Nigeria twitter ban

7 Tips on how to stay ahead of a social media ban : Nigeria twitter ban lessons

Nigeria Twitter ban lessons

The secret to staying ahead of the social media ban: Some of the lessons we learnt from the recent Nigeria twitter ban on How to keep your business running smoothly and stay ahead of your competitors.
If you use social media, then this is for you.
Many businesses use various social media platforms to advertise, increase their business reach, to pitch and reach attractive clients, while others just use social media as their only marketing tool, (this is a wrong move).
We all know this month, popular social media platform Twitter was banned in Nigeria affecting various business owners and the state by which they handle their business, and the question on every one’s mind is “What will happen to other platform and how long will this ban last?”
So, this is a little something we put together on how to stay ahead of the curve, incase the ban gets more serious.
We present to you, “drumroll please”, Ways to promote your business and engage with your audience without using social media ??.

So read through and we hope you’re able to pick one or two things there

The key points are :

1) Use Referral, Loyalty program or Incentives

Give something back to your current and prospective customers, in terms of incentives and gifts.

2) Attend Conference and Events-

Attend events of like minded people, and use the opportunity to collaborate and partner up with others.

3) Content creation is still key-

Create valuable and quality content that can connect with your audience and share them via chats and posts.

4) Traditional marketing tactics still works-

Before the advent of social media, we loved the g’ol days of using Business cards, PR, Cold-calling, Flyers and Posters.

5) Cultivate your Fan base-

Your Fan is your Tribe, connect with them and empower them with your brand story and have them sharing it.

6) Create a Website- Duh!

7) Email marketing and Lead generation still rocks-

Collect leads from your website, maintain communication with them and let them know you’re still in the business of offering value to them.

So there you have it, a little something we put together for you guys. Let us which of the tips you like and feel free to drop comments of your suggestions as well.

promote your website

Ways to promote your website

Ways to promote your website

After successfully creating a website, you might be confused about the next step forward. You don’t just expect people to come across the website, you have to make them know about it.

A fresh roller-coaster of work begins, which is promoting the website. Most people have fears about this, because they tend to weigh the cost and get drawn back.

There are a lot of plans you can put in place and execute successfully to promote your new website and achieve all your goals.

1. Optimize

Never forget the power of SEO, this is a guaranteed plan. It helps boost organic traffic and it’s totally free unlike search engine marketing.

You should set relevant keywords throughout your website. This makes your website rank on the search engine. Let’s say you have a website for logistics services, if the website is properly optimized – do you know how much traffic this could get you? Adopt backlinks, optimize your page titles, image descriptions, URLs and every keyword in your content.

2. Blog

Produce unique content which can drive traffic to your website. This increases your expertise in your niche. You can also invite fellow bloggers to write a guest article on your blog, they are likely to share and link their guest article which could generate more visitors for your website.

Some amazing benefits you can get from introducing a blog on your website are – your links get to appear on external pages and you get to improve your writing.

3. Join a community

Forums are a great way of getting your website to people. Find forums that are within your niche, so you can relate with fellow like minds.

Quora, Nairaland and Reddit are very popular forums you can start from. Let people know you have something to offer by proving it first. Answer questions and join discussions, your engagement with people on forums can help drive traffic to your website.

4. Online Directories

Everyday people make use of search engines to find what they are looking for. Placing your URL in directories can make more people find it.

A hair stylist for instance, renders services to people, directories allow people to find your business when they search. It usually includes your website, a location map and contact details. Google My Business is a popular online directory.

5. Social Media

Even after producing unique content, you need to share the content with people to increase traffic to your website. There’s more to social media than just posting of pictures/videos and funny memes.

You can build a social media audience and share your content as a form of free promotion for your website. Share your blog posts to Instagram, Twitter and your Facebook page – this turns your audience to website visitors.

There are many other ways to promote your website. All these plans require consistency to pull them off. Which of these plans to you see as a measurable one?

