Cyber Social: Make the Most of Black Friday with This Checklist

Cyber Social: Make the Most of Black Friday with This Checklist

In the run-up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, your marketing goes into overdrive. The biggest sales event of the year is a necessity for brands, so it’s important to get it right. Your social channels play a particularly crucial role here. With more customers...
Meet and Greet: Amanda Andresen

Meet and Greet: Amanda Andresen

The NISM SMS professionals serve as ambassadors for our certification program. Not only are they knowledgeable about our curriculum, but they also share our passion for social media. Best of all, their stories help shape our organization and the work that we do here....
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...
How to Reach More Readers Using Social Media and Publicity

How to Reach More Readers Using Social Media and Publicity

Book marketing and publicity for nonfiction authors can be overwhelming with the vast array of social media platforms. Many authors wonder how to use social media and worry they will do it wrong. Let’s address some basic dos and don’ts of using social media for book...
Social Wayfinding: Navigate the noise

Social Wayfinding: Navigate the noise

Imagine you are sailing on a vast ocean. You have all the tools to get to your destination, sail, maps, and GPS, but how well you use the tools will determine how fast you get there.  And let’s be honest, you want to get there faster. Because the sooner you get to...