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Social Media Marketing Tips for Introverts
Image Source: Unsplash As an introvert, social media marketing is full of potential minefields and awkward interactions. You don’t have to talk to anyone in person if you’re not on video, but you do have to expend a lot of energy to schedule and maintain pretty...
7 Great Tips for Writing Content That Boosts Sales
Image source: Unsplash We already know that content writing is the cornerstone of your digital presence and brand image. Writing quality content equals creating a reputable image among your target audience members who are your potential customers. This is because the...
Where Selfies and Sales Intersect
Photo by Sound On from Pexels If someone told you 20 years ago that you could make bucket loads of money and influence sales trends simply by taking a picture of yourself, would you have believed them? While the idea of taking a “selfie” or a self-portrait is a...
Don’t be a Flower!
Three C's of Community Management: Curiosity, Courtesy, Constancy I love alliteration so I hope you’ll bear with me after reading the title of this blog. And, alliteration aside, these three c’s really do have a lot to do with community management. Of course,...
3 Things to Remember Before Your Next Social Complaint
A colleague of mine recently posed a question to the group – “what is the brand or company for which you would least like to work as a social media community manager?” Our answers ranged, but a few themes emerged including political institutions, cable companies and...
Social Listening: Recognizing the Ways that We Listen Online
A modern norm when beginning to establish a relationship is typically to connect online using social media. We meet someone and this person becomes a potential professional networking contact, new friend, or even a romantic interest. Before deciding to pursue the...
“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,...