14 Tips to Succeed Social Media Marketing Plans



14 Tips to Succeed Social Media Marketing Plans


The marketing you need is the one that generates leads, boost sales and of course grow your business.

Social media as an online marketing tool gives you the opportunity to reach your goals. You just need to follow certain tips to build strong social media marketing strategies.

Here are some of these social marketing tips that can help you grow up your business.

1. Set Goals 

Before you start investing time and effort in blogging or social media, you need to know your goals. The main objectives you would look forward to realize are: brand awareness boosting through reach, customer loyalty building through support, sales boost by increasing your customer base.

2. Overlook Competitors

It’s not a good idea to target your competitors’ fans and followers. You can make a fresh start with that, but it should not be your main strategy. Instead, try to find other new opportunities and earn an early lead. Check other industries tips and try to implement them for your business.

3. Don’t Be on All Social Media Networks

Being on all social media networks is not what you need, but choose those that are good for your business. Being on all social media networks may deplete your budget because that consumes time, money and efforts.  It’s better to be on few social media networks and perform well than to be on every social media and achieve low results.

4. Short of Time

Some of businesses ignore social media with the excuse that they don’t have enough time and money to invest. But, today social media is something important in online business and you can’t ignore that. You can invest some money by hiring an assistant that will help you do the social media tasks.
  
5. Efficient vs Effective

Social media is amazing, but a lot of folks mix business with effectiveness. Before making your start with social media, you need to begin with a goal. Then, reverse engineer how to realize that objective, and spot your top ROI activities, and also organize priorities and make boundaries.  

6. Focus! Focus! Focus!

After you set your goals, you need to focus on your business strategy to reach the top ROI. After, you will be obliged to decide to divide your limited resources and organize your priorities. You’ll notice that when you have clear goals, it will be easy to decide. Your social media efforts will have a purpose.

7. Create Content

Before making any success with your social media marketing, you need first to have content. The core element of success in social media is great content. So, you need to start creating amazing content to share with your fan base.

8. Know your audience

Remember that people are not basically interested in you or your business, but they are firstly interested in themselves. And what you share with them should be beneficial for them in a way or another. And to share such content, you need to know well your audience and what kind of services and products that would interest them.

9. Some Advertisement

Try to make people come to you. Make appealing content, offer expertise and tell people about what you know, and then invest some money in advertising to put your business in front of people.

10. Build Fan Base

You can’t reach great results by doing fewer efforts. If you want to reach great results, then you should create appealing content or have someone do the job for you. Then give articles to great media properties in your industry, or get some opportunities to speak in front of organizations. You will build your social media fan base and will also boost your business leads. It is worth investing efforts, time, and money.

11. Don’t follow trends

Trends come and go. Don’t follow what’s trendy in social media, but focus on what is good for your business. For instance, Instagram or Pinterest may not be a good choice for your business, even if they are among the trendy social media networks.

12. Have a face

Remember that followers are human beings, so have a voice and treat them and avoid being a faceless corporation. A lot of corporations fail to connect audience because they don’t understand that well. What matters for those organizations are numbers but not the audience.  Be honest with your audience, interact, and build trust.

13. Have an Enemy

When you stand for something, there are other people that share the same point of view, and vice versa. Of course you will never marketing to all people, but you can target those that share your worldview. One of the best ways to get people engage with you emotionally is by sharing you both a common bond, or defending same opinion.

14. Small business vs large organization

If you are a large company, it’s easy to build large fan base on twitter or Facebook. But, when you are a small business it’s a bit difficult and takes a lot of hard work. Yet, if you invest some time, and help with some advertisement, you can reach good results.  

Succeeding in Social media needs some tips and strategies to implement before reaching good results. 

What are the other tips you can share?




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Rachid Madani

I'm here to help you reach success with your online business. I can help with content marketing, social media, SEO, and email marketing. I provide tips you can follow to build a succesful online business.

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