NISM Blog
How Social Media Has Become a Priority For Real Estate Agents
Image source: Unsplash Real estate agents are using social media to help homebuyers and home sellers now more than ever before. However, most of these agents are struggling to get the most value out of their social media efforts. Recent research indicates posting on...
Social Media Career Trajectories in 2022
Are you pondering a career in social media? One of the first things to consider is whether you are interested in a creative position or something more analytical and data-driven. The average workday between the two is liable to be a wildly different experience....
Why Packaging Needs to be Social Media Ready
Our mode of communication has become modernized because of technology. Most people spend the majority of their time monitoring their mobile phones and engaging in social media. Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are some of the popular social media platforms. It shows...
Influence at 20, 40 & 60
It’s amazing how many people tell me they feel like they aren’t heard by their employers. My 20-something students claim they are undervalued and overlooked for their potential and contributions. My 40-something friends talk about being passed over for promotions and...
Don’t Write It Off Yet; Snapchat May Offer a Unique Opportunity to Humanize Your Brand
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...
3 Must Have Tools for Remote Social Media Management
There are so many marketing companies that are hiring remote social media managers - it’s almost frightening. Finally, everyone is jumping on the social media bandwagon. It might look easy to manage social media remotely but it’s not a simple job. Remote social media...
Instructor Highlight – Dr. Jennifer Pollard, SMS
The team at the National Institute for Social Media (NISM) is excited to introduce you to one of our newly certified instructors, Dr. Jennifer Pollard, SMS. Dr. Pollard is an industrial an organizational psychologist and a developmental strategist who has worked with...
What’s the difference between a strategist and a fortune teller?
I would imagine fortune tellers see an increase in business at the end of each year. It tends to be when most of us stop and wonder about what the future – the next year and beyond – really holds. Fortune tellers oblige our curiosity and look into a crystal ball to...
A New Years Evolution
What is your goal for 2018? Every year, people take the opportunity of a new year to set new goals where they achieve something better or take an old habit to the graveyard. In the process however, they beat themselves up, fail to manage the level of stress and dwell...