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How to Use Social Media Automation to Improve Your Marketing
Post Planner CMO Rebekah Radice and Tailwind Marketing Manager Melissa Megginson tell you everything you know to use social media automation the RIGHT way.
View the webinar replay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AZMnhyt-Oo
Post Planner CMO Rebekah Radice and Tailwind Marketing Manager Melissa Megginson tell you everything you know to use social media automation the RIGHT way.
View the webinar replay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AZMnhyt-Oo
How to Use Social Media Automation to Improve Your Marketing
YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT
PLACE IF YOU... 1. Struggle to manage an overwhelming amount of tasks 2. Need a process that allows you to make a bigger impact 3. Want a way to increase productivity, efficiency and profits
“64% of all marketers are
spending 6 hours or more per week on social media.” Source: Social Media Examiner Why Use Social Media Automation in Your Business?
Source: Marketo “91% of the
Most Successful Users Agree That Marketing Automation is “Very Important” to the Overall Success of Their Marketing Strategies.”
GOOD Automation BAD Automation Provide
content that you believe your audience will love Never post content that you haven’t already read Reposting the same content over and over and over again = SPAM Automating comments, replies, @mentions, etc. = SPAM Beware of tools that ask for your username and password - probably breaking ToS! Leverage evergreen content to help drive traffic to your site Save time (and take a break!) by adding automation to your strategy Use tools that allow you to login through your accounts - Like Tailwind and Post Planner!
Stop dragging and dropping. Let
the tool do the heavy lifting for you. Create the Perfect Mix of Content Add in Content That’s Perfectly Spaced Out (never post the same thing again back to back)
Be Engaging “Emoticons receive 33%
more comments, are shared 33% more often, and are liked 57% more than Facebook posts without emoticons!” Source: Panorama
Get Visual A recent study
by Simply Measured found that, “60% of brand posts include photos, which make up 80% of their page’s total engagement.”
Make it Findable Use Hashtags!
“Tweets with hashtags average 20% more engagement than those without.” Source: Simply Measured
Don’t let your great content
go to waste or get stale. Keep it in front of a whole new audience! Evergreen Content Should be Shared Frequently and OFTEN!
Your audience never has sick
days or goes on vacation, neither should your content. Schedule Your Posts Before You Go on Vacation (or an event)
Set up automation between an
action and a social network . You can do this through IFTTT (If This Then That). Here are a few IFTTT recipes... Set up Automation Between the Different Social Media Networks IFTTT
ARCHIE Choose Instagram as the
trigger channel and “any new photo” as the trigger. 01 02 03 Share Your Instagram Photos on the Other Networks The next step is to choose the social network you want the photo to publish to. Make sure to specify whether you want to upload a photo from a URL or create a photo post. IFTTT
ARCHIE Use an IFTTT recipe
to save your favorite links to a Google Spreadsheet for future use. Curate Content in Spreadsheets IFTTT
ARCHIE Set Twitter as the
trigger channel and “New Tweet From Search” as the trigger. 01 02 03 Receive Notifications About Tweets That Mention Your Business Configure your search by typing in your brand or product name (or whatever you want to track) in quotation marks and “-“ your Twitter handle. Choose the action that will occur when the recipe is triggered. IFTTT
ARCHIE Create the list on
Twitter.01 02 03 Add People to Twitter Lists Next, choose “Twitter” as the trigger channel and “New Tweet From Search” as the trigger. For the action channel, choose “Twitter”, and choose “Add user to list” as the action. IFTTT
ARCHIE If you’re a blogger,
you know that promoting your blog post on social media is a crucial step. Share New Blog Post on Social Networks IFTTT
Set “Twitter” as the trigger
channel and “New tweet from search” as the trigger. 01 02 03 Direct People to Your Main Twitter Account Configure the tweet to show tweets that mention your other accounts and don’t mention your main one. For the action channel, choose Twitter and for the action – “Post a Tweet”. IFTTT
Create a Twitter list of
people who are talking about a specific topic and using a specific hashtag. Build a Twitter List From a Specific Hashtag IFTTT
Search through the archive01 02
03 Save Tweets To Google Spreadsheets Make sure you don’t tweet the same thing twice Save any memorable tweets IFTTT
Any photo you like on
Instagram will automatically download to the folder you specify in Dropbox. Save the Instagrams you like in a Dropbox folder IFTTT
Schedule Posts Within Google Calendar
For this you will need a separate Google calendar. 01 02 As soon as you have it set up, add “#fbpages” to the title of the event and write the copy you want posted to Facebook in the event description. IFTTT
Share Your Pinterest Pins on
Other Networks Select “Pinterest” and either “New Pin On Your Board” or “You like a pin” as the trigger. 01 02 Choose whether you want to post to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. It can even go to your WordPress blog. IFTTT
Sign up for: Automate Your
Social Media Monitoring • Mention • Cyfe • Rival IQ and let them do the scouring work for you!
Stay up to date on
popular or trending hashtags and incorporate them into timely posts. Keep an Eye On Trending Hashtags
● Monitor Trending (HOT!) Hashtags
● Leverage Hashtags to Find Your Audience ● Join Conversations in Your Niche and Industry for Additional Exposure Hop into Conversations
You can also find relevant
content for Pinterest through the Tailwind Content Discovery feature. New cool tool called Tribes! ● EXCLUSIVE: Get your Tribes and Content Discovery invite today! melissa@tailwindapp.com Automate Your Content Search Process
Although it may seem that
automatic direct messages or automated tweets in conversations can save a lot of time, they hurt more than they help. Never Automate Direct Messages or Tweets in Conversations on Twitter
Scheduling too far in advance
makes it very easy to forget what you’re sharing. By the time your content is shared, it may be out of date. Don’t Schedule Too Far in Advance
On the opposite end, be
ready to jump in and turn off your automation if there is a tragedy in the news. While Automating, Stay Away From Current Events
We love the platforms for
their differences - pay attention to what works for each! Optimize each post for the different platforms 612 x 612 1200 x 627 600 x 900 440 x 220
If your customer is experiencing
problems with your product, the last thing they want is to receive an automatic response from a robot. Never Automate Troubleshooting
Listen and respond to your
users when they have problems. ● TwitLonger when you need more than 140 characters ● Jump on a screen share using Join.me ● Use Facebook Live to address concerns quickly and to a broad audience Don’t be a robot. Have empathy!
Simply Measured Case Study of
Post Planner Growth How to Use Automation to Grow Your Facebook Page by 193% http://bitly.com/fbgrowthplan
Schedule Pins, Discover Content, Analyze
Results Get a Free Month of Tailwind, a Pinterest Marketing Developer Partner bit.ly/FreeMonthOfTailwind For Tribes & Content Discovery - melissa@tailwindapp.com