Tuesday, 10 January, 2012 11:19
Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 January, 2012 11:19
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Do you know that there are several things you can do to optimize the time you spend on Social Media?
I love to spend my time between Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn but it can certainly chew up time if you let it. I have composed a few ways to help you manage your time with Social Media networking.
- Schedule your updates (Hootsuite, Sprout Social, tweet deck and many others)
- You can line up a bunch of posts to see what kind of interest they generate.
- Things like quotes, or key information about you or your industry
- You can even schedule important time sensitive updates (to tell people about a particular sale, open house etc)
- There is even a tool called Buffer (I love this little tool).
- You can add updates to the “buffer” and it will post and tweet them for you
- You can get suggested posts from it as well
- You can load it on your toolbar to post pages you find
- You can even get it for Twitter so that you can “buffer” all the cool things people say and tweet them out later
- It is only for Twitter (and now facebook)
- Check into your Social Media sites at least 2 times a day (three is better)
- Check for DM’s (direct messages) and respond
- Check for new followers on Twitter and thank
- Check out groups and discussions you are part of, other people’s posts
- Add value to the groups discussions
- Share some content from the people you are following
- Then get out!
- This should only take about 5-10 min (depends on how many people you are following and long you are searching through their posts)
- I like to have my settings adjusted so that everytime there is something that I feel is important, I get an email, and I read those emails on my Smart phone.
- Sometimes I get a lot of emails that are of little importance, but when I get one that is urgent it makes up for the others that I just skim over.
I hope that this has been helpful to you… let me know how you save time. If you are stuck and need some personal guidance I have a great training program here and we have a fabulous Social Media conference call once a week that is available here
I look forward to hearing from you… Let me know if these work for you, and if you have any others to suggest.
Comments
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Jan 14, 2012Posted By
DeliaI pretty much use 3 and 4 on a daily basis and decide exactly how much time I want to spend and just stop when the time is up.
One thing I don’t do is the automation of tweets or FB, or LI updates – I love the personal touch and so I write them ‘manually’. This obviously means I cannot reach that many people, but that’s OK, I prefer to interact closer with the ones that I want to
Nice post, thank you!
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Jan 15, 2012Posted By
Lynette HammondI am a great fan of Hootsuite as I love the reports which can be created quickly to show whether the campaign is moving in the right direction. I do love the automation of updates especially if you want to reach out to audiences in a different time zone to you! Any responses are then personal so you get a good mixture of both.