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Social Media Marketing Today: Tips for Beginners, Staying Current, and Why It Matters

Updated: May 7, 2023

This post was originally published on November 1, 2021, and updated on May 5, 2023.


Information in this blog post was obtained from HubSpot, Huspot, and Hubspot.

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Social media marketing is always evolving as consumer interests continue to evolve. Maintaining constant interest in what a business posts is an important way to ensure success. Use these tips to keep your content at peak performance.


Social Media Marketing Tips for Beginners

Kayla Carmichael gives several great tips for beginners. Syncing posts across social media accounts makes content creation easier and faster. But, remember, when it is done too much it can look lazy! So tweak posts for each social media platform when you can.


Another great suggestion is to include hashtags to increase engagement. An active audience will search for these hashtags, so using them will make your content easier to find and stand out to consumers.


Finally, invest in influencers to promote your product or service. Young consumers hang on the words of their idols and investing in an influencer could be the perfect way to gain more traction on what you might be selling.


Staying Current

Social media marketing can help you keep up with news and trends. Sophia Bernazzani illustrates some ideas here, including a few sites that exist to make watching the social media world easier. One example is to set up Google Alerts. These alerts will allow you to get updates with news about topics, influencers, or hashtags. You can also explore social media sites' "explore" tabs to help identify popular hashtags and see what users are talking about.


Implementing these tips is great for social media marketing, but what might those benefits actually look like on the other end?


Why Social Media Marketing Matters

Kristen Baker has an ultimate guide to social media marketing and explains this in a series of points. Social media marketing increases brand awareness. Kristen explains how social media boosts brand awareness by driving up engagement, including comments, likes, shares, and re-posts. One other great point made is that social media marketing helps foster relationships with customers. Building lasting relationships with consumers is the greatest way to obtain information on products and how to further develop and grow your business.


Social media marketing is easy to keep up with given the right tools. Each blogger lists great ways for marketers to analyze information that consumers make readably available for free. These thoughts and ideas that are shared are an easy way to continue to advance marketing and therefore a business idea.


References

Bernazzani, S. (2018). How to Keep Up With Social Media News & Trends. Hubspot. https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/keep-up-with-latest-social-trends


Baker, K. (2022). Social Media Marketing: The Ultimate Guide. Hubspot.


Carmichael, K. (2021). 15 Essential Social Media Marketing Tips From Beginner to Advanced. Hubspot. https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/data-backed-social-media-marketing-tips

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