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Being an entrepreneur is something that a lot of people dream of becoming. It's a great dream to have and there are so many avenues open to the person who's willing to put in the effort to make the business succeed. Part of succeeding means being honest about areas that you feel you lack in, such as advertising, writing, social media, etc. To be good at what you do means that you have to engage in continuing education. It's important that you do this because in the world of entrepreneurial pursuits, not growing in knowledge can kill your business. Strategies change and so do business models and you have to be able to keep up. This is something that can be good for you as you discover things that can take your business to a new level. Not only will being part of continuing education in your business prevent boredom from setting in, but you can also find things that will feed your motivation and keep you excited about the business. Are Your Writing Skills Adequate for Content Creation? When you're creating written content for your business, you want to let who you are shine through in your voice. Your life's experiences are what makes you unique. It's what helps your audience to be able to connect with you. Your writing should be as unique as you are. It should be something that's 100% you. If you take writing from other people and plagiarize that as your own, you risk a couple of things happening. First, it's not going to be fresh if you're copying content from someone else. Second, plagiarizing is morally despicable and can hurt your business. Once people learn that you've plagiarized something, your reputation is ruined online. People don't want copycat information. Plus, if you do it, your actions can subject you to fines and other penalties because it's against the law. With the passing of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the works that people write and put online are protected. When you write, you need to write material that's engaging. When you write in such a way that your audience can connect with you, it's easier to develop a business relationship with these people. They will invest their time and money in someone that they feel they know over someone that they don't. When you write in an engaging way, you'll be writing things that others find interesting and they'll keep returning to your site to see what else you have to say. Many marketers have built huge careers simply because they knew how to engage an audience with their words. Whatever you write needs to be well-written. You need to know how to formulate your thoughts and come across in a logical manner. If you write in a way that's confusing and unorganized, your audience will label it as rambling material. Your spelling and grammar should be good and what you write should be free of typos. Everyone makes mistakes, that's a given. But if you're constantly churning out writing that's full of bad grammar and spelling mistakes, it will make you look unprofessional. At the same time that you need to be sure your writing is free of grammar and spelling mistakes, you don't want to write in such a pompous way that you come across as talking down to your audience. Write in a tone that reads like you're sitting across from the person having a cup of coffee and conversation. Your material should also be up to date. If you're always writing about things that are a few beats behind the information that's fresh, people will turn to your competitors to get what they want. Coming up with content yourself might not be a talent that you naturally possess. However, it can be learned. Take the time to assess your writing skills. You can analyze your shortcomings with writing content by being honest with yourself. If you find writing a chore and you hate it, you're not really going to want to give it your best effort because you just want to get it over with. If you know you struggle with grammar and spelling, you can either take some refresher courses, adult education courses, or you can outsource to someone else - even an editor for simple proofreading! Does Your Social Networking Need Improving? Social networking opened up the world for entrepreneurs. You can reach out online and have access to people thousands of miles away, in different countries and different time zones. It's made doing business faster and easier. Plus, it's a great tool for building relationships. Like any tool, though, you have to know how to use it well in order for it to perform for you. There are too many people who come across as uninteresting, too business focuses or too standoffish and an audience doesn't feel a connection to those people. These are the entrepreneurs who languish in relative obscurity while their competition builds thousands of followers. You have the ability to make social networking a powerful tool if you use it right. When you're online, don't retreat into yourself. Don't clam up and let self-doubt have a field day with you. This is what happens when that internal thought track tells you that you're not interesting and that people don't want to hear what you have to say. Don't sign up for social media and then stay behind the scenes. That defeats the purpose of having the accounts to begin with. Once you sign up with various social media sites, start to engage with people. That's how you build your audience, your mailing list and basically your business. Let people feel as if they know you, as if they have a peek inside your life. Share both personal and business stuff on social media. Personal doesn't mean that you air your dirty laundry. Don't get on there and talk about your uncle getting drunk every holiday and dancing on the table. It's okay to share things like photos of pretty flowers that you took or a picture of your dog. You can start conversations about foods that you like, about a movie you recently saw or a book that you read. Some social networking sites are better than others depending on what your niche is. For example, Pinterest is a good platform for someone in the wedding or fitness niche. You can post pictures of weddings and wedding accessories. Or you can post workout gear, before and after shots, or pictures of workouts. Facebook is good for niches that use videos or tutorials and you can create a group dedicated to that particular niche - such as pets. You can share information about dog products, how-to train videos etc. Google+ has a lot of tech people, a lot of professionals. It's not used by the baby boomer crowd as much. So this would be a good social media site for niches that are into information products. When you post on social media, pay attention to which ones get the most interaction. If you post a video and then a picture, if one got more interaction and more views, then you know what the audience prefers. The timing of your posts is important too. Don't push any sales or information when there's a national crisis going on. You'll look insensitive. Likewise, you can use stats to tell you when your audience is most active on the site. Bring Your Advertising Efforts Into a New Day Advertising is something that never stays the same. All you have to do is look at the advertisements from 20 years ago to see that focus changes, attitudes have changed and people have changed. What was cutting edge and worked then won't work now. If your advertising methods are more than six months old, it's likely that they're out of date. You can't use old, outdated advertising strategies - not if you want to bring in today's audiences. Even though it's a powerhouse social media site, there are still many entrepreneurs who don't take advantage of using Facebook for their business advertising. That's a huge mistake because currently, there are over a billion people on Facebook. You can't afford to overlook those kind of numbers. Advertising on Facebook is fast, easy and gets your business in front of a huge audience. Make sure you know what the purpose of having the ad is for. For example, let's say you want to gain new subscribers. Then define your objective by using the ads tool. You'll be given choices like promoting your business page, boosting posts or having ads that will lead the audience to your site. In the ad manager, you'll be able to custom pick your audience according to where they live, their age level, what their shopping interests are, and so on. You'll also be able to set a budget based on how much you can afford to spend. You can also use retargeting. This is an ad method that uses cookies that are placed on websites. Many times people visit a site and don't stick around. What these cookies do is they track the visitor's Internet visits. When this visitor heads to a different site, your retargeting service can follow the cookie trail. Then your ads will appear in front of these visitors at another time on a different site. Retargeting works to land potential buyers because your ad appears again and they remember your site and their original interest. They head back to your site and buy this time, giving you a boost in your ROI. With ads, you'll want to analyze them. By monitoring them, you can measure what you're spending on the campaign versus what you're gaining in new customers or revenue. Follow the information on your ad tool dashboard in Facebook to tweak your ads. You may find that you need to change location or gender or other things that can improve how your ad performs.