Social-Media Influencing, now a valuable entrepreneurial skill.

[Queentoshi]

There is an important need for you to be aware of a recent skill that is necessary for you to become a successful entrepreneur aside the other required requirements for successful entrepreneurship. People who want to delve into entrepreneurship and do not want to engage new and modern means of doing business will be left behind by the entrepreneurs who engage in the modern means of marketing their businesses. One very strong skill that can influence success and a few entrepreneurs who happen to have this skill sell their products even faster than those that are engaging social media marketing tools is social media influencing.

If you have the skill of an influencer, and have a personal product that you market, your chances of success doubles in business. Businesses have identified the need to have an influencer to help influence the sales of their products this is why they go after celebrities and other popular social media persons to help sell their products, but for a moment imagine that you are that person who possesses such a skill has a large audience already following you for your influence and then goes on to develop a product. You will record a level of sales and not have to pay anyone a commission for helping you sell your business when you personally do that effortlessly because of the skill you possess.

If you have influencing skills, business can be good for you, and if you are in business already, social media influencing is a good skill to learn. You need to comfortable enough to sit in front of a camera, make videos, hop on trends and do what is necessary to drive sales, else you will be left behind by other businesses doing so. what do you think?

[Coyster]

The thing is, every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks they are an influencer these days, it almost seems like they do not understand that it takes a lot to be able to guide the opinions of people towards a certain brand or product. In other to do that you'd have to be popular at something and have a lot of people who love you for that, and as such they would trust your judgement about a product.

Now you get people who do silly and stupid things on social media, with little to no followers, but consider themselves influencers. Maybe i am just getting a little old, but you'd have to be a mega-influencer to sway people's opinions.

[The Cryptovator]

If you have influencing skills, business can be good for you, and if you are in business already, social media influencing is a good skill to learn. You need to comfortable enough to sit in front of a camera, make videos, hop on trends and do what is necessary to drive sales, else you will be left behind by other businesses doing so. what do you think?

Since people nowadays become addicted to social media, then social media influencers are taking advantage of that. I have seen many social media influencers become entrepreneurs. Even though they aren’t yet entrepreneurs, they are promoting something constantly, and people have been following them.

So even if we want to become social media influencers, it’s not an easy task. Everyone has a different skill given by nature. So for a social media influencer, it’s easy to establish a business. Because an influencer already has a lot of followers, and once they start a business, their followers trust easily and get real customers. Not everyone could do it even they want.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

If you have influencing skills, business can be good for you, and if you are in business already, social media influencing is a good skill to learn. You need to comfortable enough to sit in front of a camera, make videos, hop on trends and do what is necessary to drive sales, else you will be left behind by other businesses doing so. what do you think?

The use of social media has made it possible for everyone to get engaged and also be influencer or to be positively influenced by others, there are many opportunities people are taking out of the use of social media and we don't have to only look at the disadvantage on it alone, everything that has most of it opportunity being of a high benefit to people should be considered of a good advantage, you should check most of the successful businesses today and discover how they have been running their social media handles consistently and making influence out of it.

[bitLeap]

If you have influencing skills, business can be good for you, and if you are in business already, social media influencing is a good skill to learn. You need to comfortable enough to sit in front of a camera, make videos, hop on trends and do what is necessary to drive sales, else you will be left behind by other businesses doing so. what do you think?

That's right and this is my 4th year with my wife, if you don't have your own products, you can still affiliate with local products so as to create healthy economic growth. So far although not as a big influencer we still get enough income space even more than enough for the three of us. The most important thing is what benefits you can present to the public, because the content of useful content is much faster gaining attention while selling products in it.

[Coyster]

The use of social media has made it possible for everyone to get engaged and also be influencer

Lol, that's exactly what i am talking about. Everyone cannot be an influencer, just take the word literally, it takes a lot to "influence" people to make a decision or take an action because of you. Like i said, it is one of the most abused terms on social media these days, everyone suddenly things they are an influencer because they have 1k followers.

you should check most of the successful businesses today and discover how they have been running their social media handles consistently and making influence out of it.

Bro we're talking about popular individuals promoting brands with their "influence", and not what you are saying here.

[Decimetre]

Social media has reshaped almost every aspect of human activities ranging from activism down to business and lifestyles. It's very important to follow the trend of technology or get left out. There are various entertainers who made our childhood memorable during the days of DvD, now most of them are out of audience because they refuse to upgrade themselves with social media knowledge. I have seen several businesses that crumbled which if taking to a good social media platform will flourish. So it's a good advice to become an influencer if possible or at least learn how to face the camera.

Even social media itself has made many millionaires now as most of them have introduced monitization. So you sell your goods and you also get paid for engagements. Both ways, you earn money and also earn relevance.

