The number one piece of advice offered by marketers about social media is “Build relationships.”
As healthcare marketers continue to engage consumers with social media, it’s always good to heed the advice of others. Regina Wood conducted an online poll on LinkedIn of 300 marketers and asked what’s the most important piece of advice they had for social media. The results were published in Healthcare Communication News.
The results were:
- Build relationships with your followers (57 percent)
- Have a personality (20 percent)
- You can’t control your message (7 percent)
- Have a crisis plan in place (6 percent)
- Other (9 percent)
And some other pieces of helpful advice the respondents shared:
1. “If you don’t have anything valuable and positive to say, don’t.”
2. “You can never take it back!”
3. “Be consistent—don’t just tweet or post for a couple of days and then decide it doesn’t work for you!”
4. “Use social media for professional purposes only. Keep personal specifics to a minimum so you’re never embarrassed by anything on internet.”
5. “Good manners will serve you well in your interactions.”
6. “If your post has any potential to embarrass you at all—no matter how infinitesimal—it will; the Internet is forever.”
7. “Set a time limit.”
8. “Don’t venture out until you’ve tidied your room. In other words, your company website needs to be in good enough shape so that when you’re out there drumming up attention for yourself on social media and people come looking, your site gives them a reason to stay.”
All of these are handy pieces of advice. Let the wise take notice.