{"id":9638,"date":"2012-07-25T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/news\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2012-07-24T14:26:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:26:42","slug":"master-social-media-in-12-minutes-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/master-social-media-in-12-minutes-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Social Media in 12 Minutes a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use pragmatic advice from the article \u201cYes, You Need to Tweet\u201d from Entrepreneur.com to leverage social media for success in your business \u2013 and remain sane while doing it. Maintaining a presence on all social media and online platforms can be a daunting task for a small business, but tips from the authors of the book \u201cMillion Dollar Web Presence\u201d will help simplify the mission.<\/p>\n<p>Using multiple platforms amplifies your voice and increases the number of potential customers and contacts that you can reach. To minimize the time and effort this takes, you can interface your blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts. This way, blog entries will automatically create a tweet, which will be posted on LinkedIn and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the \u201cSocial media action plan in 12 minutes or less per day,\u201d courtesy of authors Chad Barr and Alan Weiss.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a new blog and aim to      post at least three times per week<\/li>\n<li>Create Facebook, LinkedIn      and Twitter profiles and possibly a Facebook business page, and design      attractive Twitter and Facebook screens<\/li>\n<li>Create a Bit.ly account to      shorten your URL tweets<\/li>\n<li>Start following others and      accept requests to follow you<\/li>\n<li>Integrate social media      platforms with each other and with your blog<\/li>\n<li>Tweet five times per week or      more<\/li>\n<li>Ask or answer three LinkedIn      questions per week and repurpose your answers on your blog<\/li>\n<li>Comment on other powerful      bloggers&#8217; posts a few times per week<\/li>\n<li>Engage in discussions      whenever you can.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/223750?cam=Dev&amp;ctp=Carousel&amp;cdt=14&amp;cdn=223750\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the entire article from Entrepreneur.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use pragmatic advice from the article \u201cYes, You Need to Tweet\u201d from Entrepreneur.com to leverage social media for success in your business \u2013 and remain sane while doing it. 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