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Grant McPhail CFP,CLU,CHFC,GBA
Sr. Sales Advisor
MGI Financial Inc.
Brandon MB
Here’s the 22 points that I know for sure about social media:
- Social media will help you find your voice
- Social media is about why; values, vision, purpose, mission
- Values are why you do what you to
- Vision is what you see as possible for others
- Purpose is why you are here
- Mission is what you’re here to do
- Creating your mission will help you to identify your brand, tagline and unique selling proposition
- Become familiar with up-to-date information management tools that include Dragon dictation, ever note, live scribe all preferably integrated with and iPhone or iPad
- Higher a social media virtual assistant
- Delegate the to dos, but not the message
- Create professional looking pages on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter with a picture and make the bio about your business
- Use HootSuite it’s a real timesaver allowing you to post to Facebook LinkedIn and Twitter all the same time
- Create a social media time management plan and engage with social media not 24 and seven but one afternoon and one morning a week, you don’t want to be looking like a social media junkie
- Block time to create your social media content to be able to create a consistent message
- Find your writing, podcast or vlog content by asking your clients the following three questions; what you like best about working with me, would have you received from working with me that you didn’t expect and what are the three improvement s that I have helped you to create
- Find your writing, podcast or vlog voice by taking a public speaking course
- Know where your clients are hanging out in either Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, your clients are not hanging out there don’t hang out there
- Learn the fundamentals of the Twitter that include hash tags re-tweets direct message etc.
- Put your social media addresses for Facebook LinkedIn and Twitter on your business cards and website
- This is my preference but don’t engage in business social media on the weekend it doesn’t look like you’ve got a life
- While people’s learning strategy is changing to listening and watching, blogging is a great way to find your voice, there is an expression what you practice in private you are reward in public
- Join groups on Facebook LinkedIn and Twitter and join the conversation
- Get that there is no social media overnight sensation to quote Jim Rohn success is a few simple disciplines practiced every single day
- Get that social media is a social tool it’s not a sales marketing tool
- To quote Dr. Seuss be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind

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