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How to Engage Your Online Audience

By Vincent Hughes posted 24 Sep, 2020 23:22

  

How to Engage Your Online Audience

With more and more business activities moving over online, it seems like everyone including your local grocer must start thinking about an audience. That’s just the nature of the time we live in. As people have moved online, those who want to attract their attention have to compete with a variety of established publishers.

Hence the small-scale content production of influencers, small businesses, and just people who have social media profiles and would occasionally use tikpromotion to grow their social following. So everyone has to build an audience. But engage with it? That’s a completely different thing.

If you’re looking for new ways to engage your online audience or are just new to the concept and are looking for ways to grasp it, here are a couple of things that might help.

Be Regular with Your Content

Ideally, you’ll want to produce only high-quality content. However, we have to acknowledge that we live in the world with a limited number of top-notch content producers. Either that or simply admit that it costs too much money to create such good content.

So you settle for something that’s not groundbreaking, but wouldn’t embarrass you. When you find out what that is, you must put in place a way to keep the production of such content regular. To engage your online audience, you have to be accountable – they need to know they will find something new if they appear on your website or social media channel at a certain time on a certain day.

Try to Build a Community

People are drawn to groups of likeminded people. The fact that they are all fans of your brand or your products will give them something to rally around. Human nature will take care of the rest, and you’ll soon have a genuine community bustling around your digital assets.

Popping in once in a while would be a great way to take advantage of the platform a community is. Don’t get too engrossed, of course. But don’t ignore the potential this type of social phenomenon has of engaging with your audience.

Create Some Live Content

There’s one type of content that’s proven to boost engagement with an online audience – live content. It can be a live stream on one of the platforms that allow it. It can be a call-in radio show or podcast. It can even be a Reddit AMA – people will be present, and they will engage.

A good idea is that you never get into this kind of situation on your own. Having moderators on your side could help you navigate tricky or offensive questions. At the very least, it can help you make sense of the often-chaotic atmosphere that pervades these settings. 

Make Them a Part of Something

What better way to engage with your audience then allow them to be a part of whatever they’re following? You can organize a sort of a giveaway that will, for example, have them create and send in content to you in return for a prize. There’s nothing as sweet as user-created content, by the way.

You can also simply give special offers to the audience members who’ve been with you the longest, rewarding their loyalty and making them an example. Rewards are a good tool to boost engagement, remember, but they’ often the last ones you should reach out for.

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