NISM Blog
Courageous Social Media Marketing Choices: When is it Best to Say Goodbye?
In today’s always-connected digital age, understanding your audience is the best way to make courageous social media marketing choices for your personal and business brands. The social media landscape and platforms are changing all the time and with new platforms...
An Interview With Three Higher Ed Social Media Professionals
Photo by Keira Burton Chat with enough college students about social media work and you’re almost guaranteed to hear one question over and over: “How do I become a social media professional?” A social media career is a relatively new track—the first professional...
Navigating the Festive Frenzy: The Art and Impact of Hashtag Holidays
Photo by cottonbro studio As we approach the holiday season, the digital landscape is abuzz with hashtag holidays, from Black Friday and Small Business Saturday to Ugly Sweater Day. While these unconventional celebrations offer a goldmine for marketing and engagement,...
When Vanity Metrics Lead You Down the Wrong Path
Vanity metrics…we’ve heard so much about them, and the good news is that a lot of recent buzz suggests that marketers are understanding the value of deeper insights in social listening. Platforms such as Instagram are talking about doing away with the like button, in...
Importance of SEO and Its Role in Digital Marketing
Digital marketing is a type of marketing that uses the internet and other digital technologies to reach out to a targeted audience, with the intention to make sales. Since the early 2000s, digital marketing has been on the rise, thanks to the massive increase in...
What makes a goal SMART?
As a social media marketing strategist, writing your goals is the foundation for ensuring that your strategic plan remains on track and is flexible enough to adapt to necessary adjustments along the way. There are several methods of how a goal can be designed and...
Influencer Marketing Trends You Should Keep an Eye On
Business vector created by slidesgo Research shows that more than 30% of marketers find influencer marketing effective in reaching target audiences and enhancing a brand’s reputation. Those are two of the major reasons why influencer marketing is such a widely used...
Why You Need To Consider Backing Up Your Social Media Accounts Now
Over the past decade, social media has grown from an entertaining diversion with some business applications to one of the core elements of not only digital marketing but also business in general. Key contracts are won through Twitter discussions. LinkedIn chats can...
Pinterest 2020
As we finish up another year in social media, the different trend posts are starting to roll out. There’s a lot of attention as 2020 dawns on ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, for numerous reasons. They’re testing a Spotify rival called Resso in Indonesia, for example,...