Ep. 39: Social selling: How your amazing content can explode growth; with Carrie Wilson

Welcome to Part 2 of our series on Instagram monetization, Social selling: How your amazing content can explode growth (and sales!).  Today’s Instagram expert and special guest is Carrie Wilson, business owner and homesteader, at @thelittlepalletfarmhouse on Instagram.  Click below for show notes! https://ruthiegray.mom/social-selling-how-your-content/ Carrie Wilson, thelittlepalletfarmhouse Carrie’s Passion to Profit Pathway     Carrie shares her advice on how to take advantage of newly released features on the platform for growth, branding, and social selling, plus, how to hone your niche with something called, “talent stacking”!  By the way, if you missed last week’s Episode 38, "Generate Instagram Revenue by Driving Traffic to Your Website with Suzy Goodwin," be sure to catch that later, because you’ll hear her top 3 tips for IG monetization including Content Arcs and much more!   Carrie Wilson of @thelittlepalletfarmhouse on Instagram has a very interesting background!  She grew up in the english countryside, graduated with a medical related degree, backpacked around the world, met celebs and royals, emigrated to the middle east, became a pro horse trainer, and all along the way ran her own companies and modeled professionally for over 20 years but she has always had a longing to be settled somewhere she can cultivate a garden and enjoy animals.   Ruthie: Tell us Carrie, when did you first become passionate about homesteading - did you grow up around gardening and farm life?   Carrie: Well, I grew up in the English countryside, as you can probably tell by my accent, I'm not from around here. I really did have a childhood amongst those picturesque stone built farmhouses, fields of cows, and spring lamb.   Sticking to Your Roots When Developing Your Social Presence C: I’d say that having my own farm  so early on, and I had parents and grandparents that were both avid gardeners, maybe a different style of gardening. Nonetheless, we would enjoy home grown produce. Even if it was just strawberries or salad greens. So, I guess the culture in which I was raised was very much about a home grown and local grown is better.   That was something that was difficult to have during my sort of 20 years of traveling around and living in all these different places.         R: Your tag line is, “Bringing homesteading and social media together for self sufficient living.”  (That is a fabulous tag line, btw.) Although you’ve only been on Instagram six months, your platform is growing quickly! How did you grow from zero to over 8,000 in 6 months?      6 Ways to Successful Social Selling 1.)Defined my story 2.)Got authentic  3.)Niched down 4.)Got consistent 5.)Engaged with audience 6.)Use IG’s new features bc they will push out your content more.   R. As you know, in this series we’re discussing ways to monetize using Instagram, and one of the ways you’re doing this is with a kickstarter to fund your ...