is social media marketing a career? 10 points!!?

[Amber]

is social media marketing a career?? i hear a lot of people do this work in an unpaid internship without moving up?

[Kim Cunnings]

Social media is everywhere these days. Any website you take, it has a like, share, pin, etc. button.
Facebook is social media, Twitter is social media, YouTube is social media, Quora is social media.

Many of those websites offer paid options to advertisers (Facebook ads, YouTube TrueView ads, etc.), because they know marketers are looking into them - there's demand.

I know people who have gotten most of their clients from YouTube/SoundCloud (if you are a musician) or drive most of their traffic from Quora.

Plus, using an array of profiles (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.) to communicate with your community, tout your new offers or even to answer support questions is a popular phenomenon these days.

Not all companies realize the role and the power of social media, and perhaps social media promotion would not be effective in all industries.. But the demand for smart social media marketing and savvy social media marketers will only increase in the future in my opinion.