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Pro version with pricing that starts at $8.99 per month (with discounts for an annual payment). With the basic account, you’ll have message scheduling and can set up five social networks. The Pro version has unlimited social networks, atom feeds, and stats history. It also allows bulk scheduling. For personal and professional use, this auto-posting tool is worth a try. how and when to engage Once you begin using one of the tools described above you will be able to create activity consistently on your social platforms without feeling like you are spending hours doing it. Here’s my strategy for engaging with people on the social platforms where I am active. Daily: Interact with your news feed. Install the mobile apps for the Don’t Your Policyholders Deserve A Company with an various platforms where you are active. Take a few minutes between appointments to open the apps and look at the activity in the news feed. Simply clicking “like” on a comment someone has made or typing out a short comment will significantly increase your engagement with these people. Engaging on social platforms is becoming an essential skill for executives to use to create an engaging brand for their organization. While you may have staff who manages this for the whole organization, it is important for the executives who are the “face” of the organization to also be active. Weekly: Using one of the above tools, take 30 minutes to an hour to set up a schedule of posts for the following week. This allows you to spend concentrated time to make sure you have posts going out on a regular basis. Then, if anything particularly interesting comes up, feel free to post that one comment on multiple sites. This type of engagement and activity on your social platforms can bring new visitors to your website and help improve your overall search rankings. However, perhaps more importantly, it will help you and your team to be more visible to the new online consumer. Monthly: Schedule time monthly to review your profiles on all of your social platforms to make sure they are current. Review and contribute to any comments on groups you are part of such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google+. In addition, reach out to any old contacts that you might want to connect with on LinkedIn. Steve Anderson provides information to insurance agents about how they can use technology to increase revenue and/or reduce expenses. He speaks professionally to hundreds of agents each year on the future of technology, the social web, and how insurance agencies can establish their Internet presence. Rating from the A.M. Best Company? Check Out All KANSAS MUTUAL Has to Offer: - Competitive rates - Excellent service for over 115 years - Simple online quoting system - Optional coverage available for sewer back up & replacement cost on rental dwellings - Easy access to our personnel How can you make more money from your exisiting business? It’s easy. Let us finance your insureds’ premiums. With exclusive profit sharing programs and a staff that speaks 9 different languages, financing insurance premiums has never been so easy or so profitable. We finance. www.kansasmutual.net 1.800.873.5642 AGENCY INQUIRIES WELCOMED IN SELECTED AREAS OF KANSAS Insureds benefit. You profit. service as unique as a two dollar bill sm 1-800 -767- 0705 [email protected] www.capitalpremium.net |May-June 2015| KANSAS INSURANCE AGENT & BROKER 5