Book Review

Books that we have read and reviewed

Social Media Engagement for Dummies

Book Cover

Book Cover

Social Media Engagement For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance) by Aliza Sherman and Danielle Elliott Smith is a book which will provide you will all the information that you need to be a Social Media pro.

The six sections of the book cover

– The basis of social media engagement

– Exploring the elements of social media engagement

– Examining the basic engagement tools

– Engaging through additional social channels

– Leveraging Audio and Visual for engagement

– The parts of ten.

 

It is important to attract the attention of your potential customer and get them to approach you. People need to be compel to take action and return if you want to build up a long term relationship with them. One needs to build up an engaged community to be able to promote their product/services efficiently.

While setting your goals for social media engagement one has to take note of the audience, content, reaction, interaction and action and also the outcomes and measurement. It is certainly quite a lot of things to understand.

There are many free/paid online tools where one can track the outcomes of social media campaigns ie: click through rates of URLs/tweets.

Amplification of your message is important especially if you want to get your message out to the masses. By effectively using the various social media channels available your message can reach the millions.

It is important to have a action plan on how you intend to use social media. This would optimize the time that you spend on each social media outlet and reduce time wastage.

My thoughts

It was interesting to read up about so many tools that were in existence which I was unaware off. Eg: Storify to track brain mentions in social networks. There were many more paid options then free options mentioned in the book which businesses could consider but being a blogger on a limited budget I will stick to the FREE options for the moment to get my blog and writing out to the masses.

I learned that it was important to build a social media editorial calendar. This would help me track my reach on the  social media platforms better. I haven’t really been taking note of the engagement levels of my blog posts/blog as most of my posting has been automated.

Do pick up a copy of the book if you want to know more about  Social Media Engagement.

 

Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book for review purposes. All opinions are 100% mine.This post has a compensation level of 3. Please visit Dominique’s Disclosure page for more information.

 

 

Conquer Your Stress with Mind/Body Techniques

Book cover

Book cover

Conquer Your Stress With Mind/Body Techniques by Kathy Gruver  is a book which I recently read. Stress is something which everyone faces now and then. Sometimes we do not even know that we are been stressed out when we find that we are feeling pressurized and find it hard to breathe.

In Kathy’s book she gives one an introduction to Mind/body medicine and tells the reader about the different ways which one can help overcome and control the stress that one may be facing.

Firstly one must be able to recognize the signs of stress before taking action to reduce/eliminate it. Symptoms of stress is not only limited to physical like  headaches, dizziness or stomachache but may take on four different forms.

Types of Stress symptoms 

– Physical symptoms

– Behavioral symptoms

– Emotional symptoms

– Cognitive symptoms

There are many different techniques which one can use to deal with stress. Some techniques may work better then others and it depends on the individual who is applying the technique.

One can try mediation, prayer, massage, Reiki among others to reduce stress.

My thoughts

Many a times stress is due to negative thoughts that have accumulated in your mind.  Once you are able to gain control of the situation at hand the level of stress that you are feeling will be drastically reduced.

Affirmation do help to weed away these negative thoughts and put you in the right frame of mind. Mind over body.  Once we are able to identify our stressors and find a method to reduce our stress it is something which we will be able to overcome.

Get your copy of Conquer Your Stress With Mind/Body Techniques today.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book for review purposes. All opinions are 100% mine.This post has a compensation level of 3. Please visit Dominique’s Disclosure page for more information.