On September 17, 2019, Kasie and Shennice took to social listening to find out what people are saying about #entrepreneurship. Here are the show notes:
Theme for day:
#entrepreneur and what the Twitterverse is saying about it
Agenda review:
- Twitter Provides
- CRC-relevant hashtags and keywords
- Smart Cookie Coaching-relevant hashtags and keywords

We got the advice from Big Redd to go “social listening” and find what people are talking about in some of our hash tags. I thought we’d do it for Start Something, Columbia! And then each of us do it for our businesses.
Found some advice on #entrepreneur:
@RebeccaRadice says:
The modern marketer must have hard skills and soft skills:
Hard skills:
– Analytics
– Content strategy
– Social Media
– Mobile
– Ecommerce
Soft Skills:
– Creativity
– Resourcefulness
– Adaptability
– Collaboration
– Leadership
These #entrepreneur time saving tips brought to you by Bootstrap Business blog:
- Try time blocking
- Plan your day before beginning the day
- Log your business days (at the end of each day)
- Delegate your responsibilities
- Attend important meetings only
- Use automation tools
- Install team communication programs
- Try to work away from your employees
Influencer Jeff Bullas suggests these 7 tools every digital entrepreneur needs:
- Mention media monitoring app
- Wunderlist task manager
- Upwork market of freelancers
- Slack for team communications
- Mint for financial management and revenue/spend tracking
- Dropbox to manage and access folders and files
- IFTTT tool integration platform (one of those automation things mentioned before)
Another Bootstrap Business blog post: 10 Ways to Beat Your Business Rivals:
- Analyze the market — know it inside and out
- Create a better product — know what customers want and what they’re NOT getting from others
- Be innovative — keep iterating and upgrading, make your product (or service) responsive to customers
- Get accredited — whether for safety or reliability, get endorsements that indicate your business is on the up-and-up
- Be eco-friendly — how do you do this? Remote meetings? E-documents?
- Offer better customer service — everything from a pleasant telephone manner to calmly and rationally responding to Facebook and Yelp reviews
- Change your operating hours — accommodate your customers’ availability, not your own
- Create a better website — what can you add to it? A portal? Giveaways? A forum? Content?
- Improve your SEO — make it easy for customers to find your solutions to their questions
- Reward your customers — show your loyalty to them with gifts, acknowledgements, and recognition
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