Social networks have infiltrated all areas of modern life. They are used for correspondence, streaming, blogging, as platforms for promoting brands and products, etc.
At least one social network is in daily use for most people. The rapid spread of social networks gives users many undeniable advantages (e.g., the emergence of new professions and entire industries). Quick access to new offerings, while they are the ones that gave birth to a lot of competition and flooded the market with new products.
Now, in the pursuit of the user, brands are competing in the quality of the media product that accompanies the product they present.
Social media helps the brand to be constantly in sight, which is why the potential customer can return to you and make a purchase the next time. Also, social networks help to increase customer loyalty to the brand, if you use them correctly you can significantly influence the attitude of the audience toward the product.
This of course affects not only a positive brand image but also directly affects the increase in income.
There are 5 aspects to pay attention to when creating a plan of action for promotion in social networks. They will help you create pages on social media platforms for your product or brand. This will help it gain the trust and loyalty of the audience and for you to get the maximum profit at a minimal cost.
1. Evaluation of the "sales funnel".
2. Content with which you want to retain potential customers in the future.
3. Analysis of the brand's overall marketing campaign.
4. Working out how to simplify the process of buying a product just on the social media platform.
5. Development of a strategy for attracting customers.
To draw up a sales strategy for social networks, you must first understand all the stages of the sales funnel. A clear understanding of how the social media monetization process works makes social networks sell:
• understanding the marketing channels that engage the user in the sale at the moment;
• what the next stage of the sale should be;
• infusing social media into the selling chain;
• what period of time is needed to complete the transaction?
To study the behaviour of your subscribers, you can do testing. After which you will see which posts are more engaging, and which content is more popular in the social network that you choose.
To effectively develop an effective marketing strategy for the social network you want to use, you can analyze your marketing strategy. You can use the data with the metrics in Google Analytics and its integration with HootSuitePro. Thanks to the data you will be able to answer the following questions:
• How much did the banner display cost?
• How much it costs to engage a user?
• How much does it cost to have an undetermined user
• How much a likely user costs
• How much did it cost per sale?
It's very helpful for beginners to figure out what kind of budget will be profitable for the whole advertising campaign.
The main advantage of social media for sales is an earlier start of communication with the customer. It is also very important to be able to make the purchase of your product accessible and fast. After all, immediately after reading your content on the page, the buyer can go to the site or immediately write to your manager to make a purchase.
You can create a special section on the page where the consumer will be able to make a purchase literally in one click. Lead the user to the purchase with quality content, in which you should put a variety of call-to-actions. When dealing with social media, it's very important to drive the customer to the decision to buy your product.
Try to make your content useful to keep the attention of the audience that is once interested in your product.
Social networks are also a convenient platform for building an audience for lead magnets and other techniques that marketers use to attract users and form new offers.
A lead magnet is a type of content that is offered to the user for free. As a rule, to get it you need:
• leave contacts: email, phone;
• subscribe to a mailing list: postal, in social networks;
• take part in a survey;
• share a link.
There are even special lead magnet templates that help the company form colourful offers for customers. The main purpose of their use is to explain the value of a paid product/service through a few touches with a potential client.
They also attract applications and get users into their bases for further advertising/work. To make your potential lead want to leave contacts or sign up, you need to give them that reason - which is why lead magnet businesses need them. And social networks, are often one of the most effective ways to get a customer who will make more than one purchase.
It is safe to say that selling on social networks is a new reality. Paying attention to brand pages on media platforms is a necessity. With the help of social networks, and knowing a few tricks, your product will be able to increase its recognition and the business will get new loyal customers who will buy again and again.