It’s December, and the countdown to holiday events and the New Year has begun. With fewer than 30 days left until 2013, here are 22 easy-to-implement social media tactics to use this December.
- Start a holiday-themed hashtag on Instagram and encourage your online audience to post pictures using it
- Create a fun holiday poll for your online fans and followers to take and share with friends
- Create an 8 Tracks or Spotify winter-themed music mix
- Update your Facebook cover photo to a festive or winter-themed image
- Create a Facebook Offer for the holidays. Here are 6 holiday-themed ideas for using Facebook offers
- Share exclusive content with your fans like a free eBook, whitepaper or infographic
- Create a Youtube Holiday playlist
- Start a holiday-themed board on Pinterest
- Share holiday recipes that your staffers like
- Ask users to share their favorite holiday memories
- Tweet out holiday song lyrics
- Re-design your Facebook thumbnails to incorporate a winter or holiday theme
- Re-design your company’s logo and use it as a new Facebook profile photo. Click here to see how we update ShortStack’s logo for each holiday
- Start a countdown to Christmas or the new year
- Host a Facebook contest like this Ugly Sweater contest by Tool Select
- Run holiday-themed Facebook ads to get current fans and non-fans involved with your contest
- Create a holiday gift guide featuring your business’s products
- Write a blog post saying thanks to your customers, fans and followers for their support
- Keep your fans up-to-date on your company’s philanthropic efforts
- Create a Facebook album of pictures from your business’s holiday party
- Upload short vlogs (video blogs) to your Youtube channel of employees saying what they’re grateful for this holiday season, or what they’re looking forward to most in 2013
- Host a daily Facebook giveaway contest like this “12 Days of Christmas Giveaway” by Donsuemor
These are some excellent ideas! Love the idea of the ugly sweater contest.
Also, really like #18 and #21
With the holidays coming up, try to integrate them into your social media pages. Create a new profile or cover photo, have holiday themed posts. All of these things are great ways to help celebrate the holidays and get your followers and customers more involved with your social media pages.