Action Plan Day 5 – Start Interacting in New Ways

Schedule Your First Hangout – Get that first Hangout on the calendar. Today, brainstorm what you will discuss, select YouTube videos you want to watch and develop a good strategy for showing off your content or presentation to the people you invite. It might simply be a time to say hi to your affiliates once a week or it might be a presentation for a new product you have going up soon.

Promote Your Hangout on Huddle and Your Stream – Just scheduling a Hangout isn’t enough; you need to promote it to the people who will join in as soon as possible. Create new posts on your Stream and send them to the circles you want involved. Use Huddle to contact people directly and remind people on a daily basis that the Hangout is coming up.

Gather Information and Ask Questions About Your First Hangout – Ask people to submit questions and ideas for the Hangout so they can get used to the idea of being involved in these things. It’s not a webinar – it’s an interactive forum and you want people to ask questions and be as involved as possible throughout the entire process.

Analyze Your Posts to See How they Perform –Whenever you post a link on your G+ profile, make sure to use a URL shortener like Bit.ly or Goo.gl. These allow you to track the clicks you get and analyze the traffic it produces. You can then compare the number of clicks you get on any given day with the posts you wrote on that day and see where your traffic is coming from.

Review Your Circles and Add Another 100-200 People – This will be an ongoing task for weeks and possibly even months to come. Look through your circles and add another 100-200 people. This time around, make sure to start removing anyone from your circles that didn’t follow you back. There will be a list on your Circles menu of people who don’t return your follows – allowing you to easily remove them.

Further Split Your Lists and Build on What You’ve Developed – Again, back to list splitting. Circles are powerful if you keep them clean and segmented. If they get cluttered with people you don’t want to send the same message to, you may as well use Facebook for all it’s worth.