Being a social media manager is no piece of cake. You’ve got to tweet 5 million times a day, reply to all those demanding customers and toughest of all, answer your boss’s never ending questions on ROI. Every holiday when your friends are going to parties but you have to be in office cuz “real-time marketing”.
If you work in a social media team, here are top thoughts you’ve had for sure:
[1] When explaining what you do to your grandparents
[2] The inexplicable joy when someone finally gets what your job actually means
[3] Or better, when someone asks you for social media advice for their small business
[4] When the numbers have been looking good
[5] When an influencer reposts you unprompted your little chest puffs out with pride
[6] When your colleague takes a look at what you’re doing and goes “Woah! I can’t imagine how you make any ROI out of all that data
[7] Oh the rage when you need to wait and wait to get approval for that super funny tweet, and when you finally get permission, the moment has passed
[8] When your boss says tweeting shouldn’t take that much time
[9] When your sales team says it gave them no leads
[10] When you’re made to answer the dreaded ROI question for the millionth time
[11] When you have to put all your work into one tiny presentation because performance review
[12] But you show them with the most insightful report that includes engagement, share of voice, sentiment and all the magical numbers
[13] When you finally finish that massive report you’ve been working on for days and then decide to cc everyone so they can see how awesome you are
[14] Finally when your boss says they might increase the budget for social advertising
[15] At the end of the day, when you realize no matter what, you love your job
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