social media for boring businesses

Social Media forBoring Businesses

Michelle G. HeldMetroNY.comPintalk.net

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SOCIAL MEDIA forBORING BUSINESSES

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Why?

Who’s Boring?• Many B2Bs• Industrial equipment• Goods• Services

Beauty Food Drink Travel Fashion Tech Entertainment

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Video is engaging!

Purpose• Mission statement• Why are you in business?• What makes your biz/product unique?• What separates you from the competition?• Focus on how a product, brand or offer can help

people, make life easier, more enjoyable, etc...

Where is Your Audience?

• Use Facebook native scheduler to schedule posts• Upload videos directly to FB• Emotion – amusing, surprising, hate, love, beautiful,

surprising, shocking• Use photos of animals, videos, quotes, facts• Try FB / IG Live• Boost soft content like positive reviews• Use best performing organic posts as ads• Use promoted posts to build a following• Local awareness campaigns • Form a user group

• 52% follow for offers or promotions• Join a Twitter chat• Use location data in posts• Images receive 18% more engagement• Hashtags get 2x more engagement• Include “Please retweet” for 4x more #RT• Tweet regularly• Retweet others!

• Top 5 / 10 {list}• how to• {new} blog {post}• Help, Great, Free, Follow

We process visual data 60k times faster than text!

• Posts tagged with a location get +79% engagement• Photos of human faces are 38% more likely to get likes• Use #hashtags 7 – 11 is optimal• Filtered photos 21% more likely to be viewed• Filtered photos 45% more likely to get comments• Post at optimum times• Convert to biz account to get stats

Tools• Hootsuite Pro• Feedly – $• Instagram Followers Lost / Untweeps / Who

Unfollowed Me• Corel Video Studio X9 Ultimate / Filmora• SEMRush• IFTTT

What?

Suggested Content• Quotes• Questions / Polls• Blog Posts• Infographics / Data• Hacks / DIY / How-to

More Content• Don’t be too salesy • How-to videos• Reviews• Use FB / IG Live• Boost Posts• Local Awareness • Form niche user group• Check stats often!• Post on a regularly

More…• Respond to comments• Use hashtags• Optimize time of day • Use analytics!• SEO for YouTube• Use SM for customer service• Post on a regular schedule• Don’t be too salesy

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