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3 Keys to Social Media Marketing for Agriculture

Updated: May 5, 2023
By using social media platforms, you can precisely target potential customers based on their interests, demographics, and engagement with competitors. Focus your marketing efforts on key agricultural markets.
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By: Jeremy Hill, Senior Director of Digital and Development

Are you struggling to effectively promote your agricultural business?

Social media marketing provides unique opportunities to connect with your target audience. By using social media platforms, you can precisely target potential customers based on their interests, demographics, and engagement with competitors. Focus your marketing efforts on key agricultural markets. Tailor your campaigns to resonate with your desired audience. This will help you achieve your goals.

If you’re ready to take your agricultural business to new heights, keep reading to learn more about the benefits of social media marketing.

Leverage Influencers to Build Community 

Social media marketing offers many benefits. It gives you the opportunity to create a fan base full of people who are devoted to your agricultural brand. Posting valuable content and insights related to your industry allows you to stay connected with your followers. This helps to build a strong relationship. By consistently providing relevant and useful information, you can establish a strong online presence and build a loyal following.

But engaging with your audience goes beyond simply posting content. Show customers that you appreciate their feedback by engaging with them. Reply to comments, direct messages and reviews. Demonstrate your dedication to exceptional customer service. Interacting with followers promotes a sense of community. They feel more connected to the brand and are more likely to become loyal customers.

Social media influencers play a significant role in amplifying your reach and impact within the agricultural community. Influencers have built a strong following and established credibility and trust within their niche. Collaborating with influencers who align with your brand values and target audience can be highly beneficial. Influencers can promote your products and services to their followers. This introduces your agricultural business to a larger audience and could potentially lead to increased sales.

Case Study: The Dairy Alliance

As we moved into our second year of partnering with The Dairy Alliance to bring the nutritional benefits of milk for athletes to life through NIL deals with college athletes, we wanted to make a big impression. Our “Milk Delivers” campaign kicked off with an explosive press conference in which Stetson “The Mailman” Bennett IV, starting quarterback for the University of Georgia, formally announced he was changing his nickname to “The Milkman”—and ended, several well-received commercials later, with Bennett passing the baton to his fellow athletes.

Stetson Bennett social media influencer    Stetson Bennett social media influencer as the milkman

Read more about The Dairy Alliance’s social media marketing influencer case study.

Harness Analytics for Data-Driven Decisions

One of the most powerful aspects of social media marketing is the availability of robust analytics tools that provide valuable data on the performance of your campaigns. Social media platforms like Facebook Insights, Instagram Insights and Twitter Analytics offer a wealth of information about your audience’s engagement, reach, impressions and more. Partnership360, our proprietary digital analytics dashboard, is capable of aggregating data and demographics from these multiple social channels to provide a comprehensive view of your customer base, empowering you to make data-driven decisions with ease and achieve more impactful engagement with your audience. By analyzing this data, you can gain insights into the effectiveness of your content, understand your audience’s preferences and identify opportunities for improvement.

For instance, by examining the engagement metrics of your social media posts, you can determine which types of content resonate the most with your audience. If you find that videos receive higher engagement compared to images, you can adjust your content strategy accordingly and focus on creating more video content. Similarly, by tracking website traffic generated from social media, you can identify which platforms are driving the most visitors to your site and allocate your resources accordingly.

Social media analytics empower you to make data-driven decisions and optimize your social media strategy for better results. By continuously monitoring and analyzing the data, you can refine your messaging, target the right audience segments and maximize the impact of your agricultural marketing efforts.

Be Efficient With Social Media Management 

Managing social media accounts and executing effective social media marketing strategies can be time-consuming and require specialized knowledge. That’s where agencies specializing in agriculture can be of great assistance. At The Partnership, we have a team of experts with a combined experience of 75 years in the agriculture business. Our team has the knowledge and expertise to ensure that your social media reflects the same brand voice and marketing objectives.

From content creation to scheduling, monitoring engagement, and implementing effective strategies, social media marketing professionals can handle all aspects of your social media management. They can develop a content calendar that aligns with your marketing objectives, create engaging and visually appealing posts, implement effective scheduling strategies to ensure consistent and timely posting and monitor engagement metrics to identify areas for improvement. This allows you to save valuable time and resources and allows you to focus on other critical aspects of your agricultural business.

Agricultural marketing agencies can also offer comprehensive services that go beyond social media management. At The Partnership, we can help you with various other marketing efforts, including market research, brand development, content creation, search engine optimization (SEO) and digital advertising. Our industry knowledge and experience allow them to navigate the unique challenges and opportunities within the agricultural sector, ensuring a strategic and impactful approach to your marketing campaigns.

Final Thoughts

In today’s competitive agricultural landscape, harnessing the power of social media marketing is essential for businesses aiming to thrive and grow. By leveraging social media scheduling, services, influencers and analytics, you can unlock new opportunities, strengthen your agricultural brand, and connect with your target audience in meaningful ways.

Remember, social media marketing allows you to target specific customers with precision, build a vibrant community of followers, leverage the influence of social media influencers and harness analytics to make data-driven decisions. Additionally, efficient social media management with professional support and the availability of specialized agricultural marketing services are key factors that can propel your agricultural business forward.

