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Don’t bring your social media completely in-house
I really believe it’s bad advice to recommend that companies fire their social media consultants, experts and agencies only to bring everything in house. The social mediasphere is enormous and 80% listening which demands crisis management experience and a solid team.
Your social media plan needs to shut up and start listening
I know you. You’re spending all of your social media marketing budget on promoting your brand, products, and services; that’s fine except you’ve either forgotten — or never knew — that social media is a two-way street. It is. And, something you also didn’t know: social media is two-thirds defense and monitoring — listening — […]
Be a persistent social media parent
Sure and steady wins out over the long haul They always say that the parents who put in all the boring, taken-for-granted time are the very best. That it’s not even about quality time, it’s about persistent time, time spent. I don’t want to compare parenting to social media community development and management, but I […]
How to get over social media writer’s block
We’ve all had it. Writer’s block. You need to write something and there’s nothing there. No idea. Nothing seems like the right approach. Why does it happen? There are six reasons why you’ll have chronic writer’s block when it comes to producing content to feed your social media dragons: blog, Twitter and Facebook. Once you […]