The work we do falls to the level of our systems

Productive work can only happen when your brain is thinking about nothing.

If you give your brain an opportunity it will definitely do what it is made for: wander around.

However, if you have a system in place, you’ve got a net to break your fall like a circus performer would have, you do not fall to the absolute 0, but you fall to the level of your system which is the net.

Productive work is done by depending on a dependable system setup by a dependable person like you.

An example: I have my camera setup on a tripod, mic fixed and ready. The camera is ready for me 24 hours.

All I have to do is sit and press a button. There is no friction. The work gets done as it should be.

Another example: This daily blog can be made daily by removing the friction to write.

So, I’ve got the wordpress app right here on my phone with me and the icon is on my home screen.

In fact I am writing this sentence through the app.

No login, no fuss. Just write the post, and press publish.

The work gets done.

Be dependable, set a system that let’s you do the work you desire to do.

I have, and my life is easier because of it.

Creating a piece of work every day is a practice.

Practice is the art of trying to achieve the quality you want for your craft.

While practice helps you get to where you want to go, it is publishing your work which will take the people who would like to follow you along that journey of yours.

So, practice something new everyday and publish something new every day.

In my opinion marketing strategies for our businesses should be focused on video, audio and social media networking. Our customers are on the move, so content specially optimized for mobile, optimized for the platform in which it is shared is the right way to go ahead with generating awareness around our business.

It is easy to get carried away if you are a one man/woman band, or a small business. But as Gary Vaynerchuk says, we do not always have to create perfect content. We can document day to day issues and successes we face in our endeavors and those things could be of help to people around us in turn developing an audience for us.

Secondly, having a raw piece of content has it’s own appeal. In my opinion it shows that you care for the people and the content enough to focus on putting it out.

From a neuromarketing perspective, having imperfections in our video and audio content makes us look more human and thus more approachable. This generates a greater sense of community within our followers and our audience, which I think you can guess, is good for the brand.

But, the main issue we face when we want to get into YouTube or podcasting is that we start doing those without a strategy. Without a strategy for content, without a strategy for marketing that content and without a strategy as a whole. Not only we need to decide who our ideal target audience is, but we also have to look at various types of content we can create to suffice various needs our audience has.

The key is to give the value upfront, and the only way it is possible is if we know who our audience is and what problems they have in their business or life. We can produce authority content or affinity content, or both, it all comes down to the exact strategy we choose.

Be it video or audio, we need to start with finding our niche.

The more niche we go the better it will be. Let me explain why, long tail search keywords, is how we search in our lives today.

Broad tail keywords are more competitive than long term keywords. In my niche for example, broad tail would be “social media marketing”, but a long tail keyword would be “social media marketing for photographers”.

So, to sum up the above, video content, audio content with a content strategy, taking care of your community and marketing your marketing efforts, done consistently over a period of time is what it will take to market your business via modern social media platforms.