Running a business in the current age means keeping a finger on the pulse of social media, as this is one of the main ways in which you can scale your business up. If you’re keen on using social media strategies that your customers will love, read on to see some of them and improve your business fast.
Make Use of SEO
SEO will help you get to the top of social media and internet searches in general, and this will, in turn, help you to stay in front of your customers, as you need to do to stay relevant. With about 60% of marketers saying that inbound marketing, including blog content and SEO represents their highest quality lead source, it’s clear where your focus should be. When you leverage good SEO tactics, you will be able to build a reputation for your brand and stay relevant, something that will make it easier for people to trust you and therefore be more willing to do business with you.
Create Quality Content Regularly
Another thing that your customers will love is quality and consistency. With good cameras available easily and countless stock photos available online, some for free, you have no reason to lack content. Whatever your chosen social media platform, you can find a way to feed quality, evergreen content to your fans. Doing this will give them something to look forward to and they will be willing to hang around for the ride, taking part actively in campaigns you send out and therefore giving you good responses.
Improve Your Website’s Speeds
A whopping 70% of consumers stated that page speed affects their decision to work with a company, so it’s important to make sure your pages load fast. Slow speeds leave you at a disadvantage because most consumers nowadays won’t be willing to give a chance to a business with slow pages, as they will navigate away to your competitors, who may have better speeds as the only advantage over you. Avoid this loss by investing in improving your page speeds so you can more easily funnel customers to the action you need them to take.
Give Your Customers Amazing Experiences
People enjoy getting a great experience from businesses a lot, and this is something you should take advantage of. Find out their needs and pain points when dealing with other businesses in your industry and work towards eliminating this. When you succeed, you will have a new base of loyal customers who prefer your goods or services over all others and will come back to you for more goods or products in a snap.
Set a Budget for Social Media
Finally, it’s important to set a budget for your social media expenditure. Doing this will make it easier for you to track your expenses and you will therefore have an easier time budgeting for different needs. You will also have money to deal with other issues, for instance, in the event that someone is dissatisfied with your business enough to sue you. Keep in mind that for a claim to qualify as a breach of contract, the person making the claim must be able to prove a few things. These include the existence of a contract, proof that the opposing party failed to fulfill the contract without a substantial reason to do so, and that failing to perform these duties resulted in damages. When you have a budget for social media expenditure and automate the process, you will be better able to deal with things like that described above and, in the long run, this will improve your popularity with customers.
When you follow these social media strategies for your business, you will have a better chance of growing your business exponentially. Give them some thought and you will be glad you did so in the end.
Devin is a writer and an avid reader. When she isn’t lost in a book or writing, she’s busy in the kitchen trying to perfect her slow cooker recipes. You can find her poetry published in The Adirondack Review and Cartridge Lit.
