Content Strategy
Content is king
Not only connecting individuals, social media platform is also one of the most important channels for brands to increase their brand awareness, connect and engage with audience, as well as to boost sales. Over 3.8 billion netizens around the world use social media, and each of them owns 8 different social media platform accounts on average. A lot of netizens spend more than 100 minutes on social media every day, including users from UK and China. It is therefore important for us to maintain a brand’s social media account with a good content strategy.
We believe content is king. To maximize the exposure and influence of your brand on social media, Comms8 will help you with a comprehensive strategy, starting from identifying the most suitable social media platforms that best target your audience, to creating the most engaging social media content on the platforms.
In terms of overall planning, Comms8 can help you with:
Deciding the suitable social media platform(s) for your brand – some platforms are good for B2B marketing (e.g. LinkedIn), some are best for B2C marketing (e.g. Tiktok)
Identifying your target audience on social media platform(s) – by demographic, geographic, job, interest etc.
Recommending content strategy specified for China social media platforms – the landscape of Western social media platforms is very different from those in China, which localisation is essential
Planning social media content as part of your integrated marketing strategy (link to integrated marketing strategy) – leverage various marketing formats to reinforce brand recognition, build trust and drive conversion
While for content creation, we can work with you on:
Decide the key content (pillars) that you want to share with your audience most, and the ways to present the content
Besides promoting the product/service alone, it is important to share the brand’s value and adding human touch to the brand
Publish posts with good hashtag for your brand or a specific campaign will help driving user-generated content (UGC) for higher engagement and wider exposure of your brand
Not only choosing the keywords that best describe your brand, but also relevant keywords that interest audience most
Apart from static images and copywriting, we also produce different formats to cater different needs, e.g. short video, infographic, digest/for dummies (懶人包) etc.
Comms8 believes with a good content strategy, we will be able to help you to implement effective forms of communications on the right social media platforms, targeting the right people. In Comms8, we provide social media content management for below platforms:
Facebook is one of the biggest social media platforms, with over 2.36 billion active users. Not only allowing users to connect with their friends, it is also a great platform for brands to connect with their target audience with brand Page. It is one of the best channels to reach global customers and deliver highly targeted paid ads with Facebook’s algorithm.
Ranked as millennials' favourite app, Instagram is famous of its extremely photogenic content. 70% of its 1 billion monthly active users are teenagers, which makes it an important platform to target younger generations. Thousands of cosmetic and clothing brands have achieved their own marketing success in this photo-sharing app since its launch in 2010.
LinkedIn has over 720 million users across the globe. It is a social media platform for professionals which makes it an ideal platform for B2B marketing, where you can quickly target your audience, establish the business reputation, connect and cultivate a business relationship.
It is China’s leading communication app with over 1.1 billion monthly active users. Its all-in-one platform allows users to chat, read, shop, pay and play. In terms of its mega database and multiple functions, it can accurately target your audience via WeChat Official Account, WeChat Mini programme, Moment, WeChat private group and WeChat Advertising.
A trendy microblog-sharing social media platform in China with 190 million daily active users. Many people refer it as Chinese Twitter due to its word limit and repost function. Beyond this basic function, Weibo has various marketing tools to raise brand awareness and engage with followers. It is one of the must-have platforms to reach out Chinese younger generation as 80% of Weibo active users are under 30 years old.
Douyin, the origin of Tiktok, is only available in China. It is rapidly expanding its global presence in the past 2 years, and become the top of short video-sharing platform in the world. Comparing with other video sharing platforms, its fast-paced video feeds nature boosts higher engagement rate and higher user stickiness. This is the best video platform to target younger generations in China as 85% of its users are below 24 years old.
China’s cross-border social & shopping platform rednote (Xiaohongshu /XHS/Red) is designed to enable e-commerce on social media. Not only do they attract beauty and fashion enthusiasts to share their opinions and recommendations, but a lot of celebrities and influencers also join this platform to share their beauty tips and daily lives. Rednote gradually built up as a community of real WOM since 2013. ‘Young’, ‘Mid-class’ and ‘Female’ are 3 keywords to describe Rednote’s 300+ million users.
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Insights on content strategy
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