Ryan's Social Media Manager?

any reviews on this one?

I'd like to hear some reviews.

I can see he's getting a good amount of sales on this one.

I'm actually posting a review-imagine that. Not that I can complain-I'm guilty of cluttering threads with chit-chat posts too-but wow-18 posts and nothing but a single review...of an ordering problem. [MODERATOR NOTE: A lot of the irrelevant posts have now been deleted.]

Hang in there isee-I think it seems worth it so far-though I've only gone through a fraction of the site as yet. I had no problem ordering with cc; sorry to hear of yours.

Sorry this isn't more informed-I've only had time so far to look once at a small portion of the program, and forgot a few details:

There is an upsell, but not an oto-it's just an offer to have your social media accounts set up for you to get up and running with professional looking pages quickly if you don't know how yet. The offer is repeated on the inside, with no time limit. I figured that would be silly, since that's one of the things you'll be doing for clients-might as well learn by creating your own to start.

The core of the program is 6 training modules with video supplemented by PDFs. It's really Kate Buck's program; Ryan's her JV partner, and interviews her in the intro module, and after that (so far), Kate takes it. I found her easy to listen to and she does a great job of pacing the info and making it digestible. The modules are:

1) Introduction: 32:32 minutes
2) Branding You: 38:50
3) Service Offerings 22:31
4) Doing The Work 16:39
5) Finding Clients 31:31
6) Nuts and Bolts 22:05

So far I've watched all of the first two, and #5 on getting clients.

Although the intro is fairly basic, it was a decent introduction to what her business and course is all about-I need to listen again, as you'll soon see.

I thought the second one had lots of good ideas about how to get started right so that you look professional, and establish yourself as a credible business. She talked about creating a consistent look, making it work with your personality, and considerations to take into account when deciding whether to brand yourself personally with your name, or as a company. She stresses the importance of always demonstrating your services by having quality pages for yourself on all your social media accounts first-clients look for that. She got into lots of other branding stuff too-pretty good grounding material.

The client getting module was pretty good in a general way-mostly she talks about networking both on and offline, making friends, starting with who you know, not being too "salesy", etc. I was kind of hoping for more step by step detailed methods of landing clients, but there are plenty of those around, and she was speaking from her experience, which has been a pretty natural approach, as opposed to specific techniques like you can find on offlineisagoldmine, and in plenty of WSOs.

Outside of the training modules section, there are 3 other tabs: Resources, Coaching, and Social Insiders Club.

I haven't gotten far, but I found the resources tab contains a collection of links to tools Kate finds useful, also a bunch of wordpress tutorials, some short video tutorials on uploading Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook backgrounds, and Wordpress themes, and a paypal section on how to do everything from setting up your account to creating a buy now button in Dreamweaver.

The coaching tab has a box for you to ask questions for Kate to answer in one of her weekly coaching calls. It says that over the next 4 weeks, Kate will "personally coach you" so you'll "never have a question that goes unanswered". It also contains archived calls (1 so far, but with three spaces for new ones-the second call is tomorrow).

She tries to cover the questions that come in during the week first, and then goes to the live callers that raised their hands by pressing 1, in the order they were received. I've only listened to a few minutes of the first call. I don't know if she gets to all the questions or not, but my impression based on her relaxed style and apparent professionalism and knowledge, is that this could be a pretty cool part of the program. I think after 4 weeks are up, the calls might be part of the "Social Insiders Club" which you get a 30 day trial of, and then you have to pay 20-something a month-not positive on that though.

They could do with an FAQ section, which they don't have so far, but they are adding to the site as they go. I forget some of the details that I probably heard about the insiders club fee in the introductory video, and it would be nice to look my questions up instead of listening to the whole video again.

The "Social Insiders Club" tab includes three topics-Q and A calls, which is redundant-contains the exact same thing as the coaching tab, the Monthly Nuts and Bolts where she says she'll cover the latest trends, tools, etc, but there's nothing there so far, and the insider interview, where she interviews a successful social media manager-and there's one interview stored so far. I listened to about 5 minutes of it before bed last night-seemed pretty good.

