Identifying The Three Major Types of Influencers

In a conversation about social marketing, there’s one subject that seems to surface more than anything else: influencers. By attracting the right influencers to your brand, experts say, you’ll pretty much guarantee free marketing for your business. Thing is…not many of them actually talk about how to tell whether or not someone is the right type of influencer. As with anything else, there are different breeds of influencer, each requiring a slightly different approach if you’re to succeed in courting them. That’s why today, I’m going to offer up a brief guide on identifying the three major types of social…

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Acing Social Media On a Bootstrap Budget

Learn how to establish a strong social media presence for your brand. Social media on a budget is possible!

It’s a familiar song-and-dance, especially among small businesses. Everyone’s constantly offering advice on how you can make your brand more mobile; advice which often involves “get yourself established on Facebook/Twitter/Google +/Instagram.” There’s only one problem – you’ve genuinely got neither the time nor the budget necessary to succeed in doing so.

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How You Can Refresh Your Event Management Firm In The New Year

A New Year is upon us! Traditionally, this is when we look back at the past year and think about all the stuff we did right (and wrong); when we look forward and draw up a few New Years’ resolutions we’ll probably end up breaking in a few months. Coincidentally, it’s also the perfect time to refresh your event management business. I should explain. See, every business no matter how successful runs the risk of getting a bit stale after a while. If you aren’t regularly mixing things up and coming up with new ideas and approaches, then you may…

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The Ten Biggest Changes 2015 Brought to Social Media

It’s that time again, folks. As 2015 begins to draw to a close and 2016 waits just over the horizon, we’ve a prime opportunity to look back on what transpired over the past year – and use that to prepare ourselves for what’s coming next. Of course, in this case, that may be easier said than done. See, 2015 may well have been one of the biggest years yet in the social space. We saw a ton of evolutions, disruptions, and emerging trends, and although certain constants yet remain (Facebook is still top dog, traditional ads still fall flat), a…

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5 Signs you are Addicted to Social Media

According to the Pew Research Center, as of January 2014, 74 percent of online adults were using social networking sites. While some of these people only use social sites from time to time, others let it consume their life. They are checking Twitter while they eat breakfast. They are posting to Facebook when they are supposed to be working. And of course, they are using Instagram to show the world what they are doing, where they have been, and maybe even what they are eating. Generally speaking, a social media addiction is not harmful. Sure, it may consume many hours of…

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