As part of our HighRoad User training initiative, we offer office hours with a marketing expert once a month. Over the last few months, we have even narrowed that down and added an office hour session for all of the CPA Societies. In that session you can expect to find me, your Client Success Manager for many of the CPA Societies answering your questions, demonstrating new offerings, and troubleshooting technical issues. Often we also have my technical colleague on that call as well to help with any integration questions and more technical inquiries.

Did you miss out on last week’s webinar? Check out this recap of “Evolving Your Marketing Technology Stack to Drive Business Results – Personify”. Suzanne Carawan, HighRoad Solution, and Dave Sherman, American Optometric Association, walked through a case study of AOA’s journey to marketing bliss by taking initiative in the digital marketing world to generate revenue in their own organization!

At the end of this blog you’ll walk away with the complete anatomy of what it takes to engage, share, and convert with a social media marketing plan. With any good social media strategy, there is a great content strategy behind it. So first, let’s consider what kind of new and fresh content you are creating on a regular basis. Usually the content is a blog - like this one! Another great initiative would be to create video on member testimonials for example. Then, create a blog based off that video, consider cutting the video into bite-size consumable pieces for social media sharing, and include the video on your YouTube channel and website homepage.

Raise your hand if you have the bad habit of constantly having too many tabs open. As marketers, it simply comes with the territory. We have 16 different logins for seven different social media channels and then another one open to schedule and publish across those channels. We have one tab open for our email platform, another for our Association Management Software - all while Slack is constantly pinging us for project updates (and the latest funny memes). And when our computer decides to automatically restart because we hit the threshold, it's like a cold splash of water in the face.

Social Media is a huge platform for marketers when it's leveraged properly. However, developing the perfect strategy for social can be quite daunting. Have no fear I am here to strip away the nonsense and focus on three trends worthy of your time. Whether you want to grow your social media presence or simply maintain followers, you will want to use these tips.