NISM Blog
Start Mapping Out Your Social Media Development!
When a new year begins, we create vision boards or make new year resolutions that we hope to accomplish throughout the year. The one thing that should be on your list consistently every year is professional development. A social media specialist is never an expert...
Set Your Small Business’ Social Media on Autopilot
We all know that to get big business these days, we need to be super active on our social media accounts. This can be time-consuming and often expensive for small businesses, especially when you run the business solo or have a small budget. Here is how to set your...
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...
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...
Stay Green in 2018!
I patiently waited as the pear sitting on my kitchen counter turned the perfect shade of yellow. As I cut into it, my excitement turned to disgust as the inside was brown and mushy. Ray Kroc, owner of McDonald’s, once said “When you’re green, you’re growing. When your...