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10 Things You Need to Cease Doing on Social Media

September 18, 2015 - Last Modified: April 10, 2016 by Alesia Hsiao 1,224

Everyone is on social media, which is why you are using it as a marketing strategy for your business. However, some things that you do on social media could hurt your brand more than it helps it. Businesses who have content go viral know what they should and should not do. Therefore, today we are informing you of ten things you need to cease doing on social media if you want it to be an effective part of your marketing strategy.

Sharing things before making sure they are not a hoax

When you are sharing something online, your readers believe that you are sharing accurate information. Can you imagine how it makes them look to their audience when they are re-sharing your content only to find out that it is a hoax?  Not good.

Everything that you share needs to be credible so you don’t kill your credibility. Remember when there was that viral hoax about certain stores not accepting “Food Stamps” anymore. Readers of those who shared that hoax were angry, telling account holders on Facebook that they were being mean. Another example is the viral tax hoax that went around saying that the IRS was delaying refunds until October.

Bottom line; don’t share things on your social media networks before verifying them. All you will do is raise fear and other emotions over something that is not real. Instead, if something sounds fishy check it out onSnopes.

Overloading posts with hashtags

There is nothing more annoying than seeing a post with more hashtags than actual text. Hashtags are extremely beneficial to a brand when they are used properly. You should consider using one to three hashtags and make sure they are very specific to the topic of your post. For example, if you are posting about a new product that you have released use your brand hashtag and another one such as #newproduct, #productlaunch, or #releaseday.

Spamming with automated messages

Direct messages were extremely popular and you can set them up to automatically go out. However, they have become overused, and many are viewed as spam. Your audience is what makes your brand. They are people and they love when they are connecting with brands on a personal level. If you just send everyone the same automated message, you will lose potential customers to your competitors, who skip spamming their connections with automated messages, and you will have a lower click thru rate on your direct messages.

Publishing the same message across all platforms

Hootsuite is a way to prevent publishing the same message to all of your social media networks simultaneously. You want to space it out so that people can see your message.

It is important to space out your messages across the platforms because many followers follow you on more than one platform. Therefore, if you publish the exact message at the same time, on all of your platforms, you will lose followers on some channels because the audience will feel as though they only need to follow you on one since you post the same messages on all of the channels.

Handling negative feedback in the wrong way

As a business owner, you are going to get negative feedback. However, how you handle the negative feedback is what determines if your business will grow from it or fail. It is important to remember to respond to negative feedback promptly and professionally.

For example, remember the café owner who yelled at a child in her established and then handled the negative feedback poorly on social media. While she did gain some customers, who weren’t parents, she lost a lot of her clientele, which were families with children because she handled negative feedback in the wrong way.

Forgetting to send readers to a landing page

One of the worst things you can do that hurts your sales is not send your readers to a landing page with your social media posts. Anytime you post a status or picture, make sure you have a link attached for them to learn more.

Nothing is worse than a customer clicking a link, thinking they will learn more about the product/service you are advertising than to find that the link in the message does not provide them with the information that they seek.

Doing “follow Friday” every Friday

Something that has become extremely popular, but obnoxious, is Follow Friday. This is done with the hashtag, #FF, and then lists a long list of people that are tagged. It is a great way to bring attention to some of your followers, but it does not help your target group.

You have to keep in mind that while your audience may be looking for new followers, they don’t want to see a bunch of #FF hashtags showing up in their feed from a brand that they expected valuable information from. It is okay to do it occasionally yet if you do it religiously every week you will notice your followers declining.

Only making posts with photos

While pictures and memes are cute and often re-shared, you want to make sure you are using social media to tell potential customers more about you. More importantly, you want to make sure that you are sharing articles and other information that pertains to your services. Things like studies or informational articles bring in more viewers than a picture of your headquarters that is decorated for the holidays. Social media is designed for companies to be social, not to be a bulletin board or picture gallery.

