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Promotional
- Post about your promotions and offers
- Showcase your products and services
- Promote your events
- Share testimonials/reviews
- Share a teaser of a new product/event
- Encourage people to subscribe to your newsletter
- Promote your affiliate program
- Give away a voucher
- Post user-generated content (images of customers owning/using your products)
- Post about job opportunities and internships
- Make an unboxing video of your products
- Promote your other social media profiles
- Make a comparison between your products and your competition’s products
- Showcase how your customers should use your products
- Talk about unknown product features
- Mention the benefits of your products and services
- Turn your demos into quick informative videos
- Share a creative or surprising use for your products
- Promote events you are sponsoring or speaking at
- Share the DOs and DON’Ts your audience should know about when using your products
- Share blog posts you were featured in
- Talk about your USP (unique selling preposition)
Fun
- Cover holiday topics
- Write about international days
- Share memes
- Let someone else take over your account for a day (influencers/employees/business partners)
- Re-create trendy posts
- Make a “Throwback Thursday” post
- Participate in the latest trends/ challenges
- Share a joke
- Make seasonal posts
- Post about little-known holidays
- Share a GIF
- Start a “This Day in History” series
- Share image puzzles
- Share region-specific posts
- Share cute pet photos from your employees
- Share a “Remember when…” post
- Post a riddle
- Make an appreciation post for your customers
- Share the weirdest thing anyone’s said or asked about your business
- Share a funny experience
- Post an unpopular opinion
- Share your pet peeves regarding your industry
- Create a fan of the month post
- Celebrate your follower count
- Make a post about “A day in the life of a…”
Motivational
- Share motivational quotes
- Discuss a personal failure and how you overcame it
- Post about the most important piece of advice you’ve received
- Talk about one thing someone said to you that changed your mindset
- Talk about major changes you’ve noticed in your industry
- Reveal what you wished you knew 5 years ago
- Talk about the hardest decision you’ve ever made
- Talk about a person who inspires you
- Share ideas from a conference/event that inspired you
- Share a time when a customer taught you a lesson
- Share the best part of what you do
Educational
- Create a weekly series with tips & tricks
- Post a video tutorial
- Post about interesting industry statistics
- Post trending news
- Share case studies
- Discuss industry myths
- Share challenges you had to deal with in your career
- Posts about industry DON’Ts
- Post a fact or fiction question about your industry
- Share studies
- Help your audience succeed in something you know a lot about
- Give tips about productivity
- Share “how-to” videos
- Share a time management tip
- Split an infographic into several images and share them individually
- Share industry news
- Conduct an interview
- Talk about mental health at the workplace
- Talk about the top X mistakes people make while choosing products/services from your industry
- Explain industry terms
- Post a free resource (e.g., guide, template, etc.)
- Answer a question from Quora
- Share a work/life balance tip
- Share a health tip
- Share a self-care tip
- Share a piece of history about your industry
- Talk about something that is affecting your industry
Interactive
- Start a contest
- Launch a challenge
- Respond to a tag or mention
- Host a Q&A session
- Post a “fill in the blank” post (example: If I was on a desert island, I will take with me the following three items: ____, ____, ____.)
- Answer an FAQ
- Go live
- Ask for predictions
- Start a discussion with an industry leader
- Invite someone in your life to discuss something
- Start a debate
- Ask readers to share their favourite book/podcast/movie/artist
- Ask your followers about their most-used emojis
- Ask about your audience how they found you
- Host an AMA (ask me anything)
- Ask your audience about their bucket list
- Share a photo and let your audience write the caption
- Ask a ‘truth or myth’ question
- Ask a “this or that” question
- Ask a “would you rather” question
- Organize a giveaway
- Share content framed as: “Like this post if…”
- Create quizzes and polls
- Conduct a survey
- Ask your audience about their life motto
- Ask a question about your business that your customers can answer with ease
Company Related
- Share customer success stories
- Celebrate your employees (start an “employee of the month” series, share anniversaries)
- Share your achievements
- Post about your business story
- Talk about your company’s values
- Share quotes from your team members
- Write about your work ethic
- Introduce your new team members
- Write about your company’s culture
- Post fun facts about your company and team members
- Share your business goals
- Post a photo from the early years of your business
- Talk about the evolution of your company
- Post photos from the office
- Share photos and videos from your events
- Post statistics and charts about your company’s growth
- Do a video tour of your office
- Share your business mission
- Do a Q&A interview with your team
- Share fun facts about your team members
Recommendations
- Recommend books
- Recommend podcasts
- Recommend documentaries
- Give other brands or professionals a shout-out
- Recommend certain tools and apps
- Share music
- Promote local businesses
- Review relevant products
- Talk about a cause you care about
- Share your favourite blogs/bloggers
- Make a list of online tools your audience will find useful
- Compile a list of free resources from other sources
- Share a quiz
- Share the top online sites you visit the most
- Post a list of must-read articles for the past week/month
Evergreen
- Repurpose your webinars
- Share blog posts
- Reshare older posts
- Take interesting information from your blogs and share it as social media posts