Potential users who have expressed their interest in your product or service and also have given contact details to you for further communication is called a lead. Statistics show 90% users try to avoid cold calling rather they prefer to communicate over the social media.
Tactics for lead generation using social media:
1. Share links to curative content:
Engaging content will grab readers attention. Social media is an excellent tool for lead generation. Share content in social media with a proper landing page so that readers can fill up their information like email, contact no, name etc. That way you can collect potential leads of customers who are interested in your product or service.
2. Facebook lead ads:
Facebook lead ads are another platform to collect potential lead. The advantage of Facebook lead ads is that Facebook automatically populates the lead form with the customers contact information so that it can take few clicks for a potential user to connect. You can choose how much data you need.
3. Instagram lead ads:
Facebook lead ads can also display on Instagram. Instagram can pre-populate the lead form with email, full name, phone number, and gender. You can also add a field in the form if you would like. Instagram lead ads only appear on mobile. It takes times to fill out a form on mobile than on a desktop or laptop.
4. Host a webinar and live video:
The two basic approaches to generating leads are live video and webinars. The first option is to present the video that requires interested viewers to register in advance by providing their contact information. Another approach is to open the video up to a wide audience and generate leads from that audience. During the live video, you can direct the viewers to an offer, contest or landing pages of your website. Encourage viewers for a live interaction by offering a special discount for participation. You should keep in mind that the video must be content driven that may increase the probability of getting more leads.
5. Use geo targeted search:
Now more local businesses know about geo targeting for social media posts and ads to reach the audiences closest to their business and maximizing their social media efforts, and ad spend. Geo targeted social search may help you to find a specific audience, invite them to your business or redirect to a discount lead generation form. Small and Large companies can benefit from geo targeted social search.
Some ways to geo target your search:
Twitter advanced search: Go to the Twitter advanced search page, then enter your search terms, after that scroll down to places and select appropriate geo location to target your search.
Hoot suite: From within the Hoot suite dashboard, click on the search icon in the upper right corner. Enter the search term and click the compass arrow icon in the right of the search field to find tweets nearby.
