1) Create goals for your sites
Create goals for your sites – will they communicate in-store news, promotions or events to customers? Will they help you to network with suppliers and the wider industry? Aim your design and content at your target audience.
2) Be consistent
Use a template of colours and store logos that will ensure your brand is clearly recognisable. Matt Rhodes, director of social media consultancy FreshNetworks, says it is essential that customers trust that your sites are run by you.
3) Talk to people online like you do in-store
in-store, you are probably chatty, friendly and professional, so continue to let your personality out by doing the same on social media.
4) Make good use of your visual assets
use good quality pictures of your store and staff for your profile pictures, cover photos and posts. These will market your business and help customers identify with it online. Don’t worry if you’re not a photographic expert – sites like Instagram will help you edit images.
Action for experts
If you are already social media-savvy, take things one step further by creating a monthly or weekly plan to decide some messages and content in advance. What promotions or events are coming up, for example?
Use a free service such as hootsuite to schedule and manage multiple social media accounts.
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