, which even businesses can do. Chat with other businesses and you’ll grow an impressive and engaged list of followers.
How boring are your social media posts from your business? Are they filled with me-talk about services you offer and promotions? It’s more effective to be engaging and post about interesting things in your industry or tips or unique projects you’ve worked on or to stimulate conversation.
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Don’t always ignore a bad review in social media. Sometimes by responding, acknowledging the issue and detailing plans to improve, you communicate honesty together with a caring attitude that will appeal to customers.
B2B social media is one of the easiest ways to get new leads and customers as they follow related hashtags and keywords. Make your posts interesting and timely and they’ll become followers leading to their buying from you.
Social media followers don’t often write a response but that doesn’t mean you can’t listen to them. Review the data and see which of your posts get more engagement. That’s what your followers want so provide more.
For active social media results, engage your employees and customers. Firstly, encourage them to follow your company. Then get them to respond and recommend you to associates and friends.
What social media platforms do you use? Double-check your profile to make sure it features a way people can get in touch with you. If not, you may be missing some valuable opportunities.
When was the last time you updated your LinkedIn, Twitter or other social media graphic headers and profiles? Keep them fresh & update quotes, photos, colors and other information every month or two to keep & grow followers
Build your thought leadership with a YouTube account. Populate it with how-to videos on the topics people would likely question in your industry – new rules, techniques, employing new technology, solving problems, etc.
A key to social media doing so much better-stop selling so much. People follow because they have interest. A barrage of sales info can be boring. Create content to keep followers engaged and loyal and sales will come.
Does everybody know this? Using caps in social media is the digital equivalent of shouting. Customers don’t like to be shouted at in ads. We bring this up because we noticed a supposedly savvy brewery using all caps in every email. Not cool.
Want more engagement in your social media? Stop selling. Start engaging your followers and turn them into customers. Make your messages something they’d want to follow and even respond.
Generate more engagement in social media by asking a question instead of just making a statement. Get the reader involved in your conversation and drive activity.
Businesses react to a bad review. But how about a great review? Get excited about those too because, they are more valuable to engage the customer. Even promote positive reviews through your social media.
Are you using the same number of hashtags for your posts on each social media site? Some sites thrive on hashtags, such as Instagram, and others, such as Twitter, not so much – only 2-3 are best.
You may have a lot of great things to say in social media but so do others. In your posts, add in some links to other thought leaders or interesting posts and boost your engagement.
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