Years ago I was taught by Pilar Ortiz, a well-known Hispanic public speaker, that it was possible to direct our lives by assigning a word to each year. I have done this a few times, but have not been consistent. As I have been reflecting a lot towards the end of 2023, I have come to the realization that I want to thrive again. Therefore, I am choosing not just one word, but two: Faith and Action. I have told my daughter that “If you want a different result, you know the rest of the quote” and I feel that after the pandemic, I was left with lingering effects in my mind.
The truth is, my mind has had enough and it is time to come back with a different approach because change is always beneficial. In 2024, I plan to renew my faith in God and humanity by contributing to 501c3 organizations such as those that focus on preventing women abuse, eliminating children’s hunger, and helping senior citizens. It is also a great year to finish trainings, projects, and look for new work opportunities. I will keep you updated on my new journey.
Set goals and priorities: Before you start using social media, it’s important to have a clear idea of what you want to accomplish. Set specific goals and prioritize your tasks to ensure that you are using social media in a productive way.
Schedule your social media time: Instead of checking social media constantly throughout the day, set aside specific times for using it. This will help you stay focused on other tasks and avoid getting sucked into social media distractions.
Use productivity tools: There are many tools available that can help you use social media more efficiently, such as social media management platforms, scheduling apps, and analytics tools. Experiment with different tools to find what works best for you.
Take breaks: It’s important to take regular breaks from social media and other work tasks to avoid burnout and maintain productivity. Use your breaks to do something relaxing or enjoyable, such as taking a walk or reading a book.
Avoid multitasking: Trying to do too many things at once can be counterproductive, so try to focus on one task at a time. This will help you stay more focused and get more done in less time.
By using these tips, you can help ensure that social media is a productive tool that enhances your life and work, rather than a distraction that takes over your time and energy.
When you get organic reach on Facebook by just writing a post on your business page, it refers to how many people you can reach without spending money at all. Paid reach on Facebook, refers to how many people you can reach as a result of paid ads. It can also increase organic reach. Your post presence is influenced by your engagement rate.
You are probably asking yourself why I need to learn how to increase your social media platforms’ organic reach, and the answer is simple you want to attract as many people as you can first to gain more followers and second to sell your products or services without spending a ton of money, especially when you are just starting.
Just to help you understand the importance of your social media platforms’ organic reach, Facebook’s organic reach declined by close to 2.2 percent in 2021. That means if you have, for example, 800 people who are subscribed to your page, only 17 of them will see your post. LinkedIn has an organic reach of about 5.3 percent, and Instagram has a reach of about 9.4 percent.
Now that you understand how important the interactions are let’s change how to post and what to post. First, always think about active users you publish for and focus on selective publications that are explicitly for them. You can target each of your posts published by your business page to specific audiences regardless of if the post is sponsored or not.
It is crucial that you control the posting frequency across your accounts. Strive to hit the limit your target audience tolerates. Do not post too much that your volume creates complaints about you, and don’t post too little that your audience forgets about you.
An effective first step when a social media user posts are to take a few seconds to engage in dialogue with their audience. Respond to all questions and conversations as posted from your Pages, algorithms prioritize with the most recent interaction. Pick a time to talk if your previous communications were productive and valuable to your audience.
Post content that encourages conversations amongst your audience. According to Facebook, if a post has triggered a great deal of discussion between a user’s friend, the algorithm applies action-bumping logic to push that post to the user again. The algorithm values material that audiences want to share with friends.
Responses to your content with reactions carry more weight than likes alone. To promote reactions to your audience, encourage emotion with your content. To increase the likelihood that your viewers will react to your material, use this feedback lesson for social media sentiment.
As a rule of thumb, post when your audience is online. Remember, the most recent comments are always at the top of the news feed. An audience has the best chance of seeing and engaging with your post if it hits the top of their Facebook timeline when they return online.
Bypass the Facebook News Feed algorithm by setting stories as public. Stories aren’t part of the Facebook algorithm. Hence, algorithm rules won’t apply to them, and Facebook states they work well for driving traffic. Fifty-eight percent of people who have seen a brand’s Story also have visited the brand’s website for information.
Create a Facebook page simply because the advantage of operating a Facebook group business is that, while it does take some attention and nutrition, it opens another outlet to connect with your customers, fans, and community.
Live videos get 6 times more engagement than regular videos. The Facebook engine finds this tactic so successful that it promotes it. Live video is a particularly authentic and personal way to approach your video recordings. Facebook prioritizes live broadcasts for users who are similar and have related habits. This hack provides creative ways to tie up your organic caught-up.
Videos that Facebook rates higher than others take into account how long they last and the number of people who watch them, so you should consider not simply posting shorter clips, but longer ones as well. Longer videos can help you extend your organic reach on Facebook. So if you post one, ensure you set it for at least one-and-a-half to 3 minutes. Videos with entertaining content are especially compelling to watch to the end; the longer they are, the more organic reach they have.
Facebook has a different algorithm than modalities in which a page posts compared to people post. You can use your employees’ posts to engage with your employees and increase brand authority.
