Watch your teenagers to determine where to market your business next
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- Has started 18 businesses
- Market, promote, amplify
- Used to sell polliwogs as a young girl
- Was teaching social media locally
- Applied it to her retail business
- Tried everything...including FourSquare and Animoto
- Her teenage twin daughters told her about Instagram (follow the leads of your kids to see what is the next hot trend)
- This was around 2012 and her retail sales blew up (jewelry, etc in an affluent seasonal resort)
- Loves teaching
- Used to teach Pinterest, which is primarily a bookmarking site that creates backlinks
- You don't share selfies on Pinterest
- Instagram is more of an emotional pull and connection
- Put your YouTube videos on Pinterest because the backlinks are so valuable
- Instagram is your digital magazine
- There's a promise on the cover of a magazine
- You buy the magazine to benefit from the promise on the cover
- Stay in your lane, your niche on Instagram, which is why she has a business, a personal, and a team account on Instagram
- Each serves a different purpose
- The description of your photo—2,200 characters—doesn't have to match the image. Make it a micro-blog like her "The Instagram Expert"
- Go deeper
- The theory / philosophy of creating an effective funnel on Instagram
- Match your business name to you
- Have a good photo
- Have a good logo
- Have a good bio in a creative way, i.e. not your LinkedIn bio
- A good URL with a good Call To Action
- Not spammy or salesey
- Provide value: inform, inspire, entertain
- Nuture your leads and you can eventually close big deals that started from your Instagram account
- Sue B Zimmerman nurtures her leads with Ontraport
- Show up, hustle, put in your time
- You have to cross-pollinate with your leads who opt-in
- Include video on your blogs
- Bring people back to your published content
- Your site is your home base. It's what you own.
- Published content is the site while promotional content is social media.
- You only need three promotional sites to do this right. You can't do everything right by being on every platform.
- Meet your clients where they are
- On "blog day" she treats it like a launch
- Animated GIfs
- Updates link in her Instagram bio
- Goes live on Instagram at the same time each week (stays live for 24 hours) and 3x viewers on replay
- Does not repurpose her videos. Wants followers to watch soon for fear of missing out
- Everything she does feeds into her main goals. This is not all giggles.
- They batch videos (6-10) with outfit changes, intros, outtros, scripting, transcription, blog post creation
- 6-10 hours per blog post
- Makes it so good you come back for more
- People make too little money because they complicate things
- Show up consistently
- Spends money on professional photos annually
- Left Periscope and Snapchat
- The magic is in the video
- She'll go live on Facebook at the same time every two weeks
- Play to your strengths. If you're an introvert then create great written content.
- It's okay to go live wherever you are to "take your followers with you"
- Creates micro-groups of 15 on Instagram
- Strive to surprise and delight
- You can be an affiliate and recommend tools that make sense to grow your income
- Take the #SueBMadeMeDoIt challenge - search it on Instagram
- Let her know your favorite thing you learned on this
- Tag @SueBZimmerman and @SalesWhisperer
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