By Susan Varty
Just say no to boring posts on your social media channels. Susan Varty has some unconventional social media tips for marketers.
- Hire a cartoonist to create commentary on your industry to share.
- Use 10-15 hashtags on every post to amplify your reach for a designated time period. Track the data before, during, and after.
- For established, active channels, reduce the frequency of your posts to make a bigger impact later on.
- Find and coach customers or people at your company who would take over your accounts or be featured as a “guest social media manager or speaker”. Announce it like a marketing campaign.
- Translate and/or post your social content on a landing page so more people can read and share, ungated. You can also use this method to provide an easy-to-access library of content for sales reps.
- Avoid product images. Use close-ups of human faces for every post during a designated time period and track the data.
- If you are posting and managing all social accounts, appoint another person to reply and comment only. This will ensure audience growth and interaction while you optimize content.
- Use Microsoft Word’s transcription feature (in 365) to upload an event or call recording and pull quotes for your social media content development.
- Choose one social network you have not used. Survey your customers to see if they are there (and learn more about where they hang out online overall).
- Share industry jobs on “promotional” channels, when appropriate. This is content everyone likes to keep tabs on and then it won’t be unexpected when your company needs to recruit.
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By Susan Varty, Founder and CEO of HeadStart Copywriting: unlimited writing and editing for marketers. Sold by user license as a subscription, HeadStart writes pieces continuously to help marketers free their time and reach more people.
