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Using Social Media to Stay Busy in "Slower Seasons"

Using Social Media to Stay Busy in “Slower Seasons”

Depending on your business and industry, you may experience slow seasons throughout the year. For many B2B companies, the summer months are slower because potential clients are focused on getting outside, adventuring, and going on vacation. Perhaps, your company grinds to a halt after the new year or during the holiday season? 

Each business will experience their peaks and valleys throughout the year. The key is to understand when your slow seasons will happen and to plan for boosting your possible business during these times.

Save Your Best Ideas

Whether it’s a contest, giveaway, large promotion, juicy discount, or simply the best content you’ve created all year, consider saving all those attractive social media posts for your slow season. 

You can still run promotions throughout the rest of the year but see if you can draw in clients or customers during your quietest time of year by saving the absolute best content for that time period.

Prep a Video Campaign

Really want to get your audience’s attention? Design and develop a video marketing campaign. This tip is especially good for any small biz owners who haven’t taken the plunge into video marketing yet. If you haven’t put yourself out there yet, that’s sure to get the attention of your audience during slow times!

Social Advertising

If you find that you, typically, don’t need to invest in advertising to keep the dollars rolling in, you may not see the opportunity in creating and scheduling social media ads during the slow months to give your biz a boost. Plan for online and off-line advertising costs and build those into your marketing budget each year. This could be just the thing to save your bacon when things get slow and increase your bottom line for the year.

By intentionally posting videos and running ads during slower months, you can easily support the efforts you are doing through the use of newsletters, phone calls, handwritten notes, and attending networking events. If you are finding yourself slower, plan to increase your knee to knee activity by having virtual or in person meetings with more people and share your experiences with that meeting online.


If you are using social media yourself, you may have noticed that you engage with pages that share content you can relate with. Simply posting is not enough. You need engaging content that is easy to find and interesting enough to like, comment, or share. Are you ready to define your story and build a long term relationship with a loyal audience? Let’s do a Discovery Session to see which of our programs best fit your social media marketing needs.

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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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Don't Know What to Post on Social Media?

Don’t Know What to Post on Social Media?

Have you ever found yourself in the mental space of, “Geex, it is 1:00 pm and it has been 3 weeks since I have posted anything on social media and I have no idea what to share?” Why is it so hard to come up with content for your social media channels?

A big part of the problem is that small business owners are trying to create content to sell their product, service, or event without considering their audience. Your social media marketing should be focused on building an audience of like-minded individuals and providing them value every week so they begin to know, like, and trust you enough to want to work with you. 

There’s a simplicity behind what to share on social media that many biz owners overlook. It’s as simple as creating content and social media posts where you spend time sharing your values, your ideas, and your best tips with people interested in the problem you solve.

The best advice we can give you right now is… create an editorial calendar. No more feeling uninspired or stuck when it comes to what to post next. Building an editorial calendar will help you get ahead of creating your content. 

Don’t be that brand that feels scattered and all over the place! Picking a theme for each day will help you keep your values and topics in clear focus. Selecting weekly and monthly themes will help you stay on track towards your goals and ensure you stay relevant throughout all the seasons of the year.

If building your editorial calendar sounds confusing, frustrating, overwhelming, or downright scary, no worries. That is what we help you do in our Strategy Roadmaps or when you sign up for Monthly Posting Support.

If you are using social media yourself, you may have noticed that you engage with pages that share content you can relate with. Simply posting is not enough. You need engaging content that is easy to find and interesting enough to like, comment, or share. Are you ready to define your story and build a long term relationship with a loyal audience? Let’s do a Discovery Session to see which of our programs best fit your social media marketing needs.

Be sure to Follow us and Let’s Engage!

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.

Click here for Social Media Training, Speaking and Strategy Consultations.

Is Storytelling in Social Media a Key Strategy for Your Marketing Team?

