5 Things to Look For When Hiring a Social Media Expert

Re: 5 Things to Look For When Hiring a Social Media Expert

Hi webguru11,

I am looking for a Social Media person who will able to handle my websites on SMO level. Thanks for sharing these 5 excellent tips. Its very useful for me. 🙂

Re: 5 Things to Look For When Hiring a Social Media Expert

I am not sure a blog is really a requirement for being a social media expert. I know lots of people heavily involved in social media that would never maintain a blog and yet they are still the best at what they do. Also a lot of people / businesses are not really looking for social media experts but are looking for experts in other fields that can apply their knowledge to social media. These are skills like programming, design, writing, research, administration, SEO etc. Most social media sites are very straight forward and easy to use so becoming an expert user of the sites mentioned takes all of about a few hours to learn. Most business also already have a clear idea of what they want from there social media campaigns and it is really just a matter of execution.

Re: 5 Things to Look For When Hiring a Social Media Expert

# A person having at least two to three years of experience in social media is favorable.
# Their knowledge on social media should not be limited only to blogging, twitter and Facebook. They should have proper in-depth knowledge on the subject.
# Make sure that their past work on social sites contains messages which are not only interesting but also give the targeted audience an incentive to pass it on to others.
# The “followers” should be relevant people to the concerned niche and not just the results of auto-follow. Having distinguished followers on twitter and their blog is always a perk but not a necessity.
# They should be able to help your SEO by building relationships in the social world and soon turn them into links.
# They should be active on social sites every day.

Re: 5 Things to Look For When Hiring a Social Media Expert

Hello All

I think experienced is the biggest thing in today's world and we have to hire a experienced person for doing SEO and SMO.

Nick

Re: 5 Things to Look For When Hiring a Social Media Expert

Rather than going to social media person (freelancer) always go for company who project to be an expert in SMM.

Re: 5 Things to Look For When Hiring a Social Media Expert

I am also very tired of hearing about how "experts" are all slick talking marketers - I have intense experience in Social Media and try my best to keep up on the practices of marketing on Social Media. I too wrote a blog about experts and marketing. Please take a look, I will be posting your blog to my Social Media Accounts today for sure!! (www.facebook.com/synchronoussoft)

Re: 5 Things to Look For When Hiring a Social Media Expert

Well, if it is possible, you should also contact the past or current employer of that social media expert and ask on how he has contributed to the growth of the website and on how he helped increased the revenue. no point of hiring someone who can't make your revenues higher.

Re: 5 Things to Look For When Hiring a Social Media Expert

No Business want Social Media Expert for sell their own product or services ....If you have Social Media Expert on your Payroll for sell your product or services..its totally waste of money...According to me You might be Best Social Media Expert for your Sell.