Marketing Skills 101 - Social Media: Creating Effective Social Media Posts

From General Motors to the local hair salon, every company, business, and organization knows that they need an online presence. They go to great effort and expense to generate traffic for their websites using techniques like search engine optimization and pay-per-click ad campaigns. And they also realize that marketing today inevitably includes social media marketing. Attracting prospects and customers to your website, page, or profile is one thing, but what happens when they arrive? Are they engaged enough by the content to “like” or to comment on what they see? Do they click through to buy the product or service? Analysis of over 100,000 corporate Facebook posts by researchers from Wharton Business School, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon provides guidance on how (and how NOT) to craft social media content. Companies and organizations use digital marketing to increase brand awareness, promote their products and services, and build an audience (or an online following). Engagement is key, and that’s why social media is such an important part of the marketing mix. If you want your social media marketing strategies to succeed, this training will show you how to engineer the content of your posts to increase customer engagement and that means more likes, shares, comments, and click-throughs.