Organize Your Social Media Time

Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn, Biznik, Twitter-Oh My!  These, aren’t even a fraction of the options that we have to choose from when it comes to social media.  And with social media comes the expenditure of your time, energy and efforts.  Which means you must organize your social media time and find a balance in how to use these sites as effective tools that don’t leave you sucked into the social media vortex. 

Here are some tips on how to organize your social media time:

• Know why you are using social media sites-have a plan to make them effective for your business and use them as a tool
• Have a schedule for using these tools; don’t be random, create a time for it during your day
• Stick to the sites that work for you and your particular business.  If a site is producing zero results-let it go
• Use scheduling tools:  try hootsuite to schedule tweets on Twitter well in advance.  You can input lots of tweets at one time, they will go out according to your set schedule and you don’t have to keep logging on to produce more tweets
• Don’t get sucked in, know why you are logging on and how long you want to be there.  Set a timer, such as 10 minutes on facebook.  It is so easy to start looking around, reading, responding and getting lost in cyberspace which can be a lot more fun that actual work sometimes.   

We are so fortunate to have such powerful and amazing tools that bring the globe together and expose us to such a wide audience.  Organize your social media time and make the most of it!

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