The Importance of Hashtags

Importance of Hashtags Social Media is Important and Insanely Popular Both of those facts are already well known by most everyone. It continues to connect people to each other, and it also connects businesses to other businesses and customers. There’s no way to measure just how many people use social media platforms on a regular […]

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How to Use Social Media During a PR Crisis

Author: Elizabeth Sarah Larkin If you think that a public relations crisis won’t happen to you and your business, then you’re wrong. Even the most well-run and well-organized business can find themselves in a PR crisis out of nowhere. Some are silly and annoying whereas others can be far more serious. If not properly addressed

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How to Grow a Meaningful Online Community

A lot of businesses, when working with an online digital marketing strategist, will start out with the question “How do I grow my online presence and increase followers?” And, it’s not always as simple as that. Growing an online presence takes time. Sometimes that can mean a few months, a year, or longer. If you

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From text-heavy document to video

Recently, we were provided a Zip file folder chock full of heavily-worded pdf documents. The information was interesting. But the likelihood of someone clicking the “read more” to read document was slim. These days we are time-starved, combine that with competition in the newsfeed and this thing called an algorithm. The solution? Video! The really

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How to handle negative comments

Negative Comments on Social Media So you’re posting along, playing nice and minding your own business… then WHAM! A negative comment for all to see on your Facebook Page. Your heart sinks.  You’re in no mood for any type of confrontation but you can’t leave this comment unanswered.  

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Be unique in your seasonal marketing

Seasonal marketing is focusing a marketing strategy on annual events, dates or holidays and creating a marketing campaign based on a comparable theme. However, there’s a bit more to seasonal marketing than tweeting a picture of a pumpkin or creating “spooky” discounts.  How many people do you know that grumble about Christmas cards being sold

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Wine Pairing with Social Media

This is a handy guide to getting more out of social media by knowing the basic principles of social media and wine pairing. Facebook = Cabernet SauvignonCalifornia Cabernet, Bordeaux and Bordeaux-style blends are terrific with scheduling posts. The firm tannins in these wines refresh the palate after each upload. Twitter = Pinot NoirTweets made with ingredients like hashtags and

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