Pay Someone to Handle Your Twitter Account  

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With all the various forms of free social media available, many companies are choosing to take advantage of these media in order to promote their business. However, maintaining a Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn account can be overwhelming. Many viewers lose interest in pages that are not regularly updated on a daily or somewhat daily basis. One company, Catch Friday, provides businesses with a virtual assistant who manages Twitter accounts for large corporations.

The virtual assistant is repsonsible for keeping the Twitter pages updated often and appropriately. Companies seem to like the idea because there is no long term commitment made between the company and the VA. If a business does not approve of how their Twitter page is being handled they can simply chose to dispose of their VA and search for another one. Virtual assistants are responsible for tasks such as following other Twitter users, starting conversations related to the company, and monitoring online discussions.

Social media is an enormous part of how businesses and individuals interact these days and making sure your company is properly represented is not an easy job. I feel that virtual assistants will definitely be of great help to companies that cannot maintain their own social media accounts. Link to the article below.

http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=56238

3 comments

Asher Simonds   says January 5, 2010 at 8:56 AM

This is an interesting idea, and may be popular with companies that want to get into the social media world but do not have the training or the time to facilitate. But while outsourcing for this might be a step in the right direction, hiring someone out of the blue to maintain a company's image could be hairy.

Samantha Dudics   says January 5, 2010 at 5:36 PM

I don't think this is a good idea. I would never want a 3rd party to represent me. If they mess up then I'm the only one that looks bad. I worked for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey over the summer in their Marketing Department. There was a person on the team there that was responsible for the PATH Twitter account. I feel like hiring someone to manage the companies twitter account is a good idea but I think that the person should then be working for and with the actually company and not with a 3rd party.

Maija Heard   says January 6, 2010 at 3:31 PM

I have mixed feelings about these virtual assistants. They may allow for more buzz about the company, which may be a good thing. However, even if only during a trial period a VA posts up something that the company would not approve of, it is not like they can take back what was said. In the end, having someone in house put up the posts would be the best decision.

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