{"id":9326,"date":"2019-07-11T11:58:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2022-12-05T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T08:30:15","slug":"9-social-media-marketing-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/9-social-media-marketing-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Social Media Marketing Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for ways to improve your social media strategy? Want to know the best practices you should follow for social media success?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fully apparent to small businesses that social media is important\u2014more than 70% now utilize it as a marketing channel. However, figuring out exactly what works on social isn\u2019t as clear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.da-manager.com\/design-and-print\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8991\" src=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/web-design.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/web-design.png 984w, https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/web-design-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/web-design-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/web-design-600x287.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which networks should you be using? Are both organic and paid tactics worth pursuing? How often should you be engaging? Which types of content should you be posting?<\/p>\n<p>The social media experts at MDG Advertising went through a host of research to see what the latest data says and combined that with learnings from recent work for clients. What emerged are a few key approaches that can help firms engage efficiently and effectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the infographic below, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.red-website-design.co.uk\/2019\/07\/08\/social-media-marketing-2020-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Red Website Design <\/span><\/a>share 9 best practices that can help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.da-manager.com\/web-development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">small businesses<\/span><\/a> of all types succeed on social media:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s a quick summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Learn everything you can about your audience<br \/>\n\u2022 Choose which networks to use (and which to ignore)<br \/>\n\u2022 Conduct an audit<br \/>\nKeep an eye on the competition<br \/>\n\u2022 Listen for mentions of your brand<br \/>\n\u2022 Establish your social media voice and tone<br \/>\n\u2022 Follow the social media \u2018Rule of Thirds\u2019<br \/>\n\u2022 Respond to all comments promptly<br \/>\n\u2022 Use data to determine when and how often to post<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out the infographic for more detail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9325\" src=\"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0398.jpg\" alt=\"social media marketing\" width=\"900\" height=\"3353\" \/>=========================================================<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks for reading this post! Don\u2019t just read and leave,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">please like, follow me, and share with others too!!\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">=========================================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for ways to improve your social media strategy? Want to know the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_mbp_gutenberg_autopost":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,305,3351,127],"tags":[182,200,193],"class_list":["post-9326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general","category-marketing","category-small-business","category-social-media","tag-email-marketing","tag-marketing","tag-social-media"],"modified_by":"Wise","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/da-manager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}