Hiring someone to manage my social media

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Hello,

I am currently in the process of looking to hire someone to manage my social media marketing. I’ve done a few interviews and it’s something I’ll go ahead with but there’s a question I haven’t asked any of them and it’s because I’m a little embarrassed and also because I don’t want to appear to not be savvy 🙈 I wonder if anyone can help me answer so I don’t have to ask them.

When I hire someone, how do they manage my accounts? Will I have to give them the passwords and the like or will I have to add them as a friend and then make them an admin. I did this with my daughter as she was helping me but she’s gone to uni now and doesn’t have time. This also doesn’t work on instagram so for example I couldn’t make my daughter an admin to manage my Instagram so I had to give her the passwords. I know about that Facebook manager thingy majig but apart from that I’m not sure how it would work. I sound clueless don’t I. I am a bit but I suppose that’s why I need someone haha (I’m 62 and sometimes this new digital stuff gets past me)

Any help or advice appreciated.

Thanks in advance all 💐

Would you not have a work SM presence that they have the passwords to and a private SM that they don't?

I do SM for a company - they use Hoorsuite which brings all the SM channels together, so I only have to post once and it goes to all that I choose.

I don’t have the individual passwords (I’m sure I could if I wanted them) which is fine - unless there’s a problem and something needs deleting, then they have to go in and do it.

Also, I can’t ‘like’ or comment on other company’s posts as my company, I do it as an individual.

I'm a social media manager for an SME. For Facebook, I'm an admin of the companies through Facebook Business Manager. I need my own FB for this. For Instagram, I have the account's password and I've just added the account to my own Instagram so I can manage it.

I use Buffer to manage all of my unpromoted posts as I can schedule in advance, but you can use Facebook Business Manager to do anything on Meta as well. If you use Twitter or TikTok, then you'd need a scheduling tool that will work with those as well.

Thanks all for the advice 💐. @historygeek the problem we had with this when my daughter was helping me was that my business page is a page rather than an account so you need another normal account to log in and manage it and add admins and all of that palava. That is my experience of it so far anyway though I am probably using it wrong

The point of hiring someone to do this is that they know how every platform works to its maximum; get them to come in and sort out all of your accounts on Day One.