Marketing Assistant for Ecommerce Website

If It Barks (www.ItItBarks.com) produces high-quality custom dog collars, leashes, and pet tags. We are a small business so we have very strong relationships with the people that work with us and treat them as family.

Our business is looking a marketing assistant to help us manage our daily marketing activities. This position will be very involved in the day-to-day marketing of our dog product business and work closely with myself (owner) on planning and strategy.

This is a high internal communication position and the applicant's thoughts, ideas and talents will be highly valued. Applicant should have good confidence in their abilities, be a self-starter, communicate very well, and be able to manage tasks to completion. To ensure we have the most optimal communication we will use Skype (video, voice, and text) frequently during the day. This is a great place to work if you want to be valued for your contributions and performance.

Key Skills Required:

- Excellent written and spoken English for flawless communication
- Excellent writing skills for general writing needs such as blog posts, headlines, titles, descriptions and short content projects.
- Good knowledge of various internet marketing activities such as social media, email, SEO, etc.
- Good graphic design skills for social posts and general image work.
- Be able to meet goals we set together.
- Be proactive in planning tasks, manage time wisely and meet deadlines.

Social Media:

- Manage Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.
- Maintain a social media editorial calendar at least one week in advance.
- Post to social account based on our pre-defined schedule. We currently use HootSuite.com for scheduled postings when possible.
- Write attention grabbing posts with the proper hashtags and links.
- Do graphic editing (resizing or adding text) of images to prepare for posting.
- Study other companies to find ways to better our social media strategy.
- Setup, launch and manage Facebook Ads and boosted posts.
- Create and manage giveaways (Gleam.io) through social media.
- Respond to comments or questions from followers.
- Create pinnable pictures/images for Pinterest
- When people like our posts invite them to like us on Facebook.
- Get people to engage and like our posts.
- Review analytics and optimize to reach our social media goals.

Email Marketing:

- Write engaging subject and copy for emails.
- Create new automated flows in Klaviyo when needed.
- Create monthly newsletter (campaign) or any other special email campaigns.
- Create and monitor email capture software (Gleam.io) on our website.
- Review performance of emails and make recommendations to improve open rate, click rate, etc.

Sales Channel Management (Amazon, Etsy, and BigCommerce Website)

- Add new products to including writing titles, descriptions, uploading pictures, etc
- Make manual edits to products as needed.
- Review account for refunds not credited back.

General Tasks:

- Manage our project management tool (Asana.com) to ensure everything is getting done on schedule.
- Assist in working with other VA’s doing advanced writing, SEO, Development, etc.
- Occasional research of competitors.
- Other tasks that might come up randomly.
- Maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for all common tasks completed.
- Upload customer submitted images to our online image gallery.

Additional Skills/Requirements:

- Ability to do basic graphic editing such as resizing, optimizing, adding text to images, etc. Ability to do banners and other graphic design a huge plus.
- Great with Google Docs, Google Sheets, Microsoft Office(Word & Excel)
- Dropbox account for sharing of documents and images.
- Basic knowledge of using HTML editors to add content to websites and emails.
- Good computer (with camera) in quite area with high-speed internet.

About If It Barks (www.ifitbarks.com):

If It Barks has been in business since 2002. The owners have over 19 years of experience in ecommerce. We are a very small business (mom and pop) so we have very strong relationships with the people that work with us. We work in a very casual and fun environment while working hard to reach our goals.

Details/Compensation:

- Full-time position, Monday - Friday, 40 hours/week
- Should be able to work at least 5 of your 8 hour day during our working hours.
- $500 - 600/month
- 13th month pay (prorated for first year)
- Paid Philippine regular holidays (starting after 30 days of work)
- Paid weekly for first 30 days. Then on the 1st and 15th of each month. PayPal is the preferred method of pay.

If interested please reply with your best success story managing a client's social media accounts. At least 200 words to show your writing abilities. Thanks and I hope to chat with you soon.