How Many Social Media Platforms Are You On?
Over the years I've played around on almost every social media platform from Youtube, Reddit, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, and others. I would say consistantly Youtube and Reddit have probably been my favorites.
I was really excited when I first heard about Steemit recently, and it occured to me I want to be a part of this awesome site and project, but I also need to figure out how to effectively balance my time, especially seeing as how I'm going to be spending a lot of time on here.. I think that's something we should all do at least once a year is basically a social media audit.
I think this basically consists of looking at what platforms your involved with? Which of those are you actually getting traction on or actually forming relationships with likeminded people on? And if your a marketer or into e-Commerce or whatever else, which are actually returning your efforts with sales or traffic or whatever it is your on there for? When doing this keep in mind the 80/20 rule. Something I notice is I've spent a lot of time on platforms like Twitter and Pinterest and others thinking "I should" be doing that, when in reality not many of my target audience is on there, nor do I really get any enjoyment or anything out of the platform so why waste any time on it. That time could be better spent on the social platforms I enjoy engaging on and have better results with.
I'm curious to hear from you guys. I notice a lot of Youtubers or Social INfluencers who are huge on pretty much every platform from Youtube to Instagram to Snapchat to Twitter. While I can do that for maybe a few weeks at a time or maybe even a few months eventually I burn out and stop everything all together.
It recently occured to me I'd rather be great at a couple than half ass a dozen of them. My time moving forward I'm planning on spending on continuing Youtube as I've gotten some traction on there and have a great community and a lot of friends on there was well as here on Steemit, and then I also enjoy Reddit as well.
Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram are probably going on the backburner. I may setup IFTT to autopost to them but I'm not really going to be trying to have a significant presence on there.
I'm curious from you guys, how many social media platforms are you active on? How many do you think you can truly effectively manage and by manage I don't mean autoposting or making one comment a week. I'm talking about actually building relationships on there and really being part of the community?