Top 5 Social Media Hacks For Your Business and Personal Brand (2024)

In this article, we will show you 5 social media hacks that will help your business and your brand grow with consistency in 2024. Let’s delve right into it. We’ll also touch on a bit of unspoken social media rules

1)   Consistent Posting Approach

Social media has always been in the limelight over quality content. Brands have always had a target audience that they feed them with the right ideas with consistency with the creative posting of content. It can get overwhelming though, instead of posting beads of posts, try a better approach in 2024, let your post significantly add value to your audience. Streamline them to fewer posts if necessary because you don’t want your engagement with your audience to reduce because they’re simply tired of excesses, but be consistent.

2)  Videos contents 

 

Do you know content created with videos is more appealing and attention-seeking.!In 2024, there will be an even greater demand for video. It seems video content will take over this year, as it is the most preferred content for social media users for engagement. Videos are very effective for understanding conversations. We have the likes of Facebook, YouTube, and others, you can see the way video posts are engaged with comments and shares. It gives priority to video content including Instagram. Focus on creating video content to build your brand.

There are several kinds of videos that you can post on your social media pages. Here are a few ideas that never fail;

  • Explainer videos
  • Tutorial videos
  • Behind-the-scenes looks into your brand
  • Product information videos
  • User-generated videos

3)  Social media automation 

At times, pushing your brand on social media can become overwhelming, You might feel like you’re spending all your time on social media, creating posts, creating captions for your videos and images, interacting with followers, and so on. Social media automation allows you to schedule your social media posts, which are then automatically posted on your social profiles at the scheduled time. Automating your social media activity will free up your time and allow you to focus on other equally important aspects of your business.

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4)  Use Chatbots

Even with having a dedicated social media team, it is impossible to promptly respond to all social media inquiries from your audience. It becomes a problem because your customers are not ready to wait until you’re ready to respond to their inquiries. They want you to respond to their questions immediately. Instead of letting these potential customers go because you do not have a dedicated social media team, you can take advantage of chatbots For instance, when you visit the Facebook page or any customer-related page, there’s always a chatbot message ready to answer your questions and keep them engaged.

5)  Use feature stories

The story is a feature that allows users to post content – either images or videos – that appear at the top of the app and disappear after 24 hours. Stories started as a feature that was only available on Snapchat. However, other social platforms realized how popular Stories are, and today, many of the top social media platforms, including WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter have their own version of stories.

Start leveraging on this trend of story features on different platforms, particularly Facebook and Instagram, The best part about Stories is that they allow your followers to take actions such as responding to polls and swiping up to visit a webpage.

We’ll continue with the remaining helpful hacks on your next visit to the blog. Try these out and expand your creativity.

Slide post: What are the unspoken social media rules you think you know, let’s visit this topic;

  1. Never reveal personal information that can be used to steal, hack, etc.
  2. The internet never forgets, so don’t put anything on social that you are not comfortable with everyone in the world seeing – forever.
  3. Conduct yourself professionally, ethically, and with class. This means no spamming, flaming, arguing, harassing, private messaging people you do not know, etc. Show some decency.
  4. Do not criticize others’ posts on their feeds. If you do not like it or agree with it, don’t read it.
  5. Proofread your posts. We all make mistakes, especially if typing on a mobile, but make an effort out of respect and consideration for those who are giving you the honor of reading your writing.
  6. Keep your relationship drama to yourself. Oversharing can cause confusion, anxiety, and stuff to other people, minimizing your intimacy of relationship woes and whatnot.