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Social Media Strategies that Drives Brand Awareness & ROI

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In today’s digital age, a robust social media strategy isn’t just optional for businesses—it’s essential for thriving in a competitive landscape.

Social media platforms offer unparalleled opportunities to connect with your audience, build brand awareness, and drive tangible results. Globally, there are over 5 billion active social media users—that’s 62% of the world’s population. This statistic shows the influential role that social media has in people’s daily lives. But it’s not enough for you to just be active on social channels.

Whether you’re a startup or an established enterprise, crafting an effective social media strategy requires careful planning and execution. Here’s how you can create the ultimate social media strategy that boosts brand visibility and maximizes ROI.

What is a Social Media Strategy?

A social media strategy is a detailed plan that outlines how a business or individual will use social media platforms to achieve specific marketing goals. It involves defining the right target audience, choosing the proper platforms, and creating engaging content at optimal times. A well-crafted social media strategy enhances brand visibility, fosters customer loyalty, and drives meaningful interactions that ultimately contribute to business growth and ROI.

It may be daunting to think about creating a social media strategy, but it can provide your business with many tangible benefits, including:

Now that you understand the basics of a social media strategy let’s get to the specific steps you need to take to create one.

1. Set Clear Goals and Objectives

So, what is the first step in creating your social media strategy? The answer is establishing clear goals for your social media presence! Doing so can help you define what success means for your brand, whether it’s increasing awareness, driving traffic, generating leads, or boosting sales. Having specific, measurable goals will guide your strategy effectively. Understanding your target audience is another factor that can play a big role in your strategy. Conducting thorough market research can help uncover your audience’s demographics, interests, and behaviors. This helps ensure your content resonates well and drives ROI.

2. Choose the Right Platforms

Not all social media platforms are created equal. Select platforms where your target audience is most active. For example, B2B businesses might succeed more on platforms like LinkedIn, while visually-driven brands may succeed on Instagram or Pinterest. Focusing your efforts on platforms that align with your business goals and audience preferences is important. Each social media platform has its algorithms and best practices. Optimize your content for each platform by tailoring formats, hashtags, and posting times. Use native tools like Facebook Insights or Twitter Analytics to refine your approach based on performance data.

3. Create Compelling Content

Content is king in the realm of social media. Social media is about building relationships. Engage with your audience by promptly responding to comments, messages, and mentions. Develop a content strategy that includes a mix of engaging visuals, informative articles, videos, and user-generated content. A compelling content strategy helps ensure your content is valuable, relevant, and aligned with your brand’s voice and values. It can also help foster a sense of community. Authentic messaging and engagement can ultimately help enhance brand loyalty.

4. Use Paid Advertising Strategically

Paid advertising on social media can help amplify your reach and accelerate results. Leverage targeting options to reach specific demographics, interests, or behaviors. To maximize ROI with paid advertising, continuously test and optimize your campaigns. A/B tests your ad copy, landing pages, and bidding strategy to identify what works. Regularly review your performance data and adjust campaigns to improve ROI. One helpful tip is to use advanced analytics tools offered by platforms like Google Ads and Facebook Ads to monitor campaign performance and identify areas for improvement. Making necessary adjustments based on your tracking data can help improve campaign effectiveness.

5. Keep Your Plan Updated

Successful social media strategies are not static. Continuously iterate based on insights gained from analytics and audience feedback. Experiment with new content formats, campaign ideas, and optimization techniques to continually improve your strategy’s effectiveness. One of the great things about social media trends and algorithms is that they constantly evolve. Stay informed about industry trends, algorithm updates, and new features introduced by platforms. Adapt your strategy to leverage emerging opportunities and stay ahead of the competition.

Final Thoughts

By implementing these steps, you can create an optimal social media strategy that enhances brand awareness and drives ROI for your business. Our mission at Onimod Global is to synchronize your content marketing endeavors with tangible business outcomes. Our data-centric strategies offer insights into your audience’s preferences, your competition’s strengths, and potential industry leadership opportunities.

Stationed in downtown Chicago with offices in Denver, CO, and Waterloo, Iowa, our in-house content team is well-versed across multiple marketing verticals, ensuring we cater to all your unique advertising needs. Our commitment to excellence, up-to-date industry knowledge, and unmatched customer service sets us apart.

