TikTok marketing strategy for your brand

The first thing you need to do as a part of your TikTok marketing strategy is to switch your account to business. This will help to promote your brand more effectively because this account gives you:

Here is how you can switch to business:

The next step of your TikTok marketing strategy is adding profile information. Make sure your page tells users about your brand.

Your name and username should correspond to your brand’s name. Then, users, who know about you, can find you on TikTok by the name.

Usernames can only consist of Latin letters, numbers, underscores, and dots. If your username is written with another alphabet, use transliteration. If the name includes other special characters, omit them.

Names can consist of any alphabet or special characters. That’s why you can always write the original brand’s name in this field.

Use your brand’s logo as a profile photo. If you use a TikTok marketing strategy for your personal brand, use your photo. Make sure the photo is bright enough, and the objects in it are large enough, to be identified.

250*250 pixels is the smallest size of the profile picture that we succeeded to upload. Though, TikTok support tells 20*20 pixels is the minimum size. For having its best, we recommend setting a pic no less than 1080*1080 pixels, just like the recommended Instagram profile picture size.

There is also a profile video on TikTok, that can last from 3 to 6 seconds. If you add both the picture and video, users see the picture on your page. They can see the video if they tap your profile pic.

The link in your bio is an important part of your TikTok marketing. So choose it wisely. You can promote your product in the videos and then suggest following the link in your bio to buy it. Here you can find a step-by-step guide on how to add the link. 

We recommend that you create a page for your bio on Taplink. The service offers all the tools you may need for effective TikTok marketing, from pictures to payment systems. You can create a page from scratch or use ready templates.

Here are examples of pages made on Taplink using templates. Follow the links to create your page using the same templates after a sign-up:

Fill out the text in your bio to give more information about yourself to users. Tell them what you do, what your advantages and distinctions are. It is good for your TikTok marketing if you add a call to follow the link in your bio.

Write the text in short sentences and structure it. Use emoji and special characters, they help to group information and make the text beautiful.

Effective TikTok marketing plan is impossible without understanding how the social media platform works. We suggest reading the article How to become TikTok famous. There, we describe what and how to post so that users watch your videos and subscribe.

In short, your TikTok marketing strategy requires posting high quality content and expanding your audience.

Taplink page will be of much help if you are going to invite your followers from other socials. Add a button by which users will be able to get to your TikTok profile and subscribe. Make it stand out by placing it at the top, adding animation, or using contrast colors. Put the page link in your Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter profile bio. In your publications, let users know you have a TikTok account, where you post hilarious videos.

To clearly understand how far you can get with TikTok marketing, and what you should post, go to your rivals’ profiles. You may already know some of your rivals who run accounts on the social media platform, search for them by their names. Searching by hashtags, you may find even more accounts relevant to your field.

Pay attention to what your rivals do. Look which of their videos get more likes, views, and comments. Try to create similar content. Also, pay attention to the clips which haven’t got high reach and engagement, so you will know what is bad for your TikTok marketing.

In your rivals' profiles, you can also find more hashtags that you can use.

Content plan is an important part of TikTok marketing. You need to upload videos to your profile every day. And not just one clip, but three at least. Sooner or later, you’ll face the problem — you don’t know what to show to the users. So you better plan what you will upload ahead.

Include videos about a coming holiday, premier, sports match, or any other significant to many people event in your plan. It’s important to make it relevant to your topic. Then, your TikTok audience will watch it. Even better if you insert an ad in your clip.

Here is an example. Assume, you promote a restaurant on TikTok, and it’s Christmas coming. You can record a video about how people celebrate the main winter holiday at your place. This way you show that your restaurant is so comfy and cozy, that people choose it as a venue for the family holiday.

Don’t forget about your brand’s events. Shoot a video about your company’s birthday, announce the release of a new product, thank your followers that there are 1,000 more of them now.

Spare a room for trends in the TikTok marketing plan. You never know what will make users go crazy next week. You will know the trends when the week comes, and you open the Discovery page.

Think on the caption to the TikTok videos you will upload. Add catchy phrases to draw users' attention, hashtags to increase the chances to be discovered, and a call to action to follow the link in your bio so that they follow and buy or subscribe. Don't forget to double check the text because editing a caption on TikTok is not a one-click matter.

You can use paid ads in your TikTok marketing strategy. Then, you gain your audience faster. You can collaborate with influencers or launch ads using tools in TikTok Ads manager.

If you work with influencers, choose those, who post on the topic close to yours, and who would use your product. Then you will reach your target audience. Besides, your advertisement won’t be hard-selling, so you will be considered positively.

For example, when you want to promote your plastic mats for mugs, you better involve interior designers in the campaign, not a breatharian posting on #consciousconsumption or #sustainability.

You can launch advertisements in the Ads Manager to promote your account without TikTok influencer marketing. In the Ads manager, you can choose your target audience parameters and campaign goals. You can also choose where your ads will be displayed — in the feed or on the screen when a user opens the app.

Here is how the feed ads look:

After posting several videos, you get statistics. It helps to track the effectiveness of your TikTok marketing strategy and correct your plan to achieve higher results.

You can get the statistical figures from your profile page.

Analytics gives more understanding of what you should post. On this page, you can see how many likes, comments, and views your videos have. So you can figure out the most popular type of the content in your profile. Post more on the same topic, type, provide information in the same manner.

By analyzing different parameters, you will know how to make your TikTok marketing more effective. For example, you see that the Average Watch Time is several times less than the full video length. It means that you failed to catch users’ attention. But don't rush to delete your account, no surrender! Try to make your clips more dynamic and vibrant, interesting, or make them shorter.

If you are a marketer, you will easily understand what corrections your TikTok marketing plan needs. If you’ve never promoted an account on social media before, we recommend reading our guide on Instagram Analytics first. Statistics on these social media platforms have much in common.

Study your audience to make your TikTok marketing strategy effective. Then you can create videos that will be viewed and liked. For example, if most of your viewers are from South America, your advice on how not to freeze in a snowbank will not be relevant. Or, you use slang, but then realize the biggest part of your audience is adults, then you better switch to a more mature vocabulary.

When you’ve just started putting your TikTok marketing plan into practice, there are no audience statistics in your account. But you can use the data from your other social media accounts, or from your website. But don’t forget to edit your plan when you find out that your TikTok audience differs, for example, by age.

If you don’t have any information about your viewers at all, base your social media strategy on the general TikTok insights. Here is what you should know:

This is the data collected for the 2020 year.

TikTok marketing is similar to marketing on other social media networks. First, you need to fill out your profile. Then, you need to create a content plan and correct it according to the statistics you get.

Your profile should tell users about your brand. The name and username should be relevant to your or your brand’s. Your profile pictures should also be associated with you. Don’t forget to add your Taplink page link to your bio, then you’ll turn your viewers into your customers.

Think ahead about what you will post. Upload more videos that are funny and entertaining. You can get more ideas and know what your audience likes from your rivals’ pages, the Discover page, and in your business manager.

Advertisements help you to achieve your TikTok marketing goals quicker. You can work with TikTok influencers, and launch the ads in the Ads Manager.

Add your TikTok profile link to your Instagram and other social network profiles. Thus, you can make your followers on these networks into your TikTok followers.

TikTok marketing is not about instant success, it's about persistenсe. If the reality doesn't meet your expectations at the very beginning, don't rush to delete your TikTok account and give up.