50 things to post on social media

Are you struggling to come up with new ideas for your social media? Have a look at the 50 social media content ideas. You don't need to use all of them just pick your favourite ones that fit into your business and your personality. Use them for a few weeks and look at your analytics. Drop the ones with no engagement and try different topics until you find what works for you and your target audience. Remember there are no one-size-fits-all in social media.

1. Behind the scenes. Show followers your business space and what you do day-to-day

2. Share a personal story it can be personalised to your business or your life

3. Host a giveaway. Maybe to help launch a new product

4. Share your business story. How did you get started?

5. Shoutout to clients or followers. People like to be acknowledged

6. Inspirational quotes

7. Ask followers/clients to feedback post ideas. What they would like to see?

8. Host a live chat on new/current products and services

9. New product sneak peek

10. Share your favourite apps that help you with your business day

11. Share errors/lessons learnt

12. Promote your newsletter to get more people to sign up

13. Share your daily routine

14. Create an ‘ask me anything’ post

15. Weekly top tip

16. #MondayMotivation, #MondayMemories, #Mondayvibes, #FitnessMonday, #MusicMonday

17. #TakeMeBackTuesday #TransformationTuesday #TechTuesday #TuesdayThoughts #TuesdayTips

18. #WednesdayWisdom #WorkoutWednesday #WINWednesday #WellnessWednesday #WildlifeWednesday

19. #ThrowBackThursday #CoffeeThursday #ConnectThursday #ThinkAboutItThursday #ThankfullThursday 

20. #FunFactFriday #FearlessFriday #FlashbackFriday #FeelGoodFriday #FitnessFriday #FollowFriday 

21. Share testimonials from clients

22. Share industry news

23. Promote a flash sale or deal

24. Post interesting facts about your business/industry

25. Page take-over. Allow an employee, influencer or brand ambassador to run the page for 24 hours

26. Post a promotional video

27. Share like-minded social media profiles to follow; sharing is caring

28. Ask for feedback and things to improve on

29. Time-saving tips

30. Interview a likeminded industry expert

31. Share an inspiring story

32. Share a blog/podcast you recently listened to that you found interesting

33. How to…. Share how-to ‘make more time’, ‘engage more followers’

34. Be thankful to employees, customers, or followers

35. Celebrate the wins however big or small

36. Share something that has helped you recently in your business

37. Create a monthly theme.

38. Have fun with a ‘this-or-that’ poll. Get followers to pick a side; could lead to some interesting conversations

39. Tap into a trending topic; it doesn’t have to be business-related but could engage new followers

40. Create fill in the blank posts

41. Introduce your team; people love learning about who does what within the business

42. Ask followers to share the last nature photo or animal picture they have on their phone

43. Share social media fails

44. Team up with an influencer; get them to take over and share their experiences/knowledge

45. Nothing wrong with re-posting old content. Maybe just use a different picture

46. Do a live video about different products you sell/promote

47. Ask your followers how they are dealing with the ever-changing world of online business

48. ‘Caption This’ pictures

49. Selfie day. Post a selfie of yourself and ask people to post selfies of themself

50. Competitions and giveaways

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