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10 Tips to Optimize Your Google Ads Campaign in the First Month
Nowadays, with the market overloaded with a myriad of products and services, it is becoming harder to create efficient promoting campaigns. We are talking about the campaigns that manage to get the potential customers' attention and make your product more...
Strategies for Reaching Your Target Audience
As a business owner, you’re most likely committed to scaling your company and watching it take on the level of influence you envisioned. Connecting with your current and potential customers is essential to achieving that company growth. Advancing technology continues...
Are You Prepared For The Job Market Of The Future?
The future of work is changing faster than ever before. Rising technologies are threatening to disrupt every industry of work and there’s nothing anybody can do to stop them. With this in mind, the question turns to whether or not your own skills are prepared for that...
#AllHallowsReadNISM
Every year, Neil Gaiman encourages us all to “give someone a scary book” to celebrate Halloween. You can join Neil by sharing your favorite scary book and following #AllHallowsRead on all of the major social media platforms. As someone who loves books – and loves...
Best Value Social Media Certifications – NISM vs Hootsuite
In 2012, we shared a blog post that compared our SMS certification exam with what’s available through Hootsuite University. It was one of our most popular posts and we heard how much it helped social media professionals make decisions about their professional...
Hired Guns: Avoid Shooting Yourself in the Foot
One of the first milestones in a growing business occurs when the owner realizes that she cannot do it all herself. Congratulations if it’s time to grow! But take heed, owners: how you choose to grow can have a serious impact on your pocketbook. Rather than wade into...
Building Alliances with Strategic Social Media Partners: It Takes Two
Last month, I reflected on the topic of strategic alliances in social media and found that it was difficult to incorporate all of my inspiration on the topic with just one blog post. In that post, I outlined a plan to put partnerships into action. Now I will focus on...
“A man is known by the company he keeps.” – It’s All About the Reputation
Recently I was doing a consultation for a client, talking about approaches to social media for small businesses. While I was giving a general overview of aspects to look at and goals to keep in mind, I gave a couple of examples of how to cross the borders of social...
Caught in a Lie
My previous post about what social media strategists can learn from archaeology made me think of another topic that affects groups: Fake findings. In 1912, Charles Dawson claimed to have found “the missing link between ape and man.” A skull that became known as...