Content Marketing on Social Media into your Marketing Plan

As a business, why do you have to spend time creating and sharing content on social media? You want to spend your time selling and developing product or service to your customers! You don’t want to tweet, friend or google?! 

Well, 

  1. It increases your followers for your social media platform,  whether it is Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, Instagram or Pinterest or any other platform that your audience hangs out, which increases your reach. 

          According to +Belle Beth Cooper of +Buffer in https://blog.bufferapp.com/10-secrets-to-finding-and-sharing-better-content-on-social-media

           they “found that the optimal number of tweets to engage your followers is 1-4 per hour, and for Facebook it’s no more than 1 per day. ” 

          So, by doing the social media strategically by:

            a: deciding where your audience hangs out

           b: creating a presence on that platform with your business 

           c: finding out what social media posts they like on that platform 

          d: create an editorial calendar for creating the posts and how many you need and when to post them

      You can increase your followers (or in business terms, your prospects) for your business. 

    2. Sharing content increases your authority in your field.

       Whether you share your own content about your business topic or you curate other authority sites and add your comments, you can be seen as someone who is knowledgable and “top of your game”. 

 

    3. Your followers expect more content from you and if they are trained to open, they get more value from your content. 

    4.  If you consistently post on a regular basis, good value content whether yours or you curate others content, your followers expect to see it and it becomes a habit for them to open and learn from you.  Being a teacher in your field for others and giving them posts of value with tips and knowledge they can use, this increases your credibility too.

5. Your followers see you as a thought leader and your credibility rises which means your customers develop the habit of buying what you are selling as they see you as an authority. 

    As your followers expect your content in social media and you give them value and you become an authority in the field, your relationship with your followers (prospects) becomes closer especially if you reply to any comments about your post or you add some personal posts during this process.  

People will get to know, like and trust you all through social media.  Content marketing on social media is well worth doing as it is a free form of accessing people throughtout the world spreading information about you and your business! 

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James Altucher best advice to a teenage daughter

You can’t lead a horse to water to drink.

This is a great article on Medium by James Altucher about families and entrepreneurship.  As he said, he was always working even when he is young. For me, I was lucky to be in a middle class family so if I wanted something like  my first camera, I did babysitting to save for it.  

However, you can tell others what they should do but if they don’t want to do it, they won’t unless they see the value of their Return on Investment (ROI).  By investing the time and energy into going out and telling people about your service and facing the possibility of being rejected,  this can be quite an intimidating step to take for people. 

Maybe if entrepreneurship was taught in school (it is in some schools) then young people would be more open to the idea of controlling their destiny by starting their own business. 

For you I would recommend reading some books by entrepreneurs on starting their own business like 

Read further on how to setup a home-based business or even what kinds of home businesses there are in the world with books like:
Start Your Own Home Business after 50 by Robert Bly
Start and Run a Real Home-Based Business by Dan Furman
The Smart Woman’s Guide to Online Marketing, Power up Profits by Kathleen Gage

and download my workbook Be Your Own Boss here to start thinking about what business you want to be in to control your own future! 

The Best Advice Ever To A Teenage Daughter Who Needs To Make Money

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Go mobile

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Have you heard that Google Search will be recognizing mobile responsive websites in April? 


There is a test at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ where you can add your URL.  It will tell you how mobile responsive your website is and what is holding you back! 


For example, some of my images were too large and slowing things down, some CSS code and other things. 


Well at the bottom of the page, Google will optimize these images and files for mobile and give you a Zipped file!  Wow!

MORE MOBILE

 

Thanks to +David Amerland for this conversation share from +Padraig Ó Raghaill .

This is true. Why aren’t more authors having an app created that people can download to their phone where they have easy availability to the authors blog and books and chat?

iTunes has Apple magazine apps but there are only 5000 magazines over there.  They are easy to create and send out your message there !

The future is mobile so have you even thought about apps for your business.

I have and plan to create a magazine app since I don’t need to know the technology, all i need is to create the content. 


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Social Media Statistics

 

 

 

 

What social media platform should your business be on sending out messages and engaging with potential customers? 

     It depends.  

You have to know who are your ideal customers. 

You have to know where your ideal customers hang out. 

You have to know what your ideal customer needs. 

You have to know how your ideal customers interacts with which social platform. 

If your ideal audience is not on a specific social platform you need to know this so you don’t waste your time and money sending out messages on the wrong platform!

For example from a Pew Internet Survey 2012 (so always good to find the newest surveys but this is a good example) on teenagers. 

Texting dominates teens’ general communication choices. Overall, 75% of all teens text, and 63% say that they use text to communicate with others every day.

  • 39% of teens make and receive voice calls on their mobile phones every day.

  • 35% of all teens socialize with others in person outside of school on a daily basis.

