Platforms and Best Practices
Instagram business accounts allow users to post reels, videos, GIFs, photos, and stories. The benefits for event promotions include purchasing power, advance targeting options, trackability, ability to reach untapped participants, quality brand building, better brand-follower relationships, and an understanding of your customer base.
Best practices
- Make the profile professional
- Post high-quality visuals
- Balance promotional content with informational content
- Post consistently when your audiences are online
- Set attainable goals
- Let data drive decisions
- Use hashtags that relate to your association/corporate
- Post content that your audience will be interested in
- Engage with your followers in a timely manner
READ: Thinking about Threads? Navigating new social media to tell your association’s story
TikTok
TikTok business accounts only share audio-focused video content. Users can post engaging content via their account or generate top-notch leads for an event with TikTok ads! Additionally, users can fully tailor a message with a customizable design for an event and take advantage of the one-click data exports.
Best practices
- Review metrics to learn how to increase visibility and followers
- Post creative content that informs and/or entertains
- Use keywords as a hashtag to label videos
- Sound off with trendy sound effects
- Pay attention to the algorithm
- Post consistently and strategically
- Be genuine – engage humanly, not corporately
- Share information with influencers to cross promote
Tip: TikTok ads can load instant forms faster than a landing page, pre-populate fields based on information, and drive a higher conversion rate.
Tips to increase views for an event by participating in
- Challenges that relate to your brand
- Attaching the brand niche and participating in current social trends
- Starting and promoting a challenge that pertains to the event
Facebook business accounts are available on the world’s most popular social media platform with over 3-billion active users as of 2023. The benefits of sharing an event through Facebook include reaching billions of potential participants, turning interested parties into an email list, saving on event marketing expenses, targeting specific audiences, accessing detailed audience insights and driving event registration to the website.
Best practices
- Assists with reaching a new target audience
- Facebook is a powerful lead generation tool
- Retains existing clients
- Helps associations and corporations achieve goals
- Customize CTA buttons
- Use HQ videos and photos
- Use Facebook ads
X (previously Twitter)
X business accounts are great at giving brands a cost-effective method of engaging with their audience. With X, you can keep followers informed about an event with relative updates and reach a wider audience to raise awareness about the event and generate leads.
Best practices
- Tweet often
- Keep tweets concise
- Use relevant keywords for hashtags
- Engage to build a loyal following
- Plan for customer support and damage control
YouTube
YouTube business is steadily growing and promoters who have high-quality videos of their event or conference should be uploading them on this platform! This can include an overview of the activities, press, interviews, highlights of speakers, and so forth. YouTube has high visibility on Google, and it allows promoters to build an email list, and share videos on other platforms. Additionally, it is the second most visited site where you can promote an event through videos and ads!
Best practices
- Find untapped video keywords
- Create videos optimized for “watch time”
- Optimize your YouTube videos
- Use thumbnails that stand out
- Create and promote optimized playlists
- Promote videos to your audience
- Turn viewers into subscribers
- Rank videos in Google search
LinkedIn business accounts are truly necessary for connecting business professionals to creatives. LinkedIn builds credibility, establishes true networks, and provides insight from experts in the industry. When sharing an event, promoters may create shareable content that benefits their followers, introduce new products or services before the event, separate your event from industry-related competitors, and post job/volunteer opportunities for qualified talents to contribute to the event.
Best practices
- Add a background photo
- Be more than a job title in your headline
- Tell the brand’s story in the summary
- Use buzzwords to create visibility
- Highlight services
- Use high-quality videos and photos for content
- Add comments to increase engagement
- Follow relevant influencers
- Use long-form content to build conversations
- Tag relevant users in your posts, making it more likely for them to share your content to a wider audience
End with the event in mind
Now that you have weighed your options, know that events do not need to live on every social platform to be successful. The next phase is to focus time and resources on your platform(s) of choice. Choose the best event collateral that you believe your following will take interest in, then strategically share that content. When you start, do not stop – be consistent with posting to maximise your leads.
Top five questions to keep in mind:
- Which channels is your audience using most?
- What is the age range using these channels?
- Who is your audience following and why?
- What type of content and visuals are people interacting with the most?
- What is your communication style or jargon?
To find out how MCI can help you build engagement for your activation through social media, get in touch here.
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