NISM Blog
How to Engage Your Customers with Earth Day Promotions
Image source: Unsplash The concern about climate change has gone global in the past decade. It was about time - sea level is rising by 3.3mm each year, the planet’s polar ice sheets are losing huge masses, and Earth’s temperature has reached an all-time high increase...
Where to Use Your Logo for Marketing
One of the first things that consumers notice about a brand or a business is its logo. This is why businesses and corporations are highly particular about displaying their visual brand identities strategically. As a business owner, you have to consider your logo as a...
Save Yourself from a Copyright Violation
Image source: Unsplash I hope by now, we all know that just because we saw an image on the internet, it does not mean it's generally free for us to use as we please. A real-life example can be drawn from a situation a marketing person in my company faced a long time...
“I don’t Tweet”
When faced with an opportunity to change industries after 15 years, my response to a potential employer was, “I don’t Tweet…is that going to be a problem”? At that time in my life I had utilized social media for recruitment and networking opportunities. I had also...
Meet and Greet: Teri Kojetin
Every day we all play a part of different mini communities – work, hobbies, family, faith, school, neighborhood, friends – but often we limit ourselves in terms of professional communities outside of our co-workers. One of the goals at the National Institute for...
Part II: Marketing Don’ts & Why They (unfortunately) Work
A few weeks ago, I asked my network what marketers do that they find annoying. I was hoping to uncover themes…and I did! I wrote about the first set of responses in the NISM blog post Marketing Don’ts & Why They (unfortunately) Work. But as I wrote the first blog,...
How Social Media has Changed the World of Sports Journalism
It’s been covered over and over again how much social media has changed our world the past few years. From communication to job searching to procrastination and time-wasting, social media leaves a mark. There’s also no doubt social has vastly changed the tasks for...
The Value of a Like for Your Brand
As a Marketing Director, I used the “Like” counts on our company social media posts to measure the power of the content shared on Facebook and Twitter. But does that really measure what we think it does? How do you measure a Like? Does a Like lead to a relationship...
Motivational Interviewing: Find Out What’s Really Keeping You from Getting Certified
My physical therapist told me about the concept of motivational interviewing – a technique he has quite a bit of use for. Motivational interviewing helps people overcome ambivalence and allows people struggling to change and develop (personally and professionally) and...