  • 29% of all teens exchange messages daily through social network sites.

  • 22% of teens use instant messaging daily to talk to others.

  • 19% of teens talk on landlines with people in their lives daily.

  • 6% of teens exchange email daily.

So, if your target market is teenagers (I would update this survey because social media can change quickly) then you might decide to use Instagram, Snapchat or Youtube or… which can be viewed easily on a smartphone. 

So, it depends is a good statement because what social media you use will depend on your target audience.  However, with at a minimum of 26 million for major social media platforms, there is a large population  anywhere to market to as long as you check the demographics and other statistics about each social media platform before using your time and money on that platform.  

Mike Allton of www.socialmediahat.com collected the 2015 statistics on the various social media platforms.  You can see the original post at Social Media Active Users . 

  • FACEBOOK – 1.39 Billion,
  • YOUTUBE – 1 Billion
  • G+ – 534 Million
  • INSTAGRAM – 300 Million
  • TWITTER – 288 Million
  • LINKEDIN – 187 Million
  • TUMBLR – 109 Million blogs
  • VIMEO – 100 Million
  • FLICKR – 92 Million users
  • PINTEREST- 70 Million
  • SLIDESHARE – 60 Million
  • VIADEO – 56 Million
  • FOURSQUARE – 45 Million users
  • VINE – 4o Million
  • STUMBLEUPON – 30 million
  • SNAPCHAT – 26 million

 

 

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Why use Google Analytics

March 2015
Great infographic from www.quicksprout.com on their research on optimizing their website using their Google Analytics. Check out their blog post for more detailed analysis of their website analytics research.  

The question you are asking is   “Why should I look at my  website Google Analytics?”

  • To find out who (the demographics of the people visiting your website) is coming to your website
  • To find out from where are your visitors coming from – is it United States, Canada, Australia, South America? 
  • To find out what hardware do they use to come to your website – is it iphone, computer, android, ipad?
  • To find out what keywords they are searching for when they find your website
  • To find out what social media is driving them to the website – are they coming by Pinterest, Facebook, Google+, direct from Google search, Bing search, Twitter etc.

Knowing this type of information, according to Quicksprout.com, you can optimize your website by targeting specific hardware, social media, keywords, countries etc. with your marketing. 

You can optimize your website for the traffic coming to your website!

How to Improve Your Marketing With Google Analytics Data
Courtesy of: Quick Sprout

Be a Teacher

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You would like to spend more time with the family. The years seem to be slipping by and the children growing up without you. You’d like to make some more money or find a new way to make money where you can spend more time at home.

But what can you do, you ask?

Have you thought of looking at what you know, what experience you have or what skills you might have?

You might create a business idea that might have never existed before or even create a business that is common but you can put on your own spin!

If you can get out your iphone out and record video or use the webcam and headset to make a video, you can create a video course.

See the article below about Caitlin Pyle who created a video course on her Proofreading business.

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Being a Leader

 

Whether you think so or you don’t, you are the leader of your business! You are the “captain or your ship” and the “conductor of the orchestra.  Being a solo entrepreneur, you are the one who controls whether you can be a success or a failure not your customers or the economy or government.

 

 


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Googleplus Playbook

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To find out what the official Playbook for Google Plus says about how to get started on GooglePlus.   Download the Google+ Partner Playbook 2014 here.  

To find out the requirements for your hardware and computer software for using Google Hangouts on Air, turn to Page 42 – 46. 

Otherwise, here is the Table of Contents. 

  1 Getting Started

2 Promote Your Presence

3 The Stream

4 Google+ Pages

5 Hangouts

6 Communities

7 Photos

8 Events

9 Index

This Playbook is just available here for your convenience for downloading.

It is a free book available from GooglePlus and it is under their copyright.  

When there is an update, I will change the Playbook! 

 

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Unique Serving Proposition

 

 

Be the Golden Egg!

Be the Golden Egg!

Stand out from the Crowd!

Be the Golden Egg not the ordinary one!

 Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.     Margaret Mead                                                                                             

In the fairytale the goose that laid the golden egg was unique as was the gold egg. You want to be the gold egg that people remember because you are “Unique.  

 1. What makes you unique amongst other businesses?

2. How do you serve prospects and customers differently from your competitors? 

3. How are you the solution to your potential customers wants, needs, problems, desires? How can you solve it with your product or service? 

After answering these questions and many more , how can you make a Unique Serving Proposition that is:

Short and sweet, 

Memorable

Emotional

Relevant 

Clear 

Go and download my free ebook and workbook, How to Stand out from the Crowd by subscribing to my newsletter and let’s start brainstorming! 

Feel free to enter your current USP in the Google+ Comments below and let’s get some feedback!