Hollie Clere, Author at The Social Media Advisor

March 15, 2020
Social Media Training

How Corporate Social Media Training Can Help Your Business Blossom This Quarter

When you have a team, social media marketing can be tricky. You can’t allow just anyone to represent you online. Unfortunately, exchanges can happen in social media that impact your small business in a negative way. And, once it’s online, it never really goes away.

To avoid needing to do damage control, it’s important to educate and train your marketing and sales team so that everyone is on the same page when it comes to social media marketing.

Goals and Structure

What your sales team needs from you the most right now is a game plan. Have you built a structure for them that is easy to understand and follow? Is your branding clear and concise? Have you gotten buy-in from the team? Do you have a marketing strategy and plan? Have you set goals for your marketing and sales team? The more work you do upfront to build a structure that is easy to understand and follow, the more successful your sales team can be with their work.

Giving Ownership to Your Sales Team

Let’s be honest, you don’t have the time to look over every team member’s shoulder to monitor their online interactions with your leads and clients. Wouldn’t it be better if you could trust your sales team to represent your brand and conduct business online without your oversight? Your sales team will be empowered by gaining ownership to do their best work without micro-management. The key is to make certain your sales team has been properly trained on your branding, your social media policies, and how to engage with your audience both online and offline. This move will free you up to focus more on keeping your business running smoothly and will free them up to do more with their time in an educated and empowering way.

Social Media Marketing & Your Sales Team

Understanding how social media can work for your business is the first step in building a beautiful online brand. While your website is the roadmap, social media marketing is the engine that keeps things moving. An educated sales team can really ramp up your impact and results when it comes to social media marketing.

Are you looking for a social media company to train your staff on online marketing strategies and equip them with the tools to maintain engagement, spark interest through LinkedIn, and build a solid foundation company-wide? Training can be done virtually or in-person. Get more information on our website here.

Whether you need help drafting a social media policy for your team, coming up with a social media strategy for your business, or want to bring in expert help to train your sales team on the best way to utilize social media marketing – we’ve got your back here at The Social Media Advisor!

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Hollie Clere of The Social Media Advisor is a “#BeAwesome” Developer, Social Media, Brand Builder, Content Manager, Trainer and Author in LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, and the tools to manage them.

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Why Hire a Social Media Training to Enhance Your Company’s Sales Team?

March 8, 2020
Social Media Training

Why Hire a Social Media Trainer to Enhance Your Company’s Sales Team?

Numbers are important but an untrained sales team could have a negative impact on your brand messaging. With numerous people out there sharing their version of your mission, vision and brand – it can create confusion in the market. This type of brand confusion can have a long-term impact on your bottom line. Social media training is essential to get your sales team on the same page and moving towards the same target – profit for your small business.

Consistent Messaging

How do you want people to feel when they interact with your brand on social media? Does your team understand the significance of this feeling and how to best engage with others online to encourage and influence followers? The only way to be certain that your team is all on the same page and communicating the same messaging, is to train them on what you want them to discuss and how you want them to engage with your audience online.

Consistent Activity and Supportive Engagement

Your marketing team is moving in many directions. An educated sales team can help keep the online conversation and engagement going to saturate the market with your message and keep you in front of your social media audience.

Buy-in for the Company Brand

If you want your sales team to believe in your mission and vision the way that you do, you have to engage them. Not only do you need to engage them, you have to develop a solid brand and marketing strategy and communicate that with your team. Then you must equip them with the tools and training to go out into the world and spread your message! Once you achieve a level of buy-in with your team, through communication and training, they will feel empowered and will want to contribute to the online and offline conversation in regards to their work and your company.

Empowers Your Team to Own Their Role

With the right guidance and training, your employees will feel empowered, engaged, and truly a part of your company’s mission. With no direction, team members often work with their heads down in hopes of not garnering any negative attention at work. However, with the right messaging, communication strategy, and training – your team now feels like a part of the company culture – not afraid of participating because they understand what is expected and what the brand is looking to achieve.

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March 1, 2020
Social Media Training

Looking for a Social Media Trainer in the Denver Metro Area?

Are you seeking a social media marketing trainer in the Denver Metro area? The Social Media Advisor team has more than 15 years of experience helping small businesses make an impact and expand their reach using social media marketing.

Learn Strategies for Your Team

A team can be a valuable resource for your social media marketing but only if they are trained on what they should and shouldn’t do in an online marketing space in regards to your brand and messaging.

Once you have developed your marketing strategy, then it’s time to implement and get all of your team members on the same page. First, you’ll need a social media policy – a guide to follow for your business and your team. Then, you’ll want to share your company’s goals and mission when it comes to social media marketing.

A trained team will be more encouraged and comfortable in participating because the guidelines will be clear and communicated.

Client Nurturing & Team Engagement on Brand Pages

Small businesses know how to create and post content online but often they neglect to spend the time building relationships online, nurturing their clients on social media, and engaging and interacting with their audience online.

What are some strategies your company could use to participate more in the social media conversations happening on your brand pages? If social engagement isn’t happening right now, what could your business due to gain more engagement?

Using LinkedIn to Saturate Your Market and Messaging

As the younger generation continues to shift to private social media channels and apps, the flock back to LinkedIn for professionals and businesses is already occurring. If LinkedIn isn’t a part of your current social media strategy – it’s time to get back in the game! LinkedIn has changed so much just in the last year and there’s tons of potential for small businesses on this platform.

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February 23, 2020
Social Media Marketing

Top 3 Things People Don’t Love About Social Media Marketing

It’s no secret that people are becoming disillusioned with social media. This actually has much more to do with the way people use the social media platforms than it does with how the channels are actually structured. The owners of these platforms want you to have a good experience because, otherwise, you won’t return. However, there are ways people and businesses are currently using social that are ruining it for folks.

Here are the top 3 things people don’t love about social media marketing:

Being Sold

There’s nothing more annoying today than having a complete stranger come at you with a sales pitch. Whether it’s online or offline, we are savvy consumers and know how to locate what we need, when we need it. That makes it challenging for business owners seeking new customers for their product of service. Social media, in particular, was not created as a platform for consumers to find new ways of spending money. It was created to help people connect and build relationships.

Does that mean you shouldn’t be selling on social media? Absolutely not. It simply means that the way you sell to people online should start with connection, building relationships, and establishing trust first. Once people start to know, like and trust you – they’ll want to know what you do and how it will help them.

Lack of Connection

Many businesses are on social media today because they have been told they need to be, but aren’t actually using social to engage with and connect with their audience. Posting for the sake of posting – and then complaining that you aren’t getting any business – is based on the misconception that you can simply post and get results. Social media users follow you because they want to consume great content while connecting with real people.

No Transparency

It’s well-known that people are often posting the best version of themselves on social media. However, social media users are looking to connect with, and build a relationship, with the person behind the brand. Otherwise, there’s no reason to hang out or engage with the content on your page. They don’t want just the most polished version of you – they want to relate with the struggles, setbacks, and failures – and the lessons learned – just as much as they want to consume the good stuff. Also, social media users can spot a fake a mile away! Just be the real version of you on social media and the right people will follow, literally.

Understanding why people dislike social media marketing will help you, as a brand, develop content and a social media presence that actually attracts people. Stop paying attention to what other people are doing and start building genuine relationships online. You’ll find that this method works 1,000x better than just posting and hoping for the best.

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