Welcome to the Advanced Training section of your members area! Here you’ll discover why social media is so important to businesses, why business don’t handle social media marketing in-house, and how you can position yourself to tap into the enormous profits that can be made working as a social media manager.

We know that there are millions of businesses hiring people for social media jobs, but why? If you have a better understanding of what businesses want to achieve with social media marketing you are more likely to get hired and get long term work from employers.

So we know that social media marketing is important to businesses, but why don’t they do it themselves? Or have one of their existing employees do the work for them? Some businesses do, but the vast majority of them don’t.

At the heart of everything you do as a social media manager are the actual social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. As a social media manager,  you need to be familiar with all of these platforms and know how to setup, manage and work with accounts on all of them.

The way in which you present yourself to prospective clients plays a HUGE role in how many new jobs and projects you get. You only get one chance to make a great impression and working online it can be even trickier.

Here is the part where you actually start work! You know what being a social media manager is all about, you know what kinds of jobs you will be doing, and you know how to do them. Now it’s time for you to actually start doing some jobs and start making some money!

There is no point in becoming a social media manager and then spending 12 hours a day trying to get everything done for your clients. Follow our strategy and you will be able to get all of the work done for multiple clients in 30 minutes or less per day.

Just because you have bid on some projects and sent out some proposals to prospective clients, doesn’t mean you can just sit on your hands and wait for the money to flow in. You need to convince your prospective clients that they NEED to hire you.

There is a very simple, three part formula that we like to call ‘The Profit Formula’. If you follow just these three simple steps, you will be able to grow your profits exponentially.

How would you like to be able to earn 2 -3 times as much money for doing exactly the same amount of work? Well that’s what the pro’s do and now you can learn how to do exactly the same.

When you are selling your services as a social media manager, your clients are essentially your customers. Studies have shown that it is 5 to 10 times easier to sell to existing customers than it is to get new ones, so it is imperative that you turn as many of your one time jobs into long term clients as possible!

How would you like to have your own virtual sales team going out on your behalf and convincing businesses to hire you to do social media jobs in their business?

We have put together a ‘Proposal Document’ that you can use to help you close more social media clients and get more sales. It contains a sales pitch on social media management services and a full services and pricing list.

One of your biggest duties as a social media manager is to ensure that your clients build and foster good relationships with their customers on social media sites. If someone posts a complaint on your employers Facebook page, you need to be quick to respond.

No matter what kind of work you do, or who you work for, you are bound to come across problem clients or customers at one time or another. Luckily, when you are working for yourself as a social media manager online, you don’t have to put up with these people. You are your own boss and these problem clients aren’t worth your time.

When you are working for clients on a project by project basis, if you can increase your productivity by 50%, you increase your earnings by 50%. It’s as simple as that.

Because you aren’t working in an office where your employer can see the work you are doing, the businesses that you work for as a social media manager are going to want you to show in other ways the work you are doing and the results you are getting.