5 Tips to Fit Social Media Into Your Busy Workday.
Is social media part of your business strategy?
Do you spend a lot of time on Social Media?
Tim L. Ramey, in this re-post shares
5 Tips to Fit Social Media
Into Your Busy Workday.
5 Tips to Fit Social Media Into Your Busy Workday:
Using social media to market your business shouldn't take up most of your workday, but you do need to carve out some time for it.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of reasons why people don't bother doing that. They tell themselves things like: I'm too busy with important work, I can't see any value in it, I don't know what to post, I can't figure out the tools, I think social media is just for kids.
But deep down inside, most business peole know they really should spend more time with social media. Here are 5 tips to help you find the time to fit social media into your busy schedule.
1) Understand the importance of social media to your business.
With all the professional and personal demands on you, there's only one way to find the time to blog, tweet, share, and comment: YOU MAKE THE TIME FOR SOCIAL MEDIA BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT'S IMORTANT! The truth is, as a business person, you need to do more online that just consume content or share what others have created. You also need to be a content creator, because that ultimately will build your business.
2) Take a good hard look at how you spend your day.
A recent survey revealed that we business people spend more than one forth of out day (28%) dealing with emails. We're in meetings for 19% of the day and we think half of them are a total waste of time. Another 25% of the day is taken up with meaningless distractions. A second Study reported that executives spend up to 33% of the day in meetings. What all this tells us is that finding the time for social media is just daily distractions.
3) Make a commitment to spend a small amount of time on social media every day.
Consider this your daily social business investment. Spread out your activities. Tweet daily, but perhaps post to your blog just once a week. Share links and comment on other sites as the opportunities arise, but limit these pursults to ten or fifteen minutes a day. Amazingly, this small daily commitment soon adds up. In a year, you've tweeted hundreds of times, written dozens of blog posts, connected with a good group of people, and discovered lots of things you didn't think you'd be learning about.
4) Be guided by your strongest Iinterest.
Blog, tweet, share, and comment on the things you care about most (of course, keep it work-related and avoid politics and religion). It takes far lsess time to write about and share the things you really know about and appreciate. It also attracts an audience of like-minded people. They in turn can provide stimulating questions, ideas, and points of view that will inspire fresh thoughts from you. You wind up creating an idea factory that keeps generating more terrific share-worthy content with a lot less time and effort.
5) Focus on helping others
Put something in your blog that can help others achieve something worthwhile. The saying, "What's In It For Me) is written on their forehead.
Have an awesome day and KEEP UP YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA!
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