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Should I Outsource my Social Media?

Posted on 1st February 2022

Outsourcing your social media, can improve the efficiency and productivity of your business, as the company can focus on its core operations. It is mainly used to significantly cut labour costs, save time and money among many other factors.

Outsourcing your social media means a third-party company will have access to your accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn for example) so that they can spend time researching your industry and posting relevant content that speaks to your target audience.

If you’ve been trying to decide whether or not to outsource your social media marketing, here are four reasons why outsourcing your social media might just be the best thing you ever do for your business.

What should you do if your Facebook ads get rejected?

Posted on 17th January 2022

It’s not uncommon to see the ‘Rejected’ message appear next to your Facebook Ad. Usually, this means that you must edit something within your ad or change the target audience selections.

Keep reading as we’ll guide you through the top reasons why your Facebook Ads get rejected. In addition, we’ll cover why ads don’t get approved and what you should do if they get rejected.

Facebook has an extensive list of restricted content in its policies. For instance; ads that use Facebook brand assets, ads with poor positioning, like inaccurate product descriptions or irrelevant images etc. Restricted content is allowed but must follow certain rules and is often based on your location. Whereas, prohibited content for example; drug-related ads, misinformation, or sensational content is never allowed on Facebook. If your ad breaks any of the rules, it runs the risk of being rejected or severely under-served.

Does Facebook Marketing Work?

Posted on 13th January 2022

If you run a business and have a presence on Facebook, it’s likely that you’ve seen or thought of ways that would be best to market your business on there. If, however, you’ve tried and it hasn’t worked out for you, it probably makes you believe that Facebook Marketing simply doesn’t work for your business, and that it’s pointless trying to use your own money to run ad campaigns, or post engaging content to attract clients.

Whilst that idea is understandable, Facebook marketing is a viable option for all businesses looking to expand their presence on social media. It takes time, but once you’ve found a way to get results, you won’t look back.

Many businesses have seen results from Facebook Marketing that they likely wouldn’t have received had they not decided to promote on social media.

5 reasons why you should be publishing video content on your social media

Posted on 7th January 2022

Research has shown that 85% of businesses now use video as a marketing tool, with 92% of marketers agreeing that it is an important part of their marketing strategy. From this data you need to be considering your options going forward. So, here are 5 reasons why you should be publishing video content on your social media platforms.

Grab Their Attention

Generations are changing and having a picture or a piece of long form text as a creative won’t grab their attention anymore on social media. Whereas, video is a fantastic way to hook your audience, as video content holds the viewers’ attention 5x longer than an image or piece of text.

Video allows you to be concise and capture the viewers' interest in the first few seconds. It’s important to make sure that in the first split second of your campaign, you can attract people’s attention and make them stop scrolling through their feed to pay attention to your brand. This lies in your ability to condense information down into easily digestible snippets of content that is

Why Business Owners Should Monitor Their Facebook Insights

Posted on 4th January 2022

Facebook Insights is a great tool to help you understand how your content is resonating with your audience and how your page is growing. The Facebook Insights tool is also constantly updated to reflect your page’s developments and any patterns that may form, providing you with a great overview of how your Facebook strategy is performing. With so many different data-points available to measure such as Likes, engagement, reach, and demographics, you’ll be able to determine the best time of day to post, the best day of the week to post, and what type of content is most popular.

To access Facebook Insights, you'll need to go onto your business page. Click on "Insights," located on the sidebar to the left of the page. You'll land on the "Overview" page which features a dashboard with information on any given day about your most recent posts, Facebook likes, reach, actions on page, the gender and age of your audience, and much, much more. It may look overwhelming, but it is easy to navigate.

An important thing you can learn from Facebook Insights is what type of content is likely to go viral. With the data collected form Facebook Insights

Get Your Social Media Marketing Working Effectively In 2022

Posted on 31st December 2021

So, your running social media pages for your business, but you’re looking to get them to become an efficient and vital part of your marketing strategy in the next year. But how do you do that? Whether you’re new to social media marketing or you’ve been doing it for years, results can be achieved if you follow these tips and apply them to your social media strategy over 2022.

With more and more content being created, along with the ever-expanding elements being added to all social media platforms, attention spans are becoming shorter. A long form, text ad is not longer something that will grab most of the user’s attention and will most likely be scrolled past and ignored. Facebook Ads need to be eye catching and are a cost-effective way to market your business on social media. You can even create a ‘lookalike’ audience if you run Ads on FB, so you’ll be targeting similar people, giving you the chance to expand your audience beyond your targeting.

