Managing social media activities can be very time consuming. In this presentation I offer some tips and strategies to help you integrate social media into your already busy schedule.
These are the links I shared in the slides:
Time management tables: http://bit.ly/opensm_tables
How to create a content strategy slide deck: http://bit.ly/openoffice_hoa
Article related to importance of creating senior level professionals for engagement: http://bit.ly/whynointern
If you have any questions about how to connect your social media activities with your business goals, please contact me:
http://www.captivetouch.com
How to make time for social media in your already busy schedule?
1. Open Social Media: Where we tell it like it is
Open Social Media Education
A Captive Touch Initiative
Host: Sherry Nouraini
Founder/President
Captive Touch
2. Open Social Media: Where we tell it like it is
Topic of Our Workshop Today
What Does it Take to Make Time
For Social Media
3. Open Social Media: Where we tell it like it is
How much time do you need?
• Reading: At least 1 hour/day
• Writing blog posts: At least 1-2 hours/each
week for writing, editing, finding images and
responding
• Engagement: 20 minutes to 1 hour/day for
each platform
• At least 1 hour each week for thinking and
measuring success (you need to unplug)
Total: 1.4 to 2.4 hours/day minimum to be effective
One blog and one social media platform only
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Step 1- Where’s the time? Find it!
• Download file bit.ly/opensm_tables
• Print out Table 1 and track two things:
Everything you do everyday for a week
Length of time you do it
• Now, label anything you would deem
non-essential as a Y for purging (You know
you’ve got some!)
• Stop doing the ones labeled with a Y
• Now you have more time.
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Step 2- Planning for social media
• Print out table 2 from bit.ly/opensm_tables
• Write down when you will be doing these
three things represented by single letters:
R for Reading and/or Research
W for Writing
E for engagement
• Now you know when you’re going to do it
• Time to plan what to say
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Step 3- Planning your content
• Refer to your content strategy
If you want to know how to create one, view this
slide deck
http://bit.ly/openoffice_hoa
• Create a list of topics based on your content
strategy
• Create a list of subtopics for each topic
For example: Real Estate topic-Loan
subtopic- Effect of Credit rating
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Step 4- Planning your activities
• Print out table 3 from
http://bit.ly/opensm_tables
•Now plug in those topics and subtopics
into table 3 on a weekly basis for a
month
• Yes, the table shows 5 weeks, that’s
because some months have 5 weeks.
• Now you have found the time and have a
plan
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You’re probably saying:
This is just a time management exercise,
Where are the tips and tricks?
Good time management and setting
priorities is where you start
Now we get on with the tips.
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Tips
• You don’t have to be everywhere
Go to your content strategy
Find out where your target audience is
hanging out
Focus on a few
• You can use automation with moderation
Great tools: Bufferapp.com, Hootsuite.com
Schedule sharing of your content.
Don’t just schedule and walk away, be there
to interact when your content is posted.
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Key Point
• You don’t have to be glued to your
social media channels to be
successful.
• Schedule your engagement time with
content sharing time.
• Create content in bursts
Spread out
Repurpose
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Repurpose???
• Real Estate topic-Loan
subtopic- Effect of Credit rating
Blog postImage
Pinterest Slide Deck
SlideShare
Record a Short video
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Tips
• Every business owner needs to have a
smart phone, lots of productivity apps
Mobile app for SM platforms
Mobile curation tools like RockMelt or Feedly
Evernote, capture thoughts, pictures
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Tips
• Did the time management exercise and could
not find the time?
Hire a community manager
Someone who knows your industry
Pay a little more for a senior level
otherwise you’d be paying them to
learn on the job
Don’t go for a junior intern, the lack of
experience can hurt your efforts
- Example, read this
http://bit.ly/whynointern
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Tips
• Is there any room for an intern? Yes!
Monitoring of your topics
Managing your database
Thank you and your are welcome
Social CRM, where is your target market
In summary, tasks that don’t require
advanced skills in marketing and customer
management
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