When someone
hits the like button, writes a comment or shares our content, our brain and
specifically the nucleus accumbens, releases the neurotransmitter dopamine. So
we feel instantly gratified, rewarded, and happy. But that's shortsighted
Social media engagement does not 100% necessarily convert into sales?
But nevertheless, we feel constantly seen,
liked, and boosted, and then we tend to hang out on social media to get the
next domine rush. And that, ironically, is what leads to the burnout and the
low return on investment because you deplete the brand trust neglecting working
on your brand operations and delivery, and you completely exhaust yourself.
And I was deep
[00:08:00] in that trap years ago, especially
in my early days as a digital business owner, I thought the key was maximum
activity being all over the place. I was on all the social media platforms
trying to create unique individual videos and following trends for each
platform. And you know, my content was coherent.
Yes, it was my
brand voice, yes, but it was. Still too scattered around because I was trying
to chase too many moving targets. So it was frankly exhausting and I was
getting a lot of likes, a lot of engagement. But I learned the hard way that
likes did not always translate into sales.
Okay? So I was
trading my personal time for arbitrary vanity metrics, completely operating in
the short term activation panic. So my pivot luckily, was realizing I had to
reorganize my content creation workflow to prioritize the long right. So now my
entire content supply chain starts with [00:09:00]
one foundational asset.