Start crafting your ultimate social media strategy today and watch your brand thrive digitally. Reach out to us today.

4 Ways PPC Will Rescue Your Business During Economic Crisis

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People may be clicking, but when are they buying? Are consumers buying too much too fast? When do they really decide to convert and make a purchase? When will brick and mortar stores reopen and foot traffic resume? As some questions are answered, they are replaced by new questions under such fast-changing circumstances. The good news: Search marketing is adaptable, measurable, and when done correctly, VERY cost effective. Even with shifting data models, PPC pros can use timely trends to guide strategic decisions.

Trends Emerging

One very helpful tool for marketers during COVID-19 is the Tinuiti COVID dashboard. Here they provide a look at trends in paid Facebook media since the pandemic took hold. It requires you to sign up for free with email, and offers insights into media spend. They have discovered some emerging trends from the data across some volatile sectors. April proved far different compared to March; May will undoubtedly look far different compared to April. The following trends, according to the data shared by Search Engine Land:

Automotive: Spending plunged month over month by 41%, but surged almost 50% week over week across the past two weeks.

Travel: Spend almost evaporated, down 82% month over month, but is showing signs of a cautious uptick.

Consumer packaged goods: Up 27% month over month, and up 50% week over week.

In some cases, it seems that the natural reaction is to slash media spend. But clear thinking and data prove to prevail while figuring out the best strategies for your company.

E-commerce

Fast impact on e-commerce is dizzying to say the least, since e-commerce covers basically everything on the market.

  • Google announced search results on the Google Shopping tab will now include free listings, so any business that sells things should fast-track getting their Merchant Feed into Google. Read more about this hot topic on our news page here.
  • Product hoarding has shifted to “next best alternative” purchasing. For example, consumers got creative about toilet paper shortages, driving interest in bidets and other solutions-oriented products.
  • Market-dominating providers are suddenly prioritizing what gets shipped and when. Smaller providers that can ship fast have the potential for an edge over Amazon, Walmart and other large companies.

Here are some PPC tips from Onimod Global:

  • Make sure you are only showing the ads for things people can actually buy. There’s no point showing ads for toilet paper if none is in stock, or for your new summer shoe line launch if your warehouse is on lockdown.
  • Pay attention to setting better bids and prioritize the campaigns that can still convert.

Home services

Quarantine has people searching around the house looking for anything and everything to fix up. This includes but not limited to: Carpet cleaning, painting, dusty air ducts, spring prep for outdoors. Some are DIY projects, but many are best handled by the professionals, including emergency repairs.

Onimod Global’s PPC tips:

  • Stay on top geo-based performance that is affected by any local regulations impacting performance in your service areas.
  • There’s no point showing ads when all you can do is disappoint a prospect with the inability to fix their problem soon. Ensure your ads are suspended while your limited staff is completely booked.

Hospitality

It’s very evident as to why spend in the hospitality industry is almost completely evaporated. Remember that this is only temporary! History tells us that people will venture back out. It is human nature to do so. Travel is a necessary escape, and essential for business at times. People need hope, that they will soon be able to do this again. Here are our tips:

  • Stay on top of shifting search queries to avoid paying for ad clicks from consumers looking to cancel.
  • Keep audiences for Google Ads up-to-date with your customer/prospects database. This will ensure you’re showing the most relevant ads at the right time to the right groups of consumers.
  • Remember that there are customers who are ready to buy, just maybe unable to because of local restrictions. We suggest to consider shifting away from last-click conversion attribution.

Local brick & mortar businesses

Most likely the largest impacted in business are the brick and mortar businesses forced to close for the near future. Family-owned restaurants may lack infrastructure for delivery services at scale.

Some tips from Onimod Global for PPC are:

  • Build audiences from customer data. Even your manual customer email list in Google Sheets can be uploaded to a Facebook campaign for more effective targeting.
  • Agencies can deploy Rule Engine (for Google and Bing) to automate optimizations. It’s another way to offer lower-cost agency services that can scale.
  • If you’re new to social media advertising, contact Onimod Global to ensure your advertising budget is spent in the most efficient way possible.

More from Onimod Global

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