How to market yourself on social media
1. Use The Right Platforms
There’s plenty of platforms to choose from, but it’s important to select the right ones for your audience. If you’re serious about promoting yourself on social media, you should build a presence on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, while considering media-based platforms such as YouTube and SoundCloud.
2. Set Out Your Goals
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’re going nowhere. Before figuring out how to promote yourself on social media, it’s important to sit down and lay out your overall goals: what do you want from your social media campaign, and how are you going to achieve it?
3. Research & Prepare
You might be full of social media promotion ideas, but if you don’t undertake any research or make any preparation, your campaign is unlikely to be effective. Do some research into your target audience, find out what kind of content is likely to generate engagement, and prepare accordingly.
4. Use a Content Calendar
The content calendar is one of the most important tools in effective social media promotion. A calendar allows you to keep track of events relevant to your promotional goals, while creating a detailed schedule that ensures you’re never short of content when you need it most.
5. Share Quality Content
This is a fundamental rule for anyone looking to maximise their social media potential. If your content isn’t top-class, engaging and relevant to your audience, it doesn’t matter how much effort you put into promotion: your audience won’t respond and you won’t achieve your goals.
6. Use Technical Tools
Though professional social media agencies have access to the most effective technical tools used in social media promotion, there are many that casual users can take advantage of. Google Trends is a great place to start, offering free and date-specific metrics on search volume for any term entered.
How we approach social media promotion
CREATIVITY
A key part of our strategy is creativity. Social media promotion ideas that are creative, original and out-of-the-box are more likely to capture the attention of your audience, ensuring that your account becomes memorable and popular. We craft creative content that includes engaging editorial, imaginative imagery and viral video, ensuring that it’s relevant to our client’s audience and aesthetic.
PREPARATION
Promoting your account, growing your following and boosting social media presence doesn’t happen overnight. Successful social media strategy takes careful and considered preparation that includes research, planning and expert knowledge. Every campaign we take on is meticulously prepared through detailed action plans before the very first post even goes live.
ANALYTICS
We use a range of technical tools to measure and analyse your social performance. Prior to the start of our work together, this helps us prepare, but most importantly it allows us to adapt our approach as we progress through the campaign. By analysing metrics such as engagement, reach, impressions and click rate, we can gain detailed insights into what works and what doesn’t.
10 Social media promotion ideas
Though we highly recommend taking advantage of our professional social media management services to get the best possible results out of your social media promotion, here’s 10 social media promotion ideas that could get you started.
Hold a contest, competition or giveaway
Post behind-the-scenes content
Get creative with emojis
Involve your audience through polls
Partner up with other accounts or brands
Post and curate third-party archive content
Up your hashtag game with tools like these
Engage with your audience in the comment section
Arrange an AMA on Reddit
Post “tag-a-friend” content
Do you manage social media advertising campaigns?
Yes, we can manage your social media advertising on any social media channel, including Facebook.
Do you manage social media for businesses?
Yes we do. Besides managing social media for music artists, DJs, record labels and celebrity personalities, we also work with a variety of brands and businesses, mainly, but not exclusively in the lifestyle and entertainment sectors.
Do you run one-off social media campaigns?
Yes we do, we don’t just do ongoing social media management. If you want to promote a specific event or need social media support on a PR campaign we can provide the social media aspect. We often work closely with our own PR division to manage the social media aspect of their campaigns.
Speak to our social media promotion team
To discuss how we can assist with your social media promotion effort, make an enquiry and a member of our team will be in touch.