Focused Daily Monitoring for Social Media

I strongly encourage clients to spend 10-15 minutes each day to monitor their social media accounts. This can be challenging if you don’t stay focused. It’s so easy to get distracted by what’s going on in social media and especially in your personal timeline on Facebook. Stay focused on your purpose to monitor your business accounts and be determined not to get sidetracked.

You can do it! I’ve timed myself more than once and I spend 10-15 minutes every morning doing this focused daily monitoring on my social media for business accounts. Later in the day I can spend time on my personal accounts.

My Daily Monitoring Routine

I did all this today in just under 9 minutes:

• Log in to Instagram to check my business account
  1. Check notifications – new likes, comments, messages, new followers
  2. Respond to any comments, messages, new followers
  3. Review and like a few appropriate posts by others
• Log in to LinkedIn
  1. Check notifications & messages
  2. Respond to any comments, messages, new network connections
  3. Review and like a few appropriate posts by others
• Log in to Twitter
  1. Check notifications & messages
  2. Follow back as appropriate anyone new who has followed me
  3. Follow at least 5 new profiles
  4. Respond to any comments, messages
  5. Check my lists and like and retweet a few appropriate tweets by others
• Log in to Facebook to check my business account
  1. Check notifications & messages
  2. Respond to any comments, messages, new connections
  3. Review and like a few appropriate posts by others

The process usually does only take me about 10 minutes each morning. Sometimes a bit longer if there are comments on articles I’ve posted or group discussions I’m participating in.

For each account, I check only my business accounts. I check my personal accounts later in the day.

I’m happy to answer any question you have about using social media if you’d like to leave it in the comments below. You can also schedule a consultation with me here.