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Writer's pictureHailey Miller

Social Media Ins and Outs

Information in this blog post was obtained from Hubspot Blog, Sprout Social, and Social Media Today with newly added, original, information.

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Tips for Successful Business Maximization


Social media, the fastest growing community today, can be the one element that sets apart businesses to maximize their full potential. This blog post contains delicate tips and tricks for increasing content conversions and an overall positive social media image.


Is social media content getting dull? Wanting to achieve higher social media ratings throughout all platforms? It's easy to start up any social media platform but to maintain that platform to perform at its highest capacity is the tricky part. Every business wants to run the most intriguing and compelling social media posts and with the easy help of the following tips and tricks, keeping social media increasing has never been easier. Businesses have reached high increase rates due to their social media image. It's important to understand the urgency of social media marketing. Social media marketing can increase a company's community, brand loyalty, brand identity, and many other aspects of the business world. With the thriving media world of 2023, companies must stay at the top of trends to keep an updated profile image and receive a higher conversion rate.


Guiding and conducting any social media post comes with the same set of guidelines the writer should follow. For example, the writer must remain consistent in posting, maintain correct grammar, and most importantly stay present. With being consistent, "...social media growth can be slow but like most things, if you remain consistent, you will generate results" (Hubspot Social). Check out more click here. As the saying goes, consistency is key. With slow growth, getting discouraged will come easy, easier than social media attention, but the more consistent in your work the easier it will be in the future.


Keeping Tabs on Social Posts is Critical


Keeping on schedule is a top priority
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Proper Social Media Content Scheduling


Another quick tip for maximizing the social media playing field is the use of proper scheduling. It is important to understand when and when not to post to create the most conversions towards each and every post. "Find a big creator in your industry and see what times they post"(Social Media Today), check out more by following this link, with the use of other creators you can time your post to be either before or after the creator's post to get a feel for the proper scheduling time. Time management is important to any business owner and using this time wisely even pertains to social media posts. The idea of a post is so that people will see it, you wouldn't want to go through all the effort in creating a post for no one to view it. Would you? Finding the perfect proper scheduling time for all platforms will make the post work for itself.


Another idea that comes to mind when talking about post scheduling, it's a great idea to upload content without replying to followers' comments then when the next form of content is posted should you reply to the comments. This, as Andrew Hutchinson writer of Social Media Hacks to Make Your Content Stand Out states, "This will give them a notification and then you will have a higher chance of them looking at your latest post." This is a great idea that helps with both profile activity and content creation.


With all the day's tasks and not enough hours in the day it seems like, making a part of your day easier becomes a priority. Social media content can take brainstorming to form a great idea, wouldn't you want it to reach its full potential? Social media ideas should become second nature to any content creator. The ideas must remain flowing therefore leaving the posting to a proper schedule. In the blog, "23 Social Media Post Ideas for Your Brand", the author, Jamia Kenan states that media posts should be planned on a weekly basis and also leaves great tips for what to post on those days. To read more of Jamia's piece, follow this link to get the full effect of her blog post. Her post is inspiring, and the tips she lists are amazing intel for those struggling with posting and what to post when.


The Key is Following Trends

Trend watching is an important key factor
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Trends


Trends are an important factor when running any business and operating any social media platform. Trends are what the public is currently into and interested in at the current moment. Some fade quickly while others can stick around for a few years. Some trends even circle around and come back at a later date once again becoming popular, for example, the scrunchie. By understanding current trends and their accommodated trend life, social media marketers and content creators can create quality posts for all social media pages. Knowing what consumers like is beneficial in many ways with successful social media platforms being one of them.


Trends, essentially, are what make the media world go round. It's how items get popular, people gain increased likes and followers, and companies know what the next big thing might be. It's important for social media marketers to not only focus on the present but also to look towards the future. When following trends, that's what said marketers can base their next piece on. For example, a make-up brand might look to trending looks and products to devise what the next launch should either be or look like to appease the viewers' interests. Making sure your post remains within the lines of the current trend could be the difference between having a successful social media page rather than a ghost social media page.


The Importance of Social Media Traffic

Likes and Shares are the leaders to success
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Likes and Shares


Focusing on the likes, comments, and overall doing of any social media post is also an important factor when thinking of easy tips and tricks for posting. Marketers must understand what content is liked and what content is disliked by their followers. You wouldn't want to go through the effort to display posts that no follower is liking. To understand what catches the eye of the follower more, the creator can post different posts, with different aesthetics to different sites and see what posts are doing well. By doing so it also shows the creator or marketer what they didn't like to keep note of for future reference. Once the type of post that works best for the business or company is established, the creator can then follow the current trends to keep everyone up to date on posting and keep the followers happy over the created content. That's just one of the many "Ins" of social media posting that can help to boost content.


Social media is a foreign place of shared media that can be overwhelming to one who works with it daily or is even new to the media world. Understanding the ins and outs of how to post, what to post, when to post, and why to post are essential needs when running a successful business social media page. It creates a community bond between any business and its customer base. It helps answer questions that not only help with their media profile but also to allow ample opportunity for items to be up to date with what is currently happening in the media world.



Resources

Bretous, M. (2022, June 29). 5 social media tips every small business needs [+ free tools]. HubSpot Blog. https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/small-business-social-media

Hutchinson, A. (2023, April 7). Social Media Hacks to make your content stand out [infographic]. Social Media Today. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/social-media-hacks-to-make-your-content-stand-out-infographic/647152/


Kenan, J. (2023, September 14). 23 Social Media Post Ideas For Your Brand. Sprout Social. https://sproutsocial.com/insights/social-media-ideas/

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