Eating our own dog food. Our 10 steps plan for social media success in 2021

Step 1: Knowing the business goal

Maybe* helps businesses use social media to sell.  Our goal is to get  3.4 million business dashboards and 3600 town guides into the hands of the people we can help.

The last 12 months have made staying connected and selling difficult for the majority of businesses. The pandemic has challenged us all to innovate and sell to customers in new ways.

Track your own business goals in the Maybe* platform.

Step 2: Telling the Maybe* story

Since March Maybe* has been focused on sharing ways businesses can stay connected on social media. Like most businesses, we had a lot of plans in January 2020, that had to change. And we moved quickly with the times.

Our plans for 2021 focus on sharing positive stories that inspire and Local Town Guides that empower businesses to sell via social media.. 

 We launched a lot of new features last year, and we’re really excited about them. In 2021 this will continue and we are also going to focus on bringing them to life even better with more video content.

Our best post of the entire year had nothing to do with our product. It was about the things businesses were doing to stay positive. This has inspired our approach through 2020 and into 2021. Show people the good stuff, and how to do more of it.

Discover your own best post.

Step 3: What does Maybe* want you to do with its social content

Our social content is about finding new customers and encouraging them to sign in to Maybe*, access training and our Local Rewards program.

We are focusing on the distribution of our Local Rewards Town  Guides in the UK as part of our user acquisition drive. The call to action of our social content is sign-up to Maybe*  but first, we need to establish trust and report through training and webinars.

Measure your own engagement in the Maybe* platform.

Together with @HighStreetsTF, we are running a weekly webinar to enable place stakeholders to understand and evaluate High Streets through sentiment data and how it impacts other KPIs like footfall. Join here: https://t.co/BXFUUFC7RU @civic_voice @TeenMart_Barnet pic.twitter.com/iD82Boa86b

— Maybe* (@MaybeTech) November 23, 2020

Step 4: How does Maybe* engage with customers

Maybe* is active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. in addition to creating content, we spend a lot of our time engaging with all the businesses in the towns we are working with. We engage with them using the Maybe* platform.

We engage with 100’s of businesses on a daily basis and we love getting to know them online via social media, or over one of our Wednesday Webinars.

Start engaging with your own customers, its fun and is an increasingly vital business interaction in a world where physical meetings are less commonplace.

The Maybe* Engage view showing the conversations for all businesses in the #Shoplocal conversation that Maybe* can engage with

Step 5: Who does Maybe* want to engage?

We want to reach BID’s, councils, shopping centres, retail experts, social media managers and the 3.4 million businesses that we have dashboards ready and waiting for.

The 'who’s got influence?' report shows us every week the most frequent commenters on our content, and who’s mentioning us in their content. This is the social gold and where your reach and influence increases if you consistently maintain the conversation.

Discover the influencers in your conversation and increase the reach and impact of your business. Other people talking about you is what you want to achieve - that is the value of social media.

The Maybe* Who’s got influence report showing the voices in the conversation about Maybe*

Steps 6-10

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