Louise is the founder of Social Bee Academy, a membership with focus, accountability and community backing up really great training on marketing your business online.
The Notes
- Louise's father was an entrepreneur. He was always self employed, and cautioned the family against entrepreneurship. It was his belief that it was easier to just work traditional employment. Traditional employment (as he perceived it) allowed you to leave work at the end of the day and just go home.
- Her dad died just 5 weeks after the birth of her first child, and it was right around that time, that she opened a craft shop alongside her part time job in IT.
“He always said to me: Never work for yourself” ~ Louise Brogan
- Her husband holds traditional employment, which takes some of the pressure off of being an entrepreneur. She has no regrets about leaving the corporate world. She is now making more money than she was at her part-time corporate job, and she has more flexibility to be the mom she wants to be.
- Now, her business focuses on teaching social media strategies to solopreneurs and corporate businesses. She learned the skills needed to run her business by doing a lot of research and investing in business development courses to learn the things she didn't know. In 2018 she is shifting her offerings to a membership program that will focus on one topic at a time and cover comprehensive marketing strategies for small businesses from blogging, to using some of her favorite digital tools like Trello and 17-hats. Software programs are really helpful, and honestly essential, to running a business.
“Investing in your business and yourself… is really a no-brainer!” ~ Louise Brogan
- Louise's favorite platform is Facebook and she shares some tips for your business to implement on Facebook:
- Operating out of a Business Page (not a personal profile)
- Filling in all information on your Page so users can understand your business and how to connect with you
- Link your Page to your Profile, so people can easily see what your business is and learn more about it.
- Consistency in what you posts, and not being overly promotional
- Using Video and especially Live is especially valuable on Facebook. People like Live because they are interested in connecting with the person behind the business, and it's okay if you mess up because they also like knowing that you are human and relatable.
- Louise is also a Podcaster and discusses her Podcast as it stands today, and some thoughts she has for changing the way she is managing the Podcast in the future. When you're an entrepreneur you're always tweaking things.
- We discuss re-purposing content as it relates to the Podcast, as well as Louise's membership program which is going to focus on blogging as a marketing strategy before any other topic, because you can easily transform a blog into many bits of repurposable content.
Meet Louise Brogan
Louise works with entrepreneurs to help them figure out how to market their business online in a strategic organized way. Louise is the founder of Social Bee Academy, a membership with focus, accountability and community backing up really great training on marketing your business online.
Find Louise
Free five day Facebook course for beginners at https://socialbeeni.com/freefivedayfbcourse/
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