twitter facebook linkedin they're not only a
way to stay connected these days but they're also very important tools for businesses some
companies now dishing out hefty salaries to help manage their social media presence fox 7's photo
clergy joining us with more on that hey photi hey mike yeah this social media thing has
really given birth to an entire new industry meet the social media managers they get paid
to tweet follow make facebook posts and to keep your business relevant the best part some
are making six figures doing it i got laid off it was a time when that was happening it was
about two years ago kate buck was like millions around the country unemployed with lots of time to
reflect i had been playing around a lot on twitter and facebook and what i saw was i just started
noticing i saw people who had large followings people whose followings were growing i saw
a lot of complaining that they had so many direct messages and private messages or they
had so many replies that they they couldn't like manage it all it was then kate seized the
opportunity and started kbj online a social media management company that tweets writes posts pokes
and blogs for major brands around austin it's flexible and it's fun so it's not a job that
i hate doing every day you know i get to play on facebook and twitter for a living so i enjoy
what i do i get to you know make my own hours and you know work with the clients i want to work with
right now she manages about 12 accounts either on her computer or on her iphone the tweets carefully
crafted and strategically executed i think it's just great that she can offer her assistance in
teaching people how to do stuff mackenzie kelly just broke into the industry by day she's a county
employee and volunteer firefighter i actually schedule tweets it's just kind of a couple
hours here a couple hours there on the weekend and on or off time she manages a handful of social
media accounts this year part time i've made about fifty five hundred dollars i charge anywhere
between two and three hundred dollars to get all the social media going for a company right now the
going rate for a full-time social media manager is about forty thousand dollars that's
just to tweet in facebook all day long
