- Choose social media platforms and define your content strategy
- Research trends and plan posts
- Create and publish content for each platform
- Improve based on performance
Understand social media fundamentals
Effective social media management starts with choosing platforms that fit your product and customers, researching relevant topics, and publishing content tailored to each platform. Use posts both to introduce your product to prospective customers and to share usage tips and updates with existing customers. After publishing, identify the themes and formats that perform well and use those findings in future posts. The basics you should know, from choosing platforms and planning and producing posts to improving results, are as follows.1. Choose social media platforms and define your content strategy
Based on content formats that effectively convey your product’s appeal and content you can produce consistently, choose the social media platforms to prioritize. You don’t need to start using every platform at once. NoimosAI supports the following trends among social media platforms. Compare these to how you want to present your product and the content you can sustain to help decide which platforms to prioritize.
When deciding which platforms to prioritize, check the following:
- Your target customers use them to search for products or related information
- The platform supports content formats that convey your product’s appeal
- You can consistently produce assets like post copy, images, and video
- You can direct people to the next action: visiting your website, viewing a product page, or visiting your store
2. Research trends and plan posts
Plan your posts based on both the topics your customers are currently interested in and the information your company needs to communicate. Rather than just copying a popular post, analyze why it garnered such a response and choose an approach that naturally connects to your company’s products and expertise. When thinking about a post theme, use the following information:- Topics that are attracting attention on each social media
- Posts that are getting reactions from competitors or in the same industry
- Questions, requests, dissatisfaction, and misunderstandings regarding your product name or brand name
- New product releases, product updates, campaigns, events
- Posts from your company that have performed well in the past
- Existing articles, videos, use cases, and customer questions
3. Create and publish social media content
Once you have decided on a posting plan, create and publish the post text, images, and videos according to the social media you will post on. When deploying the same project to multiple social media, adjust the amount of text, how the opening is presented, image size, video ratio, title, and instructions for next actions. Social media content can be created based on the following information:- New plans created from research on trends and competitors
- Content that answers customer questions, requests, and misunderstandings
- Announcement of new product releases, product updates, and campaigns
- Reconfigured website articles, product pages, and existing videos for social media
- Content that incorporates and customer feedback
4. Improve based on performance
After publishing a post, identify which themes, formats, and creative choices produced results and use those findings in future posts. Don’t judge performance solely by follower count; check whether people saw the post, engaged with it, and took the intended next action. Evaluate post performance in the order of whether it was seen, whether the content elicited a reaction, and whether it led to confirming a product or service. The following table maps metrics for each stage to aspects you should review if numbers are low.
Metric definitions vary by social media platform, so don’t directly compare numbers across different platforms. First identify the top-performing posts within each platform and look for commonalities in theme, format, or opening. If the same trends appear across multiple posts, incorporate those elements into your next campaign.
Social media apps you can connect
NoimosAI lets you connect the social media platforms you manage so it can reference your own posts and engagement, publish content, and analyze performance. Connect only the social media platforms you use; detailed connection instructions are available in each app’s Help Center.X: Use posts, mentions, reactions, and account performance for planning, publishing, and analysis.
Facebook: Use Facebook Page posts, comments, messages, and Page performance for publishing and analysis.
Instagram: Use posts, images, videos, comments, and account performance for content creation, publishing, and analysis.
Threads: Use posts, public conversations, reactions, and account performance for planning, publishing, and analysis.
TikTok: Use videos, comments, and account performance for video planning, publishing, and analysis.
YouTube: Use videos, Shorts, comments, and channel performance for video planning, publishing preparation, and analysis.
Pinterest: Use Pins, saves, clicks, and account performance for content creation, publishing, and analysis.
LinkedIn (Personal): Use personal profile posts and performance for publishing and analyzing professional content.
Mastodon: Use posts and reactions for community-focused publishing and analysis.
Bluesky: Use posts, public conversations, and reactions for planning, publishing, and analysis.
Google Analytics: Use it to analyze website visits from social media platforms and actions such as product views, bookings, and purchases.
Facebook connections use Facebook Pages. Instagram connections require an Instagram Business account connected to a Facebook Page and the necessary permissions. Check each app’s Help Center for connection requirements and steps.