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8 Social Media Marketing Trends that Are Worth Adapting in 2021

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8 Social Media Marketing Trends that Are Worth Adapting in 2021

Social media is always evolving and shifting. Your challenge as a business owner is to adapt to these changes, so your brand messaging continues to resonate and drive meaningful results.  

In order to make the most of social media marketing, first you need to understand which emerging (or already existing trends) are worth adapting this year.  

While there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to having success across social media, it’s still worth implementing techniques that lead to building stronger relationships with your customers, while improving their impact on your bottom line. 

 

8 Social Media Marketing Trends that Are Worth Adapting in 2021 

 

1. Integrate Social Media Across Your Departments

If you want your brand to solve problems for people, then social media is going to tell you exactly what problems people have. By integrating social media across your departments, it ensures that important messages reach the most relevant people in the company. This will help you to build a business your customers and audience will care about. 

2. Embrace Short- and Long-Form Video 

 Video usually works best for companies when it conveys a personalized message to their target audience with an educational, entertaining, or value-based perspective.  

The ability to produce a video and then adapt it into different versions to promote your messaging across social media channels is one of the most effective ways to earn more viewership. Lengthier video isn’t necessarily better, but certain subjects, especially those with complexity, are more accurately communicated in depth. And after you’ve created longer video resources, think about the ways it can be broken down into shorter videos for sharing elsewhere later.

Embrace Short- and Long-Form Video

3. Invest in Dynamic Ads  

Dynamic social ads feature products personalized to a person based on their shopping behaviors and other data points. They’re often more successful because they’re aligned to each specific shopper’s preferences by showing each individual items and messaging catered to them. Each is an opportunity to upsell and cross-sell customers, as well as reaching potential customers for the very first time.
 

4. Provide Social Shopping Opportunities 

The ability to make a purchase directly from social media is becoming more widely available. If you limit the number of steps a person has to go through to make a purchase, you can increase conversions because the process is simpler and created to match the network’s design.  

Begin by identifying what social shopping options are available (check out Facebook Shops, Instagram Shopping or Pinterest Shop), and understand the associated costs. Once you’ve set up an integration, it’s important to promote that you’re using the feature so your followers know it’s an option. 

Provide Social Shopping Opportunities in 2021

5. Use Stories to Engage with Your Audience  

Businesses that use stories successfully are able to send a highly effective series of messages that are relatively affordable to create, and easy for audiences to view. Plus, they present an opportunity to showcase the people behind their brand, as well as a less produced, more authentic perspective of an organization.  

Before you dive into stories, remember to begin where you’re already active, showcase both produced and impromptu content, and use the unique story features to your advantage.  

 6. Use YouTube to Build Deeper Connections 

YouTube visitors spend over 11 minutes per day on average on the platform, since it’s the second most preferred platform for TV viewers 18 to 34 years old. Plus, YouTube is accessible for brands of all sizes as survey respondents shared that choosing a video based on their interest is more important than video’s production value. 

Start by determining who exactly your audience is, and identify what their interests, challenges, and passions are. The goal here isn’t to convert customers with every video, but instead to build a positive association with your organization that lasts for the long term.  

Youtube in 2021

7. Create Series to Build Audience 

Consider using social media to help your company build an audience for your series that lives on your own properties as well. To make a lasting impression with your social media, commit to a series to regularly reach your audience on an important theme they’ll associate with your organization for the future. 

 8. Feature Your Employees 

People connect most with other people. Therefore, featuring the people behind your brand will help humanize your organization and form deeper connections with customers. Showcasing employees prominently on social media is important as it’s one of the best ways to build trust with consumers and familiarity with the purpose behind your organization.  

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If you have any questions or would like to find out more about how Advertising Is Simple can help with social media marketing, get in touch!  

  

Advertising Is Simple | 302.407.0431 | info@AdvertisingIsSimple.com 

 

5 Steps to Marketing Automation Success 

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5 Steps to Marketing Automation Success

Successfully delivering appropriate messages helps you lead customers step by step through their buying cycle. Marketing automation enables you to set up a workflow of highly personalized marketing messages designed to convert website visitors into leads and then your new leads into paying customers. 

In addition to increasing leads, marketing automation systems can help increase cross sales and upsells and improve customer care processes, turning your customers into active bands who will be ready to recommend you. 

