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3 Best Social Media Strategies For New Businesses

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3 Best Social Media Strategies For New Businesses

Social media strategies are not easy to come up with. Creating the perfect marketing plan for your business can provide exceptional results, especially if the business is small or just starting out.

To put into perspective just how important social media is, the usage has increased from just 7% to 65% (https://www.smartinsights.com/social-media-marketing/social-media-strategy/new-global-social-media-research/) in the last ten years alone. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram see an extremely high number of daily users and engagements and businesses can benefit greatly by advertising to these potential customers.

However, social media marketing can be overwhelming, particularly if the business does not have prior experience. Having set strategies allows for achievable goals and realistic targets along with the ability to track the progress the brand is making.

Your goals should be SMART

A lot of businesses feel pressured to follow the same strategies their competitors have adopted but before you start your journey into social media marketing, think about what you want the end result to be.

SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Keeping this in mind allows for clear goals and targets that you want to achieve. It helps to keep the goals relevant and provides a window of time that you can set for yourself and aim to hit your targets within that period.

Understand your audience

Social media has a lot of users. Facebook experiences over a billion daily users but you cannot advertise your product to all of them. As a small or new business, it is essential to understand the market and then cater your products and services to a specific audience. Each location has a different market and preferences. Pakistan social media is not going to be the same as the USA social media.

The content you post should be valuable, engaging, and interesting for the viewers. Think beyond posting solely about your products and customers. Your posts should attract the clients towards the brand instead of simply urging them to buy a certain product or avail of a specific service. This allows the brand to grow and promotes brand loyalty.

Timely posting

As a business, it is important to post at the right time. Posting content during off-hours is not recommended as untimely posts are not likely to get much engagement. Posting consistently shows professionalism but it can be difficult to manage multiple accounts at the same time.

Scheduling your posts allows you to line them up in advance and post them automatically. This saves time and ensures that each post is published at the right moment to maximize views and engagement from viewers.

 

Following these tips can make the management of social media marketing much easier and provide a few ideas that you can adopt and follow to stay on track and keep tabs on the progress you and your brand have made since starting out.

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