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How to Use Hashtags on LinkedIn to Grow Your Brand

How to Use Hashtags on LinkedIn to Grow Your Brand

While hashtag usage has long been encouraged on Twitter and Instagram as a way for users to engage with their networks, LinkedIn only started allowing clickable hashtags in 2016. The initial key is to identify your specialty and conduct research on the hashtags that...

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Conference Content: To Sponsor or Not to Sponsor?

Conference Content: To Sponsor or Not to Sponsor?

If you’re knee-deep in planning your entrance into the conference circuit (check out THIS blog if you’re just wading in), this question has surely popped up: Will you sponsor? And it’s an important one to consider! We’re weighing the pros and cons with you here when...

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How to Write Engaging Blog Posts on Social  Media

How to Write Engaging Blog Posts on Social Media

If you are in the business of online sales, ecommerce, or content marketing, you probably know the value of engaging content, especially on social media, where people spend a lot of time browsing. After all, content is king. Your blog or website is one of the most...

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Meet and Greet: Karly Hall

Meet and Greet: Karly Hall

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...

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Actionable Metrics

Actionable Metrics

A large part of using and managing social media is the use of metrics. Organizations use metrics as a way to track their KPIs, or for celebration when they hit a particular milestone, like 1,000,000 followers. A good social media strategist knows that there are...

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Lessons Learned: To bot or not to bot?

Lessons Learned: To bot or not to bot?

It’s been just over 2 1/2 months since we launched a chatbot on our institutional website. Now I’m not here to sell you on whether or not a chatbot is right for you and your business or institution - that’s an answer that can only be found within your own goals &...

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