21 \\ Algorithm Updates Got Your Social Media Engagement Down? 10 Social Media Marketing Strategies To Increase Engagement

Social Media Marketing for Small Businesses - Small business marketing, Social media marketing, Social media strategy

If you've noticed a drop in likes, comments, or reach lately, you're not the only one. A lot of small business owners are seeing the same thing and wondering what changed. The truth is, social media platforms have shifted how content gets seen, and what used to work isn’t always cutting it anymore.

In this episode, I’m talking about why your social media engagement might be down and what you can do to turn it around.

We’re diving into what’s really going on with the social media algorithm right now, especially with all the recent algorithm updates. If you're just getting started with small business social media or you've been showing up online for years, this episode shares clear steps to help you shift your social media strategy so it actually works in 2025.

I’ll walk you through what’s changed with the algorithm, how to use a strong call to action to get more audience interaction, and why consistency alone won’t cut it anymore. You’ll learn when to post, how to respond to comments in a way that boosts reach, and simple ways to refresh your content. I’ll also explain why showing up as a real person matters more than ever, and how to increase engagement with small and daily actions. These are realistic, tested engagement strategies you can use right now!

If you’ve been frustrated with your engagement lately, don’t stress. This episode is full of practical tips you can start using today. 

Let’s get your social media working with you again.

 

With all my support,

Chey

 

 

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Cheyanne: A lot of the
conversations I have with small

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business owners tend to get back
around the algorithm, because it

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is something like the wind. It's
always changing direction, and

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if you don't keep up with it,
unfortunately, it really can

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work against you. So as of this
episode, April 2025 this is

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what's working, and this is what
you want to implement right

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away, if especially your
engagement is dropping, and how

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to make sure that you build it
up.

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Unknown: Welcome to Social Media
for small businesses. Are you

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ready to turn social media into
a powerful marketing funnel that

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drives growth, connects
authentically with your audience

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and boost sales. I'm Cheyenne
Clayman, social media strategist

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and agency owner here to help
you transform your social media

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into a tool for measurable
results. Each episode, you'll

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get actionable strategies, real
life examples and proven

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techniques to grow your brand
and make an impact. So grab a

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notebook and pen. It's time to
make social media work for you.

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Have you noticed recently that
your likes, comments and reach

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have just taken a total
nosedive? No, the algorithm

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doesn't hate you, but maybe what
used to work just isn't hitting

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the same anymore. If you're
feeling frustrated, you're not

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alone. This is exactly why I
created this episode, because

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social media platforms are
constantly changing, and if

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you're not adapting with it,
your engagement will suffer. But

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don't worry. Today, I'm going to
break down the top reasons your

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engagement might be dropping,
and perhaps most important, how

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to fix it starting today. So
buckle up if you're like me,

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grab your favorite matcha or
kombucha if you're a little more

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fancy, and get ready to take
notes, because this is going to

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transform your social media this
day. So if you're new to this

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podcast, it's officially episode
21 and I cannot believe that

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it's here. I've been doing this
podcast once a week since it

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started, so we're almost in a
half a year together. But my

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journey with social media and
podcasting did not start just

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six months ago. I've been living
out, building my own brands for

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over 10 years. Ever since I
lived and worked in Los Angeles,

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I've really been passionate
about helping other small

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business owners like cut through
all the crap to be honest, and

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help just get really simplified,
honest and realistic solutions

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that are going to help amplify
their business online and move

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their social media forward. So a
lot of the conversations I have

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with small business owners tend
to somehow get back around the

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algorithm, because it is
something like the wind. It's

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always changing direction, and
if you don't keep up with it,

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unfortunately, it really can
work against you. So as of this

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episode, April 2025 this is
what's working, and this is what

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you want to implement right
away, if especially your

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engagement is dropping, and how
to make sure that you build it

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up. Because higher engagement
means more people, feeling seen,

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feeling heard on your social and
ultimately, that's going to lead

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to what you really want, which
is more business and more sales.

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So just know first and foremost,
that the algorithm, it

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prioritizes conversations, not
just content. In the past, you

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could push out a bunch of
content just over and over and

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over, and it would tell the
algorithm, hey, you're a popular

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account because you're producing
more. But one of the biggest

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reasons engagement drops now,
specifically on platforms like,

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say, Instagram, Facebook and
LinkedIn is because they now

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change how they rank their
posts. They no longer rank it

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based on consistency. It's more
ranked on quality. So it's not

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just about what you post, it's
how much interaction your post

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gets in right away. That is why,
if you've listened to any other

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episodes of this podcast, you
know, almost every single time,

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I always emphasize how important
it is not to just post in Ghost.

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So what that means in social
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you don't want to just post
something and then not give it

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any attention. You should be the
first comment underneath every

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one of your posts. A really
clever way to do that is to

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create a second call to action.
And why is it your second one?

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Because you should have had one
call to action, a CTA, as you

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may hear it in your actual
caption. So boost your algorithm

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chances even more and put a call
to action in the comments below

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to get people talking. So one
way you can fix, or a couple

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ways I would say that you could
fix this is not just by being

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the first comment, but make sure
that you post when your audience

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is online. So you may be
wondering, well, Cheyenne, how

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the heck do I know that? Well,
almost all of these apps

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nowadays have insights to see
your peak times. One thing I

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love about a tool that we use
with our clients that.

