10 Days to get up and running on Social Media
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DAY ONE
Investigate and educate - Educate yourself, visit and learn about the top 4 social sites - Facebook, linkedin, youtube, twitter. Visit and subscribe to the following sites:
www.mashable.com, www.copyblogger.com,www.activerain.com
DAY TWO
Set Up - set up accounts today on Facebook, twitter, activerain, youtube. Make sure to add your photo( use a business pic & use same one for all socialmedia), contact information, websites (own domain name) use godaddy for this.
You will need to set up your personal profile page on Facebook, then CREATE a Business Page. (take some time to select a page name, the URL for this can not be changed).
DAY THREE
logon to your Facebook account - and start inviting friends you can visit the help center on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/help/friends/requests . You can search for people by name, or better yet their email.
Another way to add friends is to import from your contacts:
Import your contacts
You can import your list of contacts from other places (ex: your email account) and faebook will find your friends for you or your can browse through people you may know, all from the Find Friends page.
DAY FOUR
Make sure to complete your profile information on Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube & Twitter- education, work history,interests, for more information visit:
https://www.facebook.com/help/profile . Your profile information is how people can search for you and how Facebook will recommend "friends".
DAY FIVE
Now that you have some friends its time to build your business page ( if you haven't done so already) also time to create a community page (subdivision you farm, etc.)- on this page you can highlight area listings, businesses in the area, community events like garage sales. look for post here tomorrow on a how to create a facebook business page.check out the How to on Youtube
DAY SIX
How did it go with your business page? Time now to move on to Linkedin. You should have created an account, if not go ahead today and do so, fill out in entirety your profile, education, likes, etc.Linked In was designed as a business network and a tool to communicate with fellow professionals.
The first step is to invite as many people as you can to network with you and become a connection. You need to play by the rules and don’t arbitrarily send out invitations. Profile your connections very carefully and pick people with mutual connections and similar interests. Also make sure you send a message with your request to connect that clearly established some common ground between you and your connection.
For further help with Linkedin feel free to drop me an email or visit my facebook page.
DAY SEVEN
Today you will sign into your twitter account, update your profile, add a pic, customize and send out your first tweet.
You should post daily on Facebook, with the new facebook timeline there is an option to send to twitter the same message you post on facebook, just put a checkmark in that box.
Tomorrow I will show you how to use Hootesuite, a one stop for maintaining your social media sites.
Investigate and educate - Educate yourself, visit and learn about the top 4 social sites - Facebook, linkedin, youtube, twitter. Visit and subscribe to the following sites:
www.mashable.com, www.copyblogger.com,www.activerain.com
DAY TWO
Set Up - set up accounts today on Facebook, twitter, activerain, youtube. Make sure to add your photo( use a business pic & use same one for all socialmedia), contact information, websites (own domain name) use godaddy for this.
You will need to set up your personal profile page on Facebook, then CREATE a Business Page. (take some time to select a page name, the URL for this can not be changed).
DAY THREE
logon to your Facebook account - and start inviting friends you can visit the help center on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/help/friends/requests . You can search for people by name, or better yet their email.
Another way to add friends is to import from your contacts:
Import your contacts
You can import your list of contacts from other places (ex: your email account) and faebook will find your friends for you or your can browse through people you may know, all from the Find Friends page.
- Type Find friends in the search bar at the top of any Facebook page and click on the first result.
- Click the name of the account you want to use (ex: AOL)
- Enter your login information for that account (ex: email and password). Note: Facebook won't store your password.
- Click Find Friends.
DAY FOUR
Make sure to complete your profile information on Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube & Twitter- education, work history,interests, for more information visit:
https://www.facebook.com/help/profile . Your profile information is how people can search for you and how Facebook will recommend "friends".
DAY FIVE
Now that you have some friends its time to build your business page ( if you haven't done so already) also time to create a community page (subdivision you farm, etc.)- on this page you can highlight area listings, businesses in the area, community events like garage sales. look for post here tomorrow on a how to create a facebook business page.check out the How to on Youtube
DAY SIX
How did it go with your business page? Time now to move on to Linkedin. You should have created an account, if not go ahead today and do so, fill out in entirety your profile, education, likes, etc.Linked In was designed as a business network and a tool to communicate with fellow professionals.
The first step is to invite as many people as you can to network with you and become a connection. You need to play by the rules and don’t arbitrarily send out invitations. Profile your connections very carefully and pick people with mutual connections and similar interests. Also make sure you send a message with your request to connect that clearly established some common ground between you and your connection.
For further help with Linkedin feel free to drop me an email or visit my facebook page.
DAY SEVEN
Today you will sign into your twitter account, update your profile, add a pic, customize and send out your first tweet.
You should post daily on Facebook, with the new facebook timeline there is an option to send to twitter the same message you post on facebook, just put a checkmark in that box.
Tomorrow I will show you how to use Hootesuite, a one stop for maintaining your social media sites.
DAY EIGHT
Hootsuite-Hoot Suite is free software that allows you to create a dash board to view and manage all your main social network accounts. You can manage all your social networks from the HootSuite dashboard. You can automate posts to all your Facebook Groups and Fan Pages as well as Linked In. CHECK OUT this youtube how to - click here
DAY NINE
Review your social media marketing plan and make sure that all your accounts are connected.
Are you writing daily on your Facebook profile and any business pages?
Are you adding new friends - 50-100/day?
Have you completed all the steps in setting up your profiles on Linkedin and Twitter?
Have you added your facebook and Linkedin Profiles to your outgoing email signature?
Are you writing daily on your Facebook profile and any business pages?
Are you adding new friends - 50-100/day?
Have you completed all the steps in setting up your profiles on Linkedin and Twitter?
Have you added your facebook and Linkedin Profiles to your outgoing email signature?
DAY TEN
YOUTUBE- Today you will create a google account ( if you do not already have one).
Once in google go to youtube and begin to customize your "channel'. For help and step by step instructions click this link youtube help
Once in google go to youtube and begin to customize your "channel'. For help and step by step instructions click this link youtube help