043 | What you Don't Know About Influencing
Our newest episode, What you Don't Know About Influencing, is now available on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio
Welcome to day three of Elevate the Online Course Launch Week! Natalie and Tara are SO excited to be coming to you live all week in celebration of the third launch of Elevate the Online Course. So far this week, they have dived into breaking down all the details of what’s inside the Elevate the Online Course, and yesterday, they shared about how it is never too late to start sharing online. In today’s episode of What you Don't Know About Influencing, we cover several important topics including:
Tips on how to start influencing right now, even if you are starting from scratch
What it means to listen to your audience and create content for them rather than creating content just to create it
Natalie and Tara’s personal journey on influencing and what they wish they knew before starting
How to be very clear on WHAT you’re sharing and WHO you’re sharing to
What you Don't Know About Influencing
It is day three of launch week and Natalie and Tara are busting through all of the questions and myths about becoming an influencer. The very first thing they want you to know is that if you want to start influencing, you need to treat it like a business and just get started. There are always some questions and feelings of uncertainty at the beginning, but the more you share, the better you will get at it. If you are just getting started sharing online, specifically on Instagram, Natalie and Tara have an Instagram Toolkit, that helps you Elevate Your Instagram Presence that you can download here.
How to Start Your Influencing Journey
Besides just getting started, Natalie and Tara highly stress that being an influencer is not a one-way street of creating content. Being an influencer is much more about learning from your audience and figuring out how to serve your audience with your content, rather than just creating content to create content. They speak more about the details of how to do this in today’s episode. They also recommend in this episode to use the insights that Instagram gives you to craft and hone your posts. By reviewing your posts that do the best, it will give you a deeper insight into what your audience is consuming and what they want more of.
Tips on Influencing
You might be wondering at this point that Natalie and Tara have really been chatting about how to share rather than influence. That’s because it’s crucial to set the scene and build a foundation before approaching brands about influencing. As they dig deeper into the details of how to get started influencing, Natalie and Tara mention that you just have to start sharing and tagging your favorite brands. In this episode, both Natalie and Tara share personal stories of what working with their first brands looked like when they get started and how they landed those partnerships. Here is a recap of the tips on how to get started influencing:
Know what kind of content your audience wants to consume
Niche down (yes, even further down than you think)
Get familiar with your insights
Be committed to it
Have questions about influencing? Head over to the @ElevateAg_ Instagram and drop your questions in the comments!
Elevate the Online Course is LIVE!
In case you're just tuning in for the first time this week then you might know Natalie and Tara are on day two of launch week for Elevate the Online Course. What you might not know is that this launch is only open for a week, so you only have until the end of this week to take advantage of the open doors. Just as Natalie and Tara stressed in the show today they want you to be 100% confident in what you are investing in. This means they aren’t holding back this go around. In addition to the previews of the course, their DMs are open! Whatever questions you might have on the course, they want you to reach out to them so you feel confident in hitting that “BUY” button. Elevate the Online Courses is for business owners, producers, and advocates who are looking to take their online presence and businesses to the next level. Check out some testimonials from fellow students.
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About Elevate Ag the Podcast
Where can I find tools and strategies to confidently and effectively share my story online? How do I monetize my brand? Where can I find community among women in agriculture and business? Can I cultivate my passion while also making money?
Welcome to Elevate the Podcast where we will answer ALL of these questions and so much more! Hosts Tara Vander Dussen and Natalie Kovarik, along with their guests, will bring you tangible advice, useful tools, and bold strategies that you can implement to drive your business forward and elevate the voice of agriculture. This business interview and storytelling podcast serves agriculture, western and rural entrepreneurs who want to excel in the social space and make their dreams a reality. Tune in every week to dig into entrepreneurs’ stories as they share the problems they encountered and opportunities they created as a way to educate, inspire and encourage the dreamer inside of all of us.
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