There’s a sneaky little best-kept engagement secret around our social media these days, and it’s called a poll.
Polls let you not only serve your audience a nifty little question, but you can spoon-feed them some answers too!
This means a micro-commitment from them, but lots of potentially rich data for you.
Here are my top-five polling pro-tips:
- Stick to the topics you use for normal engagement questions
- Offer answer options which will guide you to who needs your help
- Allow responders to add their own preferred answers (FB-only)
- Make sure to check the post for typos, as you can’t edit it once it’s live
- Duplicate a successful FB poll on LinkedIn, although they only let you have three options
If you’re not polling your audience at least once a week, you’re missing a trick.
You can learn so much about what your followers want, need and who’s ready to work with you next.
Whatever you do, have fun.
Love you lots
Jonny