Jenn Scalia of Be Awesome On Purpose joins me to talk all things Instagram and share how she is using this platform in a BIG way to grow her following, mailing list *and* get paying clients- because who doesn’t like paying clients?!
She shares the strategies and tactics she uses including sharing quotes, running challenges, sharing Ebook snippets, running office hours and more. She stressed the importance of being consistent and knowing what your audience wants.
Key Takeaways:
Be consistent!
Be creative and experiment until you figure out what your audience wants
Don’t listen to the critics. Do what works for you
You don’t have to limit yourself to quotes, you can run challenges, share parts of your ebook. Figure out what content resonates with your audience
Jenn Scalia is a love and life coach who helps genuine, smart, honest people fall in love with themselves so they can create and maintain the relationships and life they truly deserve. She is also the host of 15 Minutes of Flame- a podcast about life, love, dating, relationships, sex and everything in between. To find out more about Jenn visit: www.BeAwesomeOnPurpose.com
Do you feel like you are always creating new content to spread the word about your work?
And once you finish something it’s time to start the process all over and it feels like a never-ending hamster wheel of content creation?
Madness, right?
This came up in one of my entrepreneur groups recently and a lively discussion was had about all the various ways we can do more with our existing content and not have to start from scratch each time. Hat tip to Colleen from ClericalPlusVA for summarizing it with:
“Repurpose, Baby!”
Sometimes we think we have to start from scratch each time and let’s face it, most of us are not in the business of content creation but use it as a method to share our ideas, spread the word about the awesomeness that we do and connect with more awesome people. Right?
So before you jump back on to the content creation hamster wheel take a brief step off and see how you can easily turn your existing content into different formats. This also gives you an opportunity to explore other platforms that you normally may not spend time on.
So I bring you:
13 Ways To Create Spin-Off Content From Existing Content
Webinars/Powerpoints
Do you do webinars or give in person talks?
Why not take that webinar and create the resulting “spin-off” content:
6. Video Specific Pinterest board: Create a specific board on Pinterest to share your video interviews
7. Create Image Quotes
Create image quotes from key points in your interview which you could then share on Facebook and Pinterest! Not to worry if you aren’t a graphic designer. Watch this short video where I show you how to easily create image quotes for Pinterest and Facebook.
and create a board on Pinterest to share these quotes:
9. Create Tweetables: from Blog Posts, Interviews
Click to Tweet: Opportunities for relationship building are all around us: http://bit.ly/12YC6bt @womengamechange via @SandySidhu
10. Create a specific category on your blog for a series of posts making it easy to find. Take it a step further and create an image that you can showcase in a sidebar widget. Hat tip to Nicole Longstreath of The Wardrobe Code for this gem!