In this day and age where anyone and everyone is on some form of
social media, it becomes important as advertisers to take your ads to
these platforms. This has now become a fact of life that organic reach
for the online market has become hard to reach because of the convoluted
algorithms of these social media platforms. This is why investing in
social media advertising is a must to make your content viral at the
fastest rate possible.
Prior to investing your money in the advertising on social media sites, you need to know what options are available to you when it comes
to advertising on these sites.
The first thing that you need to pay attention to while
advertising on social media is the selection of where these ads would
appear. That is the selection of a specific social media site for the ad
to appear on. Each site has its own demographic and ads must be place
on them only if the demographic meets the criteria for your target
audience.
Some examples of this could be when targeting teens, TikTok
would be your go-to site but when targeting moms, Facebook would be the
ideal site to advertise on.
The next thing to keep in mind while investing in advertising in
these social media sites is what kind of result can be expected when
advertising on a specific site. Some examples for this could be:
Advertising on almost all social media sites is good for you if
you wish increase awareness regarding your brand, as well as to increase
traffic for your site, and finally to increase conversions; that is
people using your site to buy your products.
And finally, the last thing to keep in mind while selecting
where to advertise is to check whether the content to be curated and
posted matches with the options available by that site for advertising.
Some examples of what kind of post formats are available to advertise on
are:
For Facebook, the types of ads that can be posted on the site are