Social Media Marketing Objectives And Strategies


This is the concluding part of some popular social media objectives. You can get the first part here.
Social media objectives are the guiding light to social media marketing strategies. It is the objective that will determine the strategy to adopt in your social media marketing. We have looked at some of the most popular social media objectives in the first part of this article. The overall purpose of these articles is to talk about these objectives in such a manner that it will give an idea or two to you who is looking at drawing up social media marketing strategies.
An example of how a social media marketing strategy is drawn up is found in the article: Social Media Marketing: a Great Tool For Online Reputation Management. Let us continue with stating more objectives that a strategy can be built upon.

Data Collation and Analysis

This may not sound so “out there” for an objective if your business needs such data in order to achieve the overall objectives of the business that goes well beyond the smaller objectives of using social media marketing. Companies need data to plan. They need it to know what action to take or reaction to adopt. If this is a primary objective of your social media presence, a strategy that will maximize the potential for success using social media will have to be devised and adopted.
You may need to whittle down on the social platform that would be ideal for this task. The platform should serve to give you the kind of data you are looking for. There are different types of data as you may be looking to collate just names or gender. You may also be looking to have email addresses of potential or actual clients. Creative use of social media can make this become a reality.

Getting Subscriptions

Your objectives may be as “simple” as getting subscriptions to your newsletter, you can devise a social media strategy that is built upon getting people to subscribe to that newsletter. This kind of objectives represents those that are perhaps extremely singular in nature. It is instructive to note that the more singular your objective, the greater the chance of devising successful strategies to achieve that objective.
You may want to combine multiple platforms with this kind of objective. Use of Twitter, Facebook and others like StumbleUpon and Instagram to create multiple channels may be ideal for this type of objective.

Creating A Funnel To Your Website

The objective of your social media marketing strategy may be to create a channel to your website. The objective should guide you in devising strategies that will do the job as seamlessly as possible. The strategy you devise may involve a little bit of other types of objectives like engagement and promos but in this case, they will not be considered as objectives. Rather, they are tools to achieve the primary objective, which is to create a defined source of web traffic to your website.
This objective would natural mean you have to include as many platforms as possible unless you have specific reasons why it must come from one source. Each platform will give different results. Another thing is that the strategy may be adjusted to uniquely suit each platform.

Online Reputation Management

We have covered this in the article titled social media marketing: a great tool for online reputation management. There are businesses that might feel this is important enough to be the sole objective of using social media marketing.
Online reputation management is enjoying increasing importance especially with the explosion of social media networking platforms. This is because things can go bad pretty fast but online reputation management can stem the tide when it is used in time and effectively.

Rewarding Customers

This may not be a common objective of setting up a social media marketing strategy but to businesses that it concerns, it may be very important. Using rewarding customers as an objective could create a lot of buzz around your social media platform. There is every possibility that you would eventually have to add new objectives to take advantage of the buzz.

Fluidity of Objectives

This brings us to the fluidity of objectives as one leads to another and creates more avenues for more to come in. you do not even have to need an objective before it is achieved because it comes into play once you focus on one. Nevertheless, starting with stated objectives helps to map the terrain and give you the opportunity of strategically building your social media presence to maximize profit for your organization.
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