Unit 8 Blog Post!

Social media has a very large impact on reputations and careers, some for good and unfortunately some for the bad.  If people do not use social media professional or at least keep private the things that they would not like advertised to the world, it can have incredibly damaging effects on a career and/or reputation. I would like to focus on the good impact of course, specifically how social media can benefit the career of a personal trainer. You wouldn't think a computer would be able to be a gym of sorts, but it definitely can! A trainer can use social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and blogging to do all sorts of things:

• Provide daily inspiration to their clients
• Showcase a daily workout 
• Answer questions from clients quickly and easily
• Show before and after pictures of all of their successes
• Get feedback and assistance from other trainers
• Network and advertise

The ability to show videos and podcasts are equally as important in social media. This will help the career of a personal trainer incredibly. Not only can they upload videos of themselves showing how to do workouts with proper technique, their clients can send in their own workouts to get the approval of the trainer that they are doing the workout correctly. It is a great way to get in-home, personal training. 

Sharing the podcasts online can definitely take the trainer to a whole new level. They can use those outlets like Twitter and Facebook to their advantage to show their videos.

            Twitter-send quick links, tweet the videos to their followers—go into more detail.

            Facebook-post the podcast to their own pages and to their clients pages—go into more detail.