How to Crush it on Social Media in 2019 w/Marki Lemons-Ryhal

It is difficult to know which social media platforms are the most effective for business, and it is even more difficult staying up to date with the features that could be significantly helping us grow our audience. Which platforms should we be focusing on? What type of content works best for which platform? What features should we use to grow our engagement and following? In this episode, Marki Ryhal explains how we can grow our business by staying visible and relevant on social media, and how IGTV can help us do so. A lot of my focus is going to IGTV because I’ve seen a 818% increase in views just over the past 21 days. -Marki Lemons-Ryhal Three Things We Learned IGTV video length affects reach and engagement When we upload videos to our IGTV channel, they need to be longer than 60 seconds to get previewed in Instagram feeds. This preview increases our view count and can help grow our followers. Authenticity trumps production for engagement People engage more when they feel the content they are interacting with is authentic. While we should keep production in mind, we need to remember that people want to see the true, unedited version of us. Fewer actions means more interaction If we’re asking people to take additional actions to engage with our content, they’re unlikely to engage with it. We need to understand how the platform functions, and we need to keep steps to a minimum so that it is easy for our audience to interact with us and our content.   Mark Zuckerberg said 2019 is going to be the year of stories and live, and when the owner of Facebook and Instagram tells us where he’s focusing, we should be focusing our efforts there too. By making use of Instagram features like stories, story highlights and IGTV in an informed and authentic way, we can boost our reach, engagement and following and stay visible and relevant to our target audience on social media. Guest Bio Marki Lemons-Ryhal provides Social Media Education and Strategies to Realtors. She earned an MBA degree from Saint Xavier University and has over 50 certifications, designations and licenses in social media and real estate. Today, she travels the country teaching social media courses for the National Association REALTORS®, REBAC, ASI and others. Her 300,000 plus students consistently rank her 5 out of 5 as an instructor due to her knowledge and entertaining training style. https://markilemons.com/ Rockstar Agent Marketing Toolkit - Featuring our favorite scripts, tutorials and quickstart guides to marketing strategies like Facebook Live, door-knocking, remarketing advertising, open houses and referrals. Get actionable ideas and tactics you can use in your career right NOW.