Your posts should: Educate, Entertain, and Inform: Here’s Why

Do you remember the last caption you read on Instagram last night? What was the last reel you watched on Facebook about? If you cannot answer one of these questions, you’re not alone. There's plenty of content online, from Google search results to social media posts and how-to videos and articles.

Published on
4/20/2022
Written by
David Casey

More than 10 million articles get published daily, without including social media posts and news articles. With plenty of online content, a simple search can become overwhelming. Besides, searchers don't want to spend a lot of time sifting through it all. Instead, they want to have their search queries answered quickly.

Creating the Right Content

Search engines seek to help these searchers find the most accurate and relevant information in no time. For marketers, giving the right content that suits both the search engines and searchers is hard, but it shouldn't be. Many people want to see your content, so you only need to make it visible. Since search engine algorithms connect searchers to the content that best suits their query, you should always keep your audience in mind. No one wants to watch a video or read an article that doesn't answer their question or isn't informative.

Your social media posts must be good if you want your audience to find them. You might be the best in grammar or public speaking, but engaging with your audience is paramount. Otherwise, you may end up creating content for yourself. So, how can you make your posts good? In simpler terms, your posts have to entertain, educate, or inform.

Audience seated in a theater for a presentation

What Social Media Posts Do

You can use your posts in numerous ways. You can use them to give your audience new information, sell a product, attract more people to continue reading your content, or personalize your brand. Anyone can create a Facebook post or an Instagram reel, but it'll be quickly forgotten if you don't clarify your intentions. With this in mind, your posts have to:

Educate

Focus on providing your audience with valuable information that makes them understand what you offer, why they need your products or services, and what problems you'll solve. If one of your clients asks you a question, there's a great chance that other people out there have the same question. Irrespective of how simple the question seems, answer it. Educating your audience on a particular subject or uniquely explaining something makes it unforgettable. Your posts should help your audience quickly identify their problems and offer solutions to help them address them. When you consistently educate your audience, you'll train them to visit your pages first for answers to their questions or solutions to their problems.

Entertain

We interact and socialize on social media; to unwind and get away from a long day and forget about the worries of our daily lives for a moment. Create content that enables your audience to do that. A simple video or picture can transform a dry and dull status update into the post of the day. Even if you're a professional brand, an accountant or a lawyer, ejecting some humor into your social media posts can attract people. There's time for seriousness, but always keep the fun in mind when creating content. Whether the post makes people laugh or cry or motivates them, it'll be unforgettable. Entertaining content allows people to form a connection with it.

Two developers collaborating on coding project

Inform

Good social media posts inform users. Most people like statistics and facts, which they can use to establish talking points with their family or friends. Thus, they're more likely to share an interesting or informative post. However, this kind of content can have a short shelf life because information gets updated constantly. Therefore, you need to re-examine your posts regularly. Nobody wants to read or watch something irrelevant. Consider rephrasing your content regularly. Informative content will enable you to build trust with potential or current clients.

In Summary

Social media posts come in different forms with different purposes. However, they should be educational, entertaining, or informative. Educational, entertaining, and informative posts help you engage your audience, get their attention, solve their problems, and keep them up-to-date. Your content will have no purpose if it doesn’t have one of these three characteristics. Social media posts that educate, entertain, and inform will put you on the right path and help you expand your social media presence.

Written by 
David Casey
Founding Partner
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