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The $100 MBA Show

MBA2174 Why I Deleted My Social Media Apps

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

What is social media really doing for you? Here’s the thing: we tell ourselves it’s important. It’s how we raise brand awareness, connect with our audience, keep the conversation going.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show helping you succeed on your entrepreneurial journey every single day with our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world.

0:18.0

I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar's at home.

0:21.0

I'm also the co-founder of Webinar Ninja an

0:23.7

independent software company I started my co-founder back in 2014 and in today's

0:27.8

episode you'll learn why I deleted my social media apps. Yep, I have deleted every single social media app on my phone.

0:37.0

There's many reasons why I did this, but there's one big reason.

0:41.0

And I'll explain the little ones and the big one in today's episode.

0:45.5

One of the things I talk about on the show a lot is how valuable your time is.

0:51.4

Time is more valuable than anything you possess. It's the number one

0:56.5

capital that you have control over. You can always make more money but you can't

1:01.0

make more time. So how we use our time is so important.

1:05.8

And the truth of the matter is that these social media apps on our phone, they're designed

1:10.0

to take your time. They're designed to keep you on the app as long as possible.

1:15.6

They have experts working in large teams trying to figure out how to make sure we take their time. And we can always tell ourselves a story

1:25.8

and say we're bulletproof and we have self-control and I'm never on the app that much anyway

1:30.0

and I only use it to you know post but it's bigger than that and I'll only use it to post but it's bigger than that and I'll explain in

1:35.0

today's episode and maybe challenge you to try the same so let's get into it

1:39.6

let's get down to business. For those who've been following me for some time you know that I

1:44.8

took a break from social media for about 18 months in 2017. This means I was

1:49.6

totally off social media. It was off my phone. I never visited it on the web on my computer.

1:55.6

I literally put a post on every social media app, pinned it and said, hey, I'm taking a leave of

2:00.8

absence, see you later. And guess what happened to my business?

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