I've just heard that Let's Get Social 3.0, the amazingly popular social media manager training from Kate Buck and sold through the Ryan Deiss organisation is going to be released.
Let's Get Social 3.0 - The Background
Let's Get Social first came out in June 2010 and the training has already been updated once and now the second big update is about to be launched.
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While I'm not a big fan personally, it's pretty clear that social media marketing is here to stay and Let's Get Social helps you to build a business helping other small businesses exploit the social media opportunities.
Kate Buck On Fox News
Kate Buck, the creator of Let's Get Social 3.0 has been featured on Fox News explaining the growth of the role of the social media manager.
Let's Get Social 3.0 - Training To Be A Social Media Manager
Perhaps you've dabbled with social media yourself for marketing purposes.
If so, you'll know that:
- It takes time - and time is something that many small business owners are desperately short of.
- To get results, you need to do it right and be consistently active.
And that's exactly why business owners need help if they want to market their business with Twitter, Facebook and the other social media.
Let's Get Social has become the main training product that is affordable. Yes there are other training courses in social media but many of the well known ones are much more expensive and most don't cover what you need to do to market yourself as a professional social media manager.
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If you're interested in building a career as a social media manager, you owe it to yourself to take a look at Let's Get Social.
Is it right for you? Well that depends on whether you're an action taker or a dreamer. Quite simply, if you buy Let's Get Social 3.0 but don't work through the training or you don't take the actions recommended, then you won't get value for money.
But if you are an action taker then you'll learn a lot from someone who has already done what you want to do... and if you don't, then you're protected by the money back guarantee.
Let's Get Social 3.0 Review
As a successful affiliate for Ryan Deiss, I've been given access to Let's Get Social 3.0 to take a look at it and to write a detailed review.
Am I biased? Well I am an affiliate and if you decide to buy, I'd love it if you bought through my link so I get the small commission... but only if Let's Get Social is right for you. I see too many people buy products they shouldn't have gone near. (See Protecting Yourself From Guru Greed).
Let's Get Social 3.0 is well presented and it has the feel of a quality product based around six core modules as you can see from the images below.
The screen then scrolls down to show the main modules in Let's Get Social.
Let's Get Social Coaching Calls & Q&A Resources
In addition to the main training modules, there are the weekly coaching calls with Kate Buck from the very beginning (June 17th, 2010) where she answers questions from Let's Get Social members.
Even better, these Q&As have been separated into a series of short questions and answers for you to listen to in the Audio Resources. I love this idea which makes the Q&A's much more accessible and useful.
The categories are:
- Blogging
- Branding
- Consultants
- General
- Getting Started With New Clients
- Networking
- New Clients
- Outsourcing
- Package Pricing
- Reputation Management
- Resources
- Social Media Profiles
- Testimonials
- Training
- Websites
- Workload Management and Costs
I can't promise that every question you need to answer when starting and running a social media manager business is there but I bet most of them are and if not, you can ask Kate Buck in future coaching calls.
Just to give you a flavour of the questions that are answered, I've listed a few of them from the new clients section because this may be the most important section to you if you already have good social media skills with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn:
- Evaluating Client Needs
- How Long Until I Get First Clients?
- How To Find Prospects in Specific Niches
- Using PPC Ads to Get Clients
- Tip on Ad Advice For Client's Workshop
- Getting Started When Market Is Not Online
- Attracting New Biz Only Online
- Attracting Nonlocal Clients
This really is a superb resource and something I haven't seen elsewhere. It's also great social proof that plenty of people are using the training to create social media manager businesses. If nobody was doing it, there wouldn't be any questions.
The Let's Get Social 3.0 Core Modules Review
The main formal training in Let's Get Social is built around six modules:
- Introduction to Let's Get Social
- Branding You
- Service Offerings
- Finding Clients
- Doing The Work
- Nuts & Bolts (administering the business)
Each module consists of at least one video plus a pdf copy of the presentation slides and an mp3 recording to suit different learning styles. Some modules have much more content with extra videos and resources.
Module 1 of Let's Get Social 3 - The Introduction
The training starts gently with Kate Buck telling her story and introducing the idea of being a social media manager and an estimate of your potential earnings per hour as a beginner and a more experienced social media expert.
Kate also makes the point that you should only consider a career as a social media manager if you are a very social person who enjoys meeting new people.
Module 2 of Let's Get Social 3 - Branding You
This module looks at how you set up your own Wordpress website/blog and your own social media profiles in a way that will help you to attract clients as a social media professional.
After all, if you're going to help others to use social media marketing effectively, you need to make sure that you look good.
As well as the main training video, there are plenty of supplementary videos in this module along with additional resources to help you to start your social media career in the right way.
This is all good, practical advice and even if you're already active on social media and know what you're doing, you'll benefit from going through this module because the way you currently tweet and use Facebook may not present a professional image.
Module 3 of Let's Get Social - Service Offerings
You've made a start on your social media career but now you need to get specific about what you'll be offering clients.
You need to have something with more substance than "I'll do some tweeting for you" if you are going to persuade business owners to spend money.
This module of Let's Get Social explains the four main types of service you can offer to social media clients and how they will fit together to provide value.
This gives you a very structured approach to thinking through what clients want, need and will be willing to pay for. It also includes some suggested prices although you will find that different types of clients want to pay less or may be prepared to pay more.
Personally I found this module a little scary but I don't want to be a social media manager using Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter for clients. Remember Kate Buck said earlier, if you want to do this stuff for a career, you need to be social.
