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How Live Streaming Contributes to Your Sales
Image credit: Pexels Live videos have become a massive trend in online retail. There are a few reasons behind this curious development. First, social media facilitates broadcasting in technical terms: it’s never been so simple to go live! Second, brands want to engage...
Valuable Social Media Tips for the PR Team
Having synergy with your PR team can maximize campaign success. In addition, social media channels can assist with public relations outreach. Facebook: Use Facebook Live to create a monthly discussion series to showcase your brand’s influencers. Create Facebook...
Significant Social Media Updates: Summer ’21
Being a social media manager means being on top of ever-changing trends, updates, and algorithms. We know it’s no easy feat to ensure that copy and graphics are perfect in addition to platform updates, so we’ve rounded up the most notable and significant changes by...
A Gardener, Your College Marketing Professor, and My Mom Walk Into a Bar
The NISM Anthology deadline is just weeks away – December 31st! And as people contemplate what they might contribute, I’m amazed how often I hear: “I don’t have any advice to share with social media professionals… what could they possibly learn from me?” Who’d take...
NISM 2016 Job Study Review
One of NISM greatest priorities is to actively listen to its audience. To become the best resource for our members and partners, we have to stay attuned to their needs and relevant to the trends of their workplaces. This is especially important in such a...
Twitter: A Powerful Tool
You can say a lot of things -- positive and negative about Twitter. For example: Positive: It’s the go-to source, oftentimes, for information about breaking, developing, or in-progress news. Negative: Whereas once it seemed the “cool” thing opposite Facebook, now it’s...
7 Ways to Avoid Ruining Your Reputation by Reposting Fake Content
In the past few months – and especially the past few days – there has been a surplus of fake photos, articles and quotes flying around social media. The reason they have moved so quickly is largely because well-intentioned people with no desire to spread...
Post and Ghost
What’s better than sitting around a campfire trying to scare the daylights out of your friends? Have you mastered the art of leaving people wondering what just happened? Good for you – unless you’re doing it to your followers on social media. Post and Ghost While...
Behind the Best New Social Media Platforms
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are the obvious staples of the social media market today, each pulling upwards of 1.1 billion, 300 million, 140 million, and daily active users respectively, according to Statista. Some would argue that YouTube should be classified as...