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Online Community-Building Insights from Top Brands
Image Source Community building is about building genuine relationships with your audience and making them your fans. In other words, the power of an online community is in the ability for many people to rally around a shared bond and feel empowered to contribute. So,...
How Keywords Can Help You Find Your Target Audience on Social Media
Photo by: Cottonbro Studio Scenario: You’ve finally got your brand’s social media channels up and running, complete with beautifully crafted content showcasing your all-natural, dye-free laundry detergent – great! But you’ve run into a slight problem: Who exactly is...
Can You Solve The Mystery? It’s Time to Become a Social Media Detective
Photo by Cottonbro Studio Social media can sometimes feel like the biggest game of “guess and check”. It seems that a lot of what we do is throwing things out there and seeing what sticks. For example, when utilizing analytics on any platform, we tend to work...
Add Social Media Continuity Planning To Your 2024 To-Do List
Photo by cottonbro studio Imagine a favorite brand that you follow suddenly changes everything about their social media marketing. Emojis are dropped, accessibility is not a priority, hashtags suddenly have commas, and the brand look and feel have transformed. Is this...
24 Sure-Fire Ways to Build a Strong Online Brand in 2024
Photo by Vlada Karpovich There’s one thing that new businesses need to “get” in 2024 and beyond. And it’s this: Your reputation, and by extension, your personal brand is a very valuable asset. It can be the difference between getting a flood of high-value clients or...
The Evolution of Influencer Marketing
Photo by Ivan Samkov Influencer marketing no longer simply refers to celebrity endorsements, it has evolved past that and now includes numerous collaborations with social media influencers, to leverage the different kinds of audiences across various platforms....
Disingenuous Marketing Isn’t Fetch: The ‘Mean Girls’ Debacle
Photo Credit: Jimin Kim/SOPA Images Paramount’s “Mean Girls” was recently queen bee at the box office, raking in $33 million through the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Audiences were first introduced to the iconic clique known as 'the plastics' when Tina Fey...
How to Create and Integrate a Social Media Policy (and Why You Need One)
Photo by fauxels You’ve seen the articles. An employee is fired for badmouthing their employer on X or someone got the company in hot water by disclosing a customer’s private information. Social media can be an excellent tool for growing your brand’s online presence...
Meet and Greet: Charice Patterson
Our SMS professionals serve as ambassadors for our certification program here at NISM. Not only are they knowledgeable about our curriculum, but they also share our passion for social media. Best of all, their stories help shape our organization and the work that we...