There’s a lot that goes into a social media strategy from content, to hashtags, to advertising, to engagement. However, it’s easy to forget, when you are in the trenches, the importance of storytelling on social media. Sparking conversations with your online community means that you must first have their attention. How do you get their attention? By telling stories that move them emotionally. 

How do you get your company from where it is right now to a business that actually has a social media strategy? Here are our best tips:

Tip #1 – Develop Your Social Media Standards

The key to social media strategy is to first have a plan! Develop standard policies for social media for your employees so they clearly understand what is appropriate and expected of them with your brand. This is especially important for your marketing and sales teams as they are more likely to engage with others as your brand online. 

Tip #2 – Empower Your Employees

Once you have a game plan, it’s time to train your team so they feel empowered and equipped with the knowledge necessary to engage your audience without damaging your brand. A confident team will engage with confidence. A side benefit of having an empowered team involved with your online presence and digital marketing is that their personal brand becomes a reflection of your corporate one. 

Tip #3 – Share Your Stories with Your Team

Storytelling is a skill that can be crafted. If you want your team to be social media storytellers, you first have to show them how it’s done! Start crafting your brand stories such as your origin tale, case stories, the impact you are making in the world, how you want your customers to feel, and the values that make your business the brand it is today. Then tell these stories to your employees often. 

It won’t happen overnight, but creating a company culture with an emphasis on storytelling will equip your team with what they need to really interact and inspire your audience online.

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? Call 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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Top 3 Strategies for Developing Successful Social Media Campaigns

A solid social media strategy involves building your audience growth both organically and through paid activity.  There are a variety of components to consider when creating social media campaigns including a blog strategy, editorial calendar, content that inspires engagement, video that grabs attention and builds trust, and working on audience growth both in-person and online.

Social media is part of a comprehensive marketing strategy and the most successful campaigns take the entire marketing strategy into consideration. 

Know What You Want

Finding new clients and making more money is not a strategy. It’s a result. Have a clear goal. If you are looking to sell $1,200 widgets, social media is not the place to ask for high-ticket sales. You want an easier barrier to entry for people who have just found you. This new audience needs to get a task of how you will serve them. You’ll need to build trust with a person before trying to sell your high-dollar package, session, ticket, or retreat. Then you can nurture that audience into larger purchases over time, preferably by convincing them to join your email newsletter. 

However, if you don’t have a funnel, strategy, or goal for converting strangers into followers and then converting those followers into customers, you are throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping something will stick. 

Finding Your Audience

Organic growth, while not impossible, is much harder than it used to be. Finding and convincing strangers to follow you or sign up will require a small, regular investment in social advertising. You want targeted advertising though. This means you don’t want to boost a post or get more website traffic by selecting anyone in the United States. You need to think specifically about your buyer, their behavior, and who they really are.  What are their ages? What do they do in their free time? Where do they shop? What do they post about on social media? Specific characteristics will make a world of difference in getting your ads in front of the right people.

Track Your Analytics

Schedule time to regularly review your social media reports and analytics. This includes Google Analytics. If you are getting traffic to your website from advertising, but nothing happens next, you’ll need to adjust your call to action on your website.  If you aren’t getting click throughs on your ads, then adjustments need to happen in your ad.

The difference between posting on social media and a social media campaign is all about your strategy. A content strategy, call to action, and a specific goal will do wonders for both your organic and paid marketing efforts. Track what is working (and what isn’t) and adjust often. This is the difference between lackluster results and success on social media.

The Social Power Program exists to help small business owners learn to navigate social media marketing and all its various components and challenges. Members have access to a Private Facebook Support Group, Monthly Ask the Expert Mastermind Sessions, a FREE Ebook, and regular new videos posted to our library to support their marketing efforts as well.  Learn everything from creating an editorial calendar, to designing custom branded images, to use of hashtags, to paid ads and reporting, how the algorithms work, and MORE! Find out more about the Social Power Program here.

 

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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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