Get to Know Your Audience
Before you can create a social media strategy, it is important to identify your audience. You will be communicating with them in their language. By language, I mean both literally and metaphorically. It’s not a good idea to communicate in English with a large portion of your audience if they speak French.
In the same vein, your content should be relatable to your audience. What appeals to children may not be appealing to older generations. The same goes for women. It is therefore important to determine your target audience.
Establish Your Niche
Similar to the previous point, this is also true. You may have heard the expression, “Master of none, Jack of all trades”? This applies to content marketing as well as business. It is impossible to produce content for everything. Your content should be related to your product/service. You are not an expert in everything. It’s best to identify your niche so your customers know who you are.
Focus on the Right Platform
It’s tempting to want to be on every social media platform. You don’t have to. You can be present on many platforms, but you should concentrate your efforts on the one that is bringing you the greatest reward. It might take some time to find the right platform for you. Once you have identified the right platform and established that there are no mistakes on the other platforms, you can then focus your attention on it.
Quality Content
Your content is the most important aspect of your social media accounts. Even if you have followers, if you don’t have the correct content, you will lose them quickly. Accounts that offer value to users will be more popular. This could include educational, informative, or entertaining content. You must pay attention to what you post. Don’t just post whatever comes to your mind to show that you are posting regularly.
Quality is more important than quantity. Your contents should be engaging, relevant, accurate, up-to-date, and always current. It’s better to post quality content only three times per week than posting fluff every other day. But consistency is important if your goal is to grow.
Recognize and Engage Your Followers
Engaging content is essential because the algorithm recognizes posts that have a lot of engagements and are therefore considered relevant. You want your posts to get high engagement so that they appear on the timeline/feed. This can be done by asking your audience to engage with your post. To encourage them to comment, you could ask a question rather than making a statement.
You must also acknowledge your followers. Many businesses make the error of not acknowledging customers via social media. One of the best ways you can improve your customer relationship by acknowledging customers. It makes them feel valued. If customers refer to you, or tag you in a review, or to criticisms, you should respond as quickly as possible. Your customers will begin to see you as more than just a profit-making machine and will be more loyal to you. Others will also be attracted to your brand if they see it.