Need help with turning visitors into leads and leads into new customers? Keep reading! 

 

5 Steps to Marketing Automation Success 

 

  1. Identify Your Audience- Before you can start creating your emails, autoresponders, workflow messages and landing pages you need to know your audience. Create buyer personas to help you to understand how to create content that address your customer’s specific needs and challenges.
  2. Sales and Marketing Alignment – Your marketing automation campaign should be aligned to your sales processes. Recording every point of engagement to an online CRM will provide detailed customer profiles for your sales team to successfully nurture leads through their buying cycle.
  3. Create Valuable, Helpful Content – Delivering the right message that appeals to your target audience will not only drive an engaging automation process, it will also qualify your leads from the start. So be creative, informative and focused.
  4. Multi-Channel Lead Nurturing – Effective marketing automation campaigns will feature a multi-channel approach with touch points including dynamic website content, email, social media, retargeting and interaction from your sales team.
  5. Test, Tweak, Repeat – The beauty of digital marketing is that it provides a constant flow of data to assist you in optimizing campaign results. A consistent program of monitoring and improving workflows will increase your overall advantage. 

 

If you have and questions or would like to find out more about how Advertising Is Simple can help with marketing automation, get in touch! 

 

Advertising Is Simple | 302.407.0431 | info@AdvertisingIsSimple.com 

 

25 Days of Email Marketing Tips for the Holidays

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25 Days of Email Marketing Tips for the Holidays

With the holiday season upon us, now is the time to up your email marketing strategy in order to increase your conversion rates and make your marketing efforts successful.

Not planning on using email in your Holiday Marketing strategy? You might want to reconsider as email marketing was the #1 driver of online sales on Black Friday last year. Fifty-Seven percent of email subscribers spend ten to sixty minutes browsing emails during the week. People are opening email marketing messages on mobile devices and often while they’re shopping.

According to eMarketer, “One of the main drivers is the fact that email is predominantly viewed on mobile. Mobile is getting better, and retailers are beginning to get that.”

Check out our list of 25 ways to make your email marketing efforts more effective.

25 Days of Email Marketing Tips for the Holidays:

  1. Provide Shipping and Order by Dates
  2. Send out Back in Stock notices
  3. Lighten Up – change email template to blue and silver
  4. Automate Holiday Email Campaign
  5. Highlight Best Sellers
  6. Welcome New Subscribers with a Discount Code
  7. Collect Sign ups to Email List on Facebook and Twitter
  8. Announce Upcoming Events
  9. Add Subject Line Emoji’s
  10. Personalize with Merge Tags
  11. Make Mobile-Friendly
  12. Ask Permission if Sending Emails More Frequently
  13. Reward Best Customers with Special Deals
  14. Auto-post to Facebook and Twitter
  15. Create a Great Subject Line
  16. Add a Popup Form to Website
  17. Analyze Reports & Adjust
  18. Do Split Testing
  19. Target by Age or Gender
  20. Segment Your List
  21. Share Holiday Tips
  22. Use Holiday Promotional Videos
  23. Run Tests for at least 4 Hours
  24. Keep it Fresh
  25. Encourage Social Media Interaction

At Advertising Is Simple, we help small to mid-sized business owners who are too busy running their businesses to focus on their marketing and advertising efforts. We can help with your email marketing plan, as well as all types of digital marketing strategies. If you’re looking to up your sales this holiday season, get in touch.

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Let’s Talk about Cultivating Customer Loyalty 

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In today’s increasingly over-crowded online marketplace, the key to cultivating customer loyalty is to consistently follow an effective digital marketing plan – something most companies still fail to do. 

Customer satisfaction should be front and center for every business. However, for a small business, it is crucial. Making customer service a top priority can make you more competitive against your larger counterpart. Let’s be honest, a company’s top asset is its customers. Happy and loyal customers not only support a business by continuing to do business with you, but also by referring you to friends and family. 

As a business owner, thinking of ways to rise above the competition should revolve around giving customers something they can’t get elsewhere. Want to learn more? Below are some actionable steps you can take now to ensure you’re cultivating customer loyalty in your business. 

Cultivating Customer Loyalty

Asking for Customer Feedback  

If you do this on a consistent basis, it will give you the power to improve the customer’s experience moving forward. A simple online form or social media poll is a great strategy for learning where you need to tweak your sales protocols and practices. 

