Showing posts with label Target Audience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Target Audience. Show all posts

Monday, 19 June 2017

5 Social Media Engagement Tactics

5 Social Media Engagement Tactics

Nowadays, we all are living into an era of social media. As we all know, social media is one of the most powerful tool which help one to increase its social media presence and gives exposure to your brand. It’s so simple to promote your brand over social media all it take is social media engagement. One can simply tell this to its readers by following simple steps. This blog describes 5 social media engagement tactics for improving and increasing your engagement with your followers.

-          Post Frequently and Consistently

The key to successful social media marketing is to post often. The more you post, the more engagement you will likely have. Most companies around the globe have a social media presence of some type. It is easy to go unnoticed among the crowd if a company doesn’t stay active by posting new and meaningful content both frequently and consistently. If you expect people to engage with you, then you need to maintain your presence by posting frequently. Since posting on social media multiple times a day is a little difficult, why not make it easier for yourself? You can use a tool to help you to post on multiple social media platforms in advance.

-          Create and Join Groups and Forums

The roles of forums and groups in social media have increased dramatically in recent times. Numbers of forums, communities, and groups on social media are increasing at a high rate and are expected to continue to do so. There are over 2 million groups on LinkedIn alone and that number only increases when we include the groups on Facebook and other social networking sites. The key for marketers to succeed in these forums and groups is to join a conversation rather than starting it. Instead of promoting products or creating a large group, which gets difficult to control, it’s important to create a relatively small but active group.

-          Q&A Sessions

The key to making any social media marketing campaign successful is to engage the audience. The more engagement, the more buzz is created which helps a company to keep its name in the forefront of the mind of the customer. Question and answer sessions allow a company to have a conversation with their audience and to identify their audience’s views about its products and services. There are many Q&A websites that a company can use. A company should have its presence on all of these popular websites in order to answer customer’s queries and ask customers questions. For example, Amazon has answered a total of 238 questions on Answers.com. There are many people who have a lot of questions which need answers and having access to Q&A websites can provide the best solution for addressing an issue.

-          Use Social Media Tools

Technology helps to do everything in a better way and social media marketing is no exception. The use of different social media tools not only improves a company’s social media performance but can also help a company analyze their performance. There are various tools which can help a company to automate its social media presence and make its usage more effective. Using these tools ensures that social media strategies and tactics.

-          Conduct Polls and Surveys


Polls and surveys have been important ways to generate information about audiences for years. They allow a company to not only generate meaningful information but also to engage the audience. As a marketer, if you want to attract more audience with less effort, try using a survey.  Pizza Hut India recently rolled out the following simple poll asking the audience to name a pizza. This not only engaged the audience, but also provided them with an opportunity. 

Wednesday, 2 November 2016

6 Ways to Conquer Facebook Marketing

           6 Ways to Conquer Facebook Marketing

Talking about social media world we are living in, it is everywhere around us. One moment we use Facebook and the other moment we start using twitter or other app like Instagram or Snapchat. Social media platforms have a massive presence of online users.  And this has turned these platforms into a stage which have huge potential in terms to disseminate information to a larger section or in other way round to get the public know about the product or services that we are offering as a business. But game changes when it becomes business page rather than a personal profile. And to name every single social media platform we have, has its own set of rule to conquer the platform be it Facebook, twitter, Instagram or any other Social media platform.
When it comes to promote the brand and do the marketing for it on the digital platform, we need to have the set of rules.  Facebook has its own arena, and has its own rules and regulations to stay in the race.
Facebook is a much changed medium in comparison to what it started with. It has grown bigger and still growing.  There are pages, groups and ads to look for the marketing thing. But to make the maximum utilization of the medium varies on several factors. When you have idea of the Facebook tools, you need to use it to the maximum to get the best return on investment from Facebook marketing. There are some strategies and rules to be followed for marketing strategy for Facebook.

