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Are Paid Influencers Right for Your Social Strategy?
Photo by Ivan Samkov Influencer marketing involves collaborating with individuals in your market with a significant and engaged following on social media platforms or other online channels to promote a brand's products or services. Influencers can sway their...
Tips for Effective Project Management
Effective project management is the cornerstone of success in today's fast-paced business environment. It doesn't matter if you're overseeing an in-house team or working with freelance partners, it's essential to set clear deadlines, recognize when to outsource tasks,...
Hey Social Media Managers: Take a Break
Social media managers are the unsung heroes behind the screens, juggling multiple platforms, campaigns, and audience engagements simultaneously. While it's their job to be the social media champions for their clients or brands, they often forget to champion their own...
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 &...
Meet and Greet: Bryan Welsh
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...
How to Use Social Media to Advocate for Good
Have you wondered how you can control the positivity of your social media posts? Create a goal of delivering good content that helps the common good. It is an opportunity to showcase your human values of connecting and conversing through social media. Social media...