5 Social Media Marketing Methods to Boost Business

Recycle your posts that did really well by attracting more traffic
There is absolutely wrong with recycling your old posts that went a long way in building great
traffic and thereby making more sales for you. However, you should take into close
consideration not to recycle posts that still have active discussions and engagements. It will look
so desperate for you. One ought to be keen to only recycle expired posts that did great when they
were still active.
Re-introduce old posts by including relevant links on them. As such, one can promote a different
aspect of product or service using an old post that seemed to attract more engagement as
compared to other posts. You will be amazed at the enthusiasm in which social media users will
receive a recycled post. Once interesting; always interesting. This will never change.

Guest-post on other famous posts or blogs
You will be surprised on the outcome of using other people’s traffic to your own advantage.
Internet marketing begins from scratch and before you create your own massive following, it is
never wrong to borrow from other established internet marketers. Guest-posting simply means
posting your ads on other posts that you contribute to in another site. Always be active to engage
yourself on other sites that might be promoting different goods or services from yours.
Growth in internet marketing, especially on social media, has never been achieved by single
efforts. It requires combined efforts to achieve the desired results and making use of traffic
created by other is one way to make this happen. It is human nature to return favors. If you
contribute positively to promote other people’s promotional activities on their sites, it is almost
definite that they will welcome your own promotional activities on their sites. Therefore, never
hesitate to use a person’s traffic for your own advantage.

Accompany your posts with branded images
People readily identify funny or branded images. These are common images that haven used on
other sites before and have had a wide range of following. There is not sin in using the same
images for your won advantage. On most occasions, social media users will always take a second
to glance at an image they have seen before on a different platform. Additionally, they are
always more interested in the event that such images are used in a different context or if the
images have been altered slightly. Make use of this common practice to lure more and more
traffic to your posts, blogs or sites.
Most branded images are funny and hilarious. Social media users like funny and hilarious stuff.
Give it to them. The trick to winning the hearts of social media users is to give them exactly what
they intend to get when they log into their social media accounts. A greater percentage of social
media users visit these sites for the purpose of interacting and relaxing their minds. Funny plays
pivotal roles of making meeting these desires so do not shy from providing exactly what they
need.

Make use of info-graphics while making posts or blogs on social media
Certainly, promotional information put across in words alone is dull and less likely to draw the
much anticipated traffic. Most social media users are more attracted to pictorial information as
compared to written information. Therefore, it is highly recommended that you spice up your
promotional information with pictures and branded images. Of course this will show your
audience how serious you are about making them have an interest in whatever information you
are attempting to put across.

Link your posts to other controversial blog posts
People like controversy. There is nothing as interesting as eliciting engagement on your blog
posts as including a little controversy in them. It is always human nature to get involved with
controversial things. As a matter of fact, controversies draw so much attention that is
incomparable to even religious posts. Take advantage of this human nature and draw traffic to
your blogs posts.
At the end of the day, a controversy will have attracted traffic to your posts. No one will care
what kind of controversy brought potential clients to your site, all they will care about is whether
your efforts of drawing traffic bore fruits or not. Controversial blog posts will definitely bring
enormous traffic to blog or social media posts and that is the only desired end result.