Custom Apparel Startups
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Custom Apparel Startups
Episode 118 – Stellar Social Media Skills
50 minutes Posted Feb 19, 2020 at 3:00 pm.
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You can really bring out your best in social media, but you can also bring your business down. Making you look WORSE! Here is step 1 to nailing stellar social media skills!

Social Channels

Facebook
YOU have a profile
YOUR BUSINESS has a page
and your BUSINESS PAGE has a group
YOUR PROFILE Posts on the group and is the face of the group.

Profiles

One human face should be associated with the profile.

Groups

types of groups

Open: Anyone can view the group, its members, and their posts.

Closed: Anyone can view the group and its members, but only members can see group posts.
Secret: Only members can see the group or any of its information.

Pages

  • Your Business
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Purpose of Posts

  • Show activity
  • Sell online
    Photos galleries, organization

-Gain followers

Posts should persuade people to share and spread the word

  • Benefits

Branding

Recognition
Social Proof - if you only have 5 followers, people might think less of you

  • Business Information

opening closing hours

sales
summary of business

  • Engagement

ask questions, polls, opinions, decisions

  • Best practices

frequency

photos/videos
engaging
tagging
page shares

  • Social Calendar

How to

Create a template
Google sheets, calendar apps, asana, somewhere where you can type out a text draft ahead of time

  • Schedule

Directly through FB

Hootsuite
Loomly
Buffer

  • How often

General rule, once a day. Go from there.

  • Things to remember

Even though it is social media and more casual - professionalism is important!

spellcheck
fact check
if you are advertising you are going to a market, make sure dates,days are correct

Quality content

No Potato quality photos
videos should be easy to watch / understandable audio

Check your Inbox, respond to customers!

If people PM you, reply
If people tag you, like/reply back
Set up auto-responder if appropriate in FB messenger

Engage in comments

If people leave a review - thank them (good and bad reviews need replies)
Any comments on your photos, posts, etc should be replied to somehow