How do you balance consistency and creativity in your social media posts?

Consistency is key to building trust, loyalty, and engagement with your audience on social media. But how do you maintain a consistent tone, style, and posting frequency without compromising your originality?

These are some tips and best practices to help you balance consistency and creativity in social media marketing.

1 Define your brand voice and identity

Before you start creating and sharing content on social media, you need to have a clear idea of what your brand stands for, what your values are, and how you want to communicate with your audience. Your brand voice and identity should reflect your personality, your goals, and your target market. You can use tools like a brand voice chart or a brand style guide to document and define your brand voice and identity, and make sure that everyone on your team is on the same page.

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Clarissa Nassar-Martin

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In my experience, anytime you don’t take the time to identify your brand voice the brand fails. This is a crucial part of the process of branding that often gets overlooked even by big corporations.

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2 Plan your content strategy and calendar

One of the best ways to ensure consistency in your social media marketing is to plan your content strategy and calendar in advance. A content strategy helps you align your content with your objectives, your audience's needs, and your brand voice. A content calendar helps you organize and schedule your content across different platforms, channels, and formats. You can use tools like Trello, Asana, or CoSchedule to create and manage your content strategy and calendar, and to collaborate with your team.

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Clarissa Nassar-Martin

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Working 4 to 6 weeks ahead gives everyone a chance to keep the content in mind as they go along the way. Having some sort of idea of what you plan to post builds confidence within the team and makes it easier to collaborate.

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3 Use templates and guidelines

Another way to achieve consistency in your social media marketing is to use templates and guidelines for your content creation and design. Templates and guidelines help you save time, avoid mistakes, and maintain a coherent and professional look and feel for your content. You can use tools like Canva, Adobe Spark, or Crello to create and customize templates and guidelines for your social media graphics, videos, stories, and more.

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Clarissa Nassar-Martin

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One way that I like to template ideas is by having my graphic designer give me 2 to 3 choices and play within those ideas throughout the content on social to create a cohesive yet different look.

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4 Experiment and test

While consistency is important, it doesn't mean that you have to stick to the same content and format all the time. You can and should experiment and test different types of content, formats, and styles to see what works best for your audience, your goals, and your brand. You can use tools like A/B testing, analytics, and feedback to measure and evaluate the performance and impact of your content, and to learn from your successes and failures.

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Data can be fun if you approach it as a way to challenge yourself and push ideas that are on the cusp of being a hit! Also, adding onto the ones that do hit and repeating for that “unicorn” content.

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5 Be authentic and human

Finally, the most important tip to balance consistency and creativity in your social media marketing is to be authentic and human. Your audience wants to connect with real people, not robots or salespeople. You can show your authenticity and humanity by sharing your stories, your values, your behind-the-scenes, your challenges, and your achievements. You can also engage with your audience by asking questions, responding to comments, joining conversations, and showing appreciation.

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Clarissa Nassar-Martin

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Authenticity can be felt even online. You can’t maintain something that you truly aren’t so it’s best to just stick to being your true self.

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Stephanie Sides

★ Marketing & Business Growth Consultant ★ Helping Small to Medium Businesses Align Strategies for Maximum Growth ★ Creative Problem Solver & Die Hard Phillies Fan
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Be social! Take time to listen, engage (comment and share) other people's content or to the comments on your own posts. Social media means being social with authentic conversations and doing so helps brands stand out more, especially in this age of automation, AI and bots.

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1 Define your brand voice and identity

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4 Experiment and test

5 Be authentic and human

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5 Be authentic and human

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