Jacqueline Paige - J. Risk: with social media

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Problem is I’m not a social person...

For years I’ve been trying to unravel the mystery of using social media to it’s full potential.

The problem I’m having is all ‘instructions’ and ‘advice’ say to “engage your audience”.

I understand the concept well enough, there is just one problem—I am not a social person in that way.

I can’t post every little detail of my life on social media. I follow many people that do and it can be entertaining, endearing and even interesting (how they find time to WRITE or do their job, I don’t know because they are ALWAYS on social media). Because I don’t-can’t-won’t do this I am not relatable and often am seen as only promoting myself (my books). I have more posts about my dog then I do my life.

I’ve tried several scheduling apps to schedule my posts to allow me more time for writing and well, life, but there is always a catch (or price) for these. One will let you post to 3 certain social media platforms, another will let you schedule any number, but only to one platform – so, I don’t have the solution figured out there either.

The social media management secret continues to elude me… I’ll keep looking for that solution that will work for me.

Shameless self-promotion space:

Jacqueline

Paige

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J.Risk

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Tuesday, February 5, 2019

With Social Media...

This is where I’m at with the Social media craziness of an author’s life!

I know what I have to do, just can't navigate the treacherous path to get there.

It feels like this trying to figure out what to move to get it to all line up.

This is what I see in my mind every time I have to plan my social media calendar.

As writers we NEED to write, not ‘want’ or ‘should’ but NEED! The characters and ideas just keep coming and for me if I’m not writing I feel like I’m in a funk I’ll never climb out of. I’m my happiest when I’m lost in writing my next book.

Yet, if we authors don’t promote and ‘get out there’ we will starve because no one knows about our books.

I have fallen behind on so many deadlines because I have become hyper focused on the ‘promoting’ side of it. It will suck you in and consume hours of your writing time.

I’ve tried seminars, courses, books to try and figure out how to do this, in the least number of steps as possible.

For the next few weeks I’m going to climb into HOW to do this without losing my sanity and ALL my writing time. IF I can get it down to say, Sunday mornings I get all my scheduling done for social media (the basics, obviously not the daily checking with my morning coffee or those ‘you have to see this’ pics and posts that randomly pop up in life in real time), I will be a MUCH happier, LESS stressful version of me.

Btw I’m open to suggestions for successful plans used by other authors. A-U-T-H-O-R-S … NOT a media promotional company that just wants HUGE $ amount to ‘do it for me’ or ‘teach me how’.

(**rubics cube pic I borrowed from cubosweb.com - collage pic I borrowed from elifeisamaze.wordpress.com pac-man media pic I borrowed from society6.com – I do not own the rights to any of these pics, but needed them because they illustrate where I am with the social media maze of an author’s life!)