When I pitch my influencer marketing services these days on behalf of my digital agency Gerris, I find that I am not competing against humans at other agencies, I am…
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Take your bloggers and social media influencers to lunch
Come on, don’t you think the thankless job of blogging passionately about a topic for free, persistently, over months and years deserves at least some face time and maybe a…
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Influencer marketing should not be about collecting influencers
Before I start, please attend my free webinar on March 22, Do-It-Yourself Influencer Marketing. [Update: Video is here.] The worst thing about the internet has been the commodification of friendship. Even before…
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Build a page and profile for absolutely everything
Summary: if you have multiple locations and/or multiple products, you need to create social media channels for every single one of them. If you have several 9Round franchises in Northern…
Read MoreDigital casualties: digital diversity at the workplace
This is the third “digital casualties” post. You can read the first two here and here. As we transition to a workplace increasingly reliant on the so-called digital technologies, where…
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Will your job search survive your social media activity?
It is hard to imagine that in this day and age, job candidates still have information on their social media profiles that prevent them from being hired. Not surprisingly, 43%…
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Use Instagram as the starting point to promote your business online
I recently ended my stint as Content and Social Media Chair of MIT Enterprise Forum here in DC and I got to play with the levers and strings of personally promoting…
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Visitors hate ghost towns more than spammy posts
While social media experts like to tell their clients that the thing that visitors to their social media business properties hate the most is when they visit your company’s Facebook…
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The state of earned media blogger outreach
I’ve been doing earned media blogger outreach as a profession since 2006 and a lot has changed. To be frank, there are a lot of bloggers with their hands out…
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IF you haven’t THEN you should use IFTTT for social
While some of you have been doing amazing things once and then allowing IFTTT work for you forever since December 14, 2010, this article is for the rest of you who…
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