Why your online store needs a Social Media Presence

The e-commerce market is getting competitive. You will need a unique strategy to find and create a loyal customer base. In this blog, we are going to explain how to build a social media presence for your online store.

For any e-commerce business, driving website traffic and making more sales are the most important success factors, and yet they are the most challenging ones.

Social media is playing a crucial role in the evolution of online shopping. It provides a platform for expanding your business worldwide without making much effort. Every person spends a minimum of 2 hours on social media like scrolling the feed of Facebook, checking the latest trend on Pinterest or  Instagram, see the latest news, and troll on Twitter, etc.

An online business without effective social media marketing is as dead as an engine without fuel. It is a key element to a successful e-commerce marketing strategy.

Before you post anything, it helps to have a big picture view of your goals and revenue from your social media efforts and an effective strategy to achieve those outcomes.

 

Methods of Social Media Marketing

Social media marketing can serve you for different functions for your business like drive website traffic and generate sales, brand awareness, audience engagement, connecting with customers and expand customer database, providing support, and so much more.

1. Relationship Management

This sounds old-fashioned but the way of doing business in the past era was totally based on the relationship with the customer. In this changing world of business now you can connect with more customers including your existing customer without having any geographical limit with the help of a social media platform. You can communicate with your followers in some of your free time. And showcase your brand personality, while simultaneously you can learn a thing about what potential consumers like and dislike about your brand.

2. Promote with a Purpose and smart targeting

Everyone loves scrolling through Facebook,insta, and their loved ones’ post but when you are interrupted by ads that you could not care about  – oh, you hate it when this thing happens? Right?

Instead of creating an ad with a broad and random audience. You should utilize your customer data to create ads that are targeting the audience. Also, you can put the schemes for social media customers. It will help in increasing your sales.

3. Using Influences

Influence marketing is a new strategy of marketing in this present era.  It is a newer and innovative term for old-fashioned word-of-mouth marketing. The buying process of the customer has changed. Before buying a product customers try to search for information about and alternatives to the products over social media. Influences put the information about the product that should be in sync with what your business stands for.

For example, a famous cosmetic brand ran an influence campaign. Beauty and fashion are two areas where people focus more on reviews and opinions of influences. The brand engaged with beauty bloggers, who promoted their products on their blog and through videos to convince the customers to buy their product.

 

Social media strategy isn’t a one-off task. Social media is an iterative process that changes and grows with your business. It is important to keep creating, testing, measuring, and adapting strategies to create the most authentic and effective communication with your customers and audience. Every brand is different, so it’s up to you. Decide which marketing strategy is going to be the most beneficial for your business.