The rapid ascendancy of social media over the past decade, with 71% of adults visiting social media sites through early 2014, has not gone unnoticed by nonprofits, about half of whom (48%) recognize its importance to their overall marketing strategy. Still, 67% of 9,000 small- and medium-size nonprofits in a March, 2014 survey report having no social media plan.…
You are busy – I know. But during the many changes within your business, did you happen to notice in the midst of it all that maybe you missed updating your social media branding? Social + Branding = Consistency If you have found that your social media marketing is not helping to build your brand…
There are several key points to podcasting that will help small businesses have a successful podcast. There are multiple “key” points to podcasting that take time to master. Yet there are 8 base key points that will help with your podcast. These 8 key points will not guarantee success but they will ensure that you…
In 1994, when I first encountered the World Wide Web, I had just started a family. I was in my mid-thirties, and I worked as a consultant in finance and as a development strategist for start-ups. Over the years, I glimpsed the major revolution that was taking place with the Web and its implications for…
This is the ninth post in a 12 month series on the use of Instagram for businesses. If you’re using Instagram for your business, then you want to expand your reach and get in front of more customers and potential customers. Having more, targeted followers on Instagram will ensure more people see your message and increase…
Back in 2003 a new online professional networking service called LinkedIn was launched out into the world. But, Oh Baby, have things changed since then! In the early days this growing social media tool for job seekers, businesses and brands was quite different – a mere shell of what it is today. Now there are…
If you have kids you know that hollering and screaming does no good. Many small business marketers act like parents, and think they have to holler scream shout, and froth at the mouth, to get people’s attention. This is not needed in any scenario. Unless, that scenario is overly crowded, and then I still don’t think that yelling…
By Michael Brenner At a marketing conference last year, I was asked my opinion on what is the biggest opportunity in Content Marketing? Without hesitation, I answered “Slideshare.” Slideshare is one of the top websites in the world and should be a key focus of any B2B content marketing program. According to Comscore, Slideshare is…
Did you know that according to a study performed by Maritz and Evolve 24 that more than 70 percent of customer-service complaints made on Twitter go unanswered? That’s right, ignored. Either blatantly or by mere ignorance and neglect of the company, customers are ignored and when that happens it has a snowball effect that many…
By Lee Traupel I can’t believe the amount of content shared targeting small business that rhapsodizes about the endless rewards bigger brands are generating with social media marketing like Toms, SAP, Cisco, Intel, SalesForce, et al. Many of you do not have the marketing resources, staff and/or technical expertise to create and deploy this…
