10 Commandments of Social Media Marketing

Believe it or not, embracing the power of content and social media marketing can help increase brand awareness and customer base in an amazing way. But what if you don’t have any experience or insight? Perhaps, it could be more challenging.   

It’s important for social media marketers to completely understand the basics of social media marketing. From maximizing the quality of your content to maximizing your online entry points, following these rules of social media marketing will effectively help your business to achieve new heights of success.

1. Carefully Listen to Your Audience

Success with content marketing and social media needs more listening and less talking. Carefully read the online content of your target audience and participate in discussions to learn what matters most to them. Only then you’ll be able to create content for your target audience and create conversations that add immense value instead of messing up their lives.

2. Stay Focused

It’s always better to specialize because sometimes a jack of all trades is a master of none. A focused social media marketing strategy tailor-made to build a credible brand identity has obviously better chances of success than an extensive strategy that includes every technique and targets all type of audience.

3. Quality Trumps Quantity

Quality always rules over quantity. So, it’s better to have 100 followers who read and like your content and share with their own audiences, than 1,000 followers who don’t bother to have a look at your post or offerings.

4. Patience is the Key

When it comes to social media marketing success, keep in mind it doesn’t happen overnight. Some digital marketers attempt to do every possible thing to achieve success, but it is highly recommended to be patient and stay committed for the long haul in order to accomplish your business objectives and maximize your results.

5. The Rule of Compounding

If you post an amazing, high-quality, engaging post and work hardly to build your online audience of loyal brand supporters, they’ll most likely share it with their own audiences on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and even on their own blogs.

This sharing and talking about your content opens new opportunities for your brand and search engines find new entry points to find it in keyword searches. And such entry points could grow to thousands of more possible ways for your potential customers to find your brand online.

6. Influencer Marketing

Influencer marketing is always a great idea when it comes to increase your brand exposure and awareness. It is advisable to spend time finding some thought leaders and industry influencers who have quality audiences and are likely to be interested in your brand and offerings. Connect with those influencers and work to build relationship with them.

If they find your brand a credible brand and useful source of useful information, they might connect with your brand, share your content with their own followers. This will ultimately put your brand in front of a wide new audience.

7. Offer Immense Value

If you spend your efforts, energy and time talking about your products and promoting your services, trust me, people will not bother to read your posts. What you need is to add value to the conversation. Focus on creating amazing, useful content and developing relationships with industry influencers. As those influencers will serve as an effective catalyst for word-of-marketing for your brand and products.

8. Acknowledge Every Person

In business world, you can’t ignore the person who reaches out to you personally, in social media world, don’t ever think of it. Building a strong relationship with your fans is one of the most important aspects of social media marketing success. So, it’s always important to acknowledge every single fan or follower who reaches out to you.

9. Accessible to Everyone

Some brands publish a post and then disappear. This practice isn’t good. Always there for your audience every time. Consistently publish fresh content and activley participate in discussions. Online audience is very indecisive and they won’t think for a second to unfollow your brand if you disappear for long time.

10. The Rule of Give and Take

In digital realm, you can’t expect others to promote your brand, share your content, and discuss your offerings if you don’t do the same for them. So, whenever you get an opportunity, dedicate some of your time to sharing and promoting content published by others.

So, these are some rules that you need to carefully focus if you really want to run a successful and effective social media campaign which will help you get maximum ROI.