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Nail social media for your small business with our social media workshop

Hands up if you have a love/hate relationship with social media? It’s a sure bet everyone’s hand is up right now!

While social media is a core marketing tool and a fun way to stay connected with friends and family, it can also be incredibly frustrating to use. There’s nothing worse than coming up with a great post idea for your business (after days of trying) only for Facebook or Instagram to show it to a fraction of your audience.

It’s safe to say we’ve all been there.

Then there are the endless algorithm changes, new post types and channel updates to wrap your head around. One day, it seems you have it all worked out only to find your reach tanking the next day due to yet another change.

The only constant is change (and a good strategy!)

It’s understandable if you feel overwhelmed by the changing nature of social media. While change is one of the only constants in life, that doesn’t mean you should give up on nailing social media for your business altogether. With a solid social media strategy and marketing plan, it’s much easier to ride the waves of change and keep making progress.

If you’re randomly posting things to your page, you’re never going to get the results you want. On the other hand, if you have a clear organic social media strategy and marketing plan in place, you’ll be able to build a solid following because you’ll already know the answer to these questions:

  • What‘s your reason for posting?
  • Who are you trying to reach?
  • Why should your audience care about your post?
  • When are you planning to post?
  • Where does your audience hang out online?
  • How does your audience prefer to consume content?

If you understand the why, what, when, where, who and how of your social media approach, it’s a whole lot easier to make changes as you go, deal with algorithm updates and stay ahead of the game.

The importance of your social media profile

After strategy and planning, the next element that can help you nail your social media is your profile. To get the most out of social media, it’s best to have business profiles set up on both Facebook and Instagram. This allows you to access enhanced analytics so you can see:

  • the best times to post
  • who is following your account
  • which posts perform best
  • what content gets the most reach
  • demographic, geographic and other audience information.

On Instagram, changing over to a business profile gives you the chance to create a call to action button, where followers can visit your website, contact you or learn more about a product or service. You can also create quick shortcuts to highlight your main stories and create topics for your content to make it easier for followers to find what they need.

While you may be focused on your business profile, your personal profile can also help raise awareness and build your brand. On Facebook, make sure your personal profile links back to your business page so when people hover over your name, they can click the link and find out more about your business and what you do.

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Social media, content and organic marketing

We all know that Facebook and Instagram want you to pay to play. It’s been that way for a while now. Getting organic reach is tough and for some business owners, it seems boosting posts and paying for ads is the only way to get seen. However, organic marketing is NOT dead and you can still harness your social media channels to gain free reach.

Obviously, we’re big fans of organic marketing around here (it’s all we do!) so we know there are ways your small business can stand out and gain a following without having to fork out for ads. Here are a few ideas to get you started:

  • Giveaways and contests are a great way to boost your reach and expand your following. A smart strategy is to ask existing followers to tag their friends to enter your competition. Just be aware of relevant rules for running contests.
  • Asking questions is a good way to start conversations and increase engagement. You can use different types of content to do this, such as polls, gifs, images and video. Make sure you reply to all comments to keep the conversation going.
  • Use hashtags to expand your reach beyond your follower circle. People use hashtags to discover new content on topics that interest them so ensure you add relevant and trending hashtags to your content to make it easier to find.

Want more social media tips? Join our next social media workshop!

If you want to learn more, why not come along to one of our bi-monthly social media workshops? Our fearless leader, Desiree Robards, spills the beans on how to get the most from social media, offering practical advice that you can start implementing straight away.

Stop stressing and start harnessing the power of social media for organic marketing by signing up for our next social media workshop now!

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