Welcome to episode 356 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris.
All right, 356 and it’s another three things you must know, this time for July 2017. Holy moly. I’m really, really excited because we’re going to talk about some cool stuff today including a massage change to Facebook groups. Actually, two changes to Facebook groups. Facebook groups are two of the things we’re talking about today, but one of them is way more exciting than the other. If you want to be the first to always find this stuff out, listening to the podcast is amazing, but here’s the deal. Hit the Mic Backstage members not only heard about this stuff a month ago, but they got it with tutorials. There’s actually a video walk-through inside of the community pages and now inside of the training area to use the changes we’re talking about today. There’s a definite upside to membership, so be sure to upgrade your life and your marketing knowledge by joining us at hitthemicbackstage.com. Again, that is the best way to find out about this stuff first and really see it in action. See it in practice and ask questions and things like that. All right? All right, let’s jump in.
Thing number one, the thing I’m less excited about with Facebook groups. It’s very cool and for a lot of you it’ll probably be really amazing. I’m not really going to use it so I’m not as excited. Now, with Facebook groups if you have your Facebook group categorized as a class, so if you’re running an online program, or you have an online community component to your coaching or something like that. With a Facebook group, you can set it up as class, and you can set up inside of that something called units. That would actually allow you to give access to specific units to specific groups and attach homework or tips to that specific unit.
You could break down your program for example into six modules and those six modules could be units on the Facebook group, and you could have extra bonus material in your Facebook specific to that unit and questions specific to that unit. Really allowing you to organize for the first time any kind of content in your Facebook group. Again, I’m not super excited about this for my own stuff because for Backstage we use a private forum right on the Backstage membership site, but I could see how a lot of you might really, really like this. In fact, we will be launching a strategy program that used to be called Social Pro. It’s actually changing its name, but we’ll be re-launching that in the fall, and it has a Facebook group. We may use this with that, or the community may just end up on the Backstage forum. I haven’t decided yet. Yeah, it could be really cool for a lot of you who are doing instruction online.
It would allow you to put Facebook lives in certain units. You could organize those Q&A calls we’re doing if you’re doing them from Facebook live. Any additional bonus materials you want to put in the Facebook group, you could do it through there, and really organize it. The thing I’m most excited about with this is it’s sort of the first sighting, the first sort of hint at being able to organize Facebook groups in any way. This was something I always liked about Google Plus groups, Google Plus communities over Facebook groups was the ability to organize. It really has the ability to put things in specific places so people could find others questions or similar questions or find things a little more easily. I’m hoping units is the first look at having that option in Face