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Work with us monthly is we have
this tool that actually tells

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that us across the board, when
to post, because it tracks all

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of the active times of every
single one of their accounts and

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tells us when to post so that we
can work smarter and not harder,

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so that we can make sure that we
are posting when that audience

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is on and ready to engage.
Another way you can fix this is

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to respond to comments
immediately. So this tells the

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algorithm that your post is
worth showing to more people.

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Whenever I hop on and do an
audit of an account, it really

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pains my heart when I see
comments left unnoticed, because

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it's really like having a
conversation with someone and

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just leaving them hanging, you
know? Or when I talk with my

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five year old, it's the worst
when I'm having a conversation

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with him and he's just staring
blankly at me or ignoring me.

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And to be honest, it can be
frustrating, right? Any parents

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out there listening? I'm sure
you can say, Amen, well, that's

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exactly what your potential
customers are thinking and

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feeling when you leave their
comment unaddressed, especially

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for days or weeks on your post,
so make sure you have someone

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responding to these people so
that again, they're getting

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their questions, they're getting
their comments seen and heard.

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And also, another great tip, and
to make sure that you

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organically do this anyways, is
before you post new content,

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spend 10 minutes engaging with
others. Go on your most recent

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posts, and even if no one's
commented, go look at the likes.

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You can go click on likes and
see who's commented, and then go

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and write on their pages,
because that's gonna send a

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notification to them and say
your business wrote on their

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comments, on their post or on
their comment, and then they're

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gonna come back and check and
see what have you been up to, so

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they get a chance to see your
new content. And this is just

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such a great way to warm up the
algorithm to your content. And

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then I have a tip that basically
is an overall way to fix it,

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just long term. So we already
talked about when you post to

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make sure you spend time
engaging with people right away

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or say around that. But what
about on the days that you're

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not posting? Because social
media can work for you, even if

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you don't post daily or not. So
I hope that you just took a big

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there and realized that, you
know, for our clients, we

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actually have a top package that
we produce for people, and it's

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four to five times a week, and
that would be our top package.

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And so as you notice, we don't
even post every day a week for

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our clients, but we do make sure
that all posts and comments are

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responded to within 24 hours.
And a huge mistake I see people

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doing when it comes to posting
regularly on social is that they

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post but they're not engaging.
So again, always just coming

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back to that, thinking about
just human nature, like when, in

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person, you're with people, it's
kind of, I always like to go

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back to on this podcast, just
the principle of dating, right,

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especially in modern day,
dating, if you're not texting

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someone back, if you're not
engaging with them in

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conversation, that
relationship's just gonna fall

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dead. So you have to look at it
the same way when it comes to

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your audience or your potential
customers, if you're not

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interacting with your audience,
why should they interact with

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you, and ultimately, why should
they purchase from you? Right?

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So some simple things you really
can do is just blocking out 15

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minutes a day to engage with
your followers and your ideal

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clients. I mean, I'm just gonna
keep it real, guys. This can be

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when you're on the toilet or
when you are sitting around the

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TV at night. Please don't do
this when you're trying to have

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a conversation with your husband
or wife or your kids, you know.

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But block out 15 minutes. It can
even be five minutes three times

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a day, where you are
intentionally engaging with your

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followers. One thing that I do
that works really well for me is

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I set timers. I put a timer on
my phone to go off so that I

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remember, Oh yeah, it's time to
go interact with my audience.

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It's just like you would do if
you had a brick and mortar shop.

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Right when people walk in your
shop, you would interact with

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them. You would talk with them.
So the same thing, you have to

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look at social media, even if
you don't sell things online say

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you do have a brick and mortar
store, you have to remember that

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online is any of your social
media is like your store. So

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make sure you engage with people
that come into your store. You

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also want to make sure that you
join relevant conversations, say

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in groups or comment sections.
This is another little trick

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that we teach at claim and
social media, and also a way

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that we do lead generation is we
go find our clients, and also

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our own potential clients and
customers where they hang out on

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the internet. And so a lot of
times this looks like Facebook

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groups or comment sections of
potential partners or other

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brands that are like ours. Going
to find them is another way to

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nurture those relationships and
call people back to you.

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Ultimately, at the end of the
day, you just want to remember

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as much as it is tempting to
allow.

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About AI to do so much of this
for you, you got to remember

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that people want human
connection. I think where in the

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past, like a couple years ago,
people didn't like very

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fabricated posts, like posts
that just looked too perfect.

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They had too much say Photoshop
and things because it felt fake.

