What Are All the Hats that Influencers Wear?

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SMI (Social media influencer) wear many “hats.” Let’s have fun and compile a list of all the hats they wear. LMK if I forgot anything?

1. Listener 🎩
2. Communications specialist 🎩
3. Visionary 🎩
4. Digital strategist 🎩
5. Digital consultant 🎩
6. Screen writer 🎩
7. Model 🎩
8. Actor 🎩
9. Dancer 🎩*
10. Singer 🎩*
11. Gaffer 🎩
12. Set designer 🎩
13. Makeup artist 🎩
14. Sound designer 🎩
15. Graphic designer 🎩
16. Illustrator 🎩*
17. Photographer 🎩
18. Videographer 🎩
19. Film director 🎩
20. Film producer 🎩
21. Editor 🎩
22. Social media manager 🎩
23. Community manager 🎩
24. Coach 🎩
25. Tech support 🎩
26. Publisher 🎩
27. Distributor 🎩
28. Legal team 🎩
29. Data analyst 🎩
30. Union representative 🎩
31. Marketer 🎩
32. Salesman 🎩
33. PR agent 🎩
34. …
35. Influencer.

*Optional

(One social media post takes on average 3 days to produce for my Dear Mishu account. 1 sponsorship takes a few months to achieve and manage)

So many hats!! So – yes, serious SMI are hard workers, often working through the nights, and must be very creative in terms of vision, strategies, design. They’re an all-in-one publishing house, marketing shop (the Achilles heal of most SMI), crisis management, and dozens more jobs. They love it though, as they get satisfaction from building a community, recognition from peers, AND some of them make money from it too.

I strongly recommend using a contract for any sponsorship to protect yourself and your business, such as my Brand-Influencer Contract

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