Using Facebook to Expand Your Translation Business

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Topics: Audio-visual translation and subtitling
Software, tools & computing
Services and specialization
Grow your translation business
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Start time:Jun 6, 2018 16:00 GMT     Add to calendar

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Language:English
Duration:60 minutes
Summary:Make the most of your social media use by making Facebook work towards your professional goals. Create a very effective business persona online and use Facebook as your virtual store front and portfolio. Engage your audience and peers alike and receive recommendations for your services.
Description
Are you using social media to your advantage? More specifically, are you using Facebook as a work tool, or an excuse to just procrastinate?

Even if you have already taken some social media courses and webinars to try to boost your business online, keep in mind that Facebook is constantly changing, so you must be on top of your game in order to adapt quickly and keep making the most of it as a professional tool.

In this webinar, you'll learn how to use professional pages and groups effectively and keep in mind the DOs and DON'Ts that will help you assure productivity, increase engagement, avoid procrastination, and prevent negative aspects related to online social interactions.



Target audience
Anyone looking to promote their business online, especially on Facebook
Learning objectives
  • How to use these three components to promote your business:
    » a personal profile
    » a professional page
    » a professional group

  • How to engage your audience through your professional page

  • How to engage peers through your professional group

  • How to make the most of audiovisual content
    » Videos
    » Photo gallery
    » Our Story

  • How to create on-line and off-line events

  • How to take advantage of Facebook paid advertisement
    » Post boosting
    » Sponsored campaigns
    • Prerequisites
    Being familiar with Facebook at the user level
    Program
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    Profile vs. Page Page engagement Group engagement Video content Photo gallery "Our Story" Events Post boosting Campaigns
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    Created by
     Rafa Lombardino    View feedback | View all courses
    Bio: Rafa Lombardino is a translator and journalist from Brazil who lives in California. She has been working as a translator since 1997 and, in 2011, started to join forces with self-published authors to translate their work into Portuguese and English. In addition to acting as content curator at eWordNews, she also runs Word Awareness, a small network of professional translators, and coordinates a project called Contemporary Brazilian Short Stories (CBSS) to promote Brazilian literature worldwide.
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