May the victory be yours at the game of marketing this year!
Have you started on with your venture/business but do not know how to go about making it visible? Yeah, I know, we’ve all been there. All of us at a point have started off with fulfilling our dreams but have had a hard time selecting or choosing the right path toward it. It has all been on a trial-and-error basis. But thanks to technology, it has gotten a lot easier! With the protruding ideas and trends of the present-day world, all of us are in for proving ourselves and our wisdom. We are here to make a statement about what we do and believe in, and are ready to face everything coming our way. To be honest, if not for the services we are offered in the present-day, marketing our businesses would’ve been just as tough as surviving in quarantine during the covid-19 pandemic.
I’ve happened to stumble upon various people and their ways of trying to get their businesses the spotlight they desire. You are often in the right path but are doing it the wrong way. Here’s few ways in which you could achieve that spotlight for your venture through social media marketing-
Social Networking Sites
This has to be your go-to when you speak about social media marketing. These sites fulfil only one motive and it is to connect diverse people over one single platform. They are one of the largest platforms with many people pursuing various life skills and goals. As a good rule in sight, it is said businesses should possess active Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts. And as far as businesses are concerned, they tend to keep in touch with individual followers, develop the keen of personal interaction thereby instilling a sense of confidence and loyalty into customers. Not only can they do this, but also study the behaviour of the customers in order to come up with better and effective offers and deals for customers. As it has been said, knowing your customers and what they expect out of you is really important.
But what do these social networking sites offer you? They
- provide you with an accessible and powerful toolkit for taking actions and highlighting issues raised in interest of young people.
- help you organise activities, events, create groups, showcase your opinion to a wider audience.
- offer you an opportunity to be recognised by the public
- current and potential customer engagement
- provide you with a huge exposure open to many ideas and developments
You could use sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and a lot more to promote or build awareness of your business.
Image sharing and messaging sites
These messaging sites have become an effective way to engage customers and have taken over to be the most popular way to connect with friends and family. And while billions of people use messaging apps every day, it has become increasingly important for businesses and brands to make use or take advantage of them. These sites allow you to send personalized tailored messages to your audience and while you are at it, it gives value to one-on-one interactions between you and your prospects thereby building a relationship between the two of you.
As far as these sites have come, they are also quick and easy for your business and for your customers who tend to have the biggest power in their hands, one-on-one recommendations. To put it down simply, this could ultimately lead you to a higher order of conversion for your business.
What do these sites have to offer you?
- provides you with an opportunity to establish connections with people in remote places.
- your content always makes its way to your customers via messaging.
- enables you to send in updates to your large audience with minimal labour.
- helps you increase the efficiency of your communication network.
- offers you excellent security.
Social blogging
In the wake of social networking, many critics have an opinion that claims traditional blogging has left the panel. Although many would say that it is a thing of the past, it is certainly not true. Despite of the several other platforms and ways in which you could promote your business, social blogging still retains its original power. Sites like Tumblr, Quora have significantly made their stand in the community to provide marketers a way to engage their audiences through written content. Blogging helps your audience stay engaged. And when they are engaged, the higher the chances of them developing interest towards what you have to offer. The content you create is great for your website and is helpful to your audience.
In what ways do you benefit from social blogging?
- you can boost search engine optimization
- establishes your business as a leader
- helps in the connection of people to your brand
- provides value to your readers
- strengthen relationships with current, new and potential customers
Take part in social community and discussion sites
Discussion forums are very important for businesses. It is an informal space where you give out or share announcements like offers, events about your business as well as answer to the questions your consumers have about your products and services and also talk about the features that your services include hereby by giving them reasons on why they should be doing business with you. While you take part in these discussion sites, you are providing others with valuable information as well. And when you hit the spot, people who are interested in you, browse through your site, check your community and nature of service leading to enticing your visitors to becoming potential buyers.
These platforms give out a sense of safe space to its users and thus customers express their views on your products and performance. They often discuss what your products or services lacked and can intern suggest you with what you could do to give out a better version of yourselves out there. This allows you to take notes and implement new and better results of your ideas effectively.
What are the benefits of taking part in social communities?
- you create and develop your own content
- define your stand in your industry
- provides you with a community-based support
- offers you the opportunities of collaborating and managing with other groups in your community
- provides you with better engagement
Try influencer marketing
Influential marketing could be one of the ideal ways of using social media marketing. Marketing through influencers is the simple way of promoting products and services of your brand through online influential icons who have a great following. When you are collaborating with these influencers, not only does it boost your brand being associated with such an individual but also develops a sense of trust. These influencers have a wide fan following who like and follow them, and a word from them about your brand? It could create a lot of conversions for you! But be cautious, choose an influencer who matches the vision with your own.
What can you benefit out of influential marketing?
- your brand’s awareness is paid attention to
- you effectively reach your target audience
- provides an amazing value to your audience because of the impact these influencers have on their followers
- builds quick credibility and trust
- your promotion does not appear pushy
Final thoughts?
Social media is an essential part of your business marketing strategy. It has been said that 52 percent of the marketers have caught the attention of social media positively influencing their businesses, be it via sales or revenue. It is solely responsible for the bigger part of your leads and sales that has been brought to your company through simple steps of connecting and interacting with your customers conventionally bringing your brand under the spotlight. And with so much competition around you, if you haven’t made the most of this enormous platform for your business, what have you been doing?
