15 Ways to Fail at Social Media

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Social Media often seems easy and that really anyone could do it and do well at it. Well let me tell you that is not the case. I was reading articles today and found an info-graphic titled 15 Ways to Fail at Social media. The 15 ways are, bragging, being anti social, treating social media as a side project, being inconsistent, ignoring your followers, automation gone wrong, not measuring, talking their ears off, being oblivious to current events, forgetting people buy from people, repeating yourself, winging it, providing useless content, being sloppy, and lastly not taking social media seriously.
A lot of these 15 ways can be condensed together as they cover similar topics for example providing useless content, being sloppy and not taking social media seriously are all very interconnected. if you take social media seriously and know your audience you likely will not write or share content that they don't want to see, along the same lines if you take it seriously and take pride in your work you are unlikely to publish content that is riddled with poor grammar. More ways that connect are being antisocial and ignoring your followers, your followers will likely let you know what they want to see, if they like your post and much more. This actually makes your life easier, listen to your followers let them tell you what they want to hear and see as well as be interactive with them letting them know you are listening to them.
I found this article and info-graphic very interesting and it really could be helpful to someone who's never seen anything like this before. If you want to read the full article you can find it here. 

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