They also said, in response to requests, that they're going to add another module that goes into more detail on how to set up your facebook fanpage, so they seem to be responding to members, which bodes well.

That's about all I know so far-it seems worth the price for me, but there are still some things you'll need to figure out on your own, or get help with. I think it's totally possible that with perseverance a person could use this as a guide to start their own successful social media manager career. If I'm right, I'd say $97 is a good investment, but I'm not sure how long they will keep it open, or keep it at that price-it is a class, and I hope they limit the size, just so they can be responsive to existing members.

Oh yes-they have a contact us support number, but I called it and got voicemail. I didn't leave one, but I should, just to see how long it takes to get a response-for some reason, most of the programs I've ever tried never do return their calls, and often don't respond to tickets either-drives me mad. They do give the ticket option as well, and here's hoping they are a lot more responsive than most of the teaching programs out there.

Overall, I give it a B, which could change to an A if they do a great job of adding to it as we go.

Hope someone finds that helpful.

Thank you Greg guitar for an excellent review! I bought it just because I'm interested in the niche and I'm a bit into module 2 so far and so far I like it although pretty basic. But I'm positive it'll be a great product if they ad a FAQ as you say and give good support. Overall a good product.

I've gone through all the training modules, too, and although it's not quite fair for me to say so (since I am not a newbie to internet or to business), I think it's entirely possible to build a service business with what they've provided. In fact, I recommended it to my list as something that they could use by itself, or add as a service to what they are already offering.

It is a little light in the customer acquisition arena, and in the running the business arena, but not as sketchy as some other products I've seen with a much higher price tag. Suggestions and templates are given, it's just a bit light on detail and strategies.

I haven't gone through all their "resources" or the additional "how-to" videos yet, but feel confident that someone who enjoys social media could use this to create a business. I also think it could provide valuable information for someone who simply wants more information on how to position him/herself using Twitter and Facebook, etc.

And I think it's worth the $97 price tag.

can some1 who's got this course pls comment more on the content of the course? particularly the "Nuts & Bolts" of actually managing others' social media accts? I hav an existing outsourcing biz, n social media is def a service I'll be offering, just want the best training on wat to offer, how much to charge, n how to actually do it (to train my staff).

would u recommend this course for the above needs?

Ryan Deiss is great but why be a social media manager when you have your own manager for your own business (and make much more to boot)

i think this course is awesome,
however pretty basic for me anyway,

i been doin social media managing for a few people
and it's one of the most easiest passive income
streams i currently have.

has anyone actually IMPLEMENTED
what they learnt, or is it in ur hard drive
collecting dust?

learn & take action ;-)


Shaqir Hussyin

I got this course too and I'll have to say that it is an excellent intro into the Social Media Manager field. It is not however the full training anyone who is serious about SSM'ing would need. If you want some examples of whats not covered do a search on monster.com for social media manager and you'll see some really strict requirements that aren't met by this course.

But for $97 this course does give you enough to be able to satisfy the local "mom & pop's" businesses that have no clue about social media. The only problem you'll encounter with them is proof of ROI which is what this comes down to with a local small business or a big corporate.

Anyone interested in a career in this niche I'd highly recommend this course, but with the knowledge that you will need to invest more time and money into training for the more serious client's needs.

I purchased. The course is good enough. The sales funnel is better than the course itself. I have no problems with course, but feel like I've received more value through various WSO's here.

It's a pretty solid course for the money. Probably not enough information to start and run an entire business, unless you have a good foundation in IM and general business operation. Still, it's nicely set up, easy to understand, and they even give you the use of their "Let's Get Social" logo...though it remains to be seen if anyone can parlay the logo into an actual asset. I think it can be done - at least I'm pretty sure that I can get some mileage out of it with what I have in mind.

All-in-all, a decent course with a lot of potential for implementation (though it won't be quite as easy as it sounded in the sales-funnel video).

ended up getting the course. definitely very indepth, and learnt a lot.