{"id":238352,"date":"2019-08-16T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationxroads.com\/?p=238352"},"modified":"2019-08-16T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T14:18:56","slug":"what-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationxroads.com\/?p=238352","title":{"rendered":"What platform?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Social media is\ncontinually evolving and is definitely the place to be in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a\nbusiness, you need to be on at least one social media platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The social media\nplatform in which you position yourself, should be one in which your clients\nsit, not necessarily one with which you are familiar and comfortable.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nSo if your business sells B2B and your clients sit in LinkedIn, then that is\nwhere you should have a profile which posts on a regular basis. If, however,\nyour business has more of a local, friendly approach, then perhaps facebook is\nthe platform in which your clients sit.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nOf course, it is possible that you have clients in more than one sector, in\nwhich case you need to position your postings across a range of platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The factors to\nconsider before you set up an active profile in a social media platform depend\non your ideal customer. Key themes that dictate social media behaviour are\ntheir age, profession and job role and location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media\nplatforms are developing all the time, so its therefore important that you keep\nup to date with changes in operational structure of each one. For example if\nyou compare the facebook of today with the facebook of ten years ago, the pages\nwould look very different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you don\u2019t\nfeel comfortable in using an unfamiliar platform, then maybe that\u2019 when you\ncall in the&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:liz.walder@communicationxroads.com\">social media team<\/a> to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is continually evolving and is definitely the place to be in 2019. If you have a business, you need to be on at least one social media platform. 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