Boost your business with social media
Many businesses struggle to find the resources needed for large advertising campaigns or flashy PR stunts, and they turn to social media.
Over 75% of all internet users use social media. By the end of last year the International Telecommunications Union said that there were 3.2 billion people online.
Even now, in 2020, social media is often overlooked or handled badly by businesses that could greatly raise awareness for their business, create engagement, and drive traffic to their sites by using social media correctly.
The fact is that many businesses don’t understand social networking enough to use it effectively. Most social network platforms are free. There’s an initial rush to sign up, without any great consideration of strategy, branding, which platform for which messages, or the audience that they need to reach. These businesses then become overwhelmed by the task they have taken on. They have no real understanding of social media marketing, and just leave their accounts unmanned and abandoned.
First impressions on social sites are very important. Accounts need to be set up correctly with branding; logos, bios, images, all need to be seamless across all networks.
Starting and maintaining a presence on social sites does take a lot of work, but, handled correctly, a social media strategy can help your business grow.
Businesses that use social networks correctly, realise early that posting lots of self-promotion is a negative step. Social media is not a broadcast medium – your business needs to start slowly and surely, not rush to follow everyone purely to gain numbers and to get followers, but rather to steadily build a targeted community of engaged customers.
9 ways how to use social media for growing your business
You can grow your business on social sites through:
- Promotions
- Brand Campaigns
- Customer Service
- Engagement – listening to your audience
- Sharing your message – enabling others to share your message
- Collaborations
- Content Marketing Strategy
- Blog Posts
- Brand Leadership
Social media gives businesses a fantastic opportunity to build a strong online presence, and to create authority in their field, establishing themselves as a brand leader.
The type of knowledge and time required to effectively leverage social sites doesn’t usually come from in-house. Social networking is constantly changing, and a well-trained, experienced community manager will be keeping up with these changes and trends. The community manager will enable you to you grow your brand, with a well thought out social media strategy, implemented on your behalf.