Today, I am going to talk about my goals for this month, May
2019.
For those of you who are first-timers to my blog, I am
displaying my goals as a way of being accountable with myself and to others.
Now some people do not care to hear about other people’s
goals, but on this Motivation Monday, I feel that if I can work on my goals, so
can you. So if this is not for you, please skip this blog. I am finding more and more bloggers are saying
that, and it is perfectly ok to skip. Not
everything I talk about on my blogs is going to be for everyone, but I try to
reach the majority of people.
There is another reason:
I am not going to spend too much time on this, but, as an
influencer, it is important to be able to influence people. Influencing includes anything that I do for
my individual blog, to my Instagram and other social media accounts, to
anything that a sponsor wants me to do for them. What I love about being one is when it comes
to sponsored posts, I can pick and choose what I want to talk about, but at the
same time, there are certain requirements I need to meet in order to be
effective. So, with that, my goals are
as follows:
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Social Media:
Instead of targeting all of my accounts at once, I decided to concentrate
heavily on one account, while still working on the others. You always need to work on these accounts if
you are an influencer. Why? Because when
sponsors see your numbers, they will ask for you specifically. You also do not have to pitch as hard to get
them to see you. This does not mean that
the moment they see 1000 followers on your account, sponsors are going to immediately
fall in love with you and your content. There
are other things to consider because what you have to offer still may not be a
good fit for you or the sponsor.
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Instagram.
Last Month (April): 714. This
month: 750 Up by 36 new followers. I was
working on Instagram because this social media platform is quickly growing in
general. People are starting to share
more pictures. Sponsors love it because the
influencer can show their product in action, through photos and video. By the way, I shared my first video. It was a happy accident because it was an
accident. I am not the person who likes
her cat niece hanging around craft tools in their working position. I was working on a bookmark project, and while
trying to watch out for Gizmo and loading paper into my Cricut machine. Hit “go” on the machine and the mat went one
way, the paper when another way. I tried
to hit pause and got a nasty paper jam. It
took an hour to clear it, and while doing so, I am posting to my Cricut
groups about it, looking up on YouTube and Google on how to clear it. Finally, customer service said to email and
upload a video. Well, after taking a
craft knife and a small kitchen knife to it, I got the paper jam free. Later on, I decided to upload to Instagram, and
VOLIA, I got 20 likes, 10 more followers, and a comment, my first comment. I have comments about that later on.
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Twitter: (April) 1,683 This month: 1,679 Humm, I
lost a couple. Just to know I am still
trying to figure out both Facebook and Twitter, and they were the first social
media I joined.
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LinkedIn: (April) 358, this month: 362. I gained 4 followers. Consider that this is the account that I will
probably work on next month.
Notice, I never mentioned Pinterest in this month’s report
or last month’s report. Guess what? This is the social media account that needs
no help at all. I am also not mentioning
YouTube, not for the same reason, but I want it to grow organically, mentioning
the channel in my blog posts, on YouTube growth groups on Facebook, and so
forth.
I am also not mentioning my other blogs for this month. I am still working on getting them to the WordPress
platform. I have the basic bones of the
sites, such as securing them because Lord knows that I do not want another disaster
like my first P. Lynne Designs website.
(May she rest in peace for the moment). This will come in the form of individual
reports in the coming days.
As for My Ambiance Life, As I told you, the new address is
going to be http://patriciallogan.com
(please do not go to this URL as of yet), and the security is set. As soon as I get finished with P. Lynne
Designs, the new one, I will start the backend of this new site. Hopefully, it is this week and if not, Next
week. Things got a little bit behind
because of life and I was working on some bookmarks for Mother’s day. My goals are to be completely finished and
ready to roll out some posts for WP My Ambiance Life within the next couple of
weeks. I will keep this one up, which I
am calling Blogger My Ambiance Life, for about a year, so that anyone who is
currently subscribed to this blog can find their way over to WP My Ambiance
Life. I will have links to each blog on
the other blog’s site. So does that
means I will have 6 blogs? No, it means
I will still have 3 blogs, with 3 blogs as archived (older) blog posts.
Well, that is it for today’s post. The Takeaway for today is:
1.
Do not be afraid of telling anyone your goals
for the month. At the beginning of the
post, I mentioned that not everyone will be in turn with what you are trying
to achieve, and not everyone should read what your goals are. I am making mine public in case someone is
thinking about doing goal setting this way.
2.
Do write it down somewhere is this is not public
information. By the way, it is, if you know how to look up stats. Anyone can go to a free website, such as
Alexa (not the AI from Amazon) and pull up stats on a website. Alexa is not totally free, but there are some
features that require a pro account.
3.
Have some idea on why you want to keep track of
your website stats (such as growing your account for fun or work-related). Do not
pull up your websites and social media stats if it means nothing to you.
4.
Finally, if you do want to increase your
following, you need to engage. What do I
mean? You need to do the following:
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Post content.
Not just any content. Post content
with a purpose. That 5-minute clip I
posted of me having problems with the jammed paper was meant for a customer service
rep at Cricut, but it turned into a “you can have this problem too” moment. I will be posting more short video clips in
my Instagram now that I know how to do it.
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Answer all comments. Let me rephrase that. Answer all comments that make sense. Now, all comments are going to be related to
your post. I go be the “read and move on”
approach. If someone is cursing at you
and making threats of any kind, report them, ASAP.
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Comment on almost everything you read. Again, some content is not worth the reply. If you enjoy that person’s post, at least say
that. It helps them to know that you at
least clicked the link to read it. I
usually replay with TFS (Thanks for Sharing) or Enjoyed your post. If I have something further to say, I will
say it at that time. If I did not enjoy
it, I move on. Also, please like it and
share when you can.
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Finally, subscribe back if someone subscribes to
you, or at least check out their profile.
If they have at least 2 things in common, and they go by your values and
beliefs, sub anyway. If not, some people
go by the “sub for sub” rule.
Well, I am finally finished. Have a great day, you are more
then enough, and God bless you.
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