The beauty of a small business is that you have a greater chance of making your customer service more personal and targeted. Customers can be very sensitive to whether you are genuine and sincere. Using their names and finding ways to compliment them will help to develop a trusting and loyal following. 

Identify and Anticipate Customer Needs 

Proactively listening to your customers and making an effort to get to know them as much as possible will help you fine-tune special deals geared towards their purchasing history. 

Be sure to assure them that you are aware of and ready to fix any problems that they may encounter. An apology can go a long way when something goes wrong. Make it easy for them to complain and impress them with your willingness to listen and diffuse the situation. 

Read More: How to Generate Demand for Your Products or Services 

Use Social Media as a Platform to Humanize Your Business 

Keep your customer aware of any new products, special sales or events. Do your best to engage with them and be prompt in responding to any comments (negative or positive) that they post regarding your business. 

Encourage Customers to Write Online Reviews  

Whether it’s on social media or online directories, you can capture reviews from your customers by making an easy-to-follow instruction pamphlet. The search engines love ranking those businesses who have a larger social footprint. Video testimonials is another valuable asset small business can use to illustrate how satisfied their customers are with their service and/or product. 

Read More: 6 Helpful Tips for Capturing Online Reviews 

 

Above all, say THANK YOU! Saying thank you after every transaction is one of the easiest ways to build a loyal following. Showing your customers that you appreciate their business makes them feel empowered and more likely to return! 

 

Advertising Is Simple helps small to mid-sized business owners who are too busy running their businesses to focus on their marketing and advertising efforts. We specialize in Internet, TV, and radio advertising, and are particularly vested in Search Engine Optimization, website design, mobile website design, pay-per-click campaigns, and original content management in order to help our clientele claim their share of the marketplace. 

  

AdvertisingIsSimple.com | 302.407.0431| info@AdvertisingIsSimple.com 

 

 

Benefits of CRM and Marketing Automation for Your Business

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Managing databases and nurturing your leads are important components of running a successful business. If you want to save time and money, the best way to do it is to invest in a software that handles both CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and marketing automation.

Want to learn about all of the benefits of CRM and marketing automation? Keep reading!

Benefits of CRM

1. Improves Sales Performance – Collecting accurate data on your leads and customers will give your sales staff a better understanding of where each lead is in the sales process.

2. Improves Customer Satisfaction and Retention – Consumers tend to spend more money with a company of a positive customer experience. Make sure all of your customer data is stored in one place so all of your team members can access it to better serve your clients.

3. Increased Efficiency – Thanks to a CRM platform, you can automate many everyday tasks such as creating forms, tracking every domain and its renewal time, and generating reports.

4. Better Internal Communication – When all of your team members are on the same page while interacting with customer data in one system, employee satisfaction increases. It’s all about clear communication between your departments!

5. Stronger Data Security – Housing your data in one system (instead of your employee’s desktop) means greater security.

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Benefits of Marketing Automation

1. Time Savings – Marketing automation manages many of the repetitive, daily tasks that take up time from your marketing team.

2. Better Data – The right marketing automation platform will help your business with collecting and using data to make good business decisions. Not only will you be able to better understand your stored data, but you could also predict some customer behavior in the future.

3. Enables Segmentation and Personalization – With improved knowledge of your prospective customers, you can create targeted messages and automatically segment your data based on the profile, interests, and demographics.

4. Creates Brand Consistency – It’s important to create consistent, creative and well-branded messages to support strong branding in every touch point of the customer journey.

5. Increases Revenue and Average Deal Size – Improvement to your customer data leads to more targeted and effective marketing. In result, you can expect an increase in average customer lifetime value due to delivering a positive and consistent communication.

Trust us, one of the best decisions you will ever make as a business owner is by implementing a CRM and Marketing Automation system early on. If you want to learn more about lead management, we’re here to help!

Advertising Is Simple helps small to mid-sized business owners who are too busy running their businesses to focus on their marketing and advertising efforts. We specialize in Internet, TV, and radio advertising, and are particularly vested in Search Engine Optimization, website design, mobile website design, pay-per-click campaigns, and original content management in order to help our clientele claim their share of the marketplace.

 

AdvertisingIsSimple.com | 302.407.0431| info@AdvertisingIsSimple.com

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