Module 4 of Let's Get Social 3.0 - Finding Clients
This is the most important part of the Let's Get Social training. If you don't have clients, you don't have a business.
Kate shares her experience of how to find your first clients and in particular how you need to build and deepen your network of contacts. This is the essence of social media marketing and doing it for yourself is good experience for doing it for commercial purposes for clients.
The extra resources include a very useful free report, the 7 Reasons Why You Need A Social Media Manager Right Now which you can use in your marketing. If i was being critical, I don't understand why this isn't available as a Word document to make it easier to brand for yourself. However the pdf protections have been set in a way that lets you copy and paste.
If I was marketing social media services, I'd be tempted to use a report that was routed in problems e.g. The 7 Reasons Why Your Social Media Activities Are Wasting Your Time And Not Helping You To Attract More Customers or The 7 Common Mistakes Made In Social Media Marketing.
There's plenty of helpful advice in the Q&A sessions about getting clients - when you buy Let's Get Social, make sure you go through it all and put the ideas into action.
Module 5 of Let's Get Social - Doing The Work
Now that you've got your first few clients and they've bought into the benefits of social media marketing, you need to make sure that you deliver.
Your success is much more likely if you can win clients and keep them buying from you than having to go out and find new clients all the time.
The focus is on helping you to make effective use of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Plus.
This module is packed with extra information if you haven't though about using these networks for business purposes. The more you know, the more selective you will want to be to save your time going over basics when you should be marketing your social media services.
Module 6 of Let's Get Social 3 - Nuts & Bolts
We've gone through the glamorous stuff of branding, getting clients and using social media but this module makes it all worthwhile. It covers the essential stuff like contracts, billing and getting paid.
Good practical stuff.
My Overall Thoughts On Let's Get Social
Very positive for anyone who wants to be a social media manager. The course is packed with very practical advice on how you can achieve your goals and I love the audio resources with the Q&As broken down into small snippets to help you to focus on what you need.
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If you're intrigued by the idea of a career in social media, then Let's Get Social gives you a great idea about what it's all about. If you like it, do it and if you don't then make sure you make your money back claim under the terms of the guarantee.
If you're a local Internet marketer thinking about adding social media to your portfolio of services because existing clients have indicated that they want to outsource these activities, then you providing the social media services will help protect your other work.
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However I think you should pass on the social media opportunity presented by Let's Get Social if:
- You're not excited about social media - you need to be passionate about it if you're going to talk about it and do it all day.
- You've got the bad habit of buying courses and you don't take action.At best, ask yourself why this will be different and I even recommend that you put it down in writing before you buy.
Let's Get Social gives you plenty of help to become a social media manager but you've still got to put in the effort. Nothing will happen if you don't take action.
My thoughts on Let's Get Social are very positive if this is what you want to do.
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Interested In Being A Social Media Manager But You're Not Sure About Getting Clients?
It is a bit scary to go out to sell your own services. I know because I did it when I became a self employed consultant in 1995.
My friend Lynda Nicholson of St Louis Websites That Work (St Louis Web Design) may be able to help you out and especially if you love horses (Equine Web Design) as we've talked about adding social media to the services that she offers her clients.
Marketing For Let's Get Social 3.0
Let's take a look at the promotions - it's always interesting to see what you can learn from copy that has been tested and proven to work.
Affiliate Email 1 For Let's Get Social 3.0
SUBJECT: A brand new version
Hey,
If you've ever lost a job or wondered how you were going to get ahead again you have to hear Kate's story.
It's definitely inspirational.
Click here to hear Kate's story:
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Now, many of you have emailed with questions regarding the amazing opportunity in Let's Get Social. You wanted to know... "Is this real?" "Did I really believe that it worked?"
My answer is "Yes". Not only do I believe it works, there is no risk in trying it out because we offer a money back guarantee!
And, to make things even better, Kate's just released a brand new update to her course, so you'll be getting the most cutting-edge training available.
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Just listen to what people have been saying about Kate's program:
"My LGS training empowered me to quit my "day job" and work from home, running my own social media agency.
And, thanks to my training, my business is successful! I recently had to hire someone to help me manage my clients!
Having the flexibility to run my own business and be with my kids is a blessing. I can't thank Kate Buck and LGS enough for creating the training needed to help me achieve my dreams." --Jill Celeste
"So glad I took this course. Not only does it offer a road map with all kinds of resources, Kate has become a mentor for all of us. Plus there's the support and sharing within the SMM's group. It's awesome!"
--Chrystina Tovani
"Let's Get Social gives you the quickest and easiest way to enter the social media industry. Hands down winner!" --Cy Price
To hear more about Kate and this amazing opportunity click here:
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Talk Soon,
Paul Simister
Affiliate Email 2 For Let's Get Social 3.0
SUBJECT: New training for Social Media Managers?
Hey,
Kate's made a LOT these past 2 years as a Social Media Manager and her course helped a ton of her students do the same thing.
Since then... everything has changed in social media.
As a result, Kate has completely overhauled her entire training program to bring it completely up-to-date with all of the latest changes across the major social media platforms...
...and her course is now better than ever!
Check it out right now and start getting clients this week:
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Talk Soon,
Paul Simister
PS - If you are one of the thousands of current Let's Get Social students, then you already have access to this training. Just log into the training site.
What Is Your Experience Of Let's Get Social?
As an active affiliate for Ryan Deiss, I have sold a lot of copies of Let's Get Social and most of the feedback I've received about Kate Buck is very positive. Yes there have been some refunds but it's impossible to please everybody.
I'd like to hear what you think so please leave me a comment below.
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