10 things you need to know about getting more likes and followers on social media

The people you are trying to reach online with your social media marketing campaign should constantly be reminded of your social media presence to encourage them to visit your network more often or for longer periods of time. When you have built your social media community on any of the popular social media channels including your blog and the novelty wears off, your community members may become tired and leave if everything that you do always stays the same. You always need to stay active, create, share and engage with them using magnetic content to keep everything interesting. Always focus on content that pulls people in rather than just pushing it out.

Integrating social media into your business is not a one time event and it’s important that you continue building your social media following/community by diversifying your strategy. If you are already have a social media marketing campaign in place and you want to keep your approach fresh and innovative, find a couple of tips below that can help you with this.

Building your community

Create magnetic content

Provide engaging and useful content that your targeted audience will enjoy. It is very important to keep distributing this content on a schedule so that your audience will expect it and return to find more. Using magnetic content also has a much better chance of being shared again increasing your reach online.

Engage with your network

It is vital that you engage with your network on the social media channels that they are using. If you are unsure, ask them. Go beyond traditional marketing methods with social media and let your employees interact with your customers and visitors to expand your social media reach. This can help you humanize your business. By engaging with your network you can build relationships with them and this will encourage your network to return.

Go mobile

Make sure to research your mobile reach because many people are now using tablets and smartphones to find information and to access their favorite social media channel. By utilizing mobile technologies, you can ensure that interested people looking for anything that you offer can find you with ease. Before posting or creating anything that you are going to share on social media check how it’s going to look on a mobile.

Run a promotion

This is really easy if you think about it. Offer your community a free incentive such as a discount coupon or a free ebook to sign into your newsletter which you can use at a later stage to market to. This can also be great food for your content sharing strategy if you make the promotion quirky.

Make sharing easy

With your “magnetic content”, make it easy for your readers to share your content to their own communities, friends and family. Social sharing is really powerful if integrated correctly with your message. To make it easy to share your “magnetic content”, include a call to action in your message to remind your readers to share it along.

Use other networks

Write a great author blog post on industry related blogs to increase your reach. Also, participate in Google+, and Twitter chats to draw people in.

Use advertising

Where appropriate, use targeted social media advertisements to drive interested people that have shown an interest in what you offer back to the “magnetic” content you have created.

Share content with your email list

Offer your email list small bits from your social media campaign such as your latest blog posts and news items. The goal with this method is to encourage them to visit and join your social media community.

Use your website

Use visual elements such as banners and buttons on your website and blog with links to your social media profiles. This is an easy way to encourage your visitors to check what you are doing on the social web.

Use social media with customer services

Encourage your existing customer base to use social media to contact you on the social web when they have a query or a problem. When using this method, it is vital that you NEVER ever leave a query or complaint unanswered where it’s publicly viewable.

Use traditional marketing

Announce and promote your social media channels in your traditional offline marketing initiatives. An easy way to do this is by including your social media presence on your signage and any printed materials that you have.

This isn’t a quick push a button and get instant new followers blog post, but it is definitely worth it in the end. I’m sure you can buy social media followers, but does 10 000 untargeted followers really mean anything?