NISM Blog
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...
Using Humanizing Analytics to Appeal to Your Target Audience
Image Source: Pixabay When most people think of analytics, their minds gravitate toward images of overwhelming numerical data, technical jargon, and people pulling their hair out trying to figure out what all of it means for their business. There’s a natural...
Marketing Don’ts & Why They (unfortunately) Work
As a certified social media strategist, it’s part of my job to look for patterns. Why do people respond to some posts and not others? Where’s the fine line between provocative and offensive content? How do you tell someone they should check out your product – because...
Why You Need A Content Marketing Strategy for your Brand
Without compelling content, it’s tough to get your business out there. Bill Gates coined the term “Content is King,” back in 1996 meaning that the whole point of content marketing is to increase visibility to attract your audience to your website as many times as...
Tell Your Story with Brand in Social Media
Content Planning with a Brand Lens Like a brand, great social content takes work. There’s a lot that goes into planning each and every post on a social media platform. The American Marketing Association defines brand as "A name, term, design, symbol, or any other...
Social Networking: A Web of Powerful Professional Relationships
Whether you’re doing it because you want a change, you’re starting out with your first “adult” job, or you are forced into job change for reasons beyond your control, for many, competing in the 2017 job market is a vast, often terrifying, unexplored frontier. Searches...
Meet Social Media Professional & Professor, Margaret Stewart
Dr. Margaret Stewart took her Social Media Strategist and Instructor certifications through the National Institute for Social Media (NISM). Margaret is a college professor and researcher at the University of Florida (UNF). She is a consultant and trainer for Socially...
Where do You Start with Social Media?
I am asked the above question often, and my answer is always, “What is your purpose for using social media?” And for me, this is a two-fold question: (1) What is the purpose of the business or as Simon Sinek says, “Your WHY?” and (2) What is the purpose of using...