Oct 18, 2015 11:20:54 PM by Irene B
Oct 18, 2015 11:07:33 PM by Michael M
Hi everyone, I'm looking into the prospects of hiring a social media manager for a website, someone to make a few interesting and informed posts on facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. every day at about 4 hours per week, and do the work to make our presense more known. I just wanted to know what you guys thought of this type of job in terms of price.
I wasn't sure whether to post this in the freelancers or Client section, as I was interested in everyones perspective. ^_^
Oct 19, 2015 03:47:48 AM by Marcia M
Oct 19, 2015 05:57:17 AM by Jennifer M
Whatever you do, don't hire that $3/hour guy who has anything like "white hat backlinker" or article submissions, blog posts, etc in his profile. Don't pick anyone who barely speaks English. All these people do is spam social media with links. This does nothing for you.
You need someone who engages users. For instance, you're an expert in your field and you know what's trending or what your customers ask of you or maybe something that's in the news related to your industry. Write a great blog post from an expert point of view and share it on social media. Maybe something is trending in the news, and it's OK to share from other sources, but the social media person must be able to research and know how to engage users with the content.
When I do audits, this is one area where I see people fail. They pay some guy who barely speaks the language and has no clue about the industry do their social media and it's a huge fail. All the guy does is spam links, and you're just wasting money that way.
Oct 19, 2015 08:25:09 AM by Darrin O
@Michael M wrote:I just wanted to know what you guys thought of this type of job in terms of price.
Your question doesn't make any sense. Your budget is your business. If you just want to hire someone to crank out garbage, you can pay them garbage. If you expect to hire someone to catch the eye of billionaire patrons, they'll expect to be paid what they're worth.
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