Spring cleaning is when you clean under shelves, the wire tunnels below your home, fix the installation, and remove cobwebs. Spring cleaning isn't just for your home or physical business premises.

Spring clean your systems, too. This article covers the five tasks to clean your business. Clairant can help you get started on these spring cleaning duties for your business. We develop for you a better website and network to attract new customers.

Now, spring cleaning.

Goals and milestones shift with changing times. So your business needs to go back to the drawing board, re-evaluate your business goals, and see if you need to alter them. 
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You need to divide goals into short-term and long-term goals. Short-term plans are usually objectives to reach in 6 to 12 months, and long-term goals could be beyond five years. Use the SMART strategy; specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely.

Your business plan is the blueprint of your business. It contains all the departments plus the roles and responsibilities of all the staff members. Revisit that as well and comb out anything you may not need. And then add what you may need.

​Who are your clients? Have they changed over the years, and do you feel the need to bring in a new demographic onboard with wider business reach?
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These are the questions you need to answer when reviewing your client list.

Marketing trends shift each quarter or so. Spring clean your old strategies and upgrade them to modern and efficient strategies that will benefit your business. We are in the age of automation, email marketing, blogging, social media, video marketing, and more: so look into that.

​You must also check each financial affairs. Prioritize your spending to determine what requires more money and what can be trimmed. Using money wisely helps your firm spring clean. To reduce losses, every penny must be accounted for.

If you think these tasks are way too much for you to handle, contact us to see what the buzz is all about at Clairant.

Social media marketing has become a hugely important part of brand building, connecting with the right target audience, and driving more traffic to your website. That's why you need a solid social media strategy that will help your marketing campaign stand out from your competition. This post discusses five steps to help you build the ultimate social media strategy for your business.

Step 1. Know Your Audience
Who is your ideal customer? By defining your target audience early enough, you will be strategically placed to determine the best time to market and sell your product.

For example, if your ideal customers are young adults aged between 18 and 29, you would be wise to focus on social sites like Facebook or Instagram. On the other hand, if your target audience is composed of graduate-educated and business persons, you would be better off using LinkedIn.

Your ideal customers also determine the type of social media content you'll be advertising.

Step 2. Choose the Right Platform
There's no doubt that all social media platforms have their strengths and limitations. That's why you'll find some businesses thrive best when using some social media platforms over others.

The trick is to find the social media platform that your target audience hangs out on the most. Understand the demographics of your target market and see if that fits into the most prominent demographics that use each platform. Make your decision based on this and you will not fail when choosing the right platform for your brand. And remember, you don't have to boil the ocean and be on them all. Choose one or two platforms and commit to posting regularly on them. 

Step 3. Know Your Brand and Products
Before starting a social media content strategy for your business, you must first identify your brand and products or services your target audience finds most valuable and make them the central focus of your posting efforts. Know how to describe your offerings well and provide consistent descriptions of them. Understand why your brand's products or services will fulfill the pain points that your prospects may be experiencing. Feature your differentiators and what makes you better than your competitors. 


Step 4. Create Your Content
All your social media planning and advertising strategies should be based on what your target audience is looking for. Great content is the backbone of any impactful social media strategy. But sadly, many businesses skip the first three steps and jump straight to content creation. This strategy is seldom successful, and many professional marketers don't encourage it. You can have the greatest content speaking to the wrong people. So don't skip any steps.
Now that you know your ideal customer, have picked the best social media platform and understand how to describe your brand and products or services, you can create content that sends a statement.  Identify those pain points your prospects are experiencing so that they can first relate and then lead them down a path of describing how your products and services will ease that pain for them. Provide educational and/or entertaining content and only promote or sell your products once in a while. No one likes to be sold to all the time. If you provide great, beneficial content to your target audience they will believe you are a thought leader in the industry and will begin to trust in your brand.  Down the road it may turn into a sale!
Once you've created a great content plan, start posting! Start with posting at least 5 days a week. The more posting the better as long as you are providing quality content.
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Step 5. Review Then Improve Performance
Finally, you'll want to check the stats of your social media campaign frequently to see how it's performing. This will allow you to see which strategies are working and which ones aren't and use this data to update your marketing approach accordingly. If something isn't performing as expected, pause it and take action. Maybe you missed something.

By following these steps, you can build a great social media strategy and bolster your marketing campaign significantly. If you would like to use your social media strategy to its full potential, make the first step: Call Clairant today to see what we can do for your business.