The Benefits of Social Media

The benefits of social media go beyond personal use. Not only does social media provide everyone with a source of entertainment, it also has benefits to your business. Over the last 20 years, social media has taken society by storm, and has allowed businesses to progress in unimaginable ways. It has allowed businesses to better share their brand and reach the right people at the right time. 

Here are 9 reasons why social media is beneficial especially for your business.

Communication

Social media decreases the response time between a customer, partner or sponsor. Apps like WhatsApp, Slack, and Facebook Messenger can easily be utilized by businesses and consumers. Push notifications easily reach individuals and allow for more fluid and conversational interactions. These interactions are beneficial to the company because personal rapport can be built more easily.

Networking

Whether it’s followers or connection, likes or comments or even a direct message, every interaction on social media has an impact on your relationships with others. Social media brings people closer together. Through the pandemic, Linkedin, Instagram, and Facebook have risen in popularity. This is a benefit to your business. While you may never meet everyone in your network in person, you’re able to stay up to date with social media. 

Visibility

Social media adds to the visibility of your business. Through additional links and engagement, social media sends signals to search engines like Google to ensure that the content is more easily accessible and shareable. Social media organically increases your visibility as a business, which is beneficial to your sales and brand development. 

Website Engagement

Social media is a supplement to your business website or brick-and-mortar store. To have more than one way to reach the business is beneficial. Social media has the ability to reach a different audience. Additionally, social media is more personable and easier to understand. With social media interaction, your website can gain more traffic.

Customer Feedback

To ensure you have a likable business, receiving customer feedback is essential. Introducing social media allows you to get feedback from customers at a faster rate. Social media allows for better reputation maintenance and allows you as a business to interact with your customers more effectively. Social media allows feedback to be raw and unfiltered allowing you to better respond. This also allows you to create trust between your business and the customers that it serves. Through trust, you can develop customer loyalty.

Customer Reach

Social media is a way to increase business presence, and tap into a new market. Having said that, the younger generations look at a company’s social media before they look at the website. This only amplifies the benefits and needs for social media. It is said that on average, people will look at 10 different reviews about a company before making a purchase.

Branding

Social media lets you be a more personable business. Not only is it easier to communicate with customers, you’re able to share what you stand for and what’s important to the business. Social media is the perfect place to tell your brand’s story and reach people on a more personal level. This is highly beneficial, because a business needs a brand to reach more people.

Tracking Competition

If you aren’t using social media, you may be behind. Your competitors are likely on social media, and they are building a network of partners, sponsors and customers. When you’re on social media, you can see what the competitors are doing, what they stand for, and how big their network is. Knowledge is power and will let you be more competitive.

User Generated Content

Many social media platforms have built in data collection. Not only can you see the amount of people who saw the post, but you can also see how many interacted with the post. This allows you to see what your target audience better responds to, and working from there. You can generate your content based on the audience and target certain groups of people.

Closing Remarks

Every business is unique, and social media allows that uniqueness to shine. Social media can benefit any company regardless of size. The connections it builds allows a better knowledge of the market and allows your business to have a bigger presence. While social media can be used for personal things, companies can benefit from the use of social media.

 

Check out our Instagram page to see how Vog uses social media to supplement their website.