In digital marketing, especially in social media, the audience is the most important part of any digital marketing campaign or strategy.
They are the reason you got on social media in the first place and if you are not reaching them, then what’s the point.
Social Media is about communication, it is about sharing of media (content). It doesn’t matter what your objectives (goals) for starting a social media marketing campaign are if you are not able to communicate appropriately it is a waste of time.
In communicating effectively you must be able to speak the language of your target audience to who you are trying to attract.
To attract or reach followers and customers on social media, your business needs to gain a reasonable reach. That is your posts’ potential audience visibility through your social media marketing efforts.
In this blog post, I am going to discuss some steps you can take to effectively reach your audience.
6 Strategies You Need To Reach Your Social Media Audience
1. Define Your Target Audience
To reach your target audience, you must first define your target audience, and to do this you need to understand your customers.
To do this we recommend that you build a consumer persona. This is a made-up that represent your ideal customer.
Then you need to list their demographic and psychographic attributes and preferences to gain a better understanding of your target audience.
Then you can sell your product and services only to those who are most likely to be genuinely interested in them. This means you will have a higher chance of getting leads and conversions.
2. Include a visual with every post To Reach Your Social Media Audience
Research shows that 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual and the brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster than text.
Including an image or visual content in your social media marketing makes your content more:
1) Attractive,
2) Engaging,
3) Understandable,
4) Memorable, and,
5) Relatable.
Visuals are high-performers on social media, so be sure to include a high-quality and attractive colorful image or graphic with each post.
3. Share more video content
One of the most important ingredients of a successful social media campaign is having great content that resonates with your audience and the most captivating type at the moment is video content.
Research has shown that YouTube is the second most popular site on the web? and is second only to Google in the most visited sites on the web.
Another statistic shows that 85% of businesses are actually using video as a marketing tool.
We advise that you upload your video directly to your social media page rather than posting a link to an outside website like youtube.
This way, your video will automatically play as people land on it while scrolling through their feeds, grabbing more attention.
Lots of engagement can lead to increased reach, engagement, and exposure for your brand.
4. Give people a reason to follow you
On social media, people would not follow you or like your post unless you give them the reason to do so.
To do this you can offer some incentives that you know will benefit your followers. Think about it, if you came across a post telling you to like or reshare, you wouldn’t want to do it unless you are getting something in return.
To get people to like your post or follow you, you can hold a contest, create a list of downloadable materials like ebooks and offer it to your audience. Giveaways is another strategy you can use to make people follow you.
5. Create Useful and Relevant Content
One of the best ways to reach your target audience is to create useful and relevant content that resonates and grabs their attention.
The more targeted and relevant your content is, the easier it will be for you to reach your target audience and engage them.
Content should be engaging, relevant, and informative and at the same time reflect your brand’s core values.
Make sure you use more image and video content, share your blog post on your social media platforms.
6. Use Targeted Advertising
Social media Ads are another way you can use in reaching your target audience more effectively.
Social media ads provide advanced targeting options to help you reach your target audience by location, interest, and demographics.
Facebook gives you access to multiple targeting tools that will help you create and run ads. They also offer analytics to help you optimize your advertising campaigns. Other social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter also have their own advertising tools.
You can also use a Facebook Pixel to create custom audiences and do some seriously effective re-marketing campaigns based on customer behavior.
Target them based on the specific pages they visited on your website, Purchase events, and past purchase behaviors, time spent on your site or certain pages, and much more.
This will make sure that your ads are only displayed to those who are likely to show interest in your brand. This means you don’t need to spend a fortune on ads to reach your target audience who are more likely to convert than anyone else.