Buzzsumo analyzed over 1 billion Facebook posts from over 30 million web pages, and they found out that posts without hashtags engaged users more than usual. Does that show us that we should ve stopped using hashtags on Facebook at all? Not quite. There are effective ways to use hashtags in your Facebook business strategy, and you can see good results by following best practices. According to Post Planner, too many hashtags may decrease interactions but increase them if 1 to 2 hashtags are used. Posts with 1 to 2 hashtags averaged 593 interactions Posts with 3 to 5 hashtags averaged 416 interactions Posts with 6 to 10 hashtags averaged 307 interactions Posts with more than 10 hashtags averaged 188 interactions, so going from 2 to 3 hashtags caused engagement to go up.
Make an effort to avoid these mistakes: Asking people to react to the posts (includes like, love, haha, wow, sad, and angry). Comment baiting Asking people to comment with specific answers (words, numbers, phrases, or emojis). Share baiting Asking people to share the post with their friends. Tag baiting Asking people to tag their friends.
Always remember to cultivate your organic reach by combining it with paid advertisement, you can extend your organic reach so your social media posts can be exposed to more users. This can mean a longer period of time for other users to engage with your posts.
El rendimiento de un Reel de ninguna manera puede predecir la popularidad de otros que compartas en tu cuenta, así lo hagas a la misma hora todos los días.
Pruebas demuestran que las interacciones de contenido pueden aumentar un hasta un 87% en general, a pesar de que caídas en el alcance. Esta práctica ayudara a que las interacciones de tus historias también aumenten, y lo mejor de todo es que también verás un incremento en los clics de tu sitio web.
En general, podemos decir con seguridad que Reels es una herramienta poderosa para eliminar el ruido y aumentar el número de seguidores en las redes sociales.
There is nothing like achieving the success you want to make you grateful, but eventually, the newness wears off and you forget to be grateful. There are so many opportunities to be grateful each and every day and so many reasons to do so. For one thing, people around you will be happier and much more willing to spend time with you. You’ll also be happier yourself and have a more positive attitude. You’ll also find that everyone is more willing to help you when they know that you’re grateful for everything that you have and everything that you receive.
People Who Feel Entitled
You have probably encountered people who feel entitled. They somehow believe that they deserve to have success without working for it, even though all of the other successful people in the world have had to work their butts off to get where they are. These people are always negative, they whine and complain about any work that they have to do and believe that the world should be handed to them on a silver platter. If you are one of these people, stop! If you just know people like that make sure you avoid ever falling into that trap because it is a pit of negativity that is very difficult to crawl out of.
Be Grateful for Your Opportunities
Be thankful for the opportunities that you have. If you live in a developed country, think of all the people around the world who don’t have the opportunities that you have. Think of people who not only don’t have access to the Internet and the ability to start their own business online, but they don’t even have access to clean water or electricity. The opportunity to build a business and achieve that much success is nothing to be scoffed at. If you have that opportunity, you are a very lucky person and you should be grateful for it.
Also, you should be grateful for the teachers that you have in the information that you’re able to acquire, from the Internet or whatever sources you are using. You should be grateful for the teachers that you have, that they have the knowledge to teach and that they are willing to teach you.
There actually are successful people out there who don’t subscribe to this particular thought model, instead taking the approach that the more people they shared the secret of their success with, the more competition there will be, which will apparently somehow devalue their own success, even if it’s not the same industry. However, most successful people are really grateful for those who help them get where they are today.
You’ve probably heard of Tony Robbins. Tony is a motivational speaker, author and very successful individual. Even with as much success as he’s had, and all the things that he has done to create this environment for himself, he is still immensely grateful to the people who helped him get where he is today. In a recent interview with success.com Robbins said that he is still grateful to his earliest mentor, a man named Jim Rohn, who motivated Tony Robbins when he was very young.
Follow Tony’s example and be grateful because there are benefits; not only the ones mentioned in the first paragraph of this chapter, but also some pretty amazing benefits for your business itself. Science can’t seem to find a metric to measure, but people that are grateful for all the opportunities that they had and all of the people who have helped them, are more likely to be successful than those who are not, and are usually several times more successful.
Practice Being Grateful until You Get it Perfect
It’s okay if you don’t feel that you’re at the point where you can be very grateful. Like anything else, being grateful takes practice. You might actually have to think hard about what you have to be grateful for when it comes to your online business, or you may have to wait until you actually do have something to be grateful for. The point is, start changing the way that you think. This grateful attitude goes along with everything else in this book. You are just being grateful because you should, you’re being grateful because it changes you as a person; it makes you a better person and it magnifies your success.
Start a Gratitude Journal
One of the things that you can do to become better at being grateful is to start a gratitude journal. A gratitude journal is when you sit down at the end of the day and write down some of the things that you’re grateful for. You can use your computer, you can use a piece of paper and a pen or even a smart phone app if you prefer. Just as long as you spend a little time each day thinking about what you have to be thankful for, writing it down and using it to further your success.
Ways That You Can Show Your Gratitude
One of the things that you can do to give back is use whatever assets that you have gained from being successful to help someone else. If you’re an Amazon affiliate, and you’re getting your first check from Amazon for just over $100, if you can afford it donated to charity, or take it down to your local soup kitchen to help buy groceries or even outsource some of the things that you need for your business so that other people can make money too.
If you can show the world that you’re grateful, the world will keep giving you opportunities and information to help you be successful. It sounds hokey, like some sort of new age philosophy, but it truly is the way this thing works and if you talk to anyone who has achieved a decent level of success they will tell you that positive attitude, gratefulness and a willingness to learn are all keys to success.
