A lot of people pose the question, "What are the most effective social media tactics?" I gathered the best answers from the experts and present them here.
Barry FeldmanOnline Marketing Super Freak | Content Marketing Consultant | Copywriter | Author of The Road to Recognition at FeldmanCreative
2. 2 billion
More than 2 billion people
have social media accounts.
Global Digital Snapshot, Wearesocial.net, 2015
47% 47% of all online time
is spent on social media.
Globalwebindex, 2014
3. According to the “2015 Social Media
Marketing Industry Report” from
Social Media Examiner, 92% of
marketers want to know:
Want to reach
these people?
WHAT SOCIAL TACTICS
ARE MOST EFFECTIVE?
4. Here are 30 of the top answers
culled from the experts.
5. Ensure your profile pages
use relevant keywords to get
discovered via search.
Optimize
your pages and
profiles.
1.
6. Brand your profile pages
with great cover photos,
backgrounds and colors.
Create branded
pages.
2.
7. Delve into social media data to
identify relevant issues and user
interests.
Determine
user interests.
3.
8. Observe how social-oriented brands
and leaders in relevant markets select
channels, tune-in to their customers
and create engaging content.
Learn
from leaders.
4.
9. Post 5-plus times daily on Twitter
and once or more each day on
Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and
the channels you use.
Post
frequently.
5.
10. Using hashtags helps with tracking
promotions, targeting readers by areas
of interest and starting conversations.
Use hashtags.
6.
11. Invest time and money on great
images to create the stopping power
you need to standout.
Feature
great images.
7.
12. Humanize your brand by sharing
candid shots. Your followers will
identify with them.
Share photos
of yourself
and team.
8.
13. Reach out to bloggers and other social
influencers. Be valuable to them.
Build one-to-one
relationships.
9.
14. Drop the corporate babble.
Be friendly and approachable.
Use a
conversational
tone.
10.
16. 12.
You’ll be labeled “spammer” and cast
into to social media purgatory.
Don’t overdo
the self-
promotion.
17. 13.
Be authentic and draw from your
experiences, knowledge, and sense
of humor.
Keep
it real.
18. You’ll get more engagement and
insights when you throw questions
out there.
Ask questions.
14.
19. 15.
Make things exciting for your fans.
People love to compete and strive for
the prize.
Run contests
and giveaways.
20. 16.
Social media users have shown they
like, love and share collages of
illustrations and different style photos.
Create
collages.
21. 17.
Use Simply Measured’s free follower
analytics tools to discover when your
followers are most active.
Perfect
your timing.
22. 18.
Prepare to work the channel
often and actively.
Respond fast and take part in
real-time conversations.
Interact in
real-time.
23. 19.
When someone does you the
favor of following, follow-up.
Express your appreciation
Follow-up with
new connections.
24. 20.
Monitor mentions of your
brand to find good feedback
to share, bad feedback to
mediate and new business
prospects.
Monitor and
respond.
25. 21.
Showing your followers members
only love will build loyalty and
invoke word of mouth.
Offer special
deals to your
followers.%
26. 22.
Create event pages.
Select a hashtag. Interact with
attendees. Stream video.
Publish content from the event.
Dial-up social
media at events.
27. 23.
Marketing expert Neil Patel
claims you’ll double social
traffic in 30 days with a pop-up
that asks for followers.
Toss up a popup
that asks for
followers.
28. 24.
Joining networks and groups
is a good thing.
Spreading yourself too thin is not.
Ration yourself.
JOIN NOW!
JOIN NOW!
29. 25.
Click around your Google Analytics
regularly to determine where traffic
is coming from and going to.
Learn from
your analytics.
30. 26.
Create an “all hands on deck”
approach across departments
for more effective customer
communications.
Work as a team.