3 Ways to Promote Your Business on Social Media

Marketing your business can be tough due to the multiple avenues that you can explore. Television and newspaper advertisements were the primary method of advertising in the past. However, now that the internet has been developed, advertisements are being placed on the internet through social media platforms.

There are multiple ways to advertise on social media, which can make it confusing. It is best to keep your social media advertising simple when you start. These three methods of promotion on social media are simple and great ways to start marketing your brand on various platforms.

Brand Ambassadors

Brand ambassadors are individuals that are paid by a specific brand to endorse their products and services. Brand ambassadors are employed by companies to help increase brand recognition and overall sales. As a small business, brand ambassadors are a great way to promote your brand.

Small businesses that seek out brand ambassadors will want to seek out individuals that represent similar ideals to their own. You will want to make sure that this individual aligns with your company’s beliefs to avoid any negative publicity for your brand. Also, you will want to seek out individuals that reach your target audience. For example, if your target audience is teenage kids, then you will want to reach out to an influencer that produces content for teenage kids. You may want to reach an audience outside of your target market to gain more exposure for your brand, but you must realize that it may not be as successful.

Of course, you will have to analyze the cost of hiring brand ambassadors, but you will want to hire influencers that have a large following. A consequence of being a small business is having a small customer base, but by hiring influencers with millions of followers you can reach a much larger audience. This will also help build your brand’s social media profiles, which will make marketing much easier in the future.

Hashtags

Hashtags are a mechanic within a social media platform that can help others discover your social media posts. Hashtags are something that you can include in your post that serves as a key term. Your post will show up under the hashtag when other individuals search that key term. This will help you promote your brand to other individuals that may not follow your social media accounts.

A social media platform that is impacted greatly by hashtags is Instagram. Users are unable to share posts with their followers on Instagram like you can on Facebook on Twitter. Therefore, hashtags are so vital to promoting your brand on Instagram. You will want to make sure that the hashtags you use in your posts pertain to the post itself and your brand. Some examples of hashtags to use on Instagram if you run a small business would be hashtags of the general term for a product that you produce, or you can use hashtags that include the term “small business” in them.

Other social media platforms utilize hashtags as well, but on Instagram, it is vital that you use hashtags to grow your brand.

Utilize Ads

Social media platforms also have advertisement plans that you can use. Facebook has an advertising program that allows you to create your own ads and pick the duration of time you would like them to run for on the platform. This allows you to reach other users that may not follow your brand.

Social media platforms utilize algorithms to help suggest content that is best suited for you, which is also relevant for advertisements. The algorithm that is used by Facebook will pick individuals that interact with content that is like yours and will then display your ads on their feed. This will help attract more followers to your accounts and eventually increase interaction.

The social media algorithms will recognize that your posts are getting more interaction and show them to other users. As the interactions on your posts increase your following will increase, and your brand will grow.

Conclusion

Of course, there are other methods of promotion that you can take, but these methods are a great starting point. As your scale your business and increase the budget for marketing, then you may want to increase your marketing efforts on various social media platforms.

Written by stephaniecsnyder

Stephanie Caroline Snyder is a 27-year-old who graduated from The University of Florida in 2018. She majored in Communications with a minor in mass media. Currently, she is an Author and a Writer. She was born and raised in Panama City, Florida, where her family still lives.