7 Types of Content to Elevate Your Social Media Game
Leveraging the right types of content can make or break your social media marketing strategy. The power to attract, engage, and convert your audience lies within the content you share. We’ll walk you through the seven best types of content to promote your services effectively on social media, helping you stand out in a crowded marketplace.
Informative Guides or How-Tos
Informative guides and how-tos are a fantastic way to provide value to your audience while subtly promoting your services. These types of content not only position you as an expert in your field but also help your audience solve problems or learn something new. Such content attracts organic traffic and engages readers who are genuinely interested in what you offer.
Customer Testimonials
Customer testimonials are gold when it comes to building credibility and trust. Potential clients often rely on the experiences of others before making a purchasing decision. Sharing genuine testimonials on your social media platforms can provide that much-needed social proof. For example, you can post short video clips of satisfied customers talking about how your service has benefitted them.
Product Demos
Product demos are an excellent way to showcase the features and benefits of your offerings. These can be live demonstrations, pre-recorded videos, or even animated walkthroughs. By visually demonstrating how your product or service works, you can address potential questions and objections upfront, making it easier for prospects to decide.
Behind-the-Scenes Content
Behind-the-scenes content offers a glimpse into your business’s inner workings, making your brand more relatable and human. People love seeing the faces and stories behind the products or services they use. This type of content can include anything from a day-in-the-life video of your team to a sneak peek of an upcoming project. Sharing behind-the-scenes content helps build a deeper connection with your audience. It shows that there are real people behind the brand who share similar values and challenges.
User-Generated Content
User-generated content (UGC) leverages the power of your community to promote your services. Encouraging your customers to share their experiences and tag your brand in their posts can create a wealth of authentic content that you can repost. This not only provides social proof but also fosters a sense of community around your brand.
Interactive Content
Interactive content, such as polls, quizzes, and surveys, can significantly boost engagement on your social media platforms. This type of content encourages active participation from your audience, making them more likely to remember your brand and return for more. You can ask questions related to your industry. For instance, a marketing agency could create a quiz titled “What Type of Marketing Strategy Suits Your Business?”
Influencer Collaborations
Collaborating with influencers can amplify your reach and lend credibility to your brand. Influencers already have a loyal following, and their endorsement can introduce your services to a broader audience. When choosing influencers to collaborate with, ensure they align with your brand values and have an engaged, relevant audience. You can collaborate with influencers in various ways, such as sponsored posts, product reviews, or even co-hosting events.
Conclusion
Diverse content is key to standing out and capturing your audience’s attention. By incorporating these seven types of content, you can create a robust and engaging social media strategy. For more tips in creating engaging social media content for your business, visit 98 Buck Social.
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What photos or videos do you use?
By default, we can use the photos you have on your website as well as utilizing the plethora of photos available to us within our royalty free library.
If you have photos or videos for us to use, depending on your subscription, we welcome you to upload them into a Google Drive folder and share that link with us!
Looking for custom videos? Some of our plans include videos or you can add them to any plan starting at $98/mo!
How do you mimic my branding colors and style?
As mentioned above, depending on your plan, we can use whatever you’d like to provide us! If not, we’ll resort to using your website or our royalty free library.
That being said, we can come up with custom graphics that suit your branding style as an add-on to your posting subscription.
$98/month for 3 custom graphics each week
$148/month for 5 custom graphics each week
Note: The cost of custom graphics is on top of your monthly subscription cost
What is content review & approval?
Content review and approval is where your social media content creator sends you a weeks worth of posts, prior to their designated publication time the following week.
This way, you will have the chance to give us feedback on each post in case you’d like us to make a minor edit.
Note: One round of editing per post permitted, depending on your plan.
What are the results I can expect from your posting services?
The idea behind consistent posting onto your social media pages is to keep them active with content that promotes your business solutions, educates your audience to showcase your expertise and to also keep things lighthearted, it’s social media after all!
There’s nothing worse for a business than to earn someone looking into what you do, only for them to see a barren social media page. To them, it may appear that you are out of business or potentially a scam.
We are often asked about growing followers and generating sales or leads. These are great goals to have but please understand that those goals are better obtained through paid advertising campaigns.
For more information on paid advertising, please visit our paid advertising services.
Do you use a posting scheduler and how do you get access to my business pages?
We are fortunate to be partnered with CloudCampaign.com to utilize their excellent scheduling platform.
By signing up for our content services, we will set you up with your own Cloud Campaign workspace depending on your plan.
During onboarding we request admin access to your social accounts using a secure platform. This allows us to manage the occasional disconnect when the platforms push out updates.
Furthermore, with your own workspace you are welcome to view and edit content at your leisure!
Why do my posts say “Posted by Cloud Campaign”
We use Cloud Campaign, which is a 3rd party app, to scale social media management and posting. When a post says “Posted by Cloud Campaign”, it is only the admins of your company page that can see this and not your followers.