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Strategies For Marketing Your Business on Social Media

Your Business + Social Media = Success

By Finnegan PiersonPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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In today's day and age, everyone seems to be on their phone or in front of a tablet or laptop screen as much as they are looking beyond their device and at their surroundings. The primary factors that have led to this can be attributed to a number of players, but chief among them is social media.

And while the consuming platforms that so many people spend so much of their time on can have negative effects on some aspects of daily life, they can have a great effect on your business. Social media is a brand new landscape for effective digital marketing, and embracing it can do wonders for your business. Here are some proven strategies for marketing your business on social media.

Dig Into the Data

When you advertise on social media, there is a wide range of routes you can go and results you can see. Which platforms are best for your brand? Which demographics are you going to be targeting most effectively? How are different campaigns performing? These endless questions can be hard to quantify in the messy world of multiple social media platforms and lots of intricacies in modern technology.

Employing the help of a platform that can bring you statistics like Facebook Ads data will help set you on the right path in terms of where to concentrate your social media advertising efforts. For example, using ad performance data, you can see how your different campaigns are doing on different platforms, and determine which platform is best for users engaging with your content.

You can also chart the reach of your campaigns over time and see how many impressions your advertisements are getting. In order to have some direction in where and when you want to target your efforts, going deep into the data of how your initial campaigns are performing is a great place to start.

Stay Ahead of the Curve

Like all aspects of technology, social media is a dynamic landscape. The favorite platforms of users of all ages are constantly changing, as are trends on those particular platforms. Whether you want to consult a team of social media experts or try to monitor these changes by yourself, staying as up to date as possible in regards to trends in the broader social media space is key for getting the most out of your campaigns.

Knowing who is using which platform will know which platforms to target with the most effort and which groups to target your campaigns toward. So much of social media advertising is being in the right place at the right time, so keep tabs on which platforms you want to be concentrating your campaigns on and how you can best tailor your messaging to those audiences.

Keep Your Messaging Authentic

With social media marketing, it's important to distinguish between tailoring your messaging to appeal to a specific audience and completely changing the core brand and values of your company in order to get a few clicks. When you are designing your social media campaigns, make sure that you stay true to the values and mission of your business that you try to communicate in all of your advertisements.

If you try too hard to go outside of the box, your campaigns can be viewed by potential customers as deceiving or completely different from what they clicked on, which will draw them away from your company. Keeping your messaging authentic is important for maintaining a consistent brand identity across platforms and being truthful in what you are communicating to the potential customers you are trying to target.

Digging into the data, staying ahead of the curve and keeping your messaging authentic are three useful strategies for marketing your business on social media. The landscape of social media is always changing, but your brand is one that should remain consistent in its identity across platforms. When you have a strong business, you can get anyone to stop scrolling and see what you're all about.

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