During this class I learned a lot of new and interesting ways of developing marketing on social media. Some of the lessons in this class where completely new to me and the others I have heard or seen before but have never tried/used them on my accounts. This class is a really good class to have under your belt because social media is here to last for a very long or forever. Everything that you learn now about marketing well help set you up to have a successful personal account and potential own business account if you chose so in the future.
Knowing this information with the knowledge from this class gives me personally a lot of opportunities for the future. I learned so many things in this class, such as all of the social media accounts, how they are used and operated, the best way to post, when and how to post, and what to do to grab audience attention. I believe that the best lesson about this class and Hootsuite is the strategy they give you to give you the best chance at social media marketing success and growth. This was valuable and encouraging to learn because it was something that I have never heard of and gave the best growth overall for me. At the beginning of this class, I thought that it was going to be challenge because of the business project that we would have to do, and I was completely sure if it would be anything like I thought it was going to be. This was the biggest challenge for me because I didn’t want to choose someone and learn about all of these great and interesting things and have them not want me to change much which would be a bummer. So, I believe that my own sister would help me with this, with an empty template and something to start, which might be a little easier. Although I thought she would be the best pick to use, it wasn’t. Shortly after we kind of ran into problems in personal life, nothing was wrong with the business or marketing. She’s my half sibling and she has other half siblings as well besides me, one of them got very ill with cancer and was in the hospital a lot and my sister was the only family that could go and see/help him a lot and unfortunately has passed. So, because of this she couldn’t give as much time in the day as she would have liked into what she wanted with this business/project. Overall, for my personal social media, the only real challenge that I had was the thought of this not being able to work and having the anxiety of posting on social media just because I don’t do it very often and I sometimes second guess the picture or the post. But, after learning more and more I grew out of that and it really turned around for me.
At the beginning of the class, I was so excited because this was something that I have been wanting to learn for a while personal for my own social media presence. I could learn how to post with the best of my ability and have a better social media because recently before this class I wasn’t doing much on social media and I wanted to change that around. After learning some of the lessons on Hootsuite I decided to post a picture on my persona social media account learning so of the things from Hootsuite such as time to post and the effects with my picture to see the results compared to my other posts from before this class. After a while I saw that more people noticed that picture more and I was shocked because it was so interesting to see the results. As I kept seeing the results happening, I was interested more and more in the class and the lessons because it was working, and I thought that I could just keep it growing which was something that was very good for me because before this class I didn’t post much because I just didn’t see the point and didn’t really want to. After this class, my personal social media will forever be changed and I’m happy for that.
My strategy moving forward is to keep posting with the same information that I learned from this class but continue to learn more about social media and others who post because I know for the future, I will need to know this information because it’s so valuable. Social media is here to stay, and, in the future, I see it becoming more valuable than it is today, more people will use it and it will be used more for business as well. I was never a big blog person before this class, but after I believe that I will start doing it more often because it was fun to do so and write about interesting things that I learned about. I would like to continue to be able to reach people on my personal social media that like the same things as I do, this would be amazing because then I could learn more information about them as well as about their own personal ways of social media posting. I would also like to use more social media apps/accounts as well because currently I only use a couple, but I would like to use more because it would open my social media eye more which would be a great thing to have and also learn about as well.