Sharing 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…

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12 Days of Digital Marketing Day 7

Technically, we have entered the actual 12 Days of Christmas and I have until January 6th to pop out the next six 12 Days blogs. But let’s be honest, once Christmas Day has passed, all the pomp and circumstance of the season is pretty much over. So maybe the metaphor is tired now. Too bad.…

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12 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…

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What 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…

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Managing 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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Jargon, Buzzwords, and Slang

33 Social Media Buzzwords You Should Know There are literally thousands of terms, phrases and buzzwords related to the digital marketing and social media industries. With new platforms coming out every day, bringing even more jargon with them, we decided to look into our crystal ball. Do you know what we saw in the future?…

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Getting Started on Your Business Page

Social media can be a great asset to a business, but it can also be overwhelming when you don’t have much professional experience with it. Sometimes the most difficult part of creating a page is deciding how to organize it and what to post. The most important thing to remember when using social media is…

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Keep Control of Your Brand on Social Media

There used to be a saying, “When customers are happy, they’ll tell their friends. When they’re unhappy, they’ll tell everybody.” Thanks to social media, those “friends” just happen to be the 500 people on your customer’s Facebook list or Twitter feed. Deliver a great product, and you’ve just earned 500 public pats on the back.…

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Darlene McCarty Cohn is Not a Guru

Let’s get one thing straight right out of the gate: I am not a Social Media Guru. I’m not a rock star either, but I’d be okay with the fast cars. I’m definitely not a swami. I am simply Darlene McCarty Cohn: writer, marketer, and educator. I’m good with that. “Guru” is a little too…

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