7 Steps to Detox from Social Media as an Online Marketer

Detox from social media and you will be more efficient than ever

Many should need to detox from social media, but few see the need to do it. Since time ago, it is common to hear about people who have burnout. They just can’t afford to work anymore and get sick. It’s a common disease in a stressful working environment.

People who suffer from burnout get many recommendations on how to change their lifestyle and working habits. All this to avoid running into a new burnout with all negative consequences following.

However, do you ever hear about burnout or something similar in today’s digital world, taking a more significant piece of the global economy? The advantage of doing online business is that you don’t get into the same stressful environment as in a traditional offline business. However, you need to watch out for plenty of rabbit holes. Being trapped in those not-very-obvious pitfalls can damage your work and even destroy your entire business.

These pitfalls you will find everywhere in social media. To detox from social media isn’t easy, but necessary.

Detox from Social Media and Decide How to Live Your Life

Watching people at a restaurant or walking the dog, how often do you see people regularly using their cellphone? Scaring, isn’t it? It’s like the cell phone is part of their brain.

Albert Einstein said:

“There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far, the universe is winning.”

The digital evolution and the way we live is much faster and easier. It’s something that has positively changed many people’s lives. On the same digital “wave, ” many have become addicted to the Internet and social media.

To detox from social media follows the same process as any other addiction, like smoking and alcoholism, to just mention two. Without being fully aware of your problem, it’s hard, well, even impossible, to detox from social media.

Have you ever tried a completely free Internet and cellphone day? I mean, turn off your cell phone and hide it. Do not even touch your computer or any other digital device. The feeling you get after such an experimental day is a direct measurement of how big need you have to undergo detox from social media.

The good thing is that there exist methods to control all social media and not the other way around, where social media mold your life.

7 Steps to Detox from Social Media

You can find many different recommendations on how to relate to social media. First, you need to be aware of the signs indicating that you’re in need to detox from social media. Here are seven steps to detox from social media, starting already today.

#1 Day Off

Mark your first day off immediately from the Internet and all digital devices, including your cellphone. To make it as easy as possible the first time, do it on a Saturday or Sunday. Choosing a weekend day will minimize the risk of using job duties as an excuse not to do it. OK, be ready; nothing will beep, vibrate, or blink….

#2 Inform

If you are working online, all social media are essential for your business. Make a post, send messages, and inform how you prefer that you will be offline on day X. Make it a topic for your audience. Invite them to do the same.

It could be a cool thing and definitely different from all the other stuff you use to see in posts on the Internet. Do not forget to inform your loved ones and closest friends to avoid them starting to worry about you. If they do not get in contact with you, they can begin to think the worse and be a reason to start calling hospitals, police, and even morgues.

#3 What to do?

As we are so occupied watching Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter….. we must think about what to do instead of scrolling through social media. It’s not a joke, but this is a tough one. It’s like taking away all alcoholic beverages from an alcoholic.

A whole day without likes and all other hypes around social media. Fortunately, I belong to a group of people who grew up before the digital era. What we did back then was to do things with our family and our best friends.

It could be a perfect moment to take up a hobby or any other activity you’re passionate about and you never had time to do before (because social media stole your time.)

These first three points are all about how to handle your first offline day. The next step will be to change your habits in your daily life.

#4 Planning & Routines

All businesses contain specific daily routines. Make a planner and stick to it. The way I work is as follows.

First thing in the morning, I spend 10 minutes scrolling through all my emails. If you’re working with an online business, you can have hundreds of emails in your inbox. If there is something very urgent that must be attended immediately, you need to do it. However, once every two months, I find something that requires immediate attention in my inbox.

The next category will be to sort out the emails to be attended to later during the day. Typically, I plan for a 20 minutes session around none to attend those messages and the rest at the end of the day.

The third category is emailing to be attended but not necessarily today. Finally, delete all scams and similar stuff you are not interested in. When continuing the working day, do not check incoming emails every time you hear a beep or a pop-up message on your screen. Use the programmed time slots to check emails.

The same goes for all your social media. Do not check Facebook, Instagram, or whatever it might be every time you see a pop-up or hear a beep. Check it twice a day, respond to what needs a response, and like and be social with your audience. This engagement work will be much better if you do it in a planned way and not jump around on the Internet like a bee from flower to flower.

#5 Scheduling

If you are using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, broadcasting, etc., you need to publish posts with a specific frequency to deliver useful content to your audience. Plan once a week for a post-scheduling session. It’s when you produce and schedule all your material for an entire week.

There are many different tools you can use for this purpose. I like Buffer and Onlypult. In my opinion, Onlypult is the best app for Instagram scheduling. They are professional tools always updated to work correctly with the frequent changes of algorithms in social media platforms.

For email broadcasting, Aweber is, in my opinion, the best tool you can find in the market.

#6 Disciplined approach

Planning is the key to all successful businesses online. If you’re new to this fantastic digital world and all its opportunities, you will very soon discover that there is an endless series of offers, training, new things, and a never-ending education.

Each one of these things is important, but you must apply a strictly disciplined approach to it to not be trapped in one of the many rabbit holes. In an earlier article, we discussed what a professional planning frame should look like.

#7 Develop other interests

When running an online business that you’re passionate about, it’s easy to be addicted to your business. In fact, the difference between passion and addiction is a minimum.

It doesn’t matter how passionate you are; everything and everybody needs a break sometimes. Develop some other interest that can distract you a while from your business.

Luckily, I’m a passionate runner for a long time before I even started my online business. Attending my training properly gives me new energy, advantages, and improved efficiency when working with my business.

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