Forgetting your followers are “real” people

Another thing that you need to stop doing on social media is using it just to post an update. People want to be interacted with, which is why social media is so popular. You want to make sure that when you post an update, you follow-up with the people who comment on the thread.

For example, if you ask your followers a question and receive a massive amount of comments on the post, it is your responsibility to interact with the commenters. While it is true that your followers want you to get personal with them, your efforts go to waste if you do not follow all the way through.

Focusing on the wrong numbers

Social media is a great way to build your brand. However, if you don’t focus on the right numbers you will feel as though social media is a waste of time.

When looking at numbers on social media do not just focus on the number of followers you have on the platforms. Instead, look deeper, into engagement rates, click thru rates, and the number of shares that you get.

You could have 50,000 followers but if they are not engaging with you on social media, it is going to provide you the same results as if you have 1000 followers.

Therefore, it is suggested that you look at your stats; they tell you so much more about your social media marketing strategy anyway.

Are you guilty of doing one of the ten things that we discussed today?

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Alesia Hsiao is an experienced blogger who published great content throughout the web. She specializes in social media marketing and news. When she is not guest blogging on other sites she writes guest posting services content She also runs a itestcash blog.

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  1. Ankit Roy says:
    LOL, Although I used to do so many things before. My business brand page was active, and I was handling that 1 year ago. It doesn't matter how busy I am, Whenever I used to see any relevant #tags, I used to tweets, tweets and tweets on that #tag. But now roundark.com is taking care of all my social media and SEO works. They are working really good. They told me that it's spam. And after 1 year I am on this blog. Thank you Alesia for this informative blog.
  2. Sanjeet Veen says:
    Now days social media key role in human life's. Just amazing and interesting information.
  3. Mayank Mittal says:
    Its really very important to know about to cease social media, very nice and helpful. Thank you very very much for this blog.
  4. Maylo says:
    Hey Alesia, This is one of the best posts. I belive so many people forget about things you said abouve and this article really helps them. Moreover, you described it in so easy and simple way, keep informing. Thanks for the interesting post.
  5. Lisa David says:
    I have seen ordinarily that individuals fill remark box on famous facebook pages with spam remarks. To my psyche, they are benefiting terrible rather in any way with their image. It is so much bothering perusing the same sort of remarks everywhere.
  6. Taufeeq Umar says:
    Its really an amazing blog post with helpful detailed information. Thank you very much for sharing here with us.
  7. michale says:
    so many interesting things ,now a days social media an important role for all business,here in this blog nicely explain about all social media activity..Thanks for sharing..
  8. parag shah says:
    Now each day social media play an important role in our business or web site . Through social media we are able to convey our message to plenty of individuals .Nice article Thanks for sharing such informative article with US .
  9. Amit Varma says:
    Hi Alesia Hsiao, Well said!! Nowadays, social media is playing an imperative role in our business. But social media can be detrimental for us. So while using social media, we should be alert for future problems. Thanks for sharing your post with us.
  10. Paula Kaur says:
    Very informative article! thank you for sharing this article., social media nowadays is very important to all..
  11. Siddique Khan says:
    Now a day social media play a vital role in our business or website . Through social media we can convey our message to a lot of people . Nice article . Thanks for sharing such informative article with us .
  12. Obinna says:
    The social media, which a loyal servant for bloggers, can be a bad master if the aforementioned excesses are not checked. Thanks for sharing.
  13. Ruchi singh says:
    I have seen many times that people fill comment box on popular facebook pages with spam comments. To my mind, they are doing bad rather any good with their brand
  14. Tauseef Alam says:
    Hi Alesia, I have seen many times that people fill comment box on popular facebook pages with spam comments. To my mind, they are doing bad rather any good with their brand. It is so much irritating reading the same kind of comments all over.
  15. Praney Thapa says:
    Couldn't have found relevant information in one blog which contains all the mixture of how new age social media should be done. Thanks! Was lacking in various aspects. Especially posting the same content on every social medium. INFORMATIVE

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