When developing a content marketing strategy, one of the most crucial aspects of the plan is often social media content and marketing. It isn’t always as easy as it may seem to create content that people want to share. Generating buzz is difficult when a content piece isn’t optimised for social media or wasn’t created with social-specific goals in mind. However, there are many steps you can take to assure the content you create is truly share-worthy, especially with the help of social media experts like AIM Internet,
Check out these four ways to create successful social media content.
1. Have Attainable Goals
If you’ve developed any sort of marketing plan before, you know that having goals is critical to effectively measure success. However, when you’re considering content marketing goals, are you sure what you want to achieve is even possible?
Of course, we all want our content to be tweeted, liked and shared hundreds of times, produce thousands of website visitors, increase leads and make a sizeable addition to our revenue stream. However, all these together are lofty goals for a series of content pieces, let alone a single piece. In order to create successful social media content, your goals must be reasonable and attainable.
Instead of working to achieve all of the above, set explicit goals for each content project. For example:
- Have x number of social media mentions in a week
- Increase Facebook likes by x
- Have x number of people fill out our contact form in a month
- Have x number of people download our content piece each week
- A x increase in traffic from social media networks over 3 months
As long as x is reasonable (based on analytics data), these more specific goals will allow you to accurately measure the success of your content piece.
2. Learn What Is Important To Your Audience
People use social media networks to express who they are, build their personal brand and connect with others. Because of this, the content people share on social networks gives us a clue as to what is important to them.
Unfortunately, most people are not going to be passionate about the product you’re selling or the service you are offering. However, they may be passionate about the results of your product/service or about how your product/service affects or helps them.
If you can create content that illustrates what is actually important to your audience, you will find success. Monitor keywords on Twitter, hashtags on Facebook, conversations on Google+ and discussions on LinkedIn.
Really dig into what your audience is talking about and discover what type of content they share. Where they share and how often they share. With this information you will be able to create a content piece that sincerely speaks to your audience.
3. Create Useful Social Media Content
Once you know what kind of content your audience enjoys or is passionate about, take that information and create something useful. Chances are if one person finds it useful, others will as well. You can do this by developing something that educates, interests or entertains your audience.
Though educational content is often very successful, sometimes people want to consume content about something that interests them but won’t necessarily teach them something new.
For instance, a company in the travel and tourism industry could interview well-known travel bloggers and publish the interviews as blog posts. These interview pieces are interesting to the audience because it gives a sneak peek into the lives of their favourite bloggers. Though it isn’t educational, the content speaks to the common interest of the audience.
Entertaining content is another great way to get you noticed. Everyone loves to laugh or smile every once in awhile! If you can make someone laugh (or cry), you’re tapping into your audience’s genuine emotions. Humour is one of the easiest, most instinctive ways to trigger emotion. So creating humorous content is a way to garner a reaction from your audience.
4. Make It Easy To Share
It’s surprising how many times you come across a great content that can’t be shared because it doesn’t have a social sharing button. Don’t make your audience work to share your content – make it as easy as possible.
To do this, be sure every piece of content you produce has social sharing buttons that are easy to find. Most commonly at the top of the page or underneath the content. Additionally, be sure that the content’s meta data is correct.
When people share on Facebook, LinkedIn or other networks, often the meta description serves as the preview text displayed along with the link. As a result, it’s imperative to write meta data that could interest others enough to click through.
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You can’t make content go viral – it has to be so great that it goes viral naturally.
In order to create content that is worthy, start by developing attainable goals. Learn what your audience likes, create content that is useful, and make it easy to share.
If you would like help creating great social media content, please call Sarah for more information on 0870 062 8760 or email her today on info@aiminternet.co.uk. AIM Internet are social media experts, digital marketing and business growth. So, it’s in our favour for your business to succeed. So what have you got to lose?
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