By embracing the transformative power of social media marketing and partnering with experts like The Partnership, you can secure a competitive edge in your industry and position your agricultural business for long-term success. Contact us today and embark on your journey to unlock the immense potential of social media marketing for your agricultural business.

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Rhea Zigmund

Rhea Zigmund brings experience helping organizations advance business objectives through strategic communications marketing.

She leads the delivery of integrated programs and projects, including strategy, planning, research, creative, internal and external communications, earned media, paid media, social media, celebrity and influencer partnerships, events and experiences, and measurement.

Prior to joining The Partnership, Rhea was Vice President at Edelman where she specialized in Healthcare and Business Transformation. She led large-scale communications marketing programs for national health organizations. She also supported partners through change and transformation, such as mergers and acquisitions, rebrands, repositionings, restructurings, and workforce challenges.

Rhea holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Georgia State University with a specialization in organizational management. She is a Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner. Originally from Kentucky, Rhea earned her Bachelor of Science in Integrated Strategic Communications from the University of Kentucky.

Living in Atlanta, GA with her husband and two dogs, Rhea spends her spare time exploring the city and working with her local foster care community.

Jeremy Hill

Over the past 20 years, I’ve specialized in digital innovation within healthcare marketing, leading efforts to enhance web development and UX/UI design. My career highlights include spearheading significant projects such as the redevelopment and replatforming of the Naples Comprehensive Health (NCH) website—a six-month initiative involving a dynamic team of 16 professionals. Additionally, I managed the digital aspects of fundraising campaigns for the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation and tackled crisis communications during hacking incidents at Northside Hospital.

I guide my teams with a philosophy centered on trust and transparency, creating an environment that encourages autonomy and bold ideas. This approach has been crucial in navigating the complex challenges of the healthcare sector and driving digital transformations that improve patient engagement and operational efficiency. As a storyteller and strategist, I am committed to leading digital service transformations and optimizing web experiences to foster growth and enhance user journeys in the healthcare industry.

Sela Missirian

Sela is a strategic brand marketer who helps brands grow through modern forms of engagement. With deep digital roots at multiple tech startups, international assignments and significant consulting expertise, she develops solution-based marketing strategies for clients to achieve their business goals.
 
Sela’s healthcare work spans pharmaceuticals Allergan and Pfizer, healthcare systems NCH, Piedmont Healthcare and Southwell, specialty group Dentistry for Children and medical device Kinas Medical Technologies. Other industry work includes Citrix, SAP, Voya Financial, Chick-fil-A, The Dairy Alliance and Equifax.
 
Sela graduated with a Bachelors in Science from Cornell University and is a regular marketing lecturer at GA Tech’s Scheller College of Business Executive MBA program. 

Julie Crow

Julie Crow, SVP of Partner Services and Program Management, oversees partner relationships, including managing current partner relationships and workflows, new partner onboarding and discovery, strategic leadership of projects, operations and program management. Julie oversees the account management and project management teams.
 
Julie has spent her entire career as a brand strategist and marketer with leadership experience in many categories including consumer products, beauty, entertainment, wellness and non-profit.
 
She started her career in New York City at Colgate Palmolive and Estee Lauder, managing marketing and advertising for a variety of their signature brands. After moving to Atlanta, Julie spent her first decade working for Turner Broadcasting (now Warner Discovery) leading marketing for networks such as TBS, TNT,and Turner South. Following her Turner days, Julie ran her own marketing consulting business, focusing on brand development and marketing strategy for clients across diverse categories. Before joining The Partnership, Julie ran marketing and communications for a private high school in Atlanta and led a large economic development client team for another marketing agency.
 
Julie is also a certified health coach and wellness advocate and has dedicated time over the past decade to helping companies and families build programs and habits for good nutrition and healthy living.

Alex Loehrer

Bio coming soon.

Amanda Lucey

Amanda has been a communications leader, providing strategic public relations, branding and corporate communications for over 20 years. She’s the CEO of The Partnership, Atlanta’s oldest privately held agency, and an accomplished entrepreneur, having first founded Moxie Media and Marketing in 2012 (DBA M3 Effect).

The company grew tremendously within its first five years, doubling growth in 2017. To accelerate growth in 2018, Amanda acquired The Partnership in 2018. Her goal? To make The Partnership one of the fastest-growing female-owned agencies in the Southeast and a top-10 advertising agency in Atlanta and Southwest Florida. Her passion is to engage and empower her team to produce the best possible product – work that makes an impact and drives results.

She has held executive roles in both the U.K. and U.S. governments, as well as the Southeast United Dairy Industry Association. She was the Vice Consul, Head of Political, Press and Public Affairs for the British Consulate General, in which she managed all media relations strategies and delivered the UK’s policy and public diplomacy priorities. She also served as a media correspondent and director of communications for the U.S. government and has extensive public affairs experience. Prior to working in D.C., Amanda worked for the Georgia General Assembly House of Representatives.

Amanda is an accomplished public speaker, business owner and volunteer. Her motto: be hungry, keep hustling, and stay humble.