The Biggest Social Media Marketing Mistakes

Social media marketing is something that everyone is doing now. Whether you are an established business or a brand new network marketer. It would seem, everyone wants to jump on the trend of making their brand felt on platforms like Facebook. Why? Because, that’s where the people are! However, there are some common social media marketing mistakes that most marketers make.

Everybody Makes Mistakes

Social media marketers are no different. Although this is OK to lean on every now and again, recognizing that you are making them and adjusting is necessary. Otherwise, your business will suffer.

As with all mistakes, including social media marketing mistakes, the first step is becoming aware of the.

Applied knowledge is powerful.

The biggest mistake we see more often than we can count is this — No social media strategy! If you are a network marketer reading this, you will want to visit Social Media Marketing for Network Marketers after you are done here.

And, since we’ve covered the topic of strategy already in this post we want to dive in and cover the biggest mistakes network marketers (and business owners) are making on social media today. Because here’s the deal, the truth is you may not know any differently. It is even possible you were taught these bad ideas from an upline who likely had your best interests in mind, they themselves just know any different. Today however is where the excuses end.

Deal?

The Two Biggest Social Media Marketing Mistakes

Let’s start with negativity (odd I know). But seriously, the reality is many brands be it network marketing or not will at some point receive negative comments or opinions on their posts. The comments may be in reference to a product or service or they may even be a personal attack on you. This seems to happen more and more as you climb the success ladder – so being prepared is the goal.

Usually, our first instinct is to delete it.

Alternatively, we want to be defensive.

In our humble opinion? Neither are effective and fall into the world of social media marketing mistakes. Because, in fact, how you respond to negativity can actually be even more effective. Now, we are not suggesting you engage in anything more than a quick response — because more than that could have the opposite effect we’re after here.

Here are a few suggestions on how you could respond to a negative comment;

How you Respond, says a lot about you.

Don’t underestimate the power in a classy response.Although it may fall upon ears not ready to hear you, the positive effect it will have to others watching (and they are watching) will be much bigger. Social Media Marketing Mistakes will happen, do your best to correct and move forward.

The Set it and Forget it

Now, you might be saying to yourself ‘this sounds GREAT! why would this be one of the biggest social media marketing mistakes?!’. And, our answer would be this; you become unplugged from your audience and risk not being authentic.

Let us explain.

So many people love to try (or rely) on these automatic Facebook (or other) posting platforms. And sure, at face value they appear to help free up your time to do other things but what we are finding is that they are doing far more harm than good.

Let us be clear though. Planning your content is crucial. We also believe as we shared in our post How to Create a Content Calendar for Network Marketers that having a calendar is key. But, none of this means you need to schedule it to run on auto pilot for 10, 20 or 30 days (some as many as 90 days – yikes!) We believe, there is a time and place for these approaches — however we promise that now is not one of them.

Relationship Marketing is a Two-Way Street

And, to some degree we believe as network marketing professionals it is your obligation to stay plugged into your team, customers, and so on. This does not mean spoon feeding, or holding their hands — but it does mean being active. It means, engaging with your audience the way you want them to engage with you.

Think back to a time that you commented on a brands Facebook page and received some automatic reply — you probably didn’t love it. Or, think of a time you were scrolling the newsfeed and saw a great post and then realized it also said ‘posted by Buffer’. Sorry Buffer — we think you offer a great service but torn between where it fits in the network marketing space. At least for, all the time.

Consider this, you rock out the best Facebook Live ever! Engagement is through the roof, people are asking questions in the comments, shares are exploding and *poof* you are gone. Any predictions on what happens on your next Facebook Live?

Probably not the same results as the last.

Final Thoughts on Social Media Marketing Mistakes

The good news is this, you’ve recognized if these two are ones you’ve been making — and now you know how to fix them. We can practice the same bad habits over and over, but in the end they’re still bad habits. When your audience feels connected to you, authentically, they can be forgiving.

Focus on bringing positivity to a negative space where possible. Addressing it professionally, and with a well thought out response that isn’t defensive or dismissive, can go a long way.

Keep relationships at the forefront of relationship marketing. You would hate to walk into a retail store looking for help and no sales associate to be found, right? You social media audience is looking for you — be there.

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