7 Things I Learned From Leading A Photoshoot For The First Time (on the brand side)

July 06, 2020 / Chrishaun

Before the coronavirus took havoc on us all, I traveled to North Carolina in place of my manager, the Director of Marketing, to help co-lead a photoshoot for one of our brands with our media agency.

It was the first time that I had ever attended a shoot without a manager and was allowed to guide the shoot a bit more with my expertise.

I thought that I'd be nervous about taking on such a significant learning opportunity, but it wasn't that bad. Thanks to my team (the media agency, a brand manager, and a product manager), I was able to get through a two-day shoot without too many mistakes.

Here are the seven things that I learned from co-leading my first professional photoshoot as a Marketing Manager on the brand side.

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categories / Career, Work, Work Life
tags / Photo Shoot, Marketing Manager, Client Side, Brand Side

Who Wants to Be a #DigitalMarketer?

August 01, 2019 / Chrishaun

I first got the taste of digital marketing as an Account Executive for an advertising agency that specialized in experiential, digital, and social media. Before I made the shift to agency life, I was surviving in a corporate sales position at a Fortune 500 company with dreams of one day working in marketing.

While dreaming about the perfect position, I was also taking action. I researched, networked, volunteered, and interned for different brands on off days until my hard work paid off. I treated building my marketing career as an actual part-time job to get to where I wanted to go. I knew that if I wanted to to be taken seriously, I needed to land on the type of marketing work I wanted to do and plan the perfect exit strategy.

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categories / Millennial, Social Media, Career, Work
tags / marketing, digital mar, career, career tips

{ #Dreamer }

May 05, 2018 / Chrishaun

I am a dreamer. I dream vividly and in color every night. Sometimes my dreams have meaning and other times my dreams are frightening. Some days I even dream with my eyes open. Nevertheless, I am a firm believer that dreams are powerful.

Dreams are so powerful that they occasionally cause people to forget the reason why they started dreaming in the first place. As children we dream about the future and then as adults, we dream up an entirely new future. Never (well almost never) do we take a moment to enjoy the present. A moment to enjoy the beauty that we had once dreamt about and now live in.

For me, my dream was to become a successful professional. I did not care what it took to get there, but I knew I had to be there. After I had visualized a future for myself and of course internalized a few short-comings, I ran towards my end goal 2,000 miles per hour. Life was great!

I zoomed through college as fast as I could, then zoomed through interviews, then my first internship, then my first job, then my new role, then another role, then another role, and so on. It all seemed great until it was not.

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categories / Career, Life, Millennial, Personal
tags / life, dream, work, live, breaks, career, dream job, best life, fruits of labor, taking a break, pause

{ Be More #Social, Off Social: #Networking Like A Pro }

November 08, 2017 / Chrishaun

Being a social butterfly is not something that comes easily to most people. I would admit, most days I do not like talking to people. But as a professional, you have to get over that. If not, you will find yourself stuck in a position that you hate or in a career you wish you had never started.

When I started my career, I was told to "put in my time first" before going after that big title. They were right, but they failed to mention putting in time off the clock too. It took me a few years to understand that concept, but now as I take on year five of my career and recent promotion to my eighth title, I have discovered a few insights about networking. First, to grow in your career you must learn to network like a pro, inside and outside of the office. Here are four networking secrets I would recommend to anyone who is ready to take their career to the next level.

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tags / Social Media, social media, social media marketing, network, networking, Social Relationship Management, Relationships, social butterfly, plan, Business Goals, business cards, invest, career driven, Career, Social Career

{ #SocialMedia Managers }

September 05, 2017 / Chrishaun

10 years ago, Social Media Managers were probably non-existent. When I was in college, I didn’t think to myself “when I graduate I want to be a social media manager”. However, in 2017 almost every company has one or a social team.

According to a Google Trends search, the term “social media manager” is one of the most popular searches. At the beginning of 2007, the term was less than 1% popular in the United States, but in March 2017 it peaked in popularity due to an interest spike. This leads me to conclude that businesses now understand the correlation between managing a successful online marketing strategy versus just posting content online. In walks the Social Media Manager.

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categories / Millennial, Work, Career, Social Media
tags / social media, social media marketing, social media management, social media manager, Google Trends, Google, Posting, Online Strategy, Time, Time Savers, Brand Management, Content Strategy, Social Listening, Data, Analytics, Reporting, Tools, Business Goals, Data Loers, Data Lovers, Marketing Strategy, Loyalty, Brand Awarenes, Brand Awareness, Results, Social Relationship Management, SRM, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, Optimizations, Data Hub, Influencer, Social Career, Need Social, Why are social media managers important?, Why social media?, Why brands need social media marketing?, Career

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7 Things I Learned From Leading A Photoshoot For The First Time (on the brand side)

Who Wants to Be a #DigitalMarketer?

{ #Dreamer }

{ Be More #Social, Off Social: #Networking Like A Pro }

{ #SocialMedia Managers }