With the digital age taking over, it is crucial to market yourself and your business online and uses various social media marketing tactics to grow and stay relevant in such dynamic and competitive conditions. We will discuss various effective strategies that can help you grow your social media following.
- Instagram (Reels and SEO) – Reels are short videos like TikTok that have suddenly become a very big trend on Instagram. Seo is Search Engine Optimisation that is the practice of strategically placing and using certain keywords and terms that place your content on the top of the list in algorithmically working search engines like google and Instagram. SEO drives organic Instagram visibility by the use of strategic captions and hashtags, combined with catchy and entertaining reels, this tactic could drive organic Instagram visibility and make your content/brand more reachable and attract new followers who can ultimately turn out to be ideal customers.
- Reels (Instagram exposure) – Reels are short videos and have become a viral trend on Instagram that is incredibly useful at reaching greater audiences. Instagram used stories and posts to gain attention for the longest time but with the feature to upload reels, the viewing rate has increased more than tenfold. Reels can contain texts, special effects, catchy quotes, popular music or dance steps, clever marketing for products and literally anything you can imagine, you can create a visual reel and market it to the right audience using the right SEO tactics.
- Online shopping feature – After the pandemic, most of us have gotten lazy and used to shopping online, Instagram has taken advantage of this fact and its huge user database and has come up with its own eCommerce Instagram shop feature that allows us to not only use Instagram and see products along with posts but also directly buy them, isn’t that just simply genius? We can also use the advantage of this and market your products and services and make use of this huge user database.
- Brands – Brands have used this huge platform and in conclusion, not only has business increased by threefold, brands have now been humanized and the increased transparency, authenticity and vulnerability has been a blessing in disguise for brands as people now view them as an entity that is humanitarian rather it’s earlier offline and rigid presence.
- Facebook Advertising- As the market place continues to be more saturated and Facebook advertising costs are on the rise, advertising on these foundational and fundamental sites and running campaigns are now more important than ever. Facebook is giving more prominence to reels on Instagram and has proven that video ads are more effective than photo ads. A good Facebook campaign can do wonders for your business.
- Flexible Strategies on Facebook – With the unprecedented economic impact last year, it is essential to have a good grasp of Facebook Advertising Fundamentals so you can formulate strategies, it is also smart to control privacy restrictions and most importantly, be flexible.
Over the last year, social media trends have undergone vast changes and evolution. The race to achieve the most attractive feature, gets more nerve-wracking than ever. To help the new businesses grow, marketing experts share their predictions to help them prepare their social media marketing plans.