Why You Need A Content Marketing Strategy for your Brand

Why You Need A Content Marketing Strategy for your Brand

Without compelling content, it’s tough to get your business out there. Bill Gates coined the term “Content is King,” back in 1996 meaning that the whole point of content marketing is to increase visibility to attract your audience to your website as many times as...
Tell Your Story with Brand in Social Media

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...
Social Networking: A Web of Powerful Professional Relationships

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

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?

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?

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...