Plan Ahead When Connecting Social Media to Email

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Most social media accounts, require you to have an email account associated with them. To many times these accounts are set up without planning ahead for how they may be used and by whom they may be used in the future. This can cause a big problem later on.

As your business grows, so will the number of people working for you and this includes hiring a social media manager. Your social media manager will occasionally need access to the emails for the social sites and if you have planned ahead, you can save yourself headaches.

In this video, I talk about why having a dedicated email that is only used for social media is important and why.
Having managed several accounts, I can tell you that a dedicated email will make your social media managers’ job smoother.

If you need help getting your social media plan in place, contact me to set up a consultation.

Are You Planning Your Social Media in Bulk

Posted on by sheryl

Many marketers know they need to put out a variety of post on social media, but that can take a good bit of time.

I see many of those people who log into their social accounts each day and then start looking for something they can share. They may search for links to great articles, look on YouTube for a video or try to find ideas for an image on Instagram. Once they find something, then they go and make it.

This means they may take an hour or more just to get a post for the day. Since most marketers don’t have an endless amount of time to spend on social media each day, their time is wasted looking for or making a post for each platform.
Therefore, they are missing out on the MOST important part of social media…Being social!

Engaging with your target audience is so important, yet that is what usually gets put off when you don’t plan ahead. By having your post ready for each platform, you can then log in each day and talk to people without the worry or stress of finding and making your own post.

In this video I talk about planning your post ahead, not just a day or 2 ahead, but a month at a time ahead. This means you are not only gathering your ideas for post, but having images already made, your short videos made, your links to relevant post gathered and anything else you may need.

If you are someone who tends to only make a few post at a time, I suggest you do not allow yourself to post at all on social media until you have an entire month ready and then go in and schedule it all at once. This takes away the instant gratification of posting each day on the spur of the moment. But, once you do get all your post scheduled a month ahead on each platform, you will be able to feel a sense of accomplishment and relief. You can then log in each day and enjoy talking to your customers, rather than just searching for things to post.

Put off the instant gratification for a much better feeling of relief and accomplishment.

If you are struggling to get your companies social media on track, contact me to set up a consultation appointment today.