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7 Tips for Crafting the Perfect FacebookPostBy Lucy Hitz November 10, 2014
As your social media audience grows, a microscope is placed on the value you’re driving with yourefforts. You can’t afford to be careless with the content you publish.
To get a better understanding of the specific aspects that make a Facebook post successful, weculled the most pertinent data from our Simply Measured Facebook study and other industryresearch.
Here are seven traits of successful Facebook posts from The Interbrand top 100 global brands,
and other industry leading Facebook pages.
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and other industry leading Facebook pages.
1. Include a photo or videoAccording to our Facebook study, visual content is the primary driver of engagement onFacebook.
Taylor Swift
IT'S OUT IT'S OUT IT'S OUT THIS IS NOT A DRILL GO GO GO http://smarturl.it/TS1989#TS1989
236,359 Likes · 7,975 Comments · 8,433 Shares
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ProfileMusician/Band · 71,372,784 Likes · October 26, 2014 ·
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After photos, videos are the second most engaging content type, averaging more than 2,500engagements per post.
Brands have recognized the power of visual content: together, photos and videos account formore than 80% of brands posts.
2. Stay between 50 and 99It turns out, post length really does matter. The most engaging length for a Facebook post is evenless than the maximum 140 character count for a Tweet.
Facebook posts between 50-99 characters see the most engagement, so don’t write a novel.Keep your perfect post sleek, slim, and targeted.
3. Add an emoticon
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According to this AMEX Open Forum infographic, posts with emoticons receive 33% morecomments, and are also shared 33% more often — two of the major contributors towardsengagement.
Taylor Swift
You asked for it And now it's here! Make your own 1989 AlbumCover now! http://smarturl.it/1989PhotoBooth (We bet it would makea pretty profile image )
58,349 Likes · 1,899 Comments · 1,529 Shares
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Moral of the story: don’t be afraid to let your playful side shine. Emoticons aren’t just forteenagers anymore.
4. Ask a questionAccording to this KISSMetrics infographic, question posts get 100% more comments than non-question posts.
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Make sure your post is getting a dialogue going.
5. Offer something In a survey of 1,000 social media users run by lab42, 34% of those surveyed listedpromotions/discounts as their biggest motivator for liking a brand on Facebook.
Taylor Swift
Today at rehearsals for The GRAMMYs. I'm trying to remember..What was the song a lot of you were saying you wanted me toperform on the #Grammys?
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As a result of liking a brand on Facebook, 77% said they saved money. So, in your perfect post,consider offering more than charm.
6. Publish between 5PM-1AMAccording to TrackMaven, posts published between 5PM and 1AM receive the most interactions.
We always recommend testing to make sure your timing is aligning effectively with your specific
audience, but this is a good framework to start with.
7. Post on a Saturday or Sunday
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TrackMaven found a dramatic drop in the frequency of Facebook posts on weekends but muchhigher average engagement for posts on Saturdays and Sundays.
Again, results will vary by industry, but there’s no harm in going against the grain andexperimenting with weekend posting.
When testing these components with your own account, it’s important to measure the successand optimize based on your own personal results. Click the link below to learn how SimplyMeasured’s full package of free Facebook measurement tools can help you understand yourcontent.
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Lucy HitzI’m the Content Marketing Producer here at Simply Measured, which means I get toresearch the latest and greatest in social media, and tell you all about it. I love yoga,prosciutto, peaty scotch, poetry, and Taylor Swift. If I were a social media channel,I’d want to be Instagram, but I think I’m Twitter.
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