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How to Grow Your Social Media Followers, and Retain Your Followers

Social media is continuing to be a growing factor in how organizations market to their consumers. More and more people are joining social media, and it is only going to keep growing. It is important for organizations to grow and utilize their social media accounts to inform and interact with their consumers.

Creating Your Social Media Accounts

The first step to grow and utilize your social media is to create the accounts. It is very beneficial to have social media accounts in every major social media channel, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Having a username that is short and clear will avoid confusion. For example, make sure to simply use your organization’s name if it is available, without any other numbers/characters. This will make it easy for people to search and find your account. If your organization’s name is similar to another organization, add a word that clearly distinguishes it.

How/Where to Promote Your Social Media

Once you have social media accounts made and are dedicated to utilizing it, you should promote your accounts. Promote each social media account to your current active customers and to anyone who may be interested in the organization. Make it clear to your customers where your organization can be found on social media. Any advertisement made should include a spot for social media promotion, even if it is very small. While you want to make sure people are aware of your social media accounts, it is also important not to overdo it. Consistently being reminded about something can be an annoyance and can turn off customers from the organization.

How to
Utilize Your Organization’s Social Media

Once you successfully grow followers on your social media channels, it is important to continue to keep their interest. To do this, utilize your social media by creating engaging and informative posts that grab their attention. Hashtags are a great way for people to discover your posts and potentially follow you, while also grouping your posts with other posts that relate to them. Also, you should keep your social media posts very short and concise, staying on topic. The longer you make a post, the less likely a follower scrolling through will read the entire thing. This may result in missing critical information you want to spread. Also, interact with your followers as much as you possibly can. If anyone messages or tags your organization, responding enthusiastically in a timely manner will create happy customers.

How to Keep Your Followers and Prevent Unsubscribing/Unfollowing

Another thing to keep in mind is that follows on social media are not permanent, and it is just as easy to lose a follower as it is to gain one. It is extremely common for people to lose interest in a social media account, which leads to them unfollowing /unsubscribing. To avoid this as much as possible, make sure to consistently be active online and active. Inactivity is one of the main reasons that users unfollow accounts, so it is important to not give off that impression. On the other hand, it is also important to refrain from posting too often where someone may find it annoying. If you are covering someone’s feed with posts, especially if they do not find them relevant relevant, they are likely to unfollow you.

If you have any questions at all please feel free to reach out to our marketing team at marketing@agiletix.com.

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GIFs – The Future of Millennial Marketing

GIFs are a great way to start conversations and maybe the secret to millennial marketing that we all have been searching for. An added value to your business and an interactive way to grasp the attention of your target audience. Could this be the future of marketing?

Do you GIF?

GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Formal. Originally embraced the internet over 30 years ago and is still relevant today. According to Twitter, people share more than 500 million GIFs in 2018. Why do GIFs hold so much value, you may ask? GIFs convey context and emotion in a way that is incredibly easy for viewers to relate to. The secret to successful social media management is on the basis of being relatable. You gain more followers by being relateable, funny and entertaining. Are you hearing us yet?

What we’ve learned…

While in Utah at the annual Art House Convergence we had the chance to attend a presentation by Wesley Emblidge. Enblidge is the Marketing & Education Coordinator at Coolidge Corner Theatre (who happens to be one of our amazing clients 🙌). In his presentation, “Tutorial: How to Make Your Own GIFs (and Why You Should!)” Emblidge stated that ” in the past 5–10 years have Gifs become a massive part of the way people communicate online”.

He went on to talk about the power of using GIFs in your social strategy. This verticle of content happens to be one of the best ways to capture the attention of your audience. By using a trending GIF your organization is more likely to gain impressions and even better – engagement! So when planning your next social media post, why not spice it up a little bit? Throw in a GIF, the possibilities are endless.

Where Can I Find GIFs or even better… Make My Own GIF?

Gifs are fun and act as an easy way for you to promote a vertical of your organization. There are plenty of websites that we get our gifs from, such as GIPHY.COM. Giphy makes it easy to find the right GIF for you. The site even allows you to make your own. It’s simple and easy to use!

If you have any questions about adding the technique to your social media strategy, please feel free to reach out to our team – Marketing@agiletix.com.