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18 PalletCentral • May-June 2023 palletcentral.com Create a corporate page and populate it with diverse posts before engaging with others. Make sure all social media leads back to your website, as well. "Pallet companies generally know who they want to do business with," says Ferri. "Searching platforms for these companies, then liking their pages, and commenting on their posts can help get your company in front of them. Social media is about engagement." S T E P F O U R : Create Engaging Messages: Several factors contribute to the success of a social media post: • Relevance: Posts or emails directed to a target audience should align with their interests, needs, and preferences. Understand your audience and tailor your content to them. • Clear Objective: Whether it's to inform, entertain, inspire, or drive a specific action, the post should have a clear purpose, such as increasing brand awareness, generating leads, or driving website traffic. • Compelling Headline or Caption: Concise, intriguing, and friendly headlines encourage people to click, read, or engage with the content. • Call to Action: Ask users to like, comment, share, follow, visit a website, or participate in a contest. • Timing and Consistency: Know when your target audience is active on social media or email. Consistency builds trust and helps establish a connection with your audience. • Hashtags and Keywords: Relevant hashtags and keywords in your social media posts can increase their discoverability. Create your own company hashtag(s). Research trending/popular hashtags in your niche to use in your content. • User Engagement and Interactions: To get likes, comments, shares, retweets, or responses, encourage conversation, respond to comments, and initiate discussions. Engaging with your audience shows that you value their opinions and fosters a sense of community. • Analyze and Adapt: To gauge success, learn how to pay attention to metrics like reach, engagement rate, open rate, click-through rate, and conversions. Lastly, and maybe most important: • Develop a Content Strategy. Consider these: • Educational Content: Share informative and helpful content about pallets using the NWPCA resources. is can be as blog articles, videos, infographics, or social media posts. • Case Studies and Testimonials: Showcase successful pallet implementation stories from your clients. You do not have to name the client to share examples. Highlight the positive impact your pallets have had on their business. Use these in posts, your website, and promotional materials. • Visual Content: Pallets might not be inherently visually appealing, but you can leverage creative visuals to make your content more engaging. Use high-quality images, videos, and graphics to demonstrate the quality, durability, and versatility of your pallets. Photos with people get attention. To get likes, comments, shares, retweets, or responses, encourage conversation, respond to comments, and initiate discussions. Engaging with your audience shows that you value their opinions. Advanced Tactics to Increase Success For companies that already have a vibrant social media marketing plan, maybe it is time to go to the next level. Make sure your mission, vision and outcomes are aligned with your company's long- range goals. Here are some suggestions to advance your efforts: Defining Statements A vision statement is a concise declaration of an organization's long-term aspirations and the future it seeks to create. It should guide desired outcomes a company aims to achieve. It should be ambitious, as well as realistic, and capable of uniting people under a shared purpose. Two aspects are: • Vision statement – the big-picture idea of what your world, community or audience will look like when you succeed at your mission. • Organizational vision – what your organization will look like in the future, usually encompassing a three-year timeframe, for instance. A mission statement defines what an organization is, why it exists, its reason for being. It outlines the fundamental purpose and articulates the core activities, values, and principles that drive the organization's day-to-day operations. It should be clear, succinct, and most importantly, actionable.