Awareness about your Target Audience

Knowing your target audience on a specific social media platform like Facebook is necessary to go ahead with the marketing plan. There comes the role of Facebook demographics and the brand intelligence about customer’s profile which will help you to know where your target audience would be. Facebook audience insights further helps you in getting the minute details about your target audience. This is really helpful when you need to determine what kind of content would be the effective for your business.

Selling should not be on Priority

Facebook algorithm was changed at the end of the year 2015 favoring the brand content rather the content that drive sales and thus it changed the way a post should be posted. Facebook wants the post should have the content that can be seen, read, like and share by the online users of the Facebook. So a post should not directly aim to sell. Post the content that helps the brand to put in front of the new eyeballs and extend the brand awareness on Facebook

Content is the Master Key

Facebook post should engage the audience and encourage them to participate in your Facebook conversation and help the brand by sharing the content. Content of posts should update the consumer and let them help the word.  In order to get the maximum reach, the post content is the most important thing. On Facebook, here are four ways to present your content i.e. Videos, pictures, link and the text. As per the study of Socialbaskers, video is the most engaging content followed by the text, links and pictures. Before posting, do invest your time to analyze your audience and its behavior towards your business. Another thing to keep in mind is that post the data that would have the interest of public. The post should be catchy and should grab attention of your audience from first three to four words of the post. Online users have less attention span, so it is wise to maintain the content of post succinct and useful to the user.
It is also advisable to respond on the post. It is not fair on your brand image if you are not responding on your posts if there is anything asked by the user.  You need to be frequent in terms of reply if any conversation is started under your brand page

Pinned Posts

A pinned post shows always at the top of your business page and would not come down even if you post any new content.  And thus it helps your potential followers to like your page. If you want to share some information regarding any campaign or activity, you can pin it and let the users know about it.

Space out Your Post

Facebook posts should be done at regular intervals. Post has the chances to make it to the top when your target audience is the most active. Some research is to be done to know the behavior of your target audience.  In general, the research concludes that the most appropriate time to post on Facebook is Thursday or Friday in afternoon 1 to 3 PM. Make a plan for your Facebook posts and create a road map for covering number of topics. For e.g. if you are in the fashion industry, you need to post updates about the fashion vogue and all. Make a content calendar and assign what to post on different days of the week.

Hashtags on Facebook

Hashtags is not the sure shot formula to get the maximum number of views. Because on Facebook, post without hashtags perform better than the posts with hashtags. So you need to consider the use of hashtag to do the branding on Facebook. Some brands do use Hashtags because they are synonyms with the brand.

Tuesday, 20 September 2016

5 Ways Social Media Marketing can help you Grow Your Business



This is the high time when we should start discussing about social media marketing. Social media marketing is a process of gaining website traffic through social media sites. It usually center on efforts to create content which attracts attention and encourages readers to share it with their social networks. To some businessmen, it is the next big thing, a temporary but yet one of the most powerful strategy to grow their business these days. 

1.       Branding
When you have a presence on social media website, you make it obvious to your customer to find you and to connect with you. Social media marketing helps you to create word of mouth like people share your brand online and put reviews on it which helps you to grow your business easily and effectively. 

2.       Loyalty
The quality of being loyal is very important especially when it comes to your business. One should always keep effective social media marketing strategy to provide their audience with good and direct response or by different types of hashtags, as hashtags are so in trend these days. This will help the audience to trust you and build a better understanding with you. As trust and understanding is two of the most important elements of any purchase decision. 

3.       Services
When you connect with your customers on social media you always have to be so attentive and responsive so that they can connect with you easily as on social media you can’t connect with everyone individually so your services should upgrade time to time in manner to satisfy your customers. 

4.       Increase Ranking
One of the benefit of social media marketing is the more number of shares and likes your brand will receive the higher your ranking will be. One can put key words in the content so that search engines can search it fast. Good social media strategy leads to great search engine results.

5.       Eagle Eye
Always keep an eye on your competitors what they are doing on social media and how they are upgrading their business on social media. By following this regularly one can easily build up their strategies easily. Also you can improve your content, key words and hashtags which are not there in your competitor strategies.