Are you the kind of marketer that posts and goes? Well, it’s probably a no-sweat lifestyle for you, but your strategy is probably plummeting! Here’s the thing: producing and posting the content is only the first half of your marketing campaign. Without any kind of data to tell you what posts are performing and which […]
Read MoreWhy You Need to Go Back to Social Media School

Lifelong learning is not necessarily a new trend. As a business owner, marketer, salesperson, whoever, in this fast-moving world it is impossible to survive unless you are able to be malleable and learn new things on a regular basis. I find this attitude applicable with how a business views social media marketing. I’ve come across […]
Read More7 Ways You Should Be Using LinkedIn’s Advanced Search

Most social media users only scratch the surface when it comes to navigating their favorite sites. In reality, there are plenty of secret and not-so-secret ways to use these sites effectively. On LinkedIn, for example, the advanced search feature makes it easy to narrow down your list of potentially valuable contacts. So what should you […]
Read MoreHow to Create a Socially Aware Marketing Campaign

It’s a tricky tightrope to walk, trying to tie your marketing campaign in with ongoing social justice movements. Sometimes you get a thoughtful, well-produced campaign that respects the issue it’s talking about, like Nike’s recent “For Once, Don’t Do It” campaign. Other times you get Kendall Jenner “healing” America’s racial divide with Pepsi. So with […]
Read MoreNatural, Engaging, and Transparent: The Secrets to Reddit Success

As Reddit is rapidly expanding its base (and including more functions that are marketing and advertiser-friendly) our hipper, more internet savvy clients are going to start looking into it. And if our clients are looking into it, that means we should have looked into it three months ago and prepared an upsell. Reddit is unique […]
Read MoreCan Piggyback Marketing Make Your Money? Maybe, But Is It Worth It?

Twitter has never been exactly the golden goose of marketing potential that agency owners had hoped for. Despite a loyal fellowship of users, branded content rarely sees hits there the way that it does on sites like Instagram. Even brand tweets have the potential to go viral but said tweets are typically unrelated to the […]
Read MoreGetting Ready for the New Class of Social Media

Remember when MySpace was the end all, be all of social media? Well, it technically still exists, but how many marketers do you know that are planning strategy around it? Things fade, and as generations come and go and our use of technology evolves, so do the platforms that our clients and their customers are […]
Read MoreYou Need Facebook Dynamic Shopping Ads

Here’s a hard truth about digital advertising: on their own, ads aren’t very persuasive or effective. On average, an ad on social media has a 0.1% click-through rate. Most people’s “solution” to this is to run a blitzkrieg of ads, but if an ad only averages a 0.1% click rate, investing in ten of them […]
Read MoreHow to Generate Leads Through Social Media

Social media. Doing it is time-consuming. Doing it well can be tedious, laborious, and frustrating. Now imagine, pouring all that time and effort into your social media channels only to have no return? I’ve watched horror movies that scared me less than that last sentence… Generating leads is the marketer’s end goal for social media. […]
Read MoreFacebook is Changing…Are You? How to Keep ahead of Constant Social Media Shake-Ups

Because it’s a day that ends in “y”, one of our social media institutions has decided to make sweeping changes. This time, it’s Facebook who’s changing up the way digital marketers use its platform. Now: don’t be alarmed, a lot of these changes are positive and will make running your company’s page a little easier. […]
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