Gaining Social Media Presence

I've had dreams in the past about being a successful on social media. Watching all my favorite bloggers, you tubers, and other artist, take off on the internet I felt inspired. I wonder what it would be like to do what you actually love for a living. I figured I would give it a try and start blogging. My blog usually received a total of 10 views. This seemed ok at first, until it happened consistently. I wondered what I was doing wrong. After months I didn't have any fans decided to ditch my blog. I started and deleted about 6 blogs since then. This blog came into existence when I finally learned about social media presence.

When people say social media presence we thinking of it only as having an account on a social network. This isn't true at all, sure you need an account but you also have to do something with it. In order to gain fans and followers you have to learn how to network. Likes for likes is a common way to gain some traction. This is when you like someone else's blog or page in exchange for liking your page. Many people on the Internet work together to gain popularity. Social presence is 80% promotion! Freely promoting someone else helps you receive free promotion. Of course, if you have the cash, you could all just pay the site itself to promote you.

Joining in groups, forums, and even tags, help you connect with a larger audience. If you have a target audience or know who you may want to reach, then find a group or forum which relates and promote yourself. Not every group let's you self promote so be sure to ask the administrator first. You don't want to get banned from groups just for promoting yourself.

Most importantly, keep your audience engaged! Disappearing weeks or months at a time my cause your audience to lose interest in you. Make a schedule for updating your blog or page stick to it. Your audience will take notice of when you post in order to come back for more.

There is so much I can say on this topic but this post was specifically about my blog journey. While I am still slowly building my fan base, I have learned a great deal about social media presence. Keeping up with everything has been so time consuming! I see why people often what until their vacation to post.