Social Media Marketing

It’s hard to believe that Snapchat has been around since 2011. Even though it’s no longer considered a new social media platform, many small businesses still aren’t making it a part of their social media marketing. Time and staffing limitations could be your reason, but don’t let fear of the unknown stop you! The app isn’t just sharing photos and videos — it’s an incredibly effective tool for building relationships with your customers.

Instagram story highlights are a great way for your audience to get to know you right off the bat. It’s the first thing they see when looking at your profile, and allows you to be more creative with how you market yourself!

When was the last time you revisited your social media strategy? Better yet, do you even have a strategy guiding your social media efforts? You might be seeing some results from what you're doing, but imagine how much better it could be if you were focusing on how to improve and by proxy increase conversions. Here are a few social media strategy tips to help boost your conversions:

Facebook recently announced some major changes to their news feed. These changes are based around prioritizing "meaningful person-to-person interactions among friends and family over posts from Facebook Pages." So what this means for you as a consumer is that you will be seeing more of the types of posts that you engage with (comment, like, share) on Facebook. What this means for you as a business is that you need to change your Facebook strategy. Here are a couple of tips we have for you so far:

For this week’s blog post, I will be discussing the importance of Instagram Marketing and using it as a powerful tool for your business. With these 3 tips you will learn how to grow your business and turn followers into clients!

Engagement across your social media platforms can be broken down into 3 basic categories of commenters. Speaking from professional experience, I've found that the first step to great engagement is to spot the spam bots. You'll usually notice their obviously auto-generated emoji responses. Once you take those out of the equation and focus on actual human interactions, the real marketing can begin. While every marketer will have a different approach on how best to respond to the three following categories of commenters, here's our advice: