More and more companies are moving to social media advertising because most people find business through social media. A small business needs to be on social media and must keep its customer engaged on social media. There are multiple social media benefits including the following:
- Increase traffic to your web-site or physical business
- Sell on social media
- Network with similar businesses
- Find potential customers/increase your customer base
- Find potential partners/vendors
- Advertise new products or events
- Run targeted ads
- Market your business
- Engage your customers and keep them updated
- Increase brand awareness
- Find what your competitors are doing
- Gain insight for your business
A small business can do the following to reap social media benefits. If you don’t have time to do it yourself, contact us for help.
Create social media accounts
First thing first. Create social media accounts. And ensure that those accounts are secured with very complex passwords. You can create social media accounts on: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pintrest, Google+, and YouTube.
Publish articles, tweets, videos, and blogs
Keep your audience engaged and publish useful articles about your business and the value your business adds to the customers. Share testimonials. Publish news. Maintaining an account is a full time job. Blog, article, video, or media quality must be very good. If you have resources, it is fine or ask us for help.
Sell on social media
You can sell on social media sites. Create your listings, manage your inventory, and run live selling events.
Run target campaigns
This is a very good option, if you want to engage your potential customers. This will allow you to contact your customers and engage with them to do business with you. This will also help you get feedback from them.
Build and manage follower community
You can build a follower community. Run campaigns with them. Get feedback from them. Define your business direction with their feedback. Building and running a community requires virtual community management experience. Once a community is established, it becomes very rewarding. The possibility of doing and growing business with a follower community is seamless.