Micro-Influencers & Social Media Marketing

Micro-Influencers & Social Media Marketing

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 is to blog on an area of social media that they found most interesting or learned...
Influencers are Losing their Influence

Influencers are Losing their Influence

Open Instagram and begin to scroll through your feed. How many organic posts made by friends or family do you see before you come across an influencer-sponsored post? Odds are you won’t make it very far, seeing as 93% of influencers use Instagram as their platform of...
More Than Just Fireworks

More Than Just Fireworks

It’s no question that when it comes to Independence Day, Americans tend to go all out. According to this infographic, it is expected hungry barbecuers across the U.S. will spend $6.8 billion on July 4th food. It also comes as no surprise that more than 16,000...
A Journalist’s Approach to Instagram

A Journalist’s Approach to Instagram

A sports writer gets to a local hockey arena a couple hours early, leaving plenty of time to set up in a spot with his or her laptop and to prepare for the game. With the stillness of the arena except for maybe a few workers, the reporter snaps a photo from the top of...