What tactics will help me accomplish my goals?
The 5th Question in our 10 Essential Questions for Your Social Media Marketing Campaign sounds pretty straightforward. Because it is. And yet how many of us dive in without thinking of how we want to get where we’re going?
Let’s say your goal is to drive more people to your site where they can learn about your incredible service offering. What tactics will help?
Provide links that make people think. For example, I might post on Twitter and Facebook a link like this for a site we are launching: “Yellow page advertising not working anymore? What’s the next step? http://advancemy.biz” Curious aren’t you? That’s the goal. Make people curious enough to click through. A network customer of ours, Denver Tux, might post something like “Guys, worried about what to wear to prom? www.denvertux.com”. Think about how you might do this for your business.
What if you’re selling a product? Tactics might include:
- Post a video showing the product being used or installed to YouTube or Facebook.
- Create a slideshow demonstrating how to use the product and upload it to www.slideshare.net.
- Creating a Facebook fan page for just one popular product and inviting people to become fans.
- Developing a routine so that every nth (9th or 5th or whatever seems right) post to your social media accounts is showing a different feature of your product.
Without developing your tactics beforehand though, you might find yourself adrift as you go from site to site trying out different things.