How to Grow Followers with Social Boost in WordPress

Every website has a social media presence, and each one is trying to grow the number of followers on every platform. While there are about a thousand ways you can do this, the Social Boost plugin is an excellent choice.

This plugin allows you to show off your social media accounts in WordPress and run a variety of campaigns. These include things like running a giveaway, or a refer a friend campaign.

The plugin also provides a variety of templates for your campaigns that are based around major holidays like Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and more. All of this is free for the first 50 users you capture.

Today, I will demonstrate how to use the Social Boost plugin for WordPress to grow your subscribers.

This tutorial is for:
WordPress 6.6.1
Plugin: Social Boost v3.3.1

Why Is Social Media So Important?

If there is one thing you will hear over and over as a website owner, it’s the importance of social media.

Social media is a way for businesses to connect with their userbase, and more importantly, grow their userbase. Most major corporations today have a presence on every major platform to spread the word about new products or services.

While some businesses can grow very fast on social media, it is not always quick or easy. In most cases, it will take months or even years to grow a sizable following that you can market to, but with the right tool, that can be sped up.

Businesses that give incentives to follow them on social media can grow much faster than normal accounts.

For example, imagine that you posted a time-limited discount code for the first 100 people who use it on X. It rewards users who are following your content and encourages others to follow so that they might be able to get a reward in the future.

Not to mention, it will get 100 people shopping on your store. It’s a win-win situation if done right.

How to Use Social Boost to Grow Your Followers

The Social Boost plugin is rather easy to use and offers a lot of functions for free. That said, it is only free for the first 50 users you capture using it. As such, you will need to pay for the tool past that.

Now, 50 users is not a large number as some sites can reach that number in a single campaign. If you have a lot of traffic, it might be worth upgrading the plugin.

Step 1: Install Social Boost

Let’s start by clicking on Plugins and selecting the Add New option on the left-hand admin panel.

Search for Social Boost in the available search box. This will pull up additional plugins that you may find helpful.

Scroll down until you find the Social Boost plugin and click on the “Install Now” button and activate the plugin for use.

Step 2: Sign Up for Social Boost

The first thing you need to do is go through the sign-up process. The plan is free, but you must create an account to use the plugin.

Start by clicking on Settings and selecting the Social Boost option.

Here you will be prompted to create an account, which requires a first & last name, as well as your email address. Once you click on the ” Next” button it will take a minute to save the information. You should then check your email.

The email you receive will contain a password you will need to log in with. Back on WordPress, reload the page and you should be prompted to log in with an email and password. Enter both of these.

This will log you in and you should see the “Launch Application” button. Click it.

This will open a new tab on your web browser and bring you to the Social Boost website, where everything takes place.

Step 3: Set Up Social Boost

When you visit the site for the first time, you have two options to set up the plugin. The first, and what we will be covering is to manually set it up using the set-up wizard. The second option allows you to call an agent and go through the onboarding process.

Click on the “Start Setup” button.

This setup process is quite self-explanatory. You’ll start off by selecting the language. After this, you need to select a template. The templates are for general activities like growing your email list, specific campaign types like sweepstakes, or for the holidays.

Pick the template you want to use.

Once you choose a template and create the campaign, you will then go through another setup wizard that walks you through filling in the campaign. Again, it is pretty straightforward and just requires you to fill in the information.

Since the information you need to enter is different based on the campaign you selected, I’ll leave this to you.

Once you get to the end, click on the “Publish Now” button if you are ready to launch your campaign. You can also choose to do it later if you are not ready for it to go live. There is also a shortcode that you can copy to embed the campaign directly in WordPress.

Note: If the campaign is not live, the shortcode will display a ‘campaign not active’ message.

Once the campaign is live, you will see a URL that will bring you to your site when entered. You should share this link on social media to boost the campaign’s efficiency. This will make the campaign appear on your site.

The plugin will automatically add a campaign option to your site. In my case, it says rewards and is visible on the left side of the screen.

And you can use the shortcode to embed it directly into any post, page, or widget you wish. And that really covers everything you can do. Again, there are a lot of options to configure, so take your time and configure your campaign just right.

And be aware of typos, as they can lead to some big problems if an extra zero ends up somewhere as a prize.

Step 4: View the Analytics

Naturally, you will also be able to review how well the campaign is going. This is all done from the campaign dashboard on the Social Boost site. This will show you the number of users that engage with it, keep track of winners, and more.

You can also edit some parts of the campaign from here.

You can use the switches at the top to disable the campaign at any time. Just be aware that once your campaign reaches 50 people, it will no longer be free. When this happens, you will need to upgrade your account or find another tool.

You can run multiple campaigns at the same time. Each campaign has its own dashboard, and you can see all of the campaign stats in a single location if you prefer to get a view of the larger picture.

And that’s it. Social Boost is a great plugin for boosting your following.

Start Building Campaigns with Social Boost Today

As you can see the Social Boost plugin is a great option for any site looking to boost their following. It has a variety of templates to choose from and campaign modes that you can take advantage of.

Each one is highly customizable, but even the default options will work well for most sites. That said, I do recommend changing the designs to match your website. It can really help make it feel more authentic.

I hope you found this tutorial helpful in learning how to use the Social Boost plugin for WordPress.

Did you find the Social Boost plugin easy to use? Do you use a different tool for marketing campaigns in WordPress?

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