A Journey with Ta'Shonna

Who is Social media when it comes to branding? Social media is your biggest supporter and advertisement. Using your social media account to plaster your business is also advertising yourself. I have yet to make my business pages. Why? Because it's a lot of planning that goes into it, like getting an LLC, picking the right layouts and fonts, and so much more. The most significant step in starting my business is rebranding my pages. I started with my Instagram by making it public and removing a post that did not fit my brand. I tried to keep selfies with my natural hair and extensions the same thing for my Twitter, which was pretty easy to edit. I edited my bios on each by adding in my entrepreneurship, lifestyle, and natural hair tags. What will be harder for me is my Snapchat and Facebook, both personal and private pages. My Facebook contains old posts from years back that are hard to remove; it has hundreds of pictures, and my audience varies, which means I have a lot of viewers w...

Starting a hair business can be challenging, even degrading; you don't know where to start, what to do, or how to do it. Many entrepreneurs sell hair that you may not think yours is good enough quality or is selling at the right price. There's so many questions, so many doubt, so many late nights. Thanks to YouTube there's help, motivation, and a blueprint to your dreams. I stumbled upon Crownmevixen on YouTube while trying to find out how to reach a hair vendor. Crownmevixen is a Youtube entrepreneur and lifestylist. Her first video on hair and entrepreneurship started about a year ago, and its content represents most of her videos. The video linked at the bottom is why I choose her as the Vlogger for this week's assignment. In the video, she showed her spunky but stern personality, which helped effectively deliver the content. She gave the 37.6k viewers and me a blueprint for finding the perfect hair vendor for your brand. She broke down sites to use, apps to use for ...

 1.  https://neilpatel.com/blog/build-personal-brand-blogging/ Neil Patel's blog post, " How to Build Your Brand Personal by Blogging," suggests that creating a blog is the best way to build a brand. His first step into a successful blog is making a niche keyword for your brand and make your blog around that niche. Most importantly, he suggests using your personality to create a brand voice. Once you create a niche keyword, consistently post relevant content about your brand. 2.  https://digitalmarketinginstitute.com/blog/10-steps-to-building-your-personal-brand-on-social-media  Digital Marketing Institute created a 10 step blog to help brand on social media. They suggest updating your account by deleting anything that does not pertain to your brand. A great tip given is to use apps to post content on social media. Using apps like Sprout and Buffer will help cross-post content and limit login attempts. 3.  https://blog.smarp.com/how-to-build-your-influence-on-so...

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring"                                                                                                                                                                                   - Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe's quote describes me to a T. Why? Because I am far from perfect, I try to be my best every day, which brings out the right inside of me, my ...