NISM Blog
Salient Role of B2B SEO in Generating High-Quality Leads
What is SEO? Search engine optimization is the process of securing better traffic and visibility for a site in an organic manner. The goal is to appear naturally for all the relevant niche terms and keywords. SEO is always looking for ways to improve the existing...
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...
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...
Is Self-Study Right for You?
There are many different options professionals pursue for continuing education – classroom learning, online education, and a variety of self-directed learning options. To prepare for the NISM Social Media Strategist (SMS) certification, we offer many of those options...
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...