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Your Social Media Reality Check
Why do you use social media? To build stronger relationships with your clients? To reach more people for sales? To increase your visibility or credibility?
If you are using social media for your business it is important to have goals and objectives so you use your time wisely!
The following questions helped me to give myself a reality check on where I am with social media, and where I need to be to reach my goals:
- Who are you, what do you do? Jennifer Bailey, I apply public relations to social media to help small businesses learn how to gain publicity through the internet
- What is your reason for using social media? To bring transparency to my work ethics to hopefully result in more credibility and ultimately more visibility.
- What are ALL of the social media tools that you use? Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Blogging
- Are there any tools that you SHOULD be using that you aren’t? Yes, ActiveRain which is more for realtors but has proven successful for them. Also I would like to start using YouTube to upload instructional videos for more visibility
- What is the most fruitful success you have ever had using social media? A reporter for a journal found my blog and got me some publicity, leading to real sales. I would like to have more of this kind of publicity!
- Ultimately, what is your end goal in using it? To become a national trainer for small business professionals who want to learn how to use social media to promote their businesses
Ok, now it’s your turn! Take the Social Media Reality Check!
- Who are you, what do you do?
- What is your reason for using social media?
- What are ALL of the social media tools that you use?
- What is the most fruitful success you have ever had using social media?
- Ultimately, what is your end goal in using it?
This is an excellent idea Jennifer. Most people jump into social media with no plan and then they wonder why they get no results.
I’d like to add one question that I found to be very important when getting started…
Who are you not?
It’s important to know who you are and where you’re going, but it’s equally important to know who you’re not. This will keep you from doing/saying things that are not in line with your character.
This is understandable that money makes people autonomous. But what to do if one has no money? The only one way is to receive the loans and just credit loan.