Tips For The Best Event Hashtag

Now that you’re in the marketing stage for your upcoming event, you’re probably facing the hard fact that event marketing isn’t cheap. It rarely is– there are dozens of print mediums and online presences to consider advertising through, all of which require quite a bit of cash to kick off. Most marketing techniques also require an additional chunk money to get anywhere beyond the starting line.

Luckily, if you still have some time and creative juices left for your marketing campaign, you can get pretty impressive results from just one, simple (and totally free, by the way) event hashtag. If you can effectively utilize a hashtag that represents your event well, you can increase your outreach significantly and create the kind of buzz that money just can’t buy.

Sound appealing? Give the following tips a try as a part of your current social media strategy, and watch the traction from your hashtag do wonders for your event.

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Snapchat: Storifying Your Brand

It seems that with each new year comes a new big boom in social media marketing. Last year, the marketing world was engulfed with real-time advertising induced from the famous Oreo Super Bowl tweet.

This real time advertising phenomena created a storm of over saturation and under satisfaction, and left many marketing managers losing their hair trying to latch on to every social trend they could. This became a tiring endeavor and not as effective as once imagined.

This year’s big boom has been Snapchat, a peer-to-peer photo/video messaging application that allows its users to temporarily share pictures and videos.  Many brands were quick to follow the gust of Snapchat trendiness and a few quickly found success, including Taco Bell, Mashable, Sour Patch Kids, and GE.

These brands were doing something different than many other brands on Snapchat, they found a way to stick out and connect with their audience. A more unique persona of their brand than ever before was created. They found the secret.

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How To Have Social Media Work For You

Social media, we all love it but are not always sure of the best way to use it to our advantage. This week we are going to really dive into it and take a closer look at how you can use the latest techniques and platforms to really work for you. As with any social media advice, you need to focus on what really works for your audience as well as brand. We are going to offer lots of tips and tricks that you can use to engage & get more followers and use social media to your advantage. Try them […]

Social Media Hiring: Maximize Benefits, Reduce Risk

Gone are the days when social media was in its infancy. This is mainstream in today’s world, with hundreds of millions of people using platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to communicate with others. From a hiring perspective, the use of social media is on the rise. In a 2013 study conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 77 percent of respondents admitted to using social networking sites to recruit candidates. While there are many benefits of using social media from a recruiting and hiring point of view, it is essential to become familiar with the risks. […]

Social Marketing versus Public Relations: What’s The Difference, Really?

There was a time not so long ago when marketing and public relations were two very distinct – if closely-related – fields. The former was primarily concerned with selling the products and services of a brand; the latter was entirely focused on maintaining relationships. Then social media came along, and thoroughly muddied the waters. With the advent of social media, an entirely new marketing paradigm was born – relationship marketing. “The days of traditional marketing, such as running ads, commercials, and other one-way forms of promotion are rapidly fading because the rise of relationship marketing is taking a front seat,” […]