Why Your Brand Should Invest in Social Good Campaigns
Do you remember the first time you saw an ad that moved you? They may relate to you personally, therefore strengthening your beliefs and challenging you to act. We have seen feminine hygiene brands promoting gender equality and car brands promoting an eco-friendly environment. Social good campaigns mean big business for brands while making a…
Read MoreHow To Choose the Right Influencer Marketing Activation to Get the Right ROI
So, let’s say you have your heart set on a Facebook Influencer Marketing activation and you want to increase visits to a website. In your mind, that would be the ROI golden ticket. Do you know for certain that Facebook is the right place for your brand? At the end of the campaign, do you think…
Read More10 Influencer Marketing Halloween Campaign Ideas That Will Wow You
With Halloween approaching, brands are identifying influencer marketing Halloween campaign ideas that will promote their products and services in fun, fresh, and relevant ways for their target market. The key is pinning down the best activations, making certain they meet your goals, objectives, and projected ROI. Recent studies by the Halloween Industry Association showed that most…
Read More4 Key Marketing Metrics You Need To Be Tracking
How do you determine whether or not a campaign was successful? Are you part of the “good vibes” club? If so, it’s time to take a good hard look at, you guessed it, marketing metrics. Yes, times they are a-changin’ thanks to APIs, metrics tracking platforms, and engagement (to name a few). But, now it…
Read MoreTop 10 2019 Influencer Marketing Trends
We’re midway through the year but it doesn’t mean you can’t start fresh, and plans can still be set in motion. Below we’ve compiled the hottest influencer marketing trends for 2019. Does your influencer marketing strategy have these trends in tow? Let’s take a look at the 2019 influencer marketing trends that we’re predicting are…
Read MoreViral Abortion Twitter Thread Teaches Marketers 8 Must-Implement Strategies [Trend Watch]
Who knew that an abortion Twitter thread could drive so much engagement in such a short amount of time? Just one tweet in this 63-tweet Twitter thread has garnered over 65,000 retweets and 165,000 likes in less than two days. Talk about going viral! But, what was it about the thread that caused Gabrielle Blair, author…
Read MoreThe Top 5 Social Media Metrics Tracking Tools
So, you’re running a campaign and have all sorts of blog posts and social media activity going live throughout the campaign. How do you know the performance of the tweets? What about the engagement? Do you know if the Pinterest pins are performing their own #Pinterestfail (aka no engagement)? How’s Instagram treating your campaign? It…
Read MoreHow to Take Time Off and Return to Work Re-energized
Even though popular articles suggest maximizing efficiency can be as easy as taking shorter showers, I believe that the number one way to increase productivity is as simple as taking personal time off (PTO). Sound counterintuitive? Check this out. In addition to sharing time-management tips, expert Stephen Covey includes “Sharpen the Saw” as one of his…
Read More10 Community Management Tips Learned MINI Cooper Road Rallying
As with most skills, we learn by doing. This has been especially true for me when upping my community management game. I’ve been managing an online community—the Forward Network—for nearly 10 years. But, all the community management tips I really ever needed to know I learned road rallying across the US with 4,000+ MINI Cooper…
Read More10 Business Leadership Lessons Learned From Love and Marriage
Today is my 21st wedding anniversary, which is odd since I’m still 29 years old (#IWish). Twenty-one years in a relationship is a long time to create memories, take advantage of opportunities, and learn from the ups and downs. As I reflect on these past few years (21 “few” years to be exact), I find…
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