Social media marketing can be an overwhelming task. It involves multiple tasks like organizing, planning, and writing, designing, communicating, and analyzing data. Social media management blurs the line between creative, analytic, and management skills. Most often than not, in the process of multi-tasking across so many aspects, one loses out on the productivity, resulting in minimal output from maximum efforts.
To boost your productivity on social media and ensure that your marketing efforts bring real results, here are a few tips:
Plan ahead
Before you start doing anything, create a social media strategy, followed by a calendar which includes your marketing objectives, content theme, number and time of posts, and corresponding creative for each. You can create a monthly, or a quarterly strategy and create weekly calendars so you have your week scheduled. You can also use social dashboards like Hootsuite or Sprout Social to schedule posts.
Know your limits
As much as the social landscape looks alluring, you cannot possibly be present everywhere. While creating your strategy, assess where your audience is and target those platforms specifically. Limit yourself to three or maximum five platforms, which you cannot do without.
Stay updated
Instead of scouting through endless news feeds and trending posts, set alerts for content that are relevant to your industry. Share these as branded content with your business perspective to a generic news.
Be organized
When there are too many task to handle, there are chances you can miss out on something. Being organized remarkably boosts productivity of social marketing. Consider using project management tools like Basecamp, Trello, etc. to collect ideas, coordinate with teams, and set alerts.
Consider outsourcing
When you are pressed for time, outsourcing comes to rescue. With the help of a specialized social media marketing company, you can improve your social productivity. These agencies are always updated with the latest social trends and industry updates, and use their experience to boost your social presence, monitor activities and drive ROI, so you can focus on the other important aspects of social media management.