NISM Blog
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...
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...
Leads on Social Media: How to Attract and Convert Your Audience
In today's fast-paced and digitally-driven world, social media has become a powerful tool for businesses. It can be used to drive leads and connect with potential customers. With millions of users across various platforms, social media channels offer businesses the...
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...
5 Things to Consider When Choosing If a Chatbot Is Right for Your Organization
We don’t have to go very far into the virtual world in order to find ourselves interacting with some kind of chat automation tool. Chat apps subscribers continue to climb higher than social media app subscribers and with that there’s a surge in the need for brands to...
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...
Managing Your Mental Health While Working in Social Media
There’s no denying social media marketing is an essential tool for businesses today. While family and friends may oversimplify the workload as just a matter of thinking up witty captions and posting pleasing photos, anyone who has strategically managed social media...
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...
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 &...