NISM Blog
Are We All Safe Online?
Through our partnership with St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, we meet extremely talented MBA students and social media marketing professionals. One of their assignments in our course, (no comma) is to blog on an area of social media that they found most interesting...
The Power of a Social Media Break: Lessons Learned When I Locked My Phone in a Box
Image Source: Katy Spencer Johnson The great outdoors. A stressed-out social media strategist. One box with a lock. Thus began my 96 hour social media break. After four years of being “on” as a full-time social media manager. I reached a moment of clarity: I needed...
5 Steps for Professional Recommendation Requests
There has, most likely been a point in your life where you have either asked for or have been asked to give a recommendation. In the not so distant past, this was done in a paper letter format. In today’s virtual work world, recommendations are online with the entire...
4 Ways LinkedIn Is Driving Traffic And Sales For Websites Right Now
If you are not using LinkedIn right now to help drive traffic and sales to your website, then you are missing out on a chance to really explode your business. Sure, there are other social networking websites out there but few of them seem to have the concentration of...
4 Content Ideas Involving Social Media To Boost SEO Efforts
Social Media is most often talked about on the web in terms of publishing and interacting. Rarely do people talk about the great content Social Media provides to content marketers in their efforts to deliver high quality and engaging content to end users. Even less...
How To Increase Traffic To Your Website
The question of getting more traffic to your website is a question that never seems to get old. With the Internet becoming more and more popular and widely available, the importance of getting more traffic to your website becomes only more apparent each and every day....
How To Make Your Content Go Viral
The phrase “go viral” has been used in recent years to describe videos, pictures, or other content online that end up being shared so much that they seem everywhere online. It's basically an Internet marketers dream to create content that will be...
How To Use Social Media To Help Non-Profit Organizations
If you run a non profit organization you might want to think about how you can build the profile of your organization. You might be surprised to learn that there are some great low costs ways to get the word out about your business that will not require you to make a...
Social Media Popularity Contest: CEO Version [INFOGRAPHIC]
Most of us think of Twitter as a place to connect with friends and perhaps follow celebrities that we admire. We don't take it very seriously, and we might let our account go dormant for days or weeks. But for big business, and for some of those very celebrities that...