Are You Making Some of These 5 Social Media Mistakes?
At this point everyone knows that social media isn't an option, but a necessity, but on the other hand many aren't sure how to go about it with any degree of effectiveness.
All too often we blunder into it, and not just fail to generate any results we can point to, but may in many cases actually hurt our own brands by inadvertently making several easy to make social media mistakes. Let's take a look at what these social media mistakes are, and how you can avoid them.
5 Social media mistakes to avoid
- Not being visual – These days people are all about wanting to view, not read. So regardless of whether you have a video, cool image or unique infographic, rest assured that your visual content will be read more, engaged with more ,and ultimately be acted upon far more.
- Constantly selling – Put yourself in their shoes: do you enjoy having sales messages in your face all the time? No. Neither does your audience. Try to make your sales pitches no more than 20 percent of your content at most.
- Making negative comments disappear – This is a big no-no. If people discover that you are managing your social media in this fashion, they'll not trust you in any way. It just looks as if the complainer was right, and you're attempting to hide it. Preferably use this as an opportunity to demonstrate awesome customer service!
- Don't buy likes and fans – Even though this appears on the surface to be an easy way to pump up the volume on your social media, in fact it will have the opposite effect. The social networks won't like it, and any real fans or followers you have will see right through it.
- Don't use LikeBait – LikeBait, as its name implies, is the act of bating people to like your post or page by crafting a controversial or otherwise titillating headline to get people to click or like. The problem is, there is usually not real or relevant content behind the headline. Facebook hates this as well, and is changing their algorithm to exclude it. Don't be that guy.
