{"id":169,"date":"2009-10-13T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog-socialmediamarketing\/?p=169"},"modified":"2009-11-07T21:35:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T04:35:59","slug":"tips-to-succeed-in-long-term-in-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/tips-to-succeed-in-long-term-in-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips to succeed in long term in Social Media:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/blog\/tabid\/6307\/bid\/4663\/How-to-Monitor-Your-Social-Media-Presence-in-10-Minutes-a-Day.aspx\">social media presence<\/a> is much more a marathon than a sprint. There\u2019s plenty of content to develop, place and promote, and there are lots of relationships to build. The social media marathon requires commitment, persistence and lots of patience, the type of mental endurance needed to complete a 42 km race.<br \/>\nCommit to do whatever is necessary to succeed, and pace you, so that you don\u2019t injure yourself or get burned out during the process. This principle is behind most great achievements.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cStart off slow and taper down.\u201d Bob\u2019s mantra counters our natural tendency to come \u201cout of the gate\u201d at full speed and keep running \u2014 our human egos at work. How does all this translate into long-term social media success?<\/p>\n<p>Here are seven ideas to help you develop the mindset of a marathoner:<\/p>\n<p>1.\tMake a serious commitment to do whatever is required to attain your social media or <a href=\"www.searchenginepeople.com\/...\/internet-marketing-goals-and-planning-101.html\">web marketing goals<\/a>. This is an absolute prerequisite.<\/p>\n<p>2.\tGet yourself a mentor. As I now like to say, \u201cThe ultimate shortcut is doing it right the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3.\tDon\u2019t wait until the conditions are perfect for launching your campaign. I\u2019ll always remember what some one said, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to get it right. You just have to get it going\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>4.\tJoin one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\">business networking site<\/a> at a time and take the time to master it. Social networking sites can be intimidating at first. Learn a new feature, practice it, and go on to the next.<\/p>\n<p>5.\tStart out blogging once a week. It\u2019s hard to begin, especially if, like me, you\u2019re not a professional writer. You can increase your posting frequency later.<\/p>\n<p>6.\tRealize that there\u2019s a steep social media learning curve. Do not quit. So many people join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a> or begin blogging and quit shortly thereafter. <\/p>\n<p>7.\tDon\u2019t forget about the \u201csocial\u201d in social media. Get to know a lot of people and have a blast!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a social media presence is much more a marathon than a sprint. There\u2019s plenty of content to develop, place and promote, and there are lots of relationships to build. The social media marathon requires commitment, persistence and lots of patience, the type of mental endurance needed to complete a 42 km race. Commit to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,75,5,3,79],"tags":[88,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}