What?s your social media story? If you could have the space to say exactly what social media meant to you personally, how would your story unfold?
Would it be about the fantastic job opportunity you got?
Would it be about the great connections you?ve met and how they changed your life?
Would it be about how a cause dear to your heart?was suddenly launched into the stratosphere?
Would it be about friends you?ve made that have no real interest in social media, but simply use the tools to make new friends themselves?
Would it be that love story that wouldn?t have happened?
The reason I ask is simple.
We all hear about the social media success stories, but they?re usually the same companies (JetBlue, Zappos, Dell) or the same practices (marketing, PR, customer service). And while they?re great examples, there?s much more to it than this.
There?s the human side and the people stories. The things that we can really relate to. So here?s a request/offer. I?d love you to share your social media story with us. Here?s how.
In the month of August, I want to feature four personal social media stories. It could be any of the reasons featured in the introduction to this post ? job, connections, cause, love, friends ? or how your business succeeded. Or your blog growth. Or your skill sets. Anything.
Each story will be in the shape of a guest post. This can be normal text, or podcast, or video ? the choice is yours. However you feel most comfortable. All it needs to be is either around 300-500 words for text, or 5-10 minutes for audio or video.
If you?re interested, here?s what to do:
- Send a Word document, audio file or video file to my email address.
- Title the post, and if it?s text, highlight where you?d want any sub-headers.
- Reference any links you wish to.
- Include a picture of you and a 2-3 line bio with up to 2 links back to your blog, or social profile.
- Send it in by July 15.
That?s it. I?ll choose four that I feel really show the people, personalities and cool success behind each social media story. If there are more than four posts come in, I?ll do the same in September, then October, and on.
The cool thing? This isn?t just another ?guest post opportunity?; this is about going deeper than that and showing the real social media stories ? YOU.
What say you ? in?