What Social Media Managers Really Do
There’s an Internet meme for social media managers that goes something like this. Six images are subtitled with something along the lines of “What My Friends Think I Do” (play Farmville all day), “What My Mom Thinks I Do,” (a man sitting in front of a bank of huge, state of the art computer screens),…
Read MoreThe Role of Followers in Social Media Marketing
The Role of the Follower in Creating a Successful Social Media Marketing Campaign You have social media accounts for your business or organization that need to be updated. Your company signed up for these accounts believing that “everyone else is doing it” and “it’s free, so we should be taking advantage of it.” But perhaps…
Read MoreSuccessful Social Media Campaigns
What Does A Successful Social Media Campaign Look Like? Let’s start with what it’s not. It’s Not More Likes. Believe it or not, getting new followers on social media is relatively easy. On Facebook, you simply pay a small amount to promote your page and bingo! New Likes. On other platforms, you work your networking,…
Read MoreThe Anatomy of a Tweet (for Absolute Beginners)
The Anatomy of a Tweet Last week, I showed my husband a Tweet I found particularly engaging, and he responded that he could barely understand it given all the tags and hashtags. Now, this is an exceptionally educated man, genius smart, who just doesn’t use Twitter. And I thought “No wonder Twitter is so intimidating…
Read MoreThe Downside of Facebooking Too Often
Unless you’re a news source (like a newspaper or radio station), or a big-name, internet-known brand, you probably shouldn’t be posting to Facebook more than once a day. Often, I see companies or organizations doing social media “dumps.” They’ll go a few days without posting anything on Facebook, and then BAM! They post five things…
Read MoreShould You Mix Business with Politics?
Since the recent Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, the whole country has been talking about this monumental decision. Nowhere is that more evident than on social media. Unless you live under a rock or have sworn off social media (meaning you probably aren’t reading this blog…), your daily life has been filled with rainbow profile…
Read MoreSharing is Caring
Sharing is Caring I’ve written many times that people get far too caught up in how many followers their social media accounts have. Page Likes and Followers are all well and good, but at the end of the day they only do so much to influence how far your message travels on social media. Let…
Read More12 Days of Digital Marketing Day 4
12 Days of Digital Marketing: Day 4 Four Calling Birds, or Four Thousand Twitter Followers Despite its simplicity, Twitter is one of the least understood platforms for small business digital marketing. 9 times out of 10, when a client tells me they have a Twitter account, it’s completely dead. At some point, they set up…
Read MoreWhat Is Social Media Account Maintenance?
D. Cohn Communications’ most popular service is social media account maintenance, and yet that term is vague enough that it requires explanation. You may be asking, why do I need social marketing, and how does it work? By social media marketing, we are referring to using Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, LinkedIn pages, blogs, and many…
Read MoreManaging Social Media Chaos
The following piece was originally published in our “What’s Up In Social Media with D.” column at ValpoLife.com. A Little Bit of Chaos Q: I recently took a position where I was put in charge of managing my company’s social media accounts. But each department is responsible for making its own posts, and everyone posts…
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