The Social Media Contest Cheatsheet

Running a contest on social media tends to be a powerful marketing tool, simply because of the potential exposure and naturally viral nature of social media platforms. Use this cheat sheet to create your contest…

Choose Your Purpose

Why are you running your contest? Possibilities include:

  • Boost newsletter subscriptions.
  • Increase your number of social media followers.

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Choose a Coach to Rock Your World and Grow Your Business, part 2

  1. Take a Sabbatical

Do you find you buy courses and join membership sites—and never have time to work through the program? You feel as if you are stuck endlessly peddling a hamster wheel at full throttle. You plan time off for personal business growth—but the need for income or client demands have you putting in overtime instead.

If this describes you, do your best to take more than a couple of hours off for coaching. If possible, plan a sabbatical where you take an entire month off for coaching sessions—and implementation.

Discuss this with your coach and make sure this is a viable plan for both of you. But if you are able to take even two weeks off and dedicate it to what you learn in two or three coaching sessions, it will feel like a vacation—and help you break your workaholic habits.

Give your own needs the attention they deserve.

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Choose a Coach to Rock Your World and Grow Your Business, part 1

If you really want life-changing results from your coaching experience, realize up front that it is a team effort. You are not being “taught” by the expert: The two of you are going to be working together to create a paradigm shift in your life that is utterly transformative—for the better.

These twenty-one ideas will help you do what ninety-plus percent of all other coaching clients fail to do: Make the absolute most of the dollars you are paying, your time and the time of the expert you’ve hired—before the two of you have even sat down for session number one.

  1. Identify the Biggest Question You Need Answered

This is what you need to work on first, so you will be able to accurately fit the type of coach you need to your central, core question.

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The Hashtag Cheatsheet

Hashtags are one of the keys to making sure you properly categorize your content in a way that makes it easy for your audience to find it. That’s because whenever you put a hashtag  in your post, it becomes searchable across the platform. Use these tips, tricks, and best practices to make the most of hashtags on your social media platforms…

Best Practices

  • Do use only relevant hashtags in your posts. In other words, don’t try to capitalize on a trending hashtag if your post isn’t relevant to that hashtag.
  • Don’t overload a single post with hashtags. This looks very spammy, and it will turn off readers. (This is especially true if your content is shorter than your list of hashtags.)

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