MBA1725 Q&A Wednesday: Will Quitting Social Media Kill My Business?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Social media: is it a necessary evil? Facebook, Insta, and the rest can be as toxic as they are beneficial. Can you step away? Can a business owner disengage without losing customers? Are we all chained forever to the whim of Zuckerberg?

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the 100th ArmyO. We're helping grow your business
0:14.0	every single day with our daily 10-minute business
0:16.7	lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher
0:20.7	Omar Zenhome. I'm also the co-founder of Webinar Ninja, an independent software
0:25.3	business. I started with my partner back in 2014. And today's lesson is a Q&A Wednesday
0:30.3	lesson. On Q&A Wednesday is we answer a question from one of you, one of our listeners.
0:35.0	Today's question is from Fabian, and Fabian asks.
0:38.0	Hey, I love the podcast, love all the golden nuggets you drop on the daily. I got to be honest with you. I need to get off
0:45.2	social media. It has totally given me so much anxiety, but I'm afraid to quit social media and it will have a really negative effect on my business,
0:56.6	whether that sales are marketing or just connecting with my audience.
1:00.5	Will quitting social media kill my business?
1:03.0	Would love any advice on this topic.
1:06.0	I know that you got off social media for a period of time.
1:09.0	I'd love to hear about your own experience.
1:12.0	Thanks a lot for everything you do, Fabian.
1:14.3	Great question, Fabian.
1:15.4	Love the fact that you've reached out.
1:17.8	You are not alone.
1:18.7	A lot of people do complain and suffer from the same things that social media does to you.
1:25.0	Sometimes I just feel like biologically we are not built to be able to sustain long periods of social media exposure.
1:34.6	So in today's episode, I'm going to share with you my own experience of getting off social media.
1:38.6	I took a very long sabbatical in 2017, I should say a sabbatical from social media, but I also want to offer some alternatives
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