Social Media and Brand Strategist Dede Watson has been a really good online friend of mine for over 8 years. She was one of the first people I met on Twitter in 2011 … when I was a newbie social media user… as a business owner… stumbling along, trying to figure things out. Dede was a warm, welcoming light in a vast, confusing landscape.

Dede is the Founder of Turn It Social, where she provides social media marketing services to personal brands … as well as small to mid-sized companies … helping them build their businesses with fresh, creative social media strategies.

She is recognized as one of the top social media influencers in the world and listed as an exclusive FORBES Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer.

Dede is also responsible for my own special brand: Andelicious! That’s right – it was on Twitter she began calling me Andelicious… and of course, I call HER Dedelicious!

I am so delighted Dede is here to share her best Instagram Growth Hacking tips and social media strategies for startup founders, along with her own personal startup insights and stories.

Favorite Quote:
"Instagram, to me, is a very social place. With social media, and I tell my clients this, just posting something, you can have the best content, you can have the best captions, you can have great hashtags but if you don't communicate with your audience and if you don't hit their emotional points and their pain points and identify with them, then they're just going to look at your pictures and they're going to move on. It's just a post. It's nothing special. You have to let people know that you care about them."

LINKS:

http://dedewatson.com
https://twitter.com/dede_watson
https://www.instagram.com/dede_watson/
https://www.facebook.com/turnitsocial/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dedewatson/
https://courses.dedewatson.com/courses/hashtag-like-a-pro-how-to-get-paying-customer-with-a-targeted-hashtag-strategy
https://courses.dedewatson.com/courses/instagram-growth-hacking

Dede's fave digital planning app: https://www.planoly.com/

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