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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: Jenny Monzon
Get to know Social Media Strategist, Jenny Monzon! 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...
How to Leverage Social Media Marketing During the COVID-19 Pandemic [Infographic]
Social networks have changed many aspects of our daily routine, especially business and, therefore, marketing via social services is a significant trend among all brands. Now, with the outbreak of coronavirus and an appalling economic downturn, it seems that a new era...
How Social Media Impacts SEO
At first glance, social media marketing and search marketing might seem very different from each other. Social media, by nature, pushes information out to reach more audiences, while in search engine marketing, it’s the audience who is proactive and pulls information....
How COVID-19 Has Changed the Sports-Social World So Far
It’s obvious that COVID-19 has thrust our world into different everyday practices. Students take part in distance learning. Many, many employees have worked from home. Daily routines are different. Some people find themselves with extra time on their hands via layoffs...
Are We All Safe Online?
Through our partnership with St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, we meet extremely talented MBA students and social media marketing professionals. One of their assignments in our course, (no comma) is to blog on an area of social media that they found most interesting...
The Power of a Social Media Break: Lessons Learned When I Locked My Phone in a Box
Image Source: Katy Spencer Johnson The great outdoors. A stressed-out social media strategist. One box with a lock. Thus began my 96 hour social media break. After four years of being “on” as a full-time social media manager. I reached a moment of clarity: I needed...