95: How to Make Social Media a Positive Place with Whitney Eckis

How to use and make social media a positive place when social media can have such a negative impact on our daily lives due to comparison. And how we can use the power of social media to help us get through this pandemic.

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Whitney's Website: https://www.eckismarketing.com/

Whitney's Podcast: Under the Influence with Whitney Eckis

Eckis Marketing Social Links:

insta: @whitneyeckis & @whit_stagram

Partial Transcript: (Download the full transcript HERE)

Kimberly Olson: Welcome back for another episode of The Goal Digger Girl. I'm so excited to introduce my special guest for you all listening today. I have Whitney Eckis on today and she is this amazing rock star online influencer, social media queen, and I'm going to pick her brain today to help you guys transition and get through this tumultuous time, but really come out winning on the other side. Plus I wanted to share her with my audience. So Whitney, welcome. And we're so excited to have you.

Whitney Eckis: Wow. Thank you so much for having me on. I'm so excited to chat with you guys.

Kimberly Olson: Yay. That's awesome. So my goal diggers, they are very loyal and they always love to know more about people that they're learning from, you know, just to feel like they're friends with those people. So can you open up a little bit and share with us your journey into getting into the entrepreneurial world and a little bit about yourself?

Whitney Eckis: Absolutely. So I've been in the market and marketing industry for about seven years now. I started way back when I was in college and I worked my way up through red bull and worked my way up through hospitality group where we were running about 15 different properties in the digital space. And then from there I decided that I wanted to go ahead and launch my own agency. So I kind of took working for someone then turning freelance, then turning into launching an agency. And that's kind of all been through my entrepreneur journey.

Kimberly Olson: Wow. Okay. So you just took the bull by the horns. I freaking love that. It's like my love language. So a lot of my audience, they're network marketers, but they also are very, very interested in multiple streams of income. So can you share with them, you know what that was like for you to take that leap of faith? Because some of them, even within network marketing are not taking the leap of faith. They're afraid. They're scared. You know how there's like upper limits that you have to push through. And, and they need to break that glass ceiling. How did you do that? Like how did you just go for it and launch your own thing? That's so cool.

Whitney Eckis: Yeah, I think that, you know, at one point I kind of didn't really know. You know, I didn't really know essentially like what it was going to turn into. I knew that I wanted to do kind of my own thing and I had a couple of different factors playing into it. One of which that my dad was actually, he was kind of sick at the time and I remember him asking kind of like just needing a little bit of help and needing me around a little bit more. And I was kind of coming to this end of my journey with this hospitality group and I just, I just really had kind of my heart set on, on an agency and really had my heart set on, you know, creating and marketing space, you know, and one in which that I had all my own clients and I had my own look and I was able to do all my own different types of marketing ideas that I wasn't able to implement in this hospitality group. So I kind of just decided to take the leap of faith. And that started out as freelancing, right? Started out with no hires with me.