It’s not the network; it’s the content. When clients come to us, so often the first thing they say is “I hate social media it doesn’t work”; there are so many things to address in that one statement like; what are your goals, strategy, implementation, consistency, and content? In digital marketing every platform is unique, there are best practices for each network, but ultimately it comes down to your communication plan.

What Is Your Content Plan?

It is all about content, what are you writing, photographing, videoing, and posting? Where are you getting your ideas from, how are you executing them, and how often are you engaging people – real people in real dialogue?

10. Research Is Not An Option; It Is Everything

Research your industry, competition, news sources, target audience, & influencers.

9. Create A Comprehensive & Fluid Plan

Your marketing plan should look at the whole year but should be analyzed monthly and in some cases weekly for timely tweaking.

8. Set Realistic Expectations

Rome was not built overnight, and even the best marketing needs time to flourish.

7. Set Up Newsfeed Tools

Pull in content on your industry, topic categories, local communities, target audience interests, and competition. Here some tools to get you started:

• Feedly
• Scoop.it
• Flipbook
• Buzzfeed

6. Content Curation

If original content is essential for strong inbound marketing, curating content is its conjoined twin. You should have both. Content curation shows that you are plugged in and on top of your industry.

• Storify
• Publishthis
• BuzzSumo

5. Keep Your Social Networks Unique

What you post to Facebook should be different than what you post to Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, or Snapchat. What you post on your website should be reworked when sharing in your e-newsletter to fit your goals for that communication tool.

4. Quantify & Qualify Everything

Use social media and web monitoring tools to organize your time, track your progress, and to analyze your efforts.

3. Get Creative

What you did yesterday may not be good today. The Internet moves fast and attention spans that much faster so stay relevant and interesting. To keep people excited and engaged you must always be reinventing your posts.

2. Media Madness

Images, video, and audio are where it’s at. You do not have to recreate content you can easily convert existing content to freshen it up, change perspective, and to fit different platforms.

Every published piece of content should have multiple media pieces to uniquely share the content over an extended period of time.

• Photoshop
• Canva
• Snapseed
• Facebook Slideshow (Android & IOS)

1. Every Day Is A New Day To Learn

Make sure you have a comprehensive and timely reading list from the brightest in the industry.