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