Smart Girl Media Corp

Welcome to Smart Girl Stories.
We are a member-verified professional network and directory for women. We highlight women-owned businesses, women authors, and women-focused nonprofits. Although all are allowed to join, our mission is to empower women.
We are currently focused on building our women author directory, and we are looking for an Author Outreach Associate.
Your ideal market
· Independent and self-published authors who may not have a publicist or much of a budget.
· Libraries, indie author groups, and forums focused on empowering self-published authors.
· Publishers who are looking for creative new markets for their authors.
· Established illustrators who are looking for new authors.
What you'll bring
· Experience in libraries, bookstores, or retail stores that sell books. We are way beyond “I like books”.
· Retail experience interacting independent vendors/creators.
· Active social media account about books you love with followers.
· Familiarity with book clubs – perhaps you run one.
Note: this is not an internship. We are not here to train someone who thinks they like books or need a job. You love our mission and want to help us grow.
What you'll do
Path 1: Network for the greatest reach
<ul>
<li>Find groups of independent and self-published women authors that are interested in helping their members promote their books on a free author platform. You will find these connectors through campus networks, local bookstores and libraries, small presses, literary magazines, writing groups, book festivals, and online writing communities.</li>
<li>Write and send personalized messages to the groups you think fit our platform.</li>
<li>Organize Google Meet workshop sessions with a group of authors. Walk them through our online registration system. Answer questions and guide authors or groups interested in sharing our platform with their audience.</li>
<li>Capture feedback for functionality we can incorporate into the system. Turn that into strategies that these groups and authors need to support their authors.</li>
</ul>
Path 2: Ask friends and your network for help
<ul>
<li>Bring friends to your efforts. Help us grow the platform.</li>
<li>Share your efforts on your socials. We have 10K followers, leverage that. Sharing means making quick posts about what you are doing. We don’t need branding kits, social media strategies, or any of that. We’ve been down that road. We need results, not collateral.</li>
</ul>
Path 3: Educate a group
<ul>
<li>Organize a Google Meet session where you invite authors to see how to add an author to our platform. Walk through the registration process. Show them the features available once they have joined. Be prepared to answer questions.</li>
<li>One on one is a waste of time. One hour to win an author isn’t the future.</li>
<li>Be prepared to help us expand beyond Authors. Hint – businesses (those book stores), illustrators (they want to promote their services), Sororities (we have a great opportunity here as well).</li>
</ul>
What success looks like
<ul>
<li>A dozen new authors on the platform each month.</li>
<li>Authors reaching out to you before you reach out to them.</li>
<li>Publishers contacting you to bring their authors to you.</li>
<li>Being the go-to person for authors who want to list on Smart Girl Stories.</li>
</ul>
What we're looking for
<ul>
<li>College graduate with a background in English, creative writing, publishing, marketing, library science, communications, or something similar, or working on a campus literary magazine, press, reading series, or bookstore. You know books, and you like talking to people.</li>
<li>Comfortable writing to strangers and following up without being pushy.</li>
<li>Genuinely interested in books and the people who write them.</li>
<li>Organized enough to track dozens of conversations without losing any.</li>
<li>Understands the power of AI for lead generation but stops short of using it for outreach.</li>
<li>Comfortable opening Google Meet, running a demo, and answering questions.</li>
</ul>
What we aren't looking for
· Pass-through work. We are not handing you a list of authors so you can sit and write notes. You are the one canvassing. You are doing the outreach. Remember selling Girl Scout cookies door to door?
· Reddit canvassing. We are already there.
· Someone who needs to get out of their own shell. You left that shell a while ago.
· Someone hard selling one author.
· Ideas and strategy. We need authors on the platform. We don’t need to spend a week building out a marketing slick.
Terms
<ul>
<li>Rate: $15 per hour, roughly 10 hours per month. If we grow, you get more work.</li>
<li>Classification: Independent contractor. You set your own hours and work in your own way. No required shifts, no standing meetings, no minimum daily availability.</li>
<li>Term: Month to month – this is a trial run. By the end of the month, we need authors on the platform.</li>
<li>Payment: Monthly, by Venmo</li>
<li>Location: Fully remote, anywhere in the US</li>
</ul>
Two things to know up front
· All outreach must be written by you. No AI.
· You will need to disclose that you are paid. If you mention Smart Girl Stories publicly, you can say you are a paid associate working with us part-time.
What this role is not
<ul>
<li>You will not have administrator access, and you will not post or edit on anyone's behalf. You help authors do it themselves.</li>
<li>You will not verify identities or approve listings. Our staff does that.</li>
<li>You will not moderate content.</li>
</ul>
How to apply
Send a short note to <a href="mailto:hannah@smartgirlstories.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">hannah@smartgirlstories.com</a> telling us:
<ul>
<li>What you are studying and where.</li>
<li>An independent or self-published woman author whose book you would want on the platform, and why.</li>
<li>A few sentences you would send to that author or group if you were reaching out cold.</li>
</ul>
No cover letter. No fancy resume required. High school or college experience in the industry is very helpful. The third item is what we will read most closely.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. This is international too.
Smart Girl Media Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
Pay: $15.00 per hour
Expected hours: No more than 2.5 per week
Benefits:
<ul>
<li>Flexible schedule</li>
<li>Work from home</li>
</ul>
Work Location: Remote

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