Using Your Pets For Social Media Engagement // We all love our fluffy friends. They make us laugh, they make us feel better when we’ve had a stressful day but pets can also be your secret weapon when it comes to social media engagement.

Ask any seasoned marketer, and they’d agree: Understanding your customers is largely dependent on understanding how they think.

Your digital marketing strategy should be guided by your answers to certain questions. What do your target customers need? What do they want? And what can you do to influence their decision-making process?

Take social media engagement, for example. The importance and impact of social media on any business’s overall marketing strategy has been discussed ad nauseam, both here and all over the internet. At nearly every speaking engagement I’ve been invited to, I had to discuss how being on social media can benefit brands and businesses. Chief among these is the level of engagement you get, which is basically how involved your fans and followers are with you on social media.

Social media engagement may come in the form of click-activated reactions (such as the Facebook like button), shares (retweets on Twitter, regrams on Instagram, and so on), and responses (comments on your LinkedIn status updates, for example).