Social Media Manager

Published by: Keyshawn Talley

Social Media has been a huge impact in making a living from the comfort of your home or an office. Megan Brown is a great example of knowing the life as a social media manager and the fast-paced and the ever-changing social media industry. 

Brown graduated from the University of Montevallo with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, currently working as the social media manager at the university as of July 2021. After working with the Marketing and Communication office as a student marketing assistant from 2018-2021. 

Working at a University as a social media manager, “It’s honestly usually very busy and crazy around here. Coming into work the first thing I do is check my emails, check my schedule of what’s planned for today and the week. Making sure I know what’s happening for the week and staying on top of my time for content making,” Brown said. 

Brown knew early on when social media first began that it was going to be life changing and was something that caught her attention making her fall in love in the way it was evolving and changing constantly. First starting off with micro influencing but quickly noticing her interest in social media marketing.“The effect that social media has been something that makes me enjoy my job. I enjoy seeing why and what works well, and the impact social media has on people,” Brown said.

Knowing what it takes to be a social media manager is very important in joining the field. Creating content as a social media manager is a constant thing and running a professional account for any business is a job made for constant posting and being aware of the today’s world.

Managing social media account such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok can be very time consuming. However, if this is the field for you time management is something that is key into being a successful and consistent social media manager.

“Time managment is the essential thing to have in this field because of the constant change and the amount of deadlines knowing when to be finish and when you need to start on a task to have it edited and submitted for approval or up for the views/readers that very important,” Brown said.

Social media is one of the fast ways of gaining followers and becoming the influencer some thrive to be and one social media platform that has really taken off and changed many things for the social media industry has been TikTok.

Brown said, “TikTok is one of the best ways to know trends and challenges and be to quick be apart of it. Trends is something that’s always changes something daily or even weekly. Trends and challenges that you see today might not be the trendy tomorrow or even the following week so constantly checking and being aware of trends and challenges is very important in the social media manager field.”

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