Can Social Media help your Business?

The Internet and particularly social media and business have opened the world of global interactions.

It is not a problem anymore to keep in touch with friends and relatives from other parts of the world. Social networking sites have grownto global societies of billions of virtual inhabitants. Facebook itself has 1.71 billion users making it one of the biggest communities in the world (bigger than China’s population!).

Our planet has just become smaller and more approachable, not only in personal, but also business interactions. It means that even a small company can go global without enormous investments. Take Brand24 as an example. We still hire less than 50 employees but have clients in more than 35 countries worldwide. And we can give a huge credit to social networking sites that helped us grow the community of loyal fans who contributed to the success. How can you leverage these platforms in your business? And what is good about social networking?

How can you leverage these platforms in your business? And what is good about social networking?

1. Social Networking Makes Relationships More Personal

Social media is a two-way channel where you have an opportunity to build a rapport with your clients and prospects. These platforms are not about amazing sales pitch you deliver to the audience. Social networking is all about interactions and an open dialogue with users. Social media helps you humanize a brand and build genuine relationships with your community. It shortens the distance from your audience, especially when you address them from personal accounts.

PlayStation effectively leverages social media to amplify relationships with players. They engage in discussions with immediate and adequate responses that resonate with the community. They show a human face of the brand and win the hearts of clients.

2. You Can Promote Your Business More Effectively

According to a study, 78 percent of small businesses attract new customers through social media.

The most common way to promote a business on social networking sites is advertising. Thanks to the advanced options of targeting and remarketing you are able to address the message to the audience that would more likely be interested in your products and services. Facebook and Twitter paid advertising is relatively cheap and with a well-knitted social media strategy your efforts will pay off.

However, paid advertising is not the only way to reach out to target customers. A more time-consuming, but effective method to get a new customer is reaching out to consumers who report a certain need that your company can fulfill.

Social listening tools help you find such mentions and comments. There are thousands of people asking for recommendations online every day. And every time a person posts a question “Where can I buy…?” or “What would you recommend for…?”, you can find him or her and offer them help. In Brand24, our Community Managers do an amazing job by attracting new customers and it is the traffic source with one of the highest conversion rates.

3. You Get Valuable Insights About Audience and Your Business

Users ask, recommend, but they also share reviews.

They are the best source of information for product development. They are the ones who use your service so they know best what can be improved to fit their needs.

If something does not work well they are likely to report it in social media exposing it to a great deal of other consumers. Their feedback is gold for getting answers about your customers’ preferences in and behavior. Use it to find inspiration and ideas for new variants of your products and improvements in a current offer.

4. Social Networking Induces Loyalty

According to a report published by Texas Tech University, brands which regularly engage in social media conversations tend to observe an increased brand loyalty.

When your company is present on social networking sites you are more approachable and reliable in the eyes of customers and prospects. This is directly connected to the first point of this article. If you can build more personal and genuine relationships with a community, customers will be less likely to switch between brands. Showing them a human face will make you a sort of their friend rather than just another company that sells good products and that is replaceable. Remember that it is comes much easier to swap a service provider, but can be harder to dump a close mate.

5. Social Media Increases Website Traffic

Finally, social networking presence is essential in attracting traffic to your website. Not only it directly drives traffic to a page, but it also improves search ranking. As you probably know, SEO is an enduring and laborious process that helps you get to the top of Google’s search results. External links, number of visits, selected keywords and website content have an impact on how well you turn out against your competitors in search engines. Social media can help you improve these factors, both thanks to direct traffic, but also shared links through social media users’ profiles.

Wrap-up

Social networking is a tool. If you can leverage its possibilities your business will definitely gain from it. With a good strategy, some creativity and additional tools you can achieve marketing goals with less resources. If you still wonder how to make the most of social media platforms check our another article and get ahead of the competition.

From https://brand24.com/