The purpose of social media is to be a voice for your brand and to communicate with your customers—existing and potential. But it shouldn’t be one generic blanket of information over the entire social media spectrum; the content you share on each platform should be slightly different.
The challenge is to understand what content is best suited for Facebook and what’s better for Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, or any number of other channels. Then, you should be able to craft posts that are effective for each specific platform.
For inspiration, take a look at the social media strategy of a big brand like Starbucks or Clinique. The companies promote the exact same products on the two channels, but the image and copy are slightly different, and the message tends to be more overtly sales-oriented on Facebook than on Instagram.
To make this easier, there are many tools available that can help you find, share, and promote great content. Two of my favorites are BuzzSumo and Buffer. BuzzSumo tracks content on all social networks, ranks it based on the number of shares it’s received across every network, and suggests which platform the content is best suited for.
Buffer is a scheduling and sharing platform that allows you to schedule your posts across your social networks, as well as follow the feeds of your favorite blogs and websites.