If you own a business than there is a good chance you’re advertising and an even better chance that you’re using social media as a way to promote your company and brand. However, sometimes it can be hard to build a good strong following for your business on social media, so how do you go about doing that? Well, there are quite a few ways that you can go about building your business’s social media following. Down below are four ways that you can apply, just to start with.
Four ways you can build your social media following:
1. Host a giveaway: Hosting a giveaway on one of your social media platforms can be a great way to build your social media following. Give away something exciting and that everyone would be interested in winning. That way it will generate lots of interest, and if following your account is one of the requirements you will gain a lot of new followers.
INTERACT:
2. Follow accounts back: When people start to follow you, you can follow them back. Sometimes people tend to like it if they feel like the interest is not one-sided. Every business has had times when people start to follow them for a giveaway or something and then a few days later unfollow them, am I right?
This way they will feel like you saw that they followed you, and then you followed them back. This can be a good way of helping you to create a relationship and help to decrease your follower loss.
3. Reply to people’s comments: No one likes to comment on a photo or video and not get a reply. If you’re not replying to comments, then people aren’t going to want to discuss and interact on your posts. So, in order to make sure that people are interacting with your posts you have to be replying and socializing as well. Not doing so could cause people to stop following you and stop interacting on them.
4. Post good content: Posting good, engaging content can really make the difference between someone following you or not. So make sure you’re posting photos and video that will make people want to follow you. Some things to avoid are controversial (let’s leave the politics at home), negative (no one likes to hear about the lousy weather), or questionable (let’s not air dirty laundry) content.
Building up your social media following is something that every business should be doing. Because gaining followers overnight is not an instant thing. It takes time and focus.
One last note. Yes, you can BUY followers; however, we highly recommend against it. Buying followers is not the same as gaining real-life people that are interested in your company, product, service or brand. They are not invested in you and are not going to increase your traffic or sales.
So, please, don’t even look into buying followers. Stick to the real thing.