Below are a few more tips on optimizing your social marketing

Continue to refine your social strategy

Create a social-media marketing plan if you don’t already have one. If you do have a plan in place, revisit it periodically to ensure it still meets your business and content marketing goals.

Because social-media trends are constantly shifting and evolving, so should your social strategy. For ideas on what components to include in your plan, look at this sample social-media tactical plan by Marketo.

Fold video marketing into your content marketing strategy

Consider investing in video production and video advertising via platforms like YouTube, which is currently the second largest search engine after Google. Having a marketing presence on YouTube gets your business in front of potential customers who more readily digest video content versus text or audio.

Show off your product, discuss the benefits of your service, or recruit satisfied customers to provide online testimonials. By including links to your website and other social profiles in the description area of your YouTube channel, you help to promote your brand and increase web traffic.

Paid-distribution content is also gaining steam as more people visit YouTube to find out about new and established brands. Here’s a neat infographic by Contently that gives a breakdown of the different video ad formats, as well as tips on shooting and editing the perfect YouTube video.

Use social media to gather customer praise and feedback

Don’t just focus on making content that will go viral. Use social media as an additional vehicle for responding to customers’ questions, complaints and concerns. It shows that your business is engaged with its online audience and dedicated to delivering great customer service.

Your corporate blog, Facebook Business Page, Twitter feed and other social sites all serve as potential platforms for fielding customer inquiries, sourcing ideas for new content and enhancing your brand image on the web. Additionally, social content, such as tweets and YouTube videos, will be indexed by search engines, which help boost your content’s relevance and page ranking.

For a broader overview of the social-media landscape, refer to Social Media Examiner’s Social Media Marketing Industry Report. The Content Marketing Institute also provides a slew of templates to help you with your content marketing and social-media planning.

4. Optimize Your Website and Email Marketing for Mobile
According to a study by New Relic, 1.3 million Android devices are activated every day. To put that into perspective, that’s about four times as many smartphones compared to the 300,000 babies being born into the world daily. Furthermore, smartphones have an average of 41 apps installed, with mobile users checking those apps on their phones 150 times daily, or about every 6.5 minutes.

It’s easy to realize that mobile marketing is no longer a “nice-to-have” but a “must-have” if you want to achieve maximum reach with your online marketing efforts. Even if you’ve redesigned your website so that it looks visually appealing and content is easy to find, that one website needs to look great across multiple interfaces.

If you build a responsive website—a site that automatically renders correctly on mobile devices—you’ll remove the need to spend extra money to build a separate mobile site.

To get a head start on your mobile presence, be sure to:

Check how your website appears in different versions, including on iOS, Android, OS X and Windows.
Find responsive website themes for web designs that are mobile-ready. Keep in mind that you only need one great design that will automatically display your web content correctly.
Consider investing in a well-designed mobile app if you think it will provide your customers with a richer, more meaningful user experience. It’s helpful to keep some of these factors in mind when deciding whether a mobile app is right for your business.
The same mobile-marketing best practices used on your website should be applied to your email campaigns as well. If you run a weekly or monthly newsletter, test your template using tools like Litmus to ensure it renders correctly across different mobile devices, email clients and operating systems.