Online Marketing

Intro to Online Marketing

Online Marketing Updated – Marketing strategies to try out in 2022

Online Marketing is a good strategy for increasing your brand’s awareness through digital means. It is the promotion of goods and services on the internet. There are certain actions you can carry out on the internet to inform people and make them interested in purchasing your products or services.
With online marketing you can expand your business reach. I’ll be explaining a strategic guide you can apply for online marketing. Internet marketing is incomplete without these.

  1. Search Engine Marketing
    SEM is the paid version of Search Engine Optimization. Unlike SEO which is free, SEM is a form of paid search marketing based on pay-per-click. This involves paying Google to display your ads in their search results, whenever people search using keywords relating to it. Search engine marketing helps to generate leads to your landing page.
    Google Adwords is a great way to start with SEM. If you are not careful enough with SEM you might waste money on unnecessary ad spend through worthless clicks. This can be monitored by setting up conversion goals to yield better returns and higher ROI (Return on Investment).
    Paid advertising comes in 2 forms: pay-per-click advertising (PPC), cost-per-thousand-impressions (CPM). With SEM you can attract customers, target your ads with keywords, manage your budget spend and also track conversions using analytics.
  2. Email Marketing
    Marketers are able to use email lists in their businesses for direct communication with their audience. Email is a great way of contacting and following up prospects.
    People are fond of sticking to the same email address for a long time but the same cannot be said about phone numbers.
    Email marketing trends have been able to yield high ROI for online marketing. You can send out personalized emails to help breed customers even without advertising.
    These email lists yields more conversion rates. Email marketing is as efficient as social media.
  3. Social Media Marketing
    The power of social media cannot be under-estimated, owning a business without social is almost impossible these days.
    Social media is vast with a lot of platforms available for you to reach your target audience e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
    Before you consider social media marketing, you need to have a plan – about your audience, ways of promoting your business and campaign strategy. Develop your goals, choose a platform and implement these goals.
    Social media marketing is cheap and available to everyone even small businesses. It yields many benefits from brand recognition to increased conversions.
  4. Affiliate Marketing
    For driving product or service sales, I also recommend affiliate marketing. This involves paying affiliate earners a commission for referring people to purchase your product or service. Amazing right?
    Marketers use this to build their product resource online through links which are generated by these affiliate earners on blogs and websites. Whenever people click on such links they are directed to your product for purchase.

With the proper use of these four guides I listed for online marketing, you can be rest assured of getting:

  • Prospects which can be converted to customers.
  • Increase your brand’s ROI
  • More visitors to your website
  • Connecting with the right audience
    Online marketing has become very common, many business owners have tapped into it. You need to be creative, flexible and updated with trends if you want to be at the top of the market.

Online Marketing Updated – Marketing strategies to try out in 2022

Twitter ads

6 steps to run Twitter Ads

For brand promotions on Twitter, you can consider many strategies. We already talked about Instagram and Facebook advertising in our previous post. Twitter ads are used to advertise on people’s timeline who have similar interest with your audience.

If you are looking to get website conversions or generate leads for your business, Twitter promotions are good.

WHY TWITTER ADS?  

• Eye catching: They appear on timelines and don’t seem annoying, with the ability to attract your audience.

• Not expensive: No fixed amount, choose any amount you want to budget on your ads.

• Quite flexible: They come in different categories which are easy to implement.

As a marketer, you can decide to use any strategy that works for you. Promoted accounts works for brands who want to increase their followers. Promoted trends involves using branded hashtags which increases clicks and followers. Promoted tweets are very efficient for lead generation.

SETTING UP TWITTER ADS

It is important to understand certain things before you can set up an ad campaign on Twitter.
Find a voice for your brand, this is where good copywriting skills come in handy. Twitter ads contains text which are concise and still able to generate high click through rate (CTR). When you create true content, people see your brand as authentic.

1. Campaign Details

– Go to ads.twitter.com/login to sign up or login to your Twitter account.

– Click ‘create new campaign’.

