Why You Should Not Be Afraid of Social Media

Many times I will see members here at WA claim that they are afraid of using Social Media for the marketing purposes of their websites. Why would you be afraid? It is necessary for your success. If it weren't there wouldn't be an entire course devoted to it.

HERE'S WHY YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR

You are engaging in social media everyday you are engaging within WA. Yes, Wealthy Affiliate is another form of social media. If you have no problems posting and sharing links here, commenting on them and liking them, then using other social media platforms will be a breeze.

Like Kyle says in Level 4 Lesson 1 of the Online Entrepreneur Certification Course, "Social media is a space where people hang out... A place where people socialize..." People will get guidance from others, ideas, learn something new, share information,... just like we do here at WA.

If you have no problems doing all of these things here within WA, then why would you think it would be such a problem doing it on the other social media platforms? Now I understand that each social media platform has rules you will need to learn, but by contrast, the rules we have here at WA are more strict.

You cannot post and start discussions about religion and politics here like you can on other social media platforms. You also cannot self promote your affiliate marketing websites here either, but you can elsewhere. And if you try to spam here, you get locked out, but not the other networks.

USING SOCIAL MEDIA IS EASY

So you see, using the social media aspects of Wealthy Affiliate are harder because of the WA Rules and Regulations. Using the other networks like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, and the others, are far less strict. And all you will be doing is posting your website links and interacting with others.

It will take a little bit of time to get use to each social media network, just like it took you some time to get use to using the WA platform. And if you need help, the training and guidance is here. I and several other members have created easy training in how to use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, Instagram and others.

Before I joined WA in 2013 all I knew how to use was Facebook. But I also learned more from Kyle and others here. I discovered that posting website links into targeted Facebook Groups will yield quicker traffic and results than creating a Facebook Page. An easy learning process.

But I had no knowledge of how the other networks would benefit my website business. So I did what Kyle's training said to do. I opened accounts in each of the networks and then I slowly began to engage with them. I eventually started getting non-WA members to follow me. I then repeated the process on the next network I set out to learn.

The trick is to NOT try to learn all of them at once. Start with one. Get to know the nuances of each, spending about 15-30 minutes a day learning social media, and slowly start posting your website links to your social media profile. Social media is like riding a bike. It may seem hard at first but it is really quite easy.

Though I knew about Facebook already, I followed Kyle's training and started learning Google+ first. Being that we want Google to rank us, using Google+ will help boost that outcome. The next network I focused on was using Twitter for Social Media Marketing. Seeing how Google and Twitter are now working together, I recommend you learn Twitter early on.

Just remember. Do not waste time by avoiding social media for the marketing of your website. It is very important for your success that you use it. You cannot rely solely on Google rankings and Google also uses social media metrics of your website for its ranking purposes.

If you have any questions about what you just read or about social media in general, please leave them below or check out the several social media training tutorials I have done and those done by others, by typing your questions in the search bar at the top of this screen.