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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

If Your Social Media Posts Get Low Engagement, Do This #1777

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1777, we talk about what to do if your social media posts get low engagement. Tuning into this episode you’ll hear about switching up your content, the connection between comments and reach, the tests that Eric and Neil have run, and a whole lot more! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:25] Today’s topic: If Your Social Media Posts Get Low Engagement, Do This. [00:35] Change up the content you are creating. [00:51] Ask your friends with a lot of followers to make open-ended comments. [01:26] The limits of reels and using tweets as quotes. [02:33] Trying things out and getting high engagement for content out of your niche. [03:10] Go to marketingschool.io/live to hang out with Neil and Eric in September. Get ad-free listening plus exclusive content with Marketing School Pro. Try for free at www.marketingschool.io/pro   Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Leave Some Feedback:     What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review.     Connect with Us:    Neilpatel.com Quick Sprout  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel  Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Marketing School, the only podcast that provides daily top-level marketing tips

0:06.4

and strategies from entrepreneurs that practice what they preach and live what they teach.

0:11.4

Let's start leveling up your marketing knowledge with your instructors, Neil Patel, and Eric

0:16.8

Sue.

0:17.8

All right guys, before we start, we got a special message from our sponsor.

0:24.1

If you want to rank higher on Google, you got to look at your paid speed time.

0:28.6

The faster your website loads, the better off you are.

0:31.4

With Google's Corvital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your

0:35.5

site for low time.

0:37.7

And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use, Dreamhost.

0:42.2

So just go to Dreamhost or Google it, find it, check it out, and it's a great way to improve

0:47.7

your low time.

0:48.7

Today, we're going to talk about what to do if your social media posts get low engagement.

0:57.0

We're going to give you a tactic and we're going to give you one tactic and this will

0:59.7

be a short episode because it's really simple and it works.

1:02.6

But ideally, if you keep getting low social media engagement, change up the type of content

1:06.4

you're creating, try something different, maybe a different format, whether it's video

1:10.6

versus images, or you can even try quotes, but just keep trying to experiment.

1:15.4

That's the main thing that you need to do if you're in low engagement.

1:18.1

But if you want a quick hack, ask a few of your friends with more followers, the better,

1:23.6

and ask them to comment on your social posts and have them do that earlier on.

1:28.1

And the more controversial, you don't want them to just start, you know, causing issues,

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