RE: How Many Social Media Platforms Do You Use? How Many Can One Person Effectively Manage?
I'm currently active on Instagram, Facebook, twitter, and now Steemit. Instagram has been my main one for the past couple of years, but each platform serves a different purpose for me. I currently have over 1 million followers across all of them.
I always suggest to become strong in one and then work on transitioning your followers over to your next favorite platform. It's hard to chase too many rabbits if you are just doing it yourself, so you have to pick which one you want to really master first.
Here's what I like about each...
Facebook - you can develop more personal relationships and the targeting for ads is great for businesses
Instagram - has the best engagement and can quickly deliver a lot of high volume traffic in a short period of time. Influencer marketing on here is huge right now.
Twitter - I like to share articles on twitter, because you can get a lot more retweet (shares) than some of the other platforms that suppress posting links. A lot of people in the news and media are on twitter, so it's a great platform to connect with them on.
Youtube - it's the second largest search engine behind google right now. Whatever content you put on youtube stays forever and can give you great search results over time.
Those are the platforms I use and how I use them. Hope this helps!
Wow man your killing it!!! My biggest one is Youtube, I'm far from as big as many guys out there but pretty proud of my 55k subs, especially within the niche I'm in. I like that strategy grow really large on one, master it, and then slowly bring those followers or subscribers over to the next platform.
55k subscribers is huge! What niche are you in? I tried doing too many things at once a while back and it slowed my growth, so I just focused on one until I got big enough where momentum took over. Now I'm gradually doing more across different channels.
Yeah to me 55k is pretty huge for me, especially imho considering my niche. That said I saw there's some 12 year old kid who was doing fake giveaways and had like millions of subs in a month and I know some guys who do prank channels and stuff and rack up millions pretty quickly but the way I see it only a small percentage of the population is interested in entrepreneurship period and among those people there's a lot of people to follow so I'm super psyched to have the following I have. I also have to say I have one of the best most supportive audiences out there who I'm super grateful to so I have no complaints. That said a business/entrepreneurship/self improvement type channel is only ever going to get so big but accept that.
I like your idea there, someone else had mentioned grow a large following on one platform that suits your strengths and that makes the most sense for you and then slowly try to get that audience to migrate over and follow you over to the next platform. I think thats a good strategy.
I think most people seem to say maybe 3-4 platform is the most someone can really manage well and personally for me I think it's probably more like 1-2 platforms.
Yea it get's to be a lot to handle. I kept it to just 1-2 for a couple years until now, I'm expanding more.