If you can easily blow several hours tweeting, find yourself obsessively updating your Facebook status or have ever spent an entire afternoon engaging in a forum discussion, you may want to consider becoming a social media expert.
Is This a Real Work From Home Job?
While some social media jobs require a person to work on-site, a good percentage of them allow employees to work from home since the job is performed wholly on the Internet. Also, keep in mind that this is a service that you can offer as a freelancer or as an independent contractor. Simply post an ad for your services on CraigsList and similar sites, and you just may be able to start a new business.
Get Paid to Tweet, Really?
Yup, really. But that’s not all. Other services you may be asked to perform (or you may want to offer if you’ll be doing this as a freelancer) are:
- Social bookmarking
- Submitting articles to article directories (also consider writing articles for submissions!)
- Submitting press releases to media outlets and directories
- Submitting company websites to search engines and directories
- Forum and blog commenting to provide backlinks to a client’s site
Consider a few recent job descriptions from companies serious about hiring someone to handle their social media needs:
Social Media / Community Manager / Online Marketing
Also, be sure to check out today’s JOB LEADS for social media job leads and other work at home jobs for moms.
What Kind of Companies Need a Social Media Expert?
Any company that plans to do business in the 21st century.
Seriously!
See, business is all about branding and the Internet is an enormous landscape where companies need constant visibility. Gone are the days when it was enough for a company to have a website and an email address. In order to compete in today’s marketplace, companies need to have a presence on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and a variety of forums and other sites where their target customers hang out.
It’s unlikely that busy executives or their employees have the time to engage in all of these mediums on a daily basis, so it makes perfect sense that companies would either create a new position for an employee to handle their social media needs or outsource these duties to someone like yourself who is looking for a perfect work at home job.
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This is an interesting post especially about the new crop of work at home businesses for stay at home moms doing social media campaigns. Although many businesses have heard of facebook and twitter most have no idea about doing social bookmarking for links back to their sites.