How to Set Goals for Growing a Business Socially in 2016

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
Donna Ward
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for-growing-a-business-sociallyDid you set goals for growing a business socially when you first started blogging?

I didn’t. I know now that was silly of me!

I started out with flawed thinking.

I just wanted to learn how to blog and get found.

  • Didn’t have a clue how to get noticed, other than studying SEO!

However, in the last several years, I did learn that there is much more to it than that.

This great lesson allowed me to refocus and envision how I could make use of and what I wanted to be doing for growing a business socially with goals and strategies.

Think about this…

It’s the Stroke of Midnight.

Where were you last year when 2014 turned into 2015?

Is that where you wanted to be?

Have you ever made a New Year’s Resolution that you’ve kept? Maybe you kept a few of them.

Meanwhile…

I’ve been setting the same New Year’s resolution for growing a business socially for the past 2 years.

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3 Tactical Ways to Creating and Building Engaged Blogging Communities

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
Donna Ward
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creating-and-building-engaged-blogging-communitiesFirst Things First…

Before I jump into 3 tactical ways of creating and building engaged blogging communities – Let me say this: It is you using savvy blogging tactics.

As you may have noticed…

In my Blogging Savvy Kit I offer an ebook that helps you understand how and why you need to put together a plan for your blog whether you’re blogging as a hobby or for fun. You can have more wins with the ‘Big Picture’ on a strategic path. Go ahead and download that kit at Blogging Savvy Kit  and get your strategies and tactics in place to implement.

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Are You Competing With Other Blogs?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
Donna Ward
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competing-with-other-blogsHow do you compete with other blogs, whether it’s your business blog, hobby, or just for fun blog?

Well, if you like contests, then have fun with the competition.

I like the participation and enjoyment of getting to know other bloggers, learning, and having fun with them.

  • I have fun with Guest Bloggers and I love Guest Blogging, the interaction of it all!

In reality, your main goal as a blogger, may not be competing with other blogs, then. Right?

Your blogging goals may be just to:

  • Know why someone would want to read your blog
  • Answer your readers’ needs by putting out great content
  • Gather your followers – Get Found: Help prospects find you online – Promote your blog

Adding your goals as a business blog would be to…

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Learn Guest Blogging Secrets

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
Donna Ward
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Learn this today – You really do need to learn and take action with Guest Blogging Secrets – it can certainly help build your email marketing list of prospective leads!

To get a bit of a background of what Guest Blogging is click and read:
During our first year online, many of us have almost no Read more