Are You a Social Media Couch Potato or Are You in the Race?
To have success you have to commit. You have to do it every day. You can’t take days off, and you can’t just relax on the couch and expect to see results. Now you may think I am talking about your marathon training, but I am really talking about your social media efforts.
Social Media is just like weight loss or training for a race. You have to put effort into it. There are no easy fixes and no magic pills you can take to get the results you want. I believe this is what some people get frustrated with. Just like with exercise, if people don’t see immediate results they tend to give up.
For example, if you register for a Twitter account tomorrow and decide you are going to build a following and really get your message out there, it isn’t going to happen overnight. It won’t even happen in a month.
However, if you have a plan and you execute it each and every day, you will start to build a following. That group will continue to recommend you and your following will get bigger and bigger. Just like with weight loss you may hit a plateau and thats ok. This is not the time to stop, it is the time to press on because you will see results.
I will warn you, there are lots of scams out there as well. People will promise you thousands of followers for a small fee. While that sounds good and may actually happen for a short period, these people are not qualified followers and eventually those people will stop following you.
To get the results you want, good, hard, honest work is all it takes. Set your plan and go for it! Blog even when you don’t feel like it. Tweet those two extra informative tweets. Friend that Facebook user right before bed. Go the extra mile. Make a commitment. It’s a social media marathon, now get in the race.
