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How many hours a week do you spend on Social Media Management?

by gingerninjas
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I'm interested how many hours you spend on your Facebook social media clients or your own Facebook business site.

Over the last few years I have been able to get the post and social media management side of things down to about 5 hours a month. In the first few years I feel like I was on there all the time and if I wasn't on my desktop updating it I was glued to my iphone.

What are you spending on this?

They are not huge pages - around 1000 to 2000 followers with one page of 5000 followers - and most I have been managing for a few years so it's easy to develop content to match the follower..
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  • Profile picture of the author alexdeb
    I spend way too many hours on it. I'm trying to get traction for a very early stage startup, so I feel like I have to spend a lot of time participating and trying to get our name out there.

    I think I spend about 6-10hrs a week on social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google+)

    My biggest time waster is Google+, which isn't getting us any traffic and the community engagement is terrible - mostly spam. I still do it because I believe it helps Google ranking but that might not be true anymore. I'm actually planning on looking into that over the weekend. I think Google+ Communities are a waste of time.

    LinkedIn is doing fine. Facebook is very slow to grow. Twitter is the best for traffic/traction - by far.
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    • Profile picture of the author gingerninjas
      Originally Posted by alexdeb View Post

      I spend way too many hours on it. I'm trying to get traction for a very early stage startup, so I feel like I have to spend a lot of time participating and trying to get our name out there.

      I think I spend about 6-10hrs a week on social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google+)

      My biggest time waster is Google+, which isn't getting us any traffic and the community engagement is terrible - mostly spam. I still do it because I believe it helps Google ranking but that might not be true anymore. I'm actually planning on looking into that over the weekend. I think Google+ Communities are a waste of time.

      LinkedIn is doing fine. Facebook is very slow to grow. Twitter is the best for traffic/traction - by far.
      This sounds like me a few years ago. I honestly used to wake up and get on Facebook Pages and upload and reply to all the pages and spend hours agonising over posts.

      When I moved over to Hootsuite and started developing a bit of a pattern for posts it did iron out a few hours here and there and now I have an assistant finding some up to date news and background material so it makes my posts so much easier to create.

      I kinda agree with you about Google+ Communities - I have never got any traction out of it and have basically dropped that off my radar.
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  • Profile picture of the author Todd Pedersen
    I certainly agree with "alexdeb" . Google plus just seems like a waste of my time! None of my friends (non-IM) use it at all. It seems as though only IM people use it to suck up to the big G.

    As far as how many hours a week. I spend about half of my time (10 of the 20 hours I try to put in) on social networks. Facebook and Instagram the heaviest.
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