# Social media manager.

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/social-media-manager/62044>\
**Category:** Study Group: Social Media\
**Created:** [July 31, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/social-media-manager/62044 "2022-07-31T15:49:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![fkhan31](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@fkhan31](https://community.hubspot.com/u/fkhan31)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/social-media-manager/62044/1 "2022-07-31T15:49:43Z")

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Hello! Hope you all are doing well.

I wonder if anyone could provide me guidance on how should I start my work as a social media manager and how to attract customers. As I’m a beginner I can only handle pages by uploading posts and stories and engaging with audience.

It would be a great help if anyone could tell me how should I find customers and start my work and learn experience.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![kvlschaefer](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/kvlschaefer/32/71076_2.png) [@kvlschaefer](https://community.hubspot.com/u/kvlschaefer)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/social-media-manager/62044/2 "2022-08-01T15:43:03Z")

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Hi @fkhan31,

Thanks for reaching out to the group!

Being a social media manager requires constant learning. I would recommend taking as many social media-related courses as possible on HubSpot Academy and other platforms and keeping up to date with trends. I like to read [Social Media Today](https://www.socialmediatoday.com/) to keep up on the latest social media news and insights 🙂

I also wanted to tag in a few of our study group members to see if they have advice.

Hi @EJames33, @Namadi99, @Anannya, @JSiacor, @AMujidat - Do you have any recommendations for @fkhan31?

Thank you,

Kristen

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**Author:** ![fkhan31](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@fkhan31](https://community.hubspot.com/u/fkhan31)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/social-media-manager/62044/3 "2022-08-01T16:02:21Z")

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Hi Kristen.

Thank you so much for replying to my message and providing information.

I would love if you could help me in one thing as well that I have joined Upwork as a freelancer but the problem is that I have trouble making portfolio as I don’t have any work done before in this field. So can you tell me how can I build my portfolio?

Thank you,

Fatima

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**Author:** ![Ahmadraza42421](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/977dab/32.png) [@Ahmadraza42421](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Ahmadraza42421)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 3:56am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/social-media-manager/62044/4 "2022-08-03T03:56:54Z")

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hi there,  
to create a portfolio on Upwork, it is not a must to have done some work on Upwork before. you can make a portfolio without experience.  
These 2 videos can help you in it.  
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdGSmJuhCtM  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO6DX8MPRyo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO6DX8MPRyo)  
and on fiverr you can make gigs  
hope that helps. 🙂