Work it: how to land virtual, flexible positions for corporations using your social media footrprint as your portfolio.

1. WORK IT
How to get virtual flexible positions for corporations using your social footprint as a portfolio.
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2. Nuts & Bolts
✤ This presentation is about...
✤ The tools needed to find,
land and succeed at virtual
& flexible, hourly or salaried
positions for corporations
✤ This presentation is NOT
about...
✤ Building or running your
own business
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3. Common Paths
✤ Already in a corporate
environment and looking for
something with more flexibility
✤ Looking to re-enter the
workforce after an extended
leave but still want flexibility
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4. Potential Roles
✤ Social Media Manager
✤ Designer
✤ Writer/Content Manager
✤ Community Manager
✤ Project Manager
✤ Developer
✤ Virtual Assistant
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5. Success Stories
Reasons to believe. They are doing it and so can you!
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6. Rachel
@RachelVoorhees
✤ Writer for @allParenting and
BevMo!
✤ Social Media Manager for
Wine.com
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7. Nichole
@NicholeBeaudry
✤ Assignment Editor for
@allParenting
✤ Parenting Columnist for
@SheKnows
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8. Kris
@KMulkey007
✤ Director of PR, Influencer
Marketing, Events at BevMo!
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9. Amy
@BayAreaMoms
✤ Writer for Gate.com
✤ Editor at BabyCenter.com
✤ Content Manager for
✤ Writer for Best Western
International
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10. Yuliya
@YPatsay
✤ Social Media Manager for
Spotivate.com
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11. How to put your
best foot forward
✤ Accounts you may already
have...
✤ Blog, Twitter, Facebook,
Flickr, Pinterest, Instagram,
etc.
✤ Your mission is to make all of
these (more) corporate friendly
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12. How to put your
best foot forward
✤ Accounts you might NOT
have...
✤ Quora, Slideshare, Twylah
✤ What to do with them and why
they are important
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13. How to put your
best foot forward
✤ The account you MUST have:
Linkedin
✤ Use corporate speak
✤ Be specific, use metrics
✤ Do’s and Don’ts
✤ Use it as a networking tool
✤ Groups
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14. Keys to Success
✤ Consider signing up for oDesk
(& others) AND take the tests
✤ Get credentials (Google adwords,
USF Integrated Online Strategies)
✤ Network your butt off
✤ Find mentors
✤ Be willing to work harder than
you have ever worked before
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15. Day in the Life of a
Social Media Manager
✤ Daily Schedule
✤ When, where and how the
magic happens
✤ Tools
✤ Time tracking, profiles,
workflow
✤ Monitoring, measuring, content
management, publishing
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16. Key Takeaways
✤ Potential Roles
✤ Do’s and don’ts of corporate
friendly social profiles
✤ How to actually land the job
✤ Common tools a Social Media
Manager can utilize
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17. Questions?
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18. Thank You.
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19. Apendix
✤ https://twitter.com ✤ http://www.linqia.com/
✤ https://www.facebook.com ✤ http://www.interactivemarketingtraining.com/
online-internet-marketing-course.asp
✤ http://www.flickr.com
✤ http://www.google.com/intl/en/adwords/
✤ http://pinterest.com professionals/individual.html
✤ http://statigr.am/
✤ https://www.toggl.com/
✤ https://www.quora.com/
✤ http://www.labnol.org/software/create-family-
profiles-in-google-chrome/4394/
✤ http://www.slideshare.net ✤ http://sproutsocial.com/
✤ http://www.twylah.com/ ✤ http://hootsuite.com/
✤ https://www.linkedin.com/ ✤ https://bitly.com/
✤ https://www.odesk.com/ ✤ http://www.pinerly.com/
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