For whatever reason it may be, it is always good to start your own online community where you have audience to hear what you have to say about your favorite topic.
This recently, I have shared with a couple of friends that they should start something of their own (just like me!). But what’s the point of starting something like what i did?
First thing first… You may not make money online just because you are starting a community of your own.
But what do you get out of it? You will get interested audience to listen to you… You will get agencies – who are selling a consultancy service of what you are doing – to be jealous of you… You will get interested companies who might want to employ you to hear your “expertise”… You might even get companies to engage you for advices or even to form strategic partnership based on what you are already doing…
There are a lot of things you can do once you have massive listening ears out there in the world… It’s almost boundless because we will never know who we will meet along the way in the social media… Many of my friends are using the social media to keep up with their friends, to make more friends or even to find their other half of their lives!
What can I do with the social media that I am building?
- I can start rambling about the bad days that I had… I know I have listening ears out there from all sources… From my own friends, my vendors and colleagues, to my “close” strangers in the social media and my good friends coming in from Google searches…
And I may get comments from my close friends as well as from the community that I have built. And just to let you know that it can make quite an impact in the social media…
- I get to see a couple of proposals every now and then… From becoming their affiliates, to making strategic partnerships with other websites… There are a few who actually want to sell me the idea of proposing white-hat SEO for my sites… Thanks for approaching me!
- I would love to see how this little hobby can evolve into… It helps me to understand more social media strategies than any other people I know of. I get to experience different social media sites, and people simply love to give me sites to try it out!
Bottomline
At the end of the day, I am building a portfolio which can stay with me forever because it’s my face and my name. It is my resume to my job. It is a place where I can learn more things than from anybody who can teach me. I am building a personal branding of myself. It’s an asset of knowledge I have built. And with my current experience in the social media topic, I can almost thought of an immediate social media strategy for any business.
What do you guys think about it? Have you started your own community? Why not?
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