By: Sherron Washington, The P3 Solution

Do you have a presence on every social media platform on the planet? This strategy is likely working against you. Simplifying the process of social media marketing maximizes productivity while keeping your goals laser-focused.

Key Takeaways

• Learn the best social media platforms to dedicate your time
• Discover the KISS method (Keep it Simple, Stupid) helps leaps and bounds with social media marketing
• Find out what social media platforms where your brand is sure to thrive
• Learn how to choose your marketing goals and target audiences for social media
• And more

How many social media networks do you belong to? Two? Four? More?  Do you even know why?

The truth is, the more social media platforms you join, the more it becomes increasingly complex to understand and manage them all with consistency.  Which often leads to creating a presence in multiple areas that could damage or confuse your brand.  Every platform is not made equal, nor is it suitable for every industry to have a presence on every platform.  In fact, attempting to market in all places, at all times can lead to loads of social media anxiety and frustrations.

Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Mobile said it best: “Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.” And social media is not any different, it is a process that is best served simple, which helps to develop and maintain a consistent brand presence.

Although social media can be complicated, the key to marketing effectively lies in the ability to determine which environments to best thrive in, which strategies work best in those environments and how to implement those methods to alleviate aggravation and increase rewards. The key to social media marketing success is knowing in which environments you thrive, so that you create the right message, to the right people on the right platform.

Of course, there are hundreds of other social platforms out there, and yet hundreds more being created. Do you have to maintain a presence on all of them? The answer is no.

The key to simplifying social media marketing doesn’t lie in how many places you can be, but rather in selecting the right place to provide the right message, at the right time. To do this, you have to know and understand the environment, develop a strategy and execute tactics that can help create and maintain consistency in the presence of your brand. Only choose platforms that directly meet your marketing goals and target audiences, so that you can free up the rest of your time to be more productive.

Join Sherron Washington, M.A at DOYO LIVE 2017 as she delivers her session designed to help you to streamline your social media usage on platforms like: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. You will also learn how to determine which social media platforms maximize ROI and strategies on how to create compelling content and select visually appealing imagery.

Meet Sherron Washington

 

Sherron is a marketing and communication professional who has imparted her wisdom and expertise for nearly 20 years. She has been deemed “The Marketing Whisperer” for her uncanny ability to assist clients in developing innovative, results-driven, yet simple solutions for their business.

Sherron is the founder and CEO of the P3 Solution, a full-service marketing and communications firm that specializes in providing simple strategy, design and social media marketing solutions for small businesses, non-profit organizations, associations, and entrepreneurs.  She has built her firm around the principle of “marketing simple,” which instructs clients to embrace simplified methods to promote their business. She is also the creator and host of “Market Simple: The Summit” (www.imarketsimple.com) – an annual, full-day workshop designed to help businesses learn how to effectively create and execute their marketing and communication efforts successfully.

She is also a monthly columnist for SmartCEO and Black Enterprise, where she writes articles on how to streamline the use of social media in order to make a more effective impact.

Sherron has spoken at numerous events, including: The DC Chamber of Commerce, 2016 International Council of Small Business Conference in New York, The Global Impact Business Leadership Forum in Virginia, and the Black Doctoral Conference in Atlanta.  She has also appeared as a marketing expert on WHUR-FM radio’s show, The Daily Drum with Harold Fisher, and The Maggie Linton Show on Sirius XM.

Sherron has been a business communication professor for over a decade at Trinity University in Washington, DC and Stevenson University in Baltimore. She has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in:  Public Speaking, Introduction to Mass Communication, Theory and Practice of Marketing, Gender and Communication, Leadership, Introduction to Women Studies, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Consumer Behavior, Advertising and Promotion, Social Media Marketing, and Public Relations. Sherron enjoys instructing students and discovering inquisitive, future leaders for the marketing and communication industry. Sherron has a Masters of Arts in communications and a Bachelor of Arts in communications with a double minor in business and media technology.

To view all session leaders, please visit the DOYO Live Speakers page.

ABOUT DOYO Live

DOYO Live is a digital marketing and interactive design conference dedicated to the ongoing professional development of marketing, sales, business and design professionals. We accomplish this through our online marketing efforts, in-person workshops and annual marketing conference in Youngstown, Ohio.

DOYO Live was founded by Dennis Schiraldi, the event sold out in year-1 with over 200+ attendees—and we are anticipating the same this year.

DOYO Live is located in Youngstown, Ohio will be held on August 2 & 3, 2017. Early bird tickets are currently on sale for $150, but those prices will not last. We are expanding our conference in 2017 to have 2-hour deep-dive workshops on Day-1, August 2 and Day-2, our all-day conference on August 3.

Attendees can attend workshops only, conference only or get an all-inclusive pass to both events! Don’t miss out!

This blog was prepared for syndication on the DOYO Live website by Amanda Lynch, Owner of Busy Blogs Plus, LLC.