Your Sparkly Brand

TikTok Trends for 2023

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Hey biz owners! On this episode of Your Sparkly Brand, we’re taking a deep dive into what’s working on TikTok right NOW. We’ll chat about best practices and how you can effectively utilize it to promote your brand. We also discuss TikTok trends to watch out for in 2023. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never been on TT or if you’re camera shy, this episode will arm you with the information you need to get started or show up more consistently in 2023.

Key points in this episode…

  • Meg gets an invite to the Instagram bonus program and attends a TikTok & Shopify event.
  • Lauren gets her Facebook ads restriction removed.
  • TikTok best practices.
  • Integrate stories into your everyday content.
  • Tell your business transformation story and show the customer service side of your business.
  • Use characters in your story.
  • When it comes to structure, always figure out the beginning, middle and end of your content.
  • Experimenting with the call-to-action near the beginning or middle of the video may be helpful.
  • Show your face in the first frame of the video.
  • Humanize your brand by showing your face and telling your story.
  • Talk about why your brand is unique.
  • Share your unique perspectives/hot takes.
  • Sprinkle in personal content, especially through video.
  • Remind your audience of what you do.
  • If you’re afraid of showing your face, keep practicing till you feel comfortable.
  • Integrate keywords into your videos, video descriptions, hashtags and covers.
  • Do a mix of industry terms and layman's terms - think about what someone might be searching for.
  • Stay away from trending hashtags.
  • Show attention-grabbing stuff in your videos and not talk about them in the video.
  • Collaborate with other content creators.
  • Forms of content which Meg has been testing with.
  • Longer video content between one and three minutes currently works for Meg.
  • For longer videos, your hooks need to be on point and using two hooks is highly recommended.
  • Your hooks can be at the beginning, and you can as well add another at the middle of your video.
  • TikTok Now.
  • TikTok Stories.
  • Creating content in series can be helpful.
  • TikTok trends for 2023.
  • More shopping opportunities within the platform and within Lives.
  • More ads.
  • More Lives features and engagement features.
  • Creators might start leaving TikTok Shorts for YouTube Shorts with Youtube’s aggressive payment structure.
  • It’s not too late to get on TikTok.
  • Learn how to create great content and target your videos appropriately.

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