Why You Should Outsource Your Social Media

Posted on 30th December 2021

If you own a business, it’s often expected that you have at least one form of social media. Whether it’s on a site specifically tailored to the more professional side of things such as LinkedIn, or one that is used mainly for interaction, connection and personal updates like Facebook, your business should have an online presence. However many business owners start their social media pages and see no immediate response, or find that they don’t have the time to run their page along with their business, which makes them believe that social media doesn’t work for them. However, it can and will work if you do it right, and one of the best options available to you is outsourcing.

Outsourcing is the process of handing your businesses social media accounts to a company that is trained with the expertise to successfully manage each of your pages. Following tips from online ‘gurus’ and using companies that haven’t proven that they themselves know how they can help you is not likely to give you success. Instead go for a company who has tried and tested different methods themselves and found the solution to increasing engagement and growth and social media, so they can help you make positive progress online.

Why Businesses Should Use Facebook Ads for Growth and Visibility

Posted on 23rd December 2021

Facebook has over 2.7 billion active users, so advertising your business through Facebook is a great way for you to advertise to new audiences and grow your business page. By advertising through Facebook, you can really target the people you want to attract to your business and find potential new clients. Here are a few benefits of using Facebook Ads to improve your growth and visibility on social media.

As already mentioned, Facebook Ads allow you to really target your Ads towards the audience you want to see it. Micro-targeting your audience will mean you can draw in new customers who fit the demographic your business is aimed towards. You can target on such areas such as gender, age, location, interests, recent purchases and life events (such as a wedding, having a baby etc). Precise target audiences mean you can refine your audience and make sure you’re advertising to the people most likely to interact with your business, improving your growth. Facebook Ads are great for this, as other sites such as Google don’t offer such detailed demographic targeting. Unlike more traditional forms of advertising, you aren’t just advertising to everyone – you can pick your audience and target your brand to really appeal to them.

Social Media Marketing Trends for 2022

Posted on 1st December 2021

Its crucial to stay ahead of your competition by researching the future social media marketing trends and implementing them in your marketing strategy. Businesses will miss out if they are still using outdated or ineffective strategies to reach their audience. This blog will give you 5 social media marketing trends for 2022, to prepare your business for the upcoming challenges and stay ahead of your competition.

Live Content

Lives, reels, and podcasts are becoming increasingly popular due to the covid-19 pandemic and will continue to be popular in 2022. Research shows that consumers spend three times longer watching live video than they do watching pre-recorded video.

Live video is more engaging, as the audience get behind-the-scene insights into your business and feel they’re a part of it and can influence the content, rather than just passively watching.

How Business’ Can Utilise Facebook Live for Maximum Visibility

Posted on 26th November 2021

Facebook Live is a feature business owners may not first consider when planning to boost engagement and organic traffic to their page, but it can be a really handy tool to do exactly that. It can bring in more viewers than a post may attract, and will enable you to really explain to your audience what you’re talking about, and the passion behind it.

Before just selecting to go live, pick a topic you want to talk about. You can always present the question to your audience, asking what they’d like to hear from you. Then, you’ll be able to really find out what is likely to bring you engagement from your audience, and allows you to show them you’ve taken their suggestions into consideration.

The New Public Groups Experience, With New Admin Tools

Posted on 12th November 2021

On the 9th November Facebook launched a new, more open Public Groups experience, that will grow your group’s reach, membership, and participation.

Helping to grow communities and help more people become part of communities. Their goal is to grow diverse perceptions and increase authentic conversations across Public Groups, while giving admins powerful new tools to keep their groups safe and the quality of conversations high.

The new Public Groups experience is more accessible to people on Facebook, with many benefits for admins:

• It allows the admin to easily grow their community by letting members instantly join their group. Facebook wanted to make it easy for people to join

The Importance of Social Media Engagement

Posted on 10th November 2021

Ensuring your business has a high volume of engagement across social media is crucial to building a successful company. In the modern age, the fastest way for a potential client to reach you is through the different social channels. Starting out online can seem like a daunting process, but with the right strategy, you could potentially see an exponential amount of growth with your business in a shorter amount of time.

Engagement is a crucial part to marketing your brand on social media. You can’t expect to go straight in with an audience, building one will take time. Checking what your competitors do will help you target the areas where they maybe aren’t the strongest, and also give you time to really work out which content seems to drive the most traffic to your page. This period of trialing different posts will give you an insight into what to post more or less of in the future. Advertising will help you to gain a following. Whilst promoted posts can be expensive, simply posting across platforms about your other social media pages and asking for your existing audience to share your posts can help with promotion and follower growth.

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