Naturalle Drea

Figured I would label this series by the month to keep track, should have thought about this before lol. I am always thinking, overthinking at that and it is hard sometimes to calm those thoughts. The other day I was thinking about creating content and social media of course. I feel like one of ways of being successful on social media is to be reciprocal and very engaging. It’s important to be engaging with your audience, respond to comments, engage back with your community and others that comment and so on. I’ve gotten in my feelings before when I would engage with others and nothing back from them. I just learned to just unfollow or stop engaging with them. I’ve noticed that some people that I’ve stopped viewing their IG stories, liking their posts or anything, I see them on my page viewing my stories and so on.

I honestly don’t see a point in calling anyone out because a lot of people follow for the following count and not to engage with others. I feel like that is how you lose your audience or the community you’re trying to build. I can admit it is hard to keep up but you have to make the time. I know I need to be better on here with reading commenting back on your blog posts. It still bothers me a little bit but I’ve learned that they’re not part of the community I’m trying to build and that is okay. I will continue to find them.

I’m also trying to work on my editing skills because there are a lot of talented people out there and I feel like I need to step it up. I know I have the potential and just need to make the time to practice and really work on it. I also need to actually edit my pictures that I post but sometimes it is a last minute post and I have a short window to post as I’m either on my way out the door to go to work or pulling up to work and have a few minutes to post something before I start my day. I also feel like I have a disadvantage with social media because I’m at my 9 to 5 all day and can only really engage or scroll when I’m on my lunch, have a short break and whenever I have time outside of work.

I really think about how I can improve and get better because I really want this to work because I’ve been at this for so long. Even if this doesn’t work out as I would like it to, I can say I gave this my all and exhausted all avenues to be successful.