Boost Your Sales Through These Smart Ways Using Social Media

Social media is now redefining the economy. In fact, according to 2016 last quarter's statistics, 45 percent of marketers believed that social media can generate brand awareness and can drive revenue. If you do think so too, and if you want to be successful like the 45 percent marketers from Facebook, 60 percent active pinners who promote their businesses through Pinterest, 50 percent successful business Instagrammers, and more, below are some of the smart ways to increase business sales using social media.

1.    Using Flash Sale

In social media, everyone is your target consumers. So, the best way to get their attention from the hundreds to thousands of Newsfeeds each day, offer a special price for a limited time. The flash sale is one of the classic but effective ways to increase sales, especially on social media where almost everyone can get the chance to see them. Additionally, flash sale is one of the best ways to liquidate assets that are slow-selling, since it creates a sense of urgency.

2.    Keep on posting about your product.

This strategy creates traffic. According to several experts, if you want to promote your business on wholesale products, you must always promote them on social media as frequent as possible to boost promotion, build social media traffic, and more. The higher social media traffic you have for your business, the more success you will receive.

3.    Encourage social media live chat.

Recently, Facebook had launched the first live video in social media. Now, hundreds of people around the globe are using live chat every day, including businesses who want to promote their product and services online.

4.    Make your social media site a retail site.

If Amazon, Alibaba, eBay, and another online shopping site can make it, so can you. If you want to get rid some of your products but still want to gain profit from it, all you need to do is advertise them online and make your social media site as an eCommerce site. For instance, if you are having difficulties in selling some of your products, the best way to sell them is through social media. All you need to do is create your own school shopping list; this will help you choose which school supplies need to be promoted online.

If someone would take advantage of the discounted price you are offering online, you may also offer to ship the product. For the first time online retailers, you may offer FREE shipping fee to make it even more attractive to the customers.

5.    Add social-friendly images.

Using your business social media account, you need to add some fun stuff to get hundreds of followers. Additionally, you may add some social-friendly images together with your product or services to make your ad more noticeable to the public. There are other more ways to attract customers and increase sales. All you need is creativity is creating ads for social media, add some sense of urgency such as "all your school supply needs are available for limited time only", the next thing you will know, those products are already sold out.

Jessica Robinson    Contact the author of the petition