Episode 40: How to Leverage Social Media Without Distraction with Caroline Bolderston and Melanie Hoole

Guest Interview: Samantha McLean talks to Caroline Bolderston of Being Bold and Melanie Hoole of hoole.co about productivity and social media, and how to effectively manage the two and remain dollar-productive.

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Episode host: Samantha McLean
Special guests: Caroline Bolderston and Melanie Hoole

SHOW NOTES / LINKS

01:30 Addressing the question, “Is social media a waste of time?”
02:30 Pre-plan your social media with a scheduling tool. You don’t produce the property 10 minutes before it hits the papers – same principle.
04:00 Caroline’s target model: business development (prospecting, face-to-face, voice-to-voice) is the bulls-eye; appraisals, listing presentations and negotiations are the inner ring; profile building, marketing and social media are the outer ring
06:00 Segment and limit your time to avoid ‘the rabbit hole of death’. e.g. Melanie says don’t spend 5 hours looking for the perfect image; choose the best you can find once your reach your time limit and run with it
07:00 How to curate your social media case study: Gavin Rubinstein
12:00 Outsourcing social media duties and the importance of a marketing budget
14:00 How smart devices, chat bots and AI are helping to automate marketing
16:00 Consider social media platforms e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc as ‘places of rent’; the platform you own and can control is your website
18:00 Your website should be about your personal branding and no one else’s.
18:30 The 5/5 Rule for prospecting: let the phone ring 5 times and wrap up your call in 5 minutes.
19:20 Distraction is a choice; choose to value your time and apply the 5/5 principle.
19:40 Mornings in, afternoons out. 2-hour lockdown in the office and spend the remainder of your day in face-to-face activities.
20:00 The 80/20 rule: you can proactively control 80 per cent of your day; the remaining 20 per cent is situations needing immediate action or flexibility.
21:00 How to manage your time spent in appraisals
23:00 What the upcoming social media trends are expected to be