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Trevor Marca - Social Media Tips for Social Entrepreneurs

Social Media Tips for Social Entrepreneurs

In today’s world, social media marketing is essential to every business enterprise. Using social media channels to develop your business and help your sales grow is important, but for social entrepreneurs, it’s especially important to get the correct message across.

In order to be a successful marketer of your business on social media, you have to make your presence felt through social messaging. You need to build a brand of your own, promote it with all sorts of marketing strategies, and advertise the site—all through the lens of social entrepreneurship.

How Can You Use Social Media To Promote Your Social Presence

The first step to successful social media marketing is creating sites on popular properties like Twitter and Facebook. Creating properties is also probably the easiest step. Below are some specific tips on how you can ensure a successful online presence once your sites are active.

  • Start with proper planning before you create any sites. Strategizing before doing any actual marketing is crucial and absolutely essential for success. Working out a strategy refers to keeping the number of channels to a maximum of three at first, and managing the posts on them minutely. Target the social sites where you will reach the biggest audience.
  • After you have set your mind on three social media sites, now it is time to start posting on them on a regular and disciplined manner. You need to plan how many posts per day per social site you intend to share and what type of content you plan to share on each site. Also, you need to make sure that you publish new and interesting content on the sites each day in order to draw the biggest audience.
  • It’s very important that you share content that’s engaging, interesting, relevant, and helps the audience learn more about your business and social message. The more your audience understands about how your business will make a positive impact the more successful you will ultimately be.

Managing Your Social Media Marketing With The Help of Efficient Social Sites

One of the most important issues with social media marketing is selecting the proper platforms to spread your social message. Many sites lure you with the number of hits that they get, but it is important to remember that quality matters a great deal more than quantity.

Trevor Marca: 4 Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs

4 Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs

Good habits make great entrepreneurs. This is true whether your work focuses on social entrepreneurship or not. Oftentimes, finding success as an entrepreneur is just a matter of finding the right habits and sticking with them. At the very least, when you eliminate bad habits you gain more time and a clearer perspective on how to reach your goals. Keep reading to learn about some of the best habits that every entrepreneur should have.

Get Up Early

One of Benjamin Franklin’s most famous sayings is “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” The saying is more than just a cute rhyme. Waking up early gives you a jumpstart on the day’s activities. Some people choose to get up early so that they can workout and feel energized for the day. You can also get up early to work on any number of projects that you’ve been meaning to tackle. If you’re not a morning person start by getting up 10 minutes earlier each day for one week. Then get up 20 minutes earlier during the second week. You’ll eventually be able to get up an hour before you usually do.

Express Gratitude

Attitude is everything. If you only focus on the setbacks and roadblocks you encounter, you’ll make it difficult to find success. On the other hand, if you remain grateful for the positive things you have in life—not just career-related things but friends and family—you’ll feel a lot more satisfied and happy. A grateful attitude ensures that you don’t take anything for granted, and it’s one of the first steps of adopting an optimistic attitude. Read this article to learn more about how feeling grateful can lead to success.

Smile

Smiling is one of the simplest habits you can pick up, and it’s also one of the most beneficial. Did you know that people who smile tend to be happier? While that might seem obvious, you can begin to feel happier just by making a conscious effort to smile. Body language often dictates how we feel. If you sit slouched over and frown for the majority of the day, then there’s a good chance that you won’t feel too happy. Your mind takes its cue from your body language. Yet it’s difficult to feel down when you adopt a power pose and smile. Make the effort to smile more, and you’ll quickly feel the benefits.

Exercise

Exercise is one of the best habits that you can incorporate into your daily routine. There are a number of benefits to exercise including better sleep, improved mood, and more energy. You don’t have to workout every day to see results. Three days per week is a good routine to aim for. Being an entrepreneur is a demanding job. Physical activity will help ensure that you stay healthy and your mind stays clear.

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