Cecilia Waldron
Whitby, Ontario
In 2008 as an owner of a small business in Brooklin Ontario, I found myself with some extra time in my hands and decided to create a Networking group for the local business community. At that time Networking events were a rare event and mine were held with great success. Networking led to some collective marketing initiatives and finally the creation of a website to promote my fellow business owners.
This also led to my growing interest in Social Media. The journey has been slow and arduous. My biggest challenge has been to convince others of the potential of Social Media for their businesses; it’s hard for anyone to understand the long term benefit of being “Social”. Most want (and need) results fast! It’s my job to show them how.
Since not until lately, Social Media education was non- existent, all my learning has been self- taught. To my benefit, I get up early, and I spend 2 or 3 hours in the morning catching up with Social Media news, learning about new trends and technology.
One of the people that I follow is Andrea Vahal and when she opened up a Social Media Manager online course I jumped right in. Even though, the course covered lot of what I already knew, now it feels good to have a piece of paper to prove it.
Other past experiences in Office administration, event planning and social networking with past courses in Sociology and Psychology, have helped me understand the social trends of online marketing and I hope to further share and mentor those starting in their Social Media path. My strengths are; my research and understanding of your “audience”, creating your brand’s “voice, creation of strategies to reach your customers, mentoring relationship building and analyzing of strategies to improve your general ROI.
Someone once called me “the People connector” because of my extensive network of business owners in Durham and Toronto areas and because whenever possible I use this network to improve and expand other’s networks as well. Pair this with my Social Media Networks and community outreach and you will find that I can be an excellent addition to your own Social worth.
Disclaimer: My strength is Not Graphic design, web design, public speaking, videography, photography or any other field related to Social Media. And even though, I can and have done all of the above, Im primarily a Social Media Manager!
Specialties:
- Google+