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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...
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...
Why don’t bloggers use APA citations?
Recently, I was explaining how bloggers reference sources and was asked, “If acknowledging the original contributor is important, why don’t bloggers use citations like we all had to do in high school and college?” That’s a good question, isn’t it? When blogging was...
Your Social Media Career and the Value of Education
The evolution of social media from a tacked-on, part-time position to a full-fledged career is fascinating to see. It has grown in the past 10 plus years from being optional to an integral part of an organization’s growth and success. Job titles for the social media...