Social media strategy for credit unions has been a popular topic for many years. The more interconnected we get as a society, and the more time our members spend online, the more important an effective social media strategy for your credit union becomes. But the question becomes, what is the right content for your credit union to publish on its social media? How can you determine if the social media strategy for your credit union is effective?
Here are 5 tips for getting social media strategy for credit unions right.
1) Tell Personal Stories
Social media provides a terrific platform to share your story and content with members who you may not have the opportunity to connect with one on one. Use this platform as a way to spotlight community members, share employee stories, and share testimonials from you “A” members. Want to see a great example? Check out the community spotlight Wednesday we feature in our CU 2.0 Facebook Strategists Group.
2) Lead with Visual
Social Media platforms provide the perfect opportunity to lead with visuals. Visual content is more likely to get liked and shared. It is worth the time for your credit union’s marketing/social media team to adjust text-heavy content and lead with visual.
Video is exploding and is an important tool in your marketing toolbox. Video can lead directly to sales for your credit union. Studies show that 74% of users who watched an explainer-video about a product subsequently bought it. This could be potentially huge for products your credit union is promoting such as auto loans or HELOCs. Furthermore, video is not only important in your credit union’s social media strategy. Moovly gives us whopping statistics: You’re 53 times more likely show up first on Google if you have a video embedded on your website. There has been a significant increase in how much videos affect your search engine rank. When using video remember these four things:
- Make sure to optimize your videos on Youtube for SEO
- Write interesting titles and descriptions
- Include links back to your website and products available to your members
- Have interesting Call-to-Actions that give your members ways to take the next step
3) Offer Quizzes and Contests
Don’t fall into the trap of caring exclusively about likes and followers. You want to focus on engaging your membership. Quizzes and contests are an effective and fun way to interact with your members and engage them. Not sure what contests to run and/or need quiz ideas? Click here.
4) Don’t Sell Sell Sell
Don’t talk so much that you forget to listen. Social media is a platform that will allow you to learn more about your members. Social media is a terrific way to solicit feedback and better learn what your membership cares about. This will allow you to create hyper-relevant content for your members, more effectively market your products and services, and ultimately better serve your members.
5) Focus Exclusively on Lead Capture
When your credit union sits down and decides upon its social media strategic goals, the goal should be to drive social media traffic to your credit union website. Once the user is on your website, your credit union can capture leads. DO NOT focus on simply generating more likes and followers. This is a vanity measure that may make us feel good but isn’t a metric that we should be focused on. Once you drive traffic to the website, then your credit union can build lists of qualified leads that your marketing and sales teams can follow up with.
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