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Can you generate sales on social media?

If you ask a professional agency or an expert, they would say, social media is mainly for creating brand identity. But you can expect sales from social media if you are aware of some basic factors.

First of all, social media cannot help you meeting your sales target overnight. It takes hard work and is pretty time-consuming. But when it starts paying back, there is no looking back. Next up is, your goal to attain on the space. No matter what it is, be sure to establish yourself as a reliable brand first, else your presence will be as good as a useless armchair. Last, but not the least, you need to accept the fact that social media marketing is not free, even though social networks are.

Now let’s move on to the main segment, namely sales generation on social media.

Here are some pointers you need to keep in mind in order to generate sales on the digital space.

Know your audience: Your audience wants to be entertained, on the first hand. So, if you want them to buy your services or products, you need to provide them with some good reasons. For this, you need to figure out what may allure your audience and at the same time what you can do to attract them.

Let’s presume, you own a Thai restaurant. So, you need to figure out the reasons why people would visit your restaurant and what can you offer to make them visit. The best way to get ever more footfalls to your business is, be different. Experiment with your contests, offers, discounts and events.

Have a clear understanding: There are a hundreds ways to meet your sales target, but you must have a clear idea of your path and goal. If you know what you want to achieve and how, half the job is done.

For example, if you are a blogger and want greater traffic to your blog, you need to create a logical and addressable roadmap. So, you must have a comprehensible strategy for your niche, target audience and things to offers.

Create a sense of emergency: For sales generation, we often offer discounts, freebies and deals. If you offer anything similar, make sure you create a sense of emergency with them, else your strategy will not work.

You need to make your audience understand that if they don’t avail the offer now, they will never ever get it. Even if this is not the case, you must project it this way, because people don’t get attracted towards an easily available deal. A sense of urgency will help you take more and more people on board. It’s a common human psychology that always works for marketing.

Add clear call-to-actions: With all your offers and deals, add clear calls to action. Your audience should have a succinct idea of the required action, when they would visit your posts. Be it an ad or an offer, double check if you have mentioned all the required clauses and terms.

For example, if you want people to sign up for your webinar, make it clear in the promotion. Many social media marketing campaigns don’t get the desired results because they fail to project a clear call to action. Don’t be one of them.

Have an email list: Create an email list of your potential buyers. They may belong to your social media community but make sure whoever you add in the list is interested in your offerings; else your email will be counted as spam.

First, you need to create a demand for your product. So you ought to offer free stuff at first. Once your product gets huge popularity and helps you get enough enquiry, move on to the next level and start charging for it.

Spend money on promotion: In order to make sure that your social media promotions are reaching your potential buyers, you need to spend. Social media ads are here to help you. However, if you want to use social media to its utmost potential, use different channels.

Let’s assume that you want to run a Soccer World Cup 2022 discount offer at your food joint. You can create a Facebook page post ad targeting soccer lovers and foodies in your locality. You can run a Soccer quiz on Twitter, offering a 50% discount on the ongoing offer for the winners. The results will be overwhelming. You will not only get a huge footfalls but also new followers and fans.

Measure results: Last but not the least, make sure you track each one of your social media campaigns, only to figure out what works for your audience the best. You can also compare between several campaigns. The data will be extremely helpful for your future campaigns.

It’s often seen that not all of them, who claim your offer on social media, turn up in your storefront. Tracking different campaign results will help you know what the better ways are to prompt your audience to visit your store or to make a purchase decision.

Social media is all about sending your message across and reaching your target audience. Explore and create, you will generate sales too.