moonchild
VIP Contributor
Social media marketing is one of the branches of digital marketing that gets more press and recognition among digital marketers, this is rooted in how simple and straight forward it seems to be. In this article we'll explores how you can start a career in social media marketing.
1- Manage your own accounts: To get a headstart in the world of social media marketing you have to be able to start with yourself, take your own social media accounts and manage them effectively, select a theme or template, post engaging contents and major growth, use softwares that monitor page's health and engagement like Sprout and Hubspot etc.
2- Leverage your own personal network: Use your own network to get initial customers, it'll be easier for your family or group of friends to trust with their accounts than a stranger on the internet, you can get them excited by showing them what you have done already and from there you can have a portfolio to show to other people and get them as paying customers.
Branding can go a long way too, there are softwares like Canva, that makes branding very easy, you can leverage on that too.
1- Manage your own accounts: To get a headstart in the world of social media marketing you have to be able to start with yourself, take your own social media accounts and manage them effectively, select a theme or template, post engaging contents and major growth, use softwares that monitor page's health and engagement like Sprout and Hubspot etc.
2- Leverage your own personal network: Use your own network to get initial customers, it'll be easier for your family or group of friends to trust with their accounts than a stranger on the internet, you can get them excited by showing them what you have done already and from there you can have a portfolio to show to other people and get them as paying customers.
Branding can go a long way too, there are softwares like Canva, that makes branding very easy, you can leverage on that too.