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Branding Blind Spots Your Audience Sees But You Do Not
(photo credit: Microsoft Stock Images) A brand is not just the content a company posts or the promises it promotes. It is also what customers perceive, what they share with others, and what they silently decide after scrolling past a few posts. Social media has become...
Influencer Marketing’s Blindspot: FTC Regulations and How to Follow Them
Featured image by MART PRODUCTION Influencer marketing is booming, expected to reach $33 billion globally. It’s a space where everyone from budding influencers to major brands is looking to cash in (and yes, NISM even offers a webinar on influencer marketing basics!)....
Behind the Posts: A Look Back at My NISM Internship
When I started my internship with NISM, I wasn’t looking for a job. I was already running my own coloring book company (which, as anyone who has started a small business will know, was no small task). Time? I had none of it. Spare energy? Not exactly overflowing. But...
How Can Your Community Contribute to Content Creation?
Photo Source If you are a community manager, you’ve probably felt the need to be the one who develops all the content. You may believe that blog posts, videos, or graphics need to come from you, and that line of thinking can lead to exhaustion and burnout. Minus a few...
Can Two-Way Conversations Help Build Your Brand?
Photo by: Miguel Á. Padriñán What is so vital about two-way conversations? In short, two-way conversation is the communication between an organization and its customers, which increases the organization's awareness and forges genuine connections with customers. If you...
Learning the Essential Basics of Social Media Channel Monitoring
Photo by Olesksandr P. With the ever-increasing popularity and ubiquity of social media, popular platforms like Facebook and Instagram have become significant tools for many companies, particularly for social media project managers and their teams. In this day and...
Real-Time Marketing: Benefits, Challenges, and Utilization
Photo By: JESHOOTS.com There are many different approaches that businesses and individuals can take when it comes to social media marketing. Between trends constantly changing and content creation being a top aspect of community engagement, real-time marketing has...
It’s No Magic Trick, It’s Just Your Effective Action Plan!
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko In today’s day and age, social media marketers can find themselves buried under what seems to be piles upon piles of never-ending work. Keeping up with the demands of publishing content for your own business or company can be incredibly...
Top Social Media Jobs in Today’s Job Market
Image source It's no surprise that jobs in social media are becoming more and more common in companies of all sizes. From well-known companies like Delta Airlines to your favorite smaller, family-owned restaurants in your hometown, you'll need a social media presence...