FL 35 – How To Get More Traffic Using Social Media Part 2

FL 35 – How To Get More Traffic Using Social Media Part 2

Author: Shane Sams March 17, 2015 Duration: 22:32
In today's podcast we're going to talk about 3 ways to use social media to get more traffic to your website. We've gotten a lot of great feedback after last weeks episode and wanted to come back and share 3 more tips on driving traffic with social media. Our last tip revolves around paid advertising which is helping us turn $5 into $25 over and over again, which we'll be talking about in detail next week. [Tweet "Invest in yourself and invest in your product: we have always won when we invested in ourselves."] You will learn What social media is all about and how to make it a 2 way conversation. Ideas for what to post and how to make it "timely". What to focus on when trying to create more sales. The value of using paid advertising. Why advertising is an investment in yourself. Links and resources mentioned in today's show Last Weeks Episode Jocelyn's Facebook feed Elf on the Shelf article Enjoy the podcast; we hope it inspires you to explore what's possible for your family! Listen to what others are saying about Flipped Lifestyle Shane and Jocelyn, before Flip Your Life, I was working my 11th year in the same, nine-to-five CPA job. Fast forward a few months later after Flip Your Life and I have quit my job and officially flipped my life Click here to leave us an iTunes review and subscribe to the show! We may read yours on the air! Can't Miss Moments Each week Jocelyn and I share moments that we might have missed if we had not started our online business. We hope these moments inspire you to see the possibilities and freedom online business could provide for your family. Thank you for listening! Thanks again for listening to the show! If you liked it, make sure you share it with your friends and family! Our goal is to help as many families as possible change their lives through online business. Help us by sharing the show! If you have comments or questions, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post. See y'all next week! Can't listen right now? Read the transcript below! JOCELYN: Hey ya'll! On today's podcast, we're going to give you three more tips for getting more traffic to your website using social media. [spoiler] SHANE: Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. JOCELYN: Hey guys, welcome to the podcast; today we are going to get back into our Tips for Using Social Media to Get More Traffic to Your Website. In Podcast 34, we told you about three tips about using social media and those were how to target your audience, how to schedule post on social media and how to always get people to come back to your website and if you missed any of those tips and you'd like to go back and listen, you can check those out at Flippedlifestyle.com/Podcast34 and you can listen to that and find out exactly what we had to say about all those. Today we are going to tell you about three more tips for using social media to get more traffic on your website but before we do that, we are going to share a success story with you. SHANE: All right, today's success story comes from Brad Berry; you may recognize that name because Brad was actually on the podcast on one of our Flipped podcast episodes where we do a live consulting call and play it for you guys so everybody can kind of learn from the answers that we give for people's questions. Brad and Laura were on our podcast in episode 23 and they were also one of our original members for the first ever Flip Your Life e-course. And we got an amazing email from Brad not long ago that said, "Shane and Jocelyn, before Flip Your Life, I was working my 11th year in the same, nine-to-five CPA job. Fast forward a few months later after Flip Your Life and I have qu...

Hosted by Shane Sams, the Flipped Lifestyle™ Podcast is a conversation about building a business that actually fits around your life, rather than the other way around. It’s born from the real-world experience of Shane and his wife Jocelyn, a family who created a million-dollar income entirely online. They focus on the practical mechanics of selling digital products and running membership sites-essentially, creating valuable information and community that people are willing to pay for. This isn't abstract theory; each episode digs into the systems, mindsets, and sometimes surprising tactics that worked for them as they built a location-independent career. You’ll hear candid discussions on the challenges of shifting from a traditional job to a self-directed online venture, managing family dynamics alongside business growth, and the ongoing work of sustaining success. The aim is to provide actionable insights for anyone feeling stuck in a conventional routine and dreaming of a "flipped" reality where work supports life on their own terms. Tune in for a straightforward, often humorous look at the entrepreneurial journey from a couple who is still actively living it, sharing their lessons so you can chart your own course.
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