2. Objectives  

– Select an objective for your campaign. Objectives available include: followers, website clicks, tweet engagements, app installs/re-arrangements, video views, lead generation, website conversion. You need to choose one, this enables Twitter understand the essence of your campaign.

– Fill in the name of your campaign.

– Set up your budget.

– Select if you want the ad to start immediately or pick a specific date.

3. Creative

– Choose the tweet you want to promote. It can be an existing tweet or you can create a new one.

– Select ‘ad placement’. This shows where your promoted tweets will appear. The more places you select for your tweets to appear, the more the cost of your campaign.

4. Targeting

Here you are able to find the right audience for your campaign.

– Demographics helps you target users by gender, age, device, location etc.

– Audience features targets users by interests, keywords, similar followers etc.

5. Bidding

Twitter makes use of a bidding system to run ads, you need to set your bid type.

– Automatic bid is based on Twitter’s algorithm.

– Target cost is based on average cost per bid.

– Maximum visibility is the maximum bid.

It is safer to make your ads run on automatic bid if you don’t understand the system very well.

6. Review and Complete

You need to confirm all the information you registered for your ad, then you can finally launch the campaign.

After successfully launching your ad campaign, you can monitor the progress. Twitter analytics shows you how the tweet is performing. You will be able to check the tweet activity, reach and impressions.

It is quite easy to set up a twitter ad campaign. You need to be a able to tell simple stories in your ads, it could be in form of an image or video – this encourages your audience.

If all these strategies are fully understood and implemented, you are on your way to creating measurable goals and achieving progress for your brand.

Instagram Ads vs Facebook Ads

FOUR REASONS WHY INSTAGRAM ADS DIFFER FROM FACEBOOK ADS

Hello there!

Did you come with us as we kick started the social media ads journey in our previous post? You may have read it here, even seen or heard it via some other media that Facebook and Instagram ads are more of twin sisters, from the same source and run with the same procedures. However, even twins have clearly different fingerprints despite having probably being the products a single embryo splitting in two. Therefore, Instagram ads are not all that the exact prototypes of Facebook ads and they do have their distinguishing features.

Instagram Ads Vs Facebook Ads

Although Instagram ads are created using the same method described for Facebook ads in our previous post. It involves more creativity.

Instagram ads exist in four ad formats.

  • Single image ads
  • Carousel ads (multiple images)
  • video ads
  • Custom stories.

This post will help you identify and understand four unique features that are peculiar to Instagram ads.

  1. Ad Creation

These are the objectives, ad set level and ad placement.

  • Objectives includes brand awareness reach, traffic engagement, video views, messages etc. Choose an objective that works with your marketing strategy.
  • Ad set level includes your targeting options (age, gender, language). You can also make use of custom audience where you set up your audience preference yourself and it is not automated.
  • Ad placement allows you to choose a placement option. This costs more than Facebook ad placements. Make use of appropriate placement to stay within your budget.
  1. Connecting Instagram to Facebook

You connect Instagram ads to Facebook and, not the other way round. You can easily run your Instagram ads from your Facebook page without connecting your Instagram account to the ads manager.

  1. Boosting Instagram Posts

The Instagram ad set up consist of an option designed for your business to boost its posts. The boosting option works for only single post and it is available for all business profiles.

  1. Ad Cost

Instagram ads are more expensive than Facebook ads. You need to monitor your ad spend, CPCs and CPAs. A good relevance score is important to keep CPC cost low. All of these shows that Instagram ads have different placement options and costs. When money is spent on campaigns with strong relevance scores, the ad spend is worth it.

You have to know which platform works well for your brand, Facebook or Instagram? This is key and, although you can create campaigns on both platforms for a start, just to see the outcome, this may not be healthy for your business, especially if you own a start-up. Many organizations want to save as much as possible on digital ads spending and, as a start-up; you should strive towards that even more.

Hence, you need to entrust all your social media ads campaign to an expert, reliable digital agency like  Inclide. We help you avoid the ‘trial and error approach’ by designing and placing your ads on social media platforms that suit your business or product type.

Speak to our instant-response customer service team now.