Your digital portfolio

In this day and age, having digital representation can make all of the difference to your business and/or brand. You can opt for social media only or build yourself a nifty website to showcase even more of what your brand is about and pair the two to work together. Your “digital portfolio” is the collection of digital platforms your brand is represented on.

When you start building your “digital portfolio”, consider the following:

1. How much do you have to say? If your brand is one that needs to keep people up to date on the hour every hour, use Twitter. You can write content on your website which automatically posts to Twitter, which not only saves you time, but keeps your following up to date.
2. Is your brand image driven? Images get a lot of attention around the web, but over-posting images can result in less clicks to your brand. You can create a happy medium by using Pinterest and Instagram in line with a website that acts as a portfolio. Using platforms like Pinterest to post images and relevant links will keep your following satisfied and help get clicks to your website, whereas using Instagram creates a purely visual experience for your audience.
3. Is information your only focus? There are brands that use their digital portfolios purely as a means to get information across to their following. These can be larger, traditional businesses. With brands like this, engagement with their following is minimal, because their posts are already informative. In this regard a good use of Facebook, Linked In and Twitter is advisable.
4. What is your brand’s personality? It is very important to establish your brand’s personality early on in your digital portfolio. Treating your brand like an individual makes it easier for your audience to relate, so decide whether you want your brand to be seen as inspirational, hilarious, serious, purely professional or sociable. This can determine which social media platforms to be particularly active on. For example: Facebook and Twitter can be for all brand personalities, Linked In is purely professional, and Instagram and Pinterest can be seen as a social media platforms that inspire.

The wonderful thing about building your “digital portfolio” is that you don’t have to decide which platforms you want to be on right at the very beginning. Start small, use maybe one social media platform and let your website be your “home base“. You don’t have to catapult into a full digital strategy immediately, you can address this when traffic starts increasing considerably and there is a demand to engage with your audience on more than two platforms.

 

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