Growing your small business’ social media presence is crucial to your success, especially in today’s digital age. While you may think otherwise, lacking a social media presence in today’s online ecosystem is the downfall of most modern businesses, ultimately categorizing your business as irrelevant and non-existent in the eyes of consumers.
Having an active social media presence not only allows you to promote your business but it allows you to share your brand story, engage with your customer base, and reach those you wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity to reach.
In short, having an active social media presence can have a major impact on the growth of your business, the reputation of your business, and ultimately, the bottom line of your financials.
So, how do you begin to grow your social presence? By employing efficient and effective social media strategies. Luckily, in this article, we’ll be sharing several tips and strategies that your small business can immediately implement!
Below are seven (7) of the most underrated social media strategies that small businesses and local businesses alike can implement immediately for success:
Build Trust Through Influence
Use Automation Tools to Streamline Your Business
Humanize Your Business with a “Behind the Brand” Approach
Focus on the People, NOT the Profits
The Three C’s: Create Consistent Content
Use Platforms that Your Target Audience Uses
Utilize Your Cover Image for Promotion
Build Trust Through Influence
Influencer marketing is a popular social strategy used by brands, large and small, employing other non-compete brands, relevant influencers, and PR events to promote a product or service.
While influencer marketing is most commonly used to promote a brands products and/or services, however, there’s a larger benefit that most overlook, and that’s consumer trust. After all, there’s no denying that people trust people more than they trust brands and businesses.
As a small business, A-list influencers are unlikely to be within your marketing budget. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t implement an influencer marketing strategy. By using micro influencers, local accounts of relevance, and user-generated content, you can begin to build trust through influence.
Finding suitable micro influencers doesn’t have to be difficult either. In fact, there are several resources available within your grasp. Aside from the obvious manual search that can be effective but time-consuming, there are also social media management platforms available for search.
You can learn more about finding local micro influencers by using sites like Social Blade and People Map.
Use Automation Tools to Streamline Your Business
Besides the tools used to search for relevant micro influencers, there are also several automation tools available to be used at your discretion. Not only will these tools allow you to streamline your operation, but it will make your marketing strategy much more automated so that YOU can put your time towards growing your business.
Whether you need to automate your social media posting schedule or your digital ad bidding strategy, there are tools that can help.
The following is a list of tools to look into:
Sprout Social: Social Media Management Platform
Hootsuite: Social Media Management Platform
HubSpot: All-in-One CRM Tool
MailChimp: Email Marketing Automation Tool
AdRoll: Advertising Automation Tool
In any business, big or small, time is money. By saving time on tedious tasks, you save money in the long run, ultimately allowing you to grow your business in real-time.
Humanize Your Business With a “Behind the Brand” Approach
In today’s digital world, consumers see through the noise. In other words, while brands were once able to hide behind their content, consumers now value transparency and relatability more than ever. One way to practice transparency and relatability? Get personal with your audience and share an inside look into your business’ processes, people, and culture.
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