3 SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGES

Social media offers a great opportunity for businesses to grow and communicate with the existing clients and to attract new customers.

There are several social media challenges for businesses, but the 3 biggest issues are:

1:  SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS KEEP CHANGING:

Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn are constantly changing, making it challenging for businesses to keep up and implement effective social media marketing strategies.

With Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn all regularly updating how their systems work and the algorithm they use to judge and handle content, businesses need to constantly monitor and adapt to the changes.

Strategies that were once successful may stop working. The size and dimensions of images that you post may not display as well as they once did. These social media platforms are dynamic and evolving, so you need to identify changes and adapt.

2:  SATURATION OF BUSINESS CONTENT ON SOCIAL PLATFORMS:

There are so many businesses using social media for marketing, millions of posts daily.  The more content flooding social feeds, the more difficult for businesses to stand out and get noticed by their target audience. Even if you create high-quality and targeted content, it’s a challenge to stand out, break through the clutter and not have your posts lost in the crowd.

With the increasing volume of content, it’s crucial that you create something unique, distinct, engaging, eye catching to cut through the noise and capture the person’s attention.

3:  YOU’RE BUSY – LACK OF TIME

Managing your businesses social media pages and campaigns is challenging, especially when you are already busy with other aspects of running your business and life. Creating great content, posting the content, engaging with your audience, responding to comments and messages, and monitoring your analytics.

It all takes a lot of time and effort.  To be affective, you’ll need to set time aside for your social media management, try to automate it or it may be a great investment to outsource some or all of your social media tasks.