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Social Media Manager School Review

Social Media Managing Is A New Profession

The Social Media Manager School (SMMS) helps you to retrain yourself to have a legitimate work from home career as a social media manager or contractor. The aim of the principals of the Social Media Manager School is to help you to transition to the new career successfully through quality technical training and business training with post certification mentoring through a private Facebook Group. The goal of this review is to tell you how they do this and why you should consider undertaking this certification and mentoring course.

Legitimate Work From Home Professions Are Real

The benefit of the Social Media Manager School is that you can be trained to be completely independent in a work from home career that is legitimate. You can design your own schedule and assign the workload to fit your busy life. Thanks to the digital age, businesses are now able to successfully operate by way of the internet no matter where they are located. What makes this possible is finding a quality mentoring program to assist in the transition. The key principals of the online school are two of the world’s best social media experts, authors and business coaches, Andrea Vahl and Phyllis Khare.



Andrea Vahl And Phyllis Khare Are Leaders In Social Media Training

In my website http://www.freelance-work-guide.com I look at career transitions and getting paid for your skills. One of the due diligence checks that you need to make when considering retraining to enhance your skills is to look at the background of your trainers. Here is the background of Andrea and Phyllis which is taken from the introduction to the website Social Media Manager School :

Andrea Vahl, social media coach, strategist, author, and speaker, thrives on helping small businesses receive the training required to take their business or organization to the next level by utilizing Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and other social media tools. She teaches the importance of building a “following” on the internet to enhance your social media presence among other businesses. Andrea sets up social media workshops, Facebook Boot camps and webinars, in addition to one-on-one coaching. In 2011, she coauthored the book titled Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies, which has become invaluable in the field of social media. She also acts as the Community Manager for a premier online magazine, Social Media Examiner, which helps businesses learn how to use social media tools to increase brand awareness and sales. This online magazine has received high ratings amongst the social media world, and ranks as one of the world’s “Top 100″ business blogs. Andrea created an entirely new Internet presence for herself as a way to make learning social media fun and easy. Her alter ego, Grandma Mary, has become known as a social media “edutainer”. Because of her background in improv comedy, Andrea was able to utilize her gift to educate people about how their businesses and organizations can benefit from social media.

Phyllis Khare wrote a unique eLearning Kit, a book called Social Media Marketing for Dummies, which includes an online learning course with each level. She also coauthored Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies along with social media colleagues Amy Porterfield and Andrea Vahl. With her innovated creation of The Social Classroom, she has been able to share how tested and tried ideas and strategies help businesses acquire more customers by excelling in the area of social media utilization. Phyllis has held the position of Community Manager for iPhone Life Magazine as well as having contributed work for eMarketingVids and Social Media Examiner. She has also been a presenter for the Social Media Success Summit along with the TedXWomen Fairfield. Phyllis writes for one of the largest online publishers in the world today, GSG World Media. She is frequently asked to be a speaker and trainer for many social media programs because of her ability to inspire others to increase their web marketing presence. Phyllis enjoys spending time with her infant grandbaby that already has a love of typing and technology.

Social Media Manager Review Process

When I was looking for a training course for social media contractors and managers I was looking for a course that had three key elements. These elements were technical excellence, business development advice (how to) and a post course mentoring group. Also, the course had to be affordable for people whose finances had been under pressure for various reasons. I also planned to undertake the course to judge whether someone changing careers could do it. My career background is completely different – banking, accounting and financial planning.

There are other training courses which are more niche related that I also support and recommend.

The method that I have followed with Social Media Manager School’s training modules is to quote their modules content and comment where I think it is applicable now and in the future.

Social Media Manager School Training Modules And Comments

Here is what you will learn from the Social Media Manager School:

SMMS Module One: Finding New Clients

• Finding new clients online and offline using various social media sources (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
• How to work with local business or organizations
• Essential marketing materials to help bring clients to you
• Asking for referrals from your pleased and successful clients
• Vital conversations – questions to ask before you commit How to avoid wasting time by evaluating whether a client is able to pay you
• Communication with small business clients and corporate clients to make them aware of what you offer, making you hirable

SMMS Module Two: Managing Existing Clients

• How to create reports quickly and easily
• Maintaining a time-effective schedule for communicating with clients
• Setting expectations for clients so that you both are successful
• How to ensure people get “on-board” with your plan
• What are the Top 20 questions from clients and great answers

SMMS Module Three: Organizing your work

• Top Tools List to streamline your work, making it easier.
• How to use all the best features within Hootsuite
• Using the essential site crowd booster
• Editorial calendars, including samples for your use
• Finding the best sources of content for clients
• Using Google Calendar and other appointment schedulers to manage client meetings
• Screen share tools to get the most out of your meetings
• How to use If This Then That to send tweets to a calendar

SMMS Module Four: Money Money Money

• What your rates should be and knowing what your competitors charge
• Managing your billing system with different tools making it easier for clients to pay you quickly
• How to estimate time for monthly contracts so that you don’t lose money
• Sample contract templates

SMMS Module Five: Always Learning

• This module provides you with tutorials and specialized social media tips and tools to increase social media presence for your clients.
• How to sharpen your Twitter skills
• How to sharpen your Facebook skills
• How to sharpen your YouTube skills
• How to sharpen your LinkedIn skills
• How to sharpen your G+ skills
• How to sharpen your Pinterest skills

SMMS Module Six: Mobile and More

• How to manage your clients from your mobile device so you can get out of the office
• How to handle and walk your client through a crisis
• Long term solutions and strategies for clients, including websites,
• social accounts, and products
• How to grow your business

My Social Media Manager School Recommendations

For Small To Medium EnterprisesAt a one off cost of $247.00 (As at April 15th., 2013) I recommend that small business owners looking to introduce social media to their business and to train their employees that they both should undertake the course. It will provide the foundation for the transition to being successfully involved in social media.

The most important concept to grasp when considering whether to introduce social media to your business is that you are switching from an outbound marketing focused business to an inbound marketing focused one. Social media is about engagement and it needs to be actively managed.

HubSpot, one of the world’s leading social media companies, believes that inbound marketing focused businesses have a cost per lead 61%* less than outbound marketing-focused ones. This means that for businesses actively involved in marketing that they can expect a clear Return on Investment.
(*http://offers.hubspot.com/ultimate-library-of-inbound-marketing-templates)

For People Wishing To Train As Social Media Managers/Contractors
For people with previous business or social media experience the Social Media Manager School will train you as to what services you can provide, how to go about it and the appropriate pricing. You will have a clear understanding of your value statement by the end of the course. The training modules are listed above. However, what is not readily apparent in looking at the modules content is the strong business experience and depth of the trainers, Andrea Vahl and Phyllis Khare. This is particularly evident in the post certification private Facebook Group where mentoring and support occurs.

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