NISM Blog
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...
Personal Branding Tips from Nancy Drew
I began a new research project this year – the history and mysteries of Nancy Drew. She’s influenced the world over the last ninety years and the world has changed her, and it’s been fascinating to consider the changes over nearly a century of mystery novels. In my...
Small Business Strategy; Full Court Press
Full Court Press My clients often request social media platform training with an emphasis on basic tactics and an introduction to the latest and greatest the tool has to provide. Inevitably, I counter with the recommendation of adding a discussion of strategy to the...
5 Free Social Media Scheduling Tools
There are dozens of social media scheduling tools on the market; many of them are free, or at least have free options/platforms within them. Before we get into five to consider, start with this: why is social media scheduling important? Scheduling allows you to scale...
How Do Social Media and SEO Work Together?
Written by: Brooks Clifford of BigRedDog Solutions A common question we are often asked by our clients is “how do social media and SEO work together?” Well according to Matt Cutts of Google, Google treats social media pages like any other webpage; for those pages that...
Who Should Run Your Social Media
Since it’s 2016, hopefully your company has developed some strategy to utilize social media -- even if it’s fairly limited at this point. (For some B2B companies, though, you might have a good reason to not yet be involved.) If you’re still new to social media or...
Businesses Not Being Social on Social
In the last few years, there’s been a trend towards organizations describing themselves as “a social business.” Because of the way this term is used, it can come off like a buzzword. In reality, it’s really important -- and amidst all the other ways your business is...
National Institute for Social Media Purchased by Two Education and Business Operations Veterans; New CEO Appointed
National Institute for Social Media Purchased by Two Education and Business Operations Veterans; New CEO Appointed New CEO Jennifer Radke is seasoned executive within the education marketplace and one of the new owners MINNEAPOLIS – MAY 25, 2016 –– The National...