Ask Mandy is a weekly Q&A blog series. To ask your question about social media, please click here. Mediated marketing is all about being ahead of the curve, and allowing companies to flourish when their campaign is strategically thought out. This may mean taking on a newer, smaller but very popular platform. With over 150 million […]
Everyone has social media platforms they prefer or are the strongest one. For many, LinkedIn falls to the wayside, mostly as an afterthought to Facebook and Twitter. Yes, I am one of the ‘many’. Like yourself, I am surrounded by posts and people telling me LinkedIn is a gold mine and that should be my […]
I love Twitter, though the fast-paced short conversations are not for everyone. Whether you’re jazzed about marketing in 140 characters or not, if your market includes active Twitter users, you might want to check out Twitter’s promoted tweets. This week’s Q&A question is, What are and why should I use Promoted Tweets? Promoted tweets are […]
Two years ago I wrote two articles that became very popular on my blog – 8 Reasons I Won’t Follow You on Twitter and 8 More Reasons I Won’t Follow You on Twitter. Since it’s been two years, I thought it was appropriate to back and revisit those 16 original reasons and see if anything […]
Ask Mandy is a weekly Q&A blog series. To ask your question about social media, please click here. I love advertising. It was the one Maymester class I took in college, partly because if I was going to sit in a class for 3 hours everyday for one month, it had to be a fun, interesting […]
It is that precious and most treasured time of the year—no, not Christmas—football season. During this time of the year, weekends are not the time to relax, they are a time to strap on your colors and cheer on your team to victory come rain or shine, hell or high water. Fans explode with play-by-plays […]
In the somewhat modified words of Forrest Gump… Using social media for your business is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. Contrary to what some may say, social media success does not happen overnight. Yes, something may go viral, but that doesn’t mean you are going to be successful […]
I have yet to talk to a single business blogger who always has the perfect topic every time they sit down to write a blog post. And, as for those who claim they never have this challenge, I have a hard time believing them. As for me, I will be honest in saying I have […]
Ask Mandy is a weekly Q&A blog series. To ask your question about social media, please click here. When thinking about how to be more myself, I am reminded of a scene from my favorite Disney movie, Aladdin, where the Genie (voiced by the late Robin Williams) is giving Aladdin advice about Jasmine and morphs into a […]
I know you have heