NISM Blog
For Whom The Bell Trolls: Dealing With Online Trolls
How often do you see negative comments online? It’s everywhere you look, from your favorite YouTubers' comment section to your favorite music artist's Instagram. With its animosity factor, the internet serves as a breeding ground for trolls. You don’t know their real...
Increase Your Social Media Traffic With Branded Giveaways
Image source When creating captivating content to grow your fan and follower base using social media, did you know that one of the most effective tools to use for your company is SMO, or Social Media Optimization? SMO allows brands to track, evaluate, and modify...
4 Popular Social Media Marketing Tips That Just Don’t Work
Ever had a tip given to you about social media marketing that you thought would work perfectly, but in reality, didn't work as you planned? It happens more often than you might think. Here are 4 popular social media marketing tips that just don’t work. 1. There Are...
Five-Star Strategies: The Art of the Customer Review
In 2019, I wrote a blog post for the National Institute for Social Media about How to Write a Meaningful Review Quickly, but in honor of National Leave a Review Day, we’re going to take a deeper look at reviews – why they should be part of your strategic plan and what...
Is YouTube Shorts the Long-Game Winner?
Over the past few years, short-form videos are in and longer content is out. Due in large part to the growth of TikTok, social media users have grown accustomed to videos that are sixty seconds or less. In July of 2021, YouTube launched their own version of this with...
Navigating the Storm: Tips for Social Media Managers to Manage Election-Related Stress
It’s safe to say that the fourth presidential election season with social media as part of the campaign strategy is the most contentious yet. From AI-generated content to the changes made on X after Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform to talk of political influence...
5 Reasons To Recruit A Social Media Manager For Your Business
Regardless of what you may have thought before, social media marketing is more important than ever. People underestimate the importance of social media management and social media today since they believe they can live without it, only to find out later that they...
6 Podcasts Perfect for Social Media Marketers
Over the past year, the popularity of podcasts has continued to grow with no end in sight. The number of listeners increased by 40 million, or 8.6%, from 2023 to 2024, bringing the total to just over a remarkable 500 million. So why the sudden jump in popularity? It...
TikTok Ban: What It Means For The Future
Photo By: Visuals New social media apps come around all the time. Some gain traction and become popular like Instagram did in 2010 but none more extreme than TikTok. When the app hit the market in 2018, it became the most downloaded app in the US and the rest of the...