What's all this hype about Social Media??

I am a newbee to the wonderful world of online, work from home, social media and digital sales. I am a 48 year old nurse and empty nester who has decided to cut back on the nursing and work from the comfort of her home, yea easy said than done. I have learned from this endeavor that it is a very time consuming journey. I have had to really learn what to put in search engines, such as on craigslist and other classified search sites to wade through alot of irrelevant postings to get to what I am looking for. Here is what I have learned.

1. You do not have to limit your searches to your particular city, and thank god for it, because I live in a little podunk town with on street light. lol  I have found that the medium sized cities such as Jacksonville Florida, Tampa Florida, Sacramento California. New Orleans have the most Social Media Jobs, I have done searches in Atlanta and LA, but there just really doesn't seem to be that many in my experience. of course that could change
2. RESEARCH, RESEARCH, AND MORE RESEARCH!!  I used youtube videos, other blogs, facebook sites etc to gleam little pearls of wisdom. 
3. AVOID new start up apps or companies, I mean read the ad, research the company, but typically I have found that they don't want to pay you until their presence gets off the ground. 
4. Create you a great and dynamic resume' for your potential employers. I have found some sites that show you templates of very nice quality social media resume's  one is, http://www.snagajob.com/resumes/social-media-manager/  http://www.dayjob.com/content/social-media-resume-1458.htm    http://mashable.com/2011/05/20/social-media-resumes/
5. USE the network of folks you already have at your fingertips, such as your facebook peeps, your family ( that aunt that just started her business and hasn't a clue about social media) past employers, past school mates, friends, spouses of friends etc, you get the idea, let it be known that you are embarking on this new fields and that you would love to help grow their social media presence!!