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How to Showcase Your Social Media Skills and Land Your Dream Job

Webbiquity SMM

This is not only about the relevant job skills you’l need, but also about standing out in a sea of applicants. When evaluating you as a job applicant for any role in marketing (particularly social media marketing) or public relations (PR), prospective employers will scrutinize your social media presence and activity.

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What’s your social media marketing budget?

Sherrilynne Starkie

What should be your social media marketing budget? Newbies are often surprised by how much time social media can eat. Newbies are often surprised by how much time social media can eat. Start by pinning down exactly what you want social media marketing to do for your organization. Start small.

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3 analog skills every social media manager needs, from one who’s been in the field 12+ years

Sprout Social

I wasn’t always a social media manager. I started my career as a TV reporter, then worked for a company’s in-house public affairs department, before managing social media professionally. It’s safe to guess the supervisors and leadership also didn’t grow up with social media, and many of them are not avid users.

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What every consultant should know about social media analytics

Sherrilynne Starkie

These are essential skills and talents, but to be a successful social media consultant you must add some ‘left-brain’ qualities. Analyst skills and aptitudes. Effective social media analysis takes the right combination of hard skills and softer aptitudes. Linguistics skills are important too.

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10 All-Important Skills That Successful Social Media Managers Have

agora pulse

Looking for a social media manager or wanting to become one? These skills for social media managers are practically requirements! Social media managers can be an enormous asset to all businesses, brands, and organizations. Qualifications for a Social Media Manager. Strategy matters.

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Decoding corporate communications: Functions, goals and skills

Sprout Social

Corporate communications cover many verticals and each of them needs a separate strategy and skill set. PR needs have undergone a massive shift in the past few years, thanks to emerging technologies and changing media landscape. In fact, 32% of consumers say CEO transparency on social would inspire them to purchase from that brand.

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15 Time-Saving Strategies for Social Media Marketers

Social Media Strategies Summit

As a marketer, it’s important to balance how much time you spend on social media and the results you get. That’s where time-saving strategies for social media management can help you. Expert marketers use these strategies to get the most out of their social media marketing efforts. Social media platform.