This week has been a particularly uncomfortable week when it comes to work, partly due to the fact that I technically have only four days left as an intern and I still don't officially know whether I'll be staying on but mostly because of the work I've had to do.
I knew from the get go that going in to PR and marketing would totally push me out of my comfort zone, and that there would be instances, probably quite a few where this would make me feel uncomfortable and out of my depth. This week one of the main tasks I was given was to go through various Facebook pages and groups and contact people to see whether they would be interested in posting about our new game when it comes out.
Firstly, I felt a little bit weird doing this, as even though I don't have a whole lot of marketing experience, I do know social media pretty well and there is often a very thin line between advertising tastefully and coming across as spamming. A line some people seemed to think I'd crossed from their response to my one and only polite message.
Where I was most uncomfortable however was that due to the way the messaging system works on Facebook, you cannot initiate a message conversation as your business page, meaning that I had to use my own personal account to send out all these messages. Even though I triple checked my privacy settings, I really didn't like the idea that these people could potentially see some of my photos or details and such, and that they could report me for something in all honestly, I didn't feel was the right way to do things.
Although I am still slightly reluctant about this method, things haven't gone as bad as I believed they would so far, so at the moment I'm going to just reserve judgement and wait till all the posts start going out to see how worthwhile all thus work was.
I'm hoping that this time next week my post will be slightly more positive, hopefully due to the fact that I will at that point be in full time paid employment and not back to being unemployed and trawling through job sites sending out tonnes of cv's again.
Yeah, so fingers crossed for the better outcome. I'm sure everything will work out alright.
