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Social media for salons and spas Part 3

Five best practices to keep followers engaged


In parts one and two of this three-part series, I touched upon the importance of jumping into the social mediasphere, as well as some basic policies and procedures to protect the interests and reputation of your salon or spa’s brand. This week, I'd like to wrap up this discussion by sharing five best practices for salon/spa social media efforts. Just because someone has "liked" or "followed" your social campaign, doesn't mean they will anxiously read every post/tweet from here to eternity. On the contrary, they will quickly tune out if your message isn't relavant and concise.

Here are five best practices to keep followers engaged in your salon or spa's social media efforts:

  1. Value and Interest: When posting to your blog, Twitter or Facebook, ask yourself if your content adds value and interest to the discussion. Make sure your comment, post or tweet is a valued piece of information.

  2. Personality: In the social media realm, you are encouraged to use your own voice and bring your personality to the forefront. The web is a venue that is relaxed, open and diverse -- embrace it. A voice that is over-institutionalized and rehearsed can repel your audience.

  3. Planning: Putting in place a social media calendar of sorts for the year can help to organize you on how to cross promote your material and the times of year when you know you will have big events and may want to do extra posts. Also think about who on your team would be the best person to handle your social media needs and whether that is one person or multiple people. Make sure you are consistently contributing  content. You donʼt want to let your followers down by only posting a couple times a year.

  4. Join The Conversation: Listening and responding to your fans/followers through social media sites is just as important as posting information. Make sure you are responding to posts and questions from your followers and fans. Being a part of the conversation already happening about your company shows you care and creates community. Also realize that it isnʼt just about you are saying, it is also about the connections your fans/followers are making to other fans/followers through your site.

  5. Be Brief And Link When Possible: Ideally, posts should be very brief, redirecting visitors to content that resides on another site. Whenever possible, link back to the company's website.


I hope this three-part series has shed some light on the very sensitive subject of social media and the salon/spa workplace.

Your turn: What problems or challenges have you recently encountered with social media? How did you decide to hand it?

 

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