The Ultimate Guide To Social Media Marketing

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The Ultimate Guide To Social Media Marketing
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Scrolling through the social media accounts and
getting updates about your favourite bloggers,
and brands. Have you ever wondered, what are
they trying to do on social media? Except for
entertaining, informing, or educating. They all
are marketing themselves, their products, and
services. The activities they perform on social
media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat) a
re all part and parcel of social media marketing.
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What Is Social Media Marketing?
Social media marketing is the process of creating
content for social media platforms. The content
creation is done keeping in mind the specific
platforms. The content is tailored according to
the specific content and is shared to boost
conversions and increase brand awareness. The aim
is to connect your brand with your target
audience. See where they are, identify their
social behavior online, and see how they interact
with other brands. While social media marketing
is highly valuable and beneficial to the growth
of business, your strategy for every social
media channel will differ. Let us see the type of
engagement on varied social media channels.
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Facebook
This platform has grown over the years. From
being used for entertainment only, this social
media platform is now being used extensively for
businesses as well. The business owners
advertise their products and services through
Facebook ads. These are paid but quite helpful in
reaching the target audience. If we go by
numbers, there are around 1.79 billion daily
users across the world. This is so far has been
proved to be the best for advertising and brand
awareness.
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Instagram
This social media platform has different audience
from that of the Facebook. Primarily the
audience is millennials. This media engages
around 1 billion active users and is best used
for advertising, user-generated content, and
natural- looking media. This social media
platform has different audience from that of the
Facebook. Primarily the audience is millennials.
This media engages around 1 billion active users
and is best used for advertising, user-generated
content, and natural- looking media.
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Linkedin
This platform is more of a professional platform
but is widely used by businesses as well. This
social media platform has 675 million monthly
active users with baby boomers, millennials, and
Generation X as the audience. This is best
suitable for business development, B2B
relationships, and employment marketing.
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Snapchat
Primarily generation Z is the audience who uses
this social media platform. 249 million daily
active users use this social media application
worldwide. This platform is also best for brand
awareness and advertising. All the above
platforms have enough users to attract but as I
said before, all these social media channels vary
in their nature, audience and even the type of
content they would house. But each one of the
above channels offer unlimited benefits. Let us
see what are those.
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Benefits of Social Media Marketing
Increase Brand Awareness Social media users
depend on social media platforms to seek
information. In 2018, there were over 3.2 billion
people on social media worldwide. https//awario.
com/blog/36- surprising-social-media-statistics-y
ou-should-know-in-2019/ The people using social
media are huge in number and will probably
increase with time. This is the primary reason
why businesses must share content on the social
media platforms. When you will share your
products and services with the right audience,
they will get aware and with the word of mouth
spread it even more. Adopting social media
marketing is good for all sorts of businesses.
Whether you have just started or have come a long
way, promoting your content on the
above-mentioned platforms will bring your brand
to notice. This should be the first and the
foremost aim of the business. Next, through
social media marketing, you can also boost the
awareness through comments, shares, likes, and
re-posts.
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Generate Pipeline of Leads
Social media allows you to promote and share your
product. This is one of the best and the
simplest ways to improve lead generation, boost
conversions, and even increase sales. You can
also boost conversion by creating contests for
your visitors, followers. Ask them to
participate and engage. Many bloggers and
businesses promote themselves by announcing
giveaways. This is one of the best ways to
increase engagement. You can also include links
to your website and offers in the bio sections
of your business profiles. Conducting live
sessions is another strategy you can adopt. Not
just this, social media platforms also allow you
to sell your products and services. For example,
Facebook enables you to start a shop through
Facebook Shop Section or Instagram shopping
feature. These features allow your visitors
and followers to click on the products you have
posted. They are able to check the prices,
material, and size, depending on the type of
product.
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Build Customer Relationships
By connecting and engaging with your social media
followers, you are able to build lasting
relationships with the potential customers. You
can also do this by interacting with them on
posts, responding to their comments, providing
them feedback, and updating them with any
information they may need. You can also ask
questions to your followers. Ask them about
their issues, what are they looking for, and help
them in alleviating their issues. This way you
will not only build trust but will also get
their valuable input regarding your products and
services.
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Keep Tab On Competitors
Social media platforms are a great way to track
the progress of your competitors. The best part
of social media platforms is that these are free
and easily accessible. You can jump onto the
profile of any of your competitor and see their
strategies, media tactics, the products they are
promoting, campaigns they are running, and
everything else too. The social media platforms
allow you to look at what is working for others
and what is not. I am not saying that what is
going fine for others will also prove to be fine
for you. But at least you get a rough idea about
what might work for your business. So, it is a
great place to be at when it comes to running
your business. Afterall, the last thing you
would want to do is to stand out in the fierce
competitive market.
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Conclusion
It is true that there are billions of users on
social media platforms but all those users are
not your customers or target audiences. While
planning to post on social media, you will have
to figure out who your target customers would
be. Narrowing the focus will prove to be more
beneficial than taking a whole world
in. Handling a social media account is easy only
until you are scrolling and using it for fun. But
if you are a business and have big goals, you
would want more in terms of audience, leads, ROI,
and attention too. So, to get all of the above,
it is important for businesses to get the
services of the top social media marketing
company The Big Unit is the number one agency in
Australia. Contact to know their services.
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