Introducing Angelina Simms

Angelina Simms works with brands and provides support to help growing communities. She helps bring awareness to causes that she cares about. Angelina often hangs out in the library where she tells us that she’s always in search for the perfect apple cider.

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Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 3.

Tara: Today we have with us Angelina Simms. I’m excited to talk Angelina. She works with brands and provides support to help growing communities. She helps bring awareness to causes that she cares about. You can often find Angelina hanging out in the library and she tells us that she’s always in search for the perfect apple cider. Hi Angelina!

Angelina: Hello.

Liam: Hi Angelina! Thanks for joining us today. Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself and who you are?

Angelina: I live in the Philadelphia suburbs west of the city. I work in digital media, digital marketing and consulting for small businesses, startups and personal lifestyle brands…pretty much anyone – that agent’s spokesperson for anyone who has something to promote. I connect them with their intended audience and help grow their community.

Tara: How do you use WordPress to do all of that?

Angelina: WordPress comes in where I help manage content on their websites. I make sure that their plugins and their themes are up to date. I integrate that with social media so with the content on their WordPress site I push it out to the social media realm. I get out there and share it with the world.

Tara: Can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you learned how to do what you do and got started in it?

Angelina: A lot of trial and error. A lot of people said we need help. Try this out. I’m going to say all the way back to maybe 2007 may have been my first time to do anything online with social media. I knew what WordPress was but was not actively using it. I just tried it out with the .com. Then in maybe about 2011 or 2012 was my first .org website. It was about running and it was awful so I just took it down. My very first real website that I did was for my son’s father. He has a heavy metal website. That was the first real website that I ever did. I had no clue what I was doing. It was kind of a birthday present and it grew. He’s met a lot of very famous rock stars. That was the very first project that I ever did. That needs a good theme update. When I get around to it (it’s not priority at the moment) when I get around to that I will probably redesign it since I have better WordPress skills these days.

Liam: I think that can probably be said for all of our first websites.