[Filicius]

If you have the skill of an influencer, and have a personal product that you market, your chances of success doubles in business. Businesses have identified the need to have an influencer to help influence the sales of their products this is why they go after celebrities and other popular social media persons to help sell their products, but for a moment imagine that you are that person who possesses such a skill has a large audience already following you for your influence and then goes on to develop a product. You will record a level of sales and not have to pay anyone a commission for helping you sell your business when you personally do that effortlessly because of the skill you possess.

There are plenty of successful influencers who are encouraged at any given time to launch their own products or range of products. It's the next logical step in monetization, although it also requires more effort, initiative, creativity, and management skills.

That is why many prefer to simply advertise the products of others instead of developing their own. This has been the case since film and television stars began appearing in advertisements.

And there is also the opposite effect: that of big businessmen or holders of fortunes who are not willing to suffer the scrutiny of the public, and hire already established celebrities.

[5W-KILO]

The thing is, every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks they are an influencer these days, it almost seems like they do not understand that it takes a lot to be able to guide the opinions of people towards a certain brand or product. In other to do that you'd have to be popular at something and have a lot of people who love you for that, and as such they would trust your judgement about a product.

Now you get people who do silly and stupid things on social media, with little to no followers, but consider themselves influencers. Maybe i am just getting a little old, but you'd have to be a mega-influencer to sway people's opinions.

What types of influencers are we talking about? I believe that influencers are of different categories, the few I have seen that make names for themselves are all comedians.

Mind you, there are few crazy ones that caught the attention of the world, and it makes me wonder why crazy things attract people more than normal, set camera and start misbehaving then the insane amount of viewers will come.

I am talking from what ii know, nothing makes sense in this world anymore, set up camera to educate people and set up camera to do crazy things for people you will see that people are more interested in that crazy person.

[TheUltraElite]

Almost any cool dude or cute girl can become an influencer today to make their viewers drool over their content but real influencing is still rare. Because the skill of being able to present something and make it stand out is something that is rare and cannot be learnt overnight with makeup, LED strips and mood lights.

Very few personalities are actually running a profitable influencing business others are mostly managing peanuts and eventually the same as most office day jobs.

So I suggest it to be taken up only by those who have a knack of learning new things even if they are not your choice and knowing how to promote a business before stepping into this field.

[Donk1]

​I hate to admit it but you are right. Still to me, even if there are influencers out there that are willing to use their skill just to exploit others perhaps anyone can do it too, but in a good way instead. You will have to be able to draw the media's attention to you, whereby you are not only influencing folks to purchase your product, but as well giving them that self convenience just by watching your videos.But then there is one area where they often fall short, which is when what they are influencing folks to purchase is different from what they are offering. I have experienced such kind of insolence a lot, and it's wrong, trust me. Basically what people don't understand is that if what you are advertising to folks doesn't have the value you say it does then you will just ruin any chance of you building a reputation in your business. That's all.......

[Majestic-milf]

 At the same time, people misunderstand what real influencing is all about. I see now that most business prefer a female influencer over the male counterpart probably because they are easy on the eyes and this causes consumers to easily jump on the product just because a pretty face marketed it. Some businesses these market their products using the face of a female who is scantily clad and I begin to wonder what the aim is since the product doesn't have any thing to do with lingerie or fashion.
 Example of this is one Paripesa ad I saw and the although they made use of Yaya Toure, Obafemi Martins in their past ads but the last one I saw was of a woman who wasn't properly dressed and I wondered what their aim was because this is a gambling site and what business does a female dressed improperly got to do with the brand and I just realized it was a means to market the product but that lady seemed like she was misrepresenting the product but then again, that's the angle they chose.

[Somto9Light]

For you to become an influencer, it means you will have to do something that will get the attention of many people. It's not that easy because if it was, a lot of people would have become an influencer and get many audience and followers. Everybody cannot venture into trends even though they are going to be the hot medium to make money. Anyone who is capable of turning into an influencer can do that but for those who can't, the sky is wild enough to do something else and still succeed or rather stick to what works for you or what have been working for you.

[Fortify]

If you have influencing skills, business can be good for you, and if you are in business already, social media influencing is a good skill to learn. You need to comfortable enough to sit in front of a camera, make videos, hop on trends and do what is necessary to drive sales, else you will be left behind by other businesses doing so. what do you think?

This has probably been the case for at least a decade or two, so I'm not sure it can be considered a "new" skill. Most dynamic entrepreneur's have always been able to cope with the social side of things and having charisma is usually a requirement for things like sales or negotiating favourable deals. It really depends if you are talking about this as a job itself or as a marketing avenue for a business. Some claimed influencers try to make money using a specific ideal - like publishing makeup videos or playing games and not actually producing anything else. To claim "your chances double" is a pretty meaningless statement that is not backed up by references or evidence. It's certainly an avenue you need to be aware of and can benefit your business, but it can also be overhyped and the actual influence they peddle can be faked, so you need to monitor actual conversions.