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I feel that AI bots responding
and typing for you has become

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that new version. So to say it's
not that they can't be efficient

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and helpful. I mean, even with
our multiple brands that my

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husband and I own, we do use AI
here and there, but overall, we

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like to look at it as more of
the exception to the rule,

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right? So not the norm. The norm
is that we want to keep social

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media social, right, keep it
real, keep it and give it that

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human touch. So make sure that
when you are engaging with

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people online, that you don't
leave it all to AI, and that

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when you are actually
interacting, act like a real

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person, not a billboard. Make
sure that another way that you

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can fix why engagement is
dropping and how to turn it on

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its head and turn it around, is
that you want to make sure that

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your content is continually
fresh and new. Your engagement

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could be dropping if you've kind
of fallen into a repetitive

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nature or kind of stale like say
you're not a Canva novice, and

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you start using the same
templates, and every week, you

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kind of have the same type of
post. If your posts look and

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sound the same every week,
honestly, people are just going

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to tune you out. And that's the
unfortunate name of the game.

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Engagement drops when people
expect your content and they

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don't fuel a reason to interact.
So couple ways you can fix that

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is experiment. Experiment with a
few new post formats. So say

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you're always doing carousels,
right? That's that picture after

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picture after picture kind of
telling a story in several

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pictures. Try reels. I mean,
video is king. Videos are the

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ones that are converting the
most. Now I understand that

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reels are sometimes hard to keep
up with because they are video

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content. And it could be easier
just to stick with Canva or

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stick with creating your own
static posts, but I cannot

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encourage you enough to even
just throw in one different

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thing. It can be also something
like polls or behind the scenes

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content using storytelling is
really, really powerful, like

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sharing your personal
experience, even sharing with

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people your customer wins, or
Honestly, even their struggles

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or your struggles, like people
want to relate to you. Where

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have you come from? How does
your services, your offers, your

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products? How would it help them
get out of that same struggle?

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And besides switching up the
post formats, you also want to

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make sure that you have a mix of
content. So there are three E's

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that I live by when it comes to
my own social media content, but

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also ones that we put into
practice for our clients, and

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that is educational,
entertaining and engaging. Okay,

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so even if you made yourself a
new content plan or a promise

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that you're going to do three
posts a week, make one of them

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educational. Share something
specific from your industry.

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Help give people value. Two.
Make something entertaining,

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something that's going to make
them laugh. Add some humor, and

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then engaging, right? Engaging
is more. Making it about your

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audience. Ask them for opinions
or their experiences. Now,

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something else that,
unfortunately, I see as we're

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about to wrap up this episode
that typically is starting to

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tank engagement is that people
are relying too much on sales

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posts. I get it, you're a
business, right? You are not a

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business. I remember a business
coach or mentor telling me this

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one time, very bluntly, saying,
Are you making money? If you're

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not, you're not a business. It's
just a passion project. So I get

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it, it hit me square between the
eyes. So to say is maybe it just

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did you, or when you feel that
pressure, like I've got to make

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money, I've got to make money.
And I understand that. But if

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every one of your posts is buy
this, sign up for that people

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are just gonna feel sold to and
they're gonna start ignoring

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your content again. Social media
should feel like a two way

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conversation, not a one sided
sales pitch, right? It's like

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you don't wanna sound or come
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So one way that you can fix it
is alongside your making sure

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your content is educational,
entertaining and engaging.

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Follow the 8020 rule, 80% value,
20% promotion. And in case you

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have this fear, I'm going to nip
it in the butt right away. Don't

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ever feel like you're giving
away too much. 80% value feels

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like a lot, but remember, people
are going to come to you because

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they trust you and because
you've given so much value,

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rather than the opposite. You
don't want 80% promotion and 20%

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value. So another way that you
can kind of twist this in your

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favor is even in the 20.

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Promotion posts. Make sure that
they are still engaging. Don't

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just make it about the sale.
Tell a story, share a

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transformation, or use a case
study to give value to what you

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are promoting. Remember, instead
of hard selling, build

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relationships. Anyone that works
in sales and are really good in

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sales, they will tell you that
too and remind you that people

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buy from those that they trust.
If your engagement has been

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dropping and you don't know why,
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plate. So everything I talked
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you've probably created in your
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today's episode, we can do for
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your business. The link to both
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notes below, so go ahead and
check it out. If your engagement

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is dropping, please remember not
to panic. The key is to post

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when your audience is active,
engage consistently mix up your

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content and focus on
relationships over sales. As you

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know, my favorite part of every
episode is to give you a mini

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challenge and actionable tip.
And here it is, spend 10 extra

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minutes engaging before you post
and see if it makes a

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difference. I would really love
to hear if it makes a difference

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for you. So let me know your
results. Also in the show notes

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below are the links to all of my
social media. Come on over and

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tell me your success stories,
and I would love to share it on

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a future episode of this
podcast. And if you enjoyed this

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episode, hit that subscribe
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going to be sharing how social
media and different hacks for

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your social media can increase
engagement without posting more,

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cannot wait to dive into that
episode with you. Until then,

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have an absolutely amazing day,
and I'll talk to you soon.

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Bosses,

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thanks for tuning in to social
media for small businesses. Now,

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time to go apply what you
learned to elevate your social

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media strategy, and remember to
grab this week's free resource

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from the show notes below. And
if you're ready to make social

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media work for your business
growth, just head on over to www

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claimansocial dot media to book
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us. We're here to help turn your
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measurable results. Until the
next episode, keep building,

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keep connecting, and I'll see
you on social. You.

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