{"id":4944,"date":"2023-10-23T17:11:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T17:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2023-10-23T17:11:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T17:11:50","slug":"troy-student-works-toward-degree-while-building-social-media-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/10\/23\/troy-student-works-toward-degree-while-building-social-media-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY student works toward degree while building social media brand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 A Troy University student is not only working toward her degree, but also building her very own brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Content creators are becoming more popular every day. Some are sitting right next to you in class. Maya Salone is just one of many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I wanted to get out of my shell,&#8221; Salone said. &#8220;I was very nervous and introverted so I felt like if I needed to be a voice and speak to my youth, what better way than to reach out through social media?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Salone&#8217;s first video was three years ago but that is not where she started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;When I was younger I used to record on my mom&#8217;s phone and like have a Maya&#8217;s daytime but it was just for fun and games. As I got older I started to think maybe this is my passion.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only is Salone a content creator, she&#8217;s also a Shein ambassador for Troy University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I was able to have the opportunity of going to Hollywood, California, and it was all expenses paid for,&#8221; Salone said. &#8220;It was by Shein it was because I promoted so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday night, Salone was a co-host at Studio 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 A Troy University student is not only working toward her degree, but also building her very own brand.<\/p>\n<p>Content creators are becoming more popular every day. Some are sitting right next to you in class. Maya Salone is just one of many.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to get out of my shell,&#8221; Salone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/10\/23\/troy-student-works-toward-degree-while-building-social-media-brand\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}