{"id":379,"date":"2016-08-12T08:21:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T08:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2016-08-12T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:20:03","slug":"social-media-marketing-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/social-media-marketing-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Social Media Marketing Sucks.  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(blogs, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a>, Snapchat etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Take pieces of your content from your blogs to deploy across the different platforms.\u00a0 Ex:\u00a0 &#8220;Your social media sucks! Why?&#8221;\u00a0 We could take that phrase and drop it into an Instagram image and post it on our Instagram account.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-404\" src=\"http:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Your-social-media-sucks-Why__.jpg\" alt=\"Social Media Marketing\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Your-social-media-sucks-Why__.jpg 800w, https:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Your-social-media-sucks-Why__-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Your-social-media-sucks-Why__-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Your-social-media-sucks-Why__-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Your-social-media-sucks-Why__-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now you have some ideas and content is beginning to flow, but inspiration can run dry.\u00a0 We see companies start out strong and end up slowing down.\u00a0 The problem is this&#8230; you&#8217;re taking someone that&#8217;s been in your company doing, perhaps, customer service.\u00a0 They weren&#8217;t originally hired to do your social media and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">they do not want to!<\/span>\u00a0 Hire someone that&#8217;s sole function and desire in life is to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">engineer social media<\/span>.\u00a0 They must live it and breath it!\u00a0 Us digital marketers are a different breed.\u00a0 We love this!\u00a0 So, hire someone that loves their work!\u00a0 Think about it this way.\u00a0 Would YOU hire YOU to do your social media marketing?\u00a0 If not, you need to learn or get out of the kitchen!<\/p>\n<p>Remember this always,<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 4.2rem; text-align: center;\">&#8220;Piss Poor Planning = Piss Poor Performance.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-431\" src=\"http:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/piss_poor_planning-1.jpg\" alt=\"Piss Poor Planning\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/piss_poor_planning-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/piss_poor_planning-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/piss_poor_planning-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/piss_poor_planning-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brandfluencer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/piss_poor_planning-1-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 15px; font-size: 4.2rem; text-align: center;\">Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance!<\/h2>\n<p>Plan your channels out! (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferbrouwerdesign.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/the-5-ps-of-success-%E2%80%93-proper-planning-prevents-poor-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 P&#8217;s of Success!<\/a>)\u00a0 Have a strategy and goals for each platform.\u00a0 If the Chicago Bulls were playing the Cleveland Cavaliers, there are two things that are measured.\u00a0 Time and Score. \u00a0If you are not watching the clock and keeping score, you are wrong! \u00a0Build out your content plan, what you&#8217;re going to talk about and the score at the end of your game.\u00a0 If you realize that you cannot meet your goals within the time period you give yourself, you need to then start looking at a few different things, which we&#8217;ll talk about in another blog.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s time! 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