It has been found that most businesses decision-makers use social media for their work purposes. Business decision-makers read blogs, watch videos, participate in social media, etc. Further, they maintain a profile on social networking sites and most of them comment on blogs and post ratings and reviews.
These statistics amply demonstrate the importance of social media for lead generation. If your business neglects social media, you will soon lose sales to your competitors, and your customer-base will begin t gradually shrink.
It’s critical to understand how you can use social media and content to help generate leads. More than 55% of marketers who have been using social media for three years or longer state that it has helped them generate productive sales leads.
Make it a point to spend between four to six hours on social media each week. Social media should form a critical piece of your marketing mix. Please ensure that your marketing and other business activities are aligned with your organizational objective of generating leads.
You must cultivate the best social media practices and unique content marketing strategies. These apart, bestow attention on your landing pages, website, and sales team that is trained to deliver.
Furthermore, when you approach social media and content marketing from a centralized perspective, you can optimize each content and marketing effort while minimal costs. Experts favor your incorporating quality ‘how-to’ information in your customer service mailings.
Make sure to Tweet, Pin, or Like selecting the proper social media channels. When starting with social media, it is preferable first to turn to the most popular channels – Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn – and do your job correctly. While it is important to use these three major platforms, do not neglect niche channels such as Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, and SlideShare. If you are not sure of your content, get to know your audience a little better.
You have to know the mind of your audience and influencers before you start trying to lure them with your content. In other words, you must listen before you engage. Then it is a simple matter of providing information that is relevant. Find out about where your prospects proliferate and target them there with the right informative content
If you meaningfully contribute to these communities, you have a higher chance of getting generating leads. Providing consistent, high-quality content for multiple social media channels, as well as a blog may be intimidating but hugely rewarding.
“Create all of your content on a single topic at once. These topics can include product information, customer FAQs, how-to / tutorials, styling help, and ratings and reviews. Make sure that your content is contextually relevant to each social media platform and is easy to read.”
Good advice, thanks Satish:)
Some good info!