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Have you been spending countless hours and tons of money in an attempt to improve your social media marketing? Social media marketing can be difficult to master for many businesses. With so many companies on social media, it’s hard to stand out from the crowd and truly connect with your target audience. Plus, social media isn’t just for sharing news and chatting anymore. It’s a full-fledged platform for marketing, e-commerce, customer service and more. That’s a lot to manage.

But with artificial intelligence (AI), you can not only make your social media marketing easier to manage, but you can get better results as well.

Here’s how AI can improve your social media marketing capabilities.

24/7 Online Presence

Gone are the days where consumers have to wait until the next business day to hear back from a company. The online world is fast-paced; you can’t afford to miss a comment from a potential customer because they can simply move on to the next company’s social media profile if you don’t respond. Luckily, with artificial intelligence, you can create a 24/7 online presence. You’ll be available to provide support and answer any questions from your customers, no matter the day or time. Of course, you won’t actually be providing the customer support via; it’ll be AI in the form of a chatbot.

Read more: How AI Can Improve Your Social Media Marketing

For social media managers, time is a precious commodity. The online world never sleeps, and in order to be successful. it’s essential to be on the ball, to as great an extent as humanly possible.

Trying to maintain high levels of productivity, while simultaneously juggling the tasks of creating and distributing content, developing your brand’s marketing campaign, promoting said brand across multiple channels, and setting your goals and objectives is no mean feat – and that’s just the beginning. If your business is on the larger side, you may also have the added complication of motivating staff and upholding your respective standards across the board.

It can be an undeniably daunting role, but fortunately, there’s a wide range of tools out there which can make elements of the process easier. Whether you’re aiming to manage your own time more effectively, set a more structured schedule, or maximize your team’s efficiency, here are some tools that can help you optimize your social media marketing process.

Canva For Work

Quite possibly the most important duty of any social media manager is that of creating the content itself. Enter Canva for Work, an easy to use tool which will guide you through every step of the process.

Whether you’re a novice, or a seasoned veteran, Canva has a bit of everything – and it all works via a simple drag and drop system which enables you to create flashy graphics to show off your brand to your heart’s content. You can tinker with fonts, colors, sizes etc. You can also choose from one of Canva’s built-in templates, or create your masterpiece completely from scratch, if you’re feeling confident.

The capacity to establish a uniform style across all of your designs can really help to formalize your branding, while the eye-catching animation tools can help bring a certain sense of flair to proceedings.

Read more: 4 Tools to Help Boost Your Social Media Marketing Productivity

Is your social media strategy failing to generate the desired results? Are you concerned your social media efforts are doing more harm than good to your brand?

Your Marketing Lady shares seven common social media mistakes that you need to avoid in this infographic.

Here’s a quick summary:

• Trying to use every social media network
• Failing to identify a target audience
• Posting without a clear strategy
• Posting too much or not enough
• Using social media as a one-way tool
• Ignoring other businesses and accounts
• Skipping analytics and measurements

Read more: 7 Rookie Mistakes Ruining Your Social Media Marketing Strategy [Infographic]

If you’re looking for a simple method to ensure that your social media marketing strategy covers all the essential bases, the 5 P’s approach is a solid outline.

The 5 P’s is a marketing strategy which has been employed in many variations, but fits perfectly with social media marketing. The elements ensure that you take into account all the key processes required to formulate an effective approach, capitalizing on the opportunities of the medium for maximum impact.

To help you get a better handle on the 5 P’s in a social media marketing context, the team from Branex have put together this infographic, which also includes some key stats on the relevance of social media as a platform for your marketing efforts.

Read more: The 5 P’s of Social Media Marketing [Infographic]

Are you a small business owner who often finds yourself staring blankly at your digital device wondering what the heck you should share with your social media followers? Do you sometimes feel like you’re spending countless hours on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, yet question whether your efforts are translating into sales? If you’re squeezed for time and want to make the most of your time on social media, it is imperative that you take a growth hacker’s approach to social media marketing for your small business. Integrate the following three social media hacks into your small business’ growth strategy, and you’ll be impressed at how quickly your audience engagement rates start to soar.

3 SOCIAL MEDIA HACKS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

CROSS-POSTING MATTERS

If you want to increase your social media marketing ROI (return-on-investment), learn the power of social media cross-posting. Don’t quarantine your social content to just one platform. Cross-pollinate your prose across multiple social networking sites. Post Instagram images to Pinterest, spotlight your Facebook posts on your small business’s blog. Embed tweets from your Twitter profile into blog posts on Medium.com. Once you start cross-posting your social media content, you’ll feel like kicking yourself for not having discovered this social media marketing hack sooner.

Read more: 3 SOCIAL MEDIA HACKS EVERY SMALL BUSINESS OWNER SHOULD KNOW

Social media marketing is an extremely multifaceted field with every aspect requiring a lot of work. You probably know that. That’s why most of us use a whole set of tools to analyze, create, advertise, and more.

Unfortunately, there are enough social media tools on the market to get one absolutely confused. This infographic by Awario, shares a list of the best social media marketing tools for 2019.

The ultimate list of tools is broken down into five crucial categories:

• Social media monitoring
• Social media management
• Content marketing
• Creating workflows
• Advertising

Read more: 10 of the Best Social Media Marketing Tools for 2019 [Infographic]

Every company marketer posting on social media is curious about the best times to post their content. While each audience is unique, having a rule of thumb can be extremely helpful when you’re first starting out. Sprout Social recently published the results of their “Best Times to Post on Social Media: 2018 Industry Research”, a report which includes preferred time slots for the big 4 — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Unlike other reports I’ve seen on this topic, which often recommend a single time or small window, Sprout has detailed “heat maps” for each channel. I reached out to Rachael Samuels, Social Media Manager at Sprout Social, to find out more about the report and the research behind their findings.

Harrison: Other companies have looked into the best times to post on social. What did your data science team do differently?

Samuels: Sprout Social’s data science team constructed a more targeted approach that takes into account interactions with 935 million messages across 420,000 social profiles connected to Sprout. The data that our team uncovered not only provides specific days and times for the most engagement on social for each platform, but offers similar data for specific industries, including tech, CPG, and healthcare, among others. Using this data as a guide empowers marketers with the best opportunities to maximize personalized consumer engagement.

Read more: What Are The Best Times To Post On Social Media? (These “Heat Maps” Have The Answers)