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be either! This is a great example of how content in different lengths and forms and on different channels can best reach your audience effectively. There’s no need to confine your valuable content to only one form. Transform a webinar to a blog post. Have an article that you love? Make it into an eBook. There’s no limit to how many different combinations of similar content you can have! Expand your audience by creating multiple forms of content! 3. Use Social Media Tools Social media itself provides HUGE access to prospects, brands, celebrities, and possible business partners. Researching and finding these people and companies using social media is manageable since you know who you’re looking for. However, the real magic happens when you attract prospects through engaging and curated content, listening, and responding. Doing all of these things to actually manage the social media presence for yourself or your business can be an overwhelming and often inefficient task, yet crucial nonetheless. The solution to accessing your social media success? Smart tools and apps. Despite my obvious bias on this one (since I’m the CEO), Likeable Local helps SMBs manage their social media presence by automating as much of the process as possible. The software monitors social media for conversations relevant to a customer’s business in a listening platform. It suggests content to publish, plus you can schedule Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn postings at once. The software includes our Turbopost advertising technology that boosts every Facebook post. Technology may seem overwhelming and complicated at times. But in many ways, technology has made things easier. We are more connected to one another than ever before. And if you want to learn, get a new partner, make a sale, or establish a new business connection, the internet, social networks, and mobile phones and apps are the way to go, to access your own success. Now is a better time than ever to plan your digital X\