ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

From the Experts: Social Media Best Practices with Your Oktopost Experts

62 minutes
5 speakers
Recorded March 25, 2021

Transcript

Who is speaking

Shanie Zimerman Taylor Campbell Grant Klein Ben Collins Jones Josh Sloane
Webinar overview

In this special panel episode, Oktopost’s Shanie Zimerman hosts four members of the Customer Success team, Taylor Campbell, Grant Klein, Ben Collins Jones, and Josh Sloane, for a wide-ranging conversation on social media best practices: working with (not against) platform algorithms, why person-to-person content outperforms corporate messaging, treating each network as unique, and how to measure and iterate on content performance.

  • Don’t try to “beat” the algorithm; create genuinely engaging content, test different formats and timing, and let analytics (patterns over weeks or months, not one-off posts) guide what to repeat.
  • Person-to-person content consistently outperforms corporate messaging: over 62% of B2B buyers respond to salespeople who share insights, and employee advocacy humanizes the brand by putting a real face behind the message.
  • Treat every network as unique: audience intent differs by platform (LinkedIn for education, Twitter for quick facts, Facebook and Instagram for culture and community), so don’t just blast the same post everywhere.
  • Content mix ratios like “80/20” are loose guides, not hard rules; the real goal is diversifying between educational, promotional, and personal content and watching what your specific audience actually engages with.

Your speakers

Shanie Zimerman
Shanie Zimerman
Head of Strategic Partners, Oktopost

Shanie Zimerman is a Client Relationship Manager based in the New York City area, with over 10 years of experience in the high-tech and startup space. She takes a people-centric approach to customer and partner success, building relationships that create value across the organization.

Taylor Campbell
Taylor Campbell
Customer Success Manager, Oktopost

Taylor Campbell Goldstein is a Customer Success Manager at Sophos (Secureworks), based in Atlanta, Georgia, with a career built across multiple customer success roles in the cybersecurity space.

Grant Klein headshot
Grant Klein
Customer Success Manager, Oktopost

Grant Klein works in B2B social media, employee advocacy, and social listening at Oktopost, based in the London area. With a background in business development and customer success, he has contributed to market engagement strategies that drive year-over-year growth.

Ben Collins Jones
Ben Collins Jones
Customer Success Manager, Oktopost

Ben Collins Jones is Global Customer Solutions Manager at SplitMetrics, based in Poland, helping mobile companies make data-driven decisions. His background is in customer success within the marketing technology space.

Josh Sloane
Josh Sloane
Customer Success Manager, Oktopost

Josh Sloane is Senior Customer Success Manager at Vuture by Marigold, based in the United Kingdom, with over 8 years of experience in account management and customer success roles in marketing technology.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you manage repeatable, ad hoc content like employee achievement and culture posts?

Create a simple, repeatable formula, like a standard "new hire" post format including name, role, and a fun fact, so the content becomes consistent and easy to produce without reinventing it each time.

What's considered a "meaningful" engagement on social?

It depends on the goal of the post: clicks matter most for content meant to drive traffic, comments show real intent to engage in conversation, and even likes have value since they boost the post's visibility in followers' feeds, so weigh engagement types against what each specific post was designed to achieve.

What's the best timeframe to look at when analyzing past content performance?

Look at more than a single week in isolation; comparing one to three months of data gives a much more reliable picture of what's actually working than judging performance off a single post or week.

What are best practices for building an advocate network that matches your target audience, especially when advocates worry their own network isn't the right audience?

It doesn't matter if an advocate's immediate network isn't a perfect match: sharing consistently and using relevant tags and hashtags helps expand reach over time, advocates can actively grow their network by connecting with industry peers, and reach compounds through second- and third-degree connections.