How is your social media garden growing? #socialmedia strategy

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What do you mean it’s not a garden? You get your seed beds all nice and weed free… you know what you want to grow… prepare the ground, dig it over, rake out the bits your don’t want and add some fertilizer or feed…

Now are you a vegetable or a flower grower… or maybe a bit of both? Do herbs counts as veg or flowers? I guess it sort of depends on what you want to do with them… you plan how the pots will look… colours, types, height, structure, longetivity… what works with what and all that!

If you don’t keep removing the weeds.. your social media garden will get over run… without the ground work in the bed in the beginning you may have a rocky ride and if you forget to give it attention, food and water… you will lose more than you gain…

So as a social media manager you get in to a habit… feed your social media garden little and often.. because too much and you may put your back out or give yourself blisters… too much water and you can wash away the social media seedlings… too little and they will shrivel and die… never to return… so a social media strategy is imperative.

Now we all hate those who stomp their footprint all over the place and you may invite them in once but once these serial spammers get a hold it’s time to sever their ties and yank them out roots and all… Your social media strategy will need to have a plan for these pests as well as a few others that can hamper the growth of your social media garden…

Of course some things are seasonal, some are perennial, some long lasting and others deciduous…. whatever you chose for your social media garden really… but what you really should be thinking of is ongoing architectural interest, synergy and harmony and balance…. then you really do have something that smells as good as it looks and you never know… you may even manage to feed your self from your exertions… or at least go some way towards being self sufficient…

Oh and remember you can’t be a fair weather gardener… social media gardens don’t work like that!

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