The Share Effect: Revisiting Strategies to Grow Your Audience Through Sharable Content

The Share Effect: Revisiting Strategies to Grow Your Audience Through Sharable Content

Photo by Alexander Suhorucov Have you ever really thought about why creating content that others want to engage with and share with their audience is so desirable? Sometimes we get so focused on the terminology and the measurement, we don’t think enough about why it...
4 Ways Small Businesses Can Use Social Media to Their Advantage

4 Ways Small Businesses Can Use Social Media to Their Advantage

From that little German bakery in Minneapolis that reminds me of my time studying abroad to that small specialty store that always has the coolest gifts for my friends, I just love supporting small businesses. There’s something to be said for the challenging work it...
3 Meaningful Ways to Build Community Online

3 Meaningful Ways to Build Community Online

There are several different definitions of the word “community.” One definition of the word is “a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society.” If you think about it, the social media realm sounds an awful lot like...
Don’t be a Flower!

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,...

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...