Social Media Management – 4 Proven Techniques to Increase Audience Engagement

Social Media Management – My heart breaks whenever I come across business social media accounts with zero engagement. Social media is no longer in the era where you create content and everyone who had liked your page gets to see it.

In fact, content reach across social media platforms is dwindling and will keep going down as more brands get to recognize the importance of social interaction for business – because that is the sweet spot for social media platforms.

The truth is, it is not entirely your fault that you are not reaching your audience as much as you would like to. However, you can still do something to turn the situation around.

The following strategies will help you increase your content reach and social media engagement.

Ask Your Audience for their Opinion
Most brands do not realize that it is called “social” media for a reason – interaction and exchange of ideas. What matters isn’t what you think they want but what they tell you that they need. Instead of creating content based on perception, why not ask your audience for their opinion. You can do this using an opinion poll. This will help you to understand the kind of content that they want. Opinion polls are also useful for discovering the aspect of your service or product that your audience is most interested in and the areas you need to improve on. In addition, when possible, ask your customers to leave their reviews and feedback. This will help you make corrections and happy reviews can serve as useful information to future visitors.

Asking your audience for reviews and feedback is a way of telling them that their opinions matters and they would be more than happy to keep engaging with your content once they identify with your brand.

Try Different Content Types and Posting Schedule
Sometimes you may be producing amazing content but not exactly what your audience wants. And even when they are right, the level of relevancy and engagement may vary across platforms. To understand what works and for which platform, it is important to try different forms of content – videos, images, quotes, GIFs, memes, etc. This will help you find a winning content format for your brand. The same can be done for posting time; especially if you are new to the social media thing.

Try Sponsored Giveaways and UGC
As stated earlier, asking for your audience for their opinion can help you to increase engagement. But you can take this even a bit further by sharing their content. Occasionally, you can share content posted by your one of your customers or run campaigns encouraging your audience to share a video or photo. You can also run contests and pick a winner at the end of the contest. This is not only a way to increase social media engagement but can also help you to build a community.

Make Live Videos
Live videos are known to drive higher engagement than images and prerecorded videos, and most of the social media platforms offer live video feature.

So, instead of prerecording videos all the time, you can add a little transparency to your social media strategy and go live when you have the chance. The good part is that people can still watch the live video days after it has ended.

So, it’s like achieving two goals with one content.

Increasing social media engagement isn’t as hard as many paints to be. It only involves incorporating the “social” into your marketing strategies. If you want to your audience to engage with your content, then, get them in involved the creation and execution.

If you are still confused as to how to get started with social media marketing or you have tried and didn’t get the desired result, feel get in touch with us.