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The Power of Usefulness in Social Media
So you have all the social profiles on all the social networks and you are officially part of the gigantic pack of businesses on social media. That’s great but now what? How do you stand out? How do you engage your followers? How do you increase your reach? It’s really quite simple, be useful. This one key item is what so many people are missing when they are managing their social profiles, but it is a major part of what makes one social profile stronger than another. Keep in mind that this usefulness must be employed alongside all of the other best practices that most of us already know like using engaging imagery, keeping your profile regularly updated and active along with being on top of responding to your followers in a timely manner and providing easily digestible content.
So, what exactly is good, useful social content? It is visually eye-catching, it gives the visitor something they want (and even better didn’t even know they did) and it is easily shared. Here is a great example of useful social content taken from a post on a cosmetic and soap making supply business’ Facebook page, Elements Bath and Body:
This post of a simple image provides the followers of this social page with a USEFUL eye-catching recipe. This particular post reached 2,726 people and had 24 shares as opposed to the usual on this particular profile of about 700 – 1000 people being reached per post. The difference with this post is it’s useful. The other posts on this profile tend to be visually eye-catching and the profile is well managed from a user engagement standpoint and does well overall but it’s these useful posts time and time again that blow the other posts out of the water. This content gave the pages followers something that they weren’t even asking for but would obviously find useful. The followers of this page are guaranteed to be interested in making cosmetics, that’s why they are following the page, so this recipe card is a natural, useful piece of content to produce. All businesses whether they be B2B or B2C can and should be posting useful social content and it’s really not at all hard to do. To find the right useful social posts for your business ask yourself the following questions:
This post of a simple image provides the followers of this social page with a USEFUL eye-catching recipe. This particular post reached 2,726 people and had 24 shares as opposed to the usual on this particular profile of about 700 – 1000 people being reached per post. The difference with this post is it’s useful. The other posts on this profile tend to be visually eye-catching and the profile is well managed from a user engagement standpoint and does well overall but it’s these useful posts time and time again that blow the other posts out of the water. This content gave the pages followers something that they weren’t even asking for but would obviously find useful. The followers of this page are guaranteed to be interested in making cosmetics, that’s why they are following the page, so this recipe card is a natural, useful piece of content to produce. All businesses whether they be B2B or B2C can and should be posting useful social content and it’s really not at all hard to do. To find the right useful social posts for your business ask yourself the following questions:
- Who are my followers?
- What might my followers need help with?
- How can I simply provide them with this information?
- How can I make the post eye-catching?