Social media marketing is a daily discipline. Social media needs careful attention. So what are the aspects of social media marketing do small businesses need to pay attention to every single day?
Here is our list, but let us know if we’ve missed anything important in the comments below!
- Mentions – this is a big one. You need to be on top of any mentions of your brand or products. Set up alerts so that you know what is being said about you and whether you need to respond
- Content – creating valuable content is vital for social media marketing. You will need to ensure that every single day you have some sort of quality content to distribute and share through social channels. This could be tweets, posts on Facebook or blogs
- Forward planning – as we have already said, content is vital for social media success. But the challenge of creating content can be made easier by forward planning. Making sure you have plenty of content coming up that can be used is vital, be these guest blog posts, offers or campaigns
- Reacting – sometimes things will occur that you can’t plan for. Maybe it is a question, a customer service enquiry or even a complaint. Being flexible and ready to respond or react to things is very important and is a daily task for anyone involved in social media marketing
- Marketing integration – don’t view social media in a vacuum. Make sure you are constantly linking it into all the other marketing activity you are doing
What else is there? What are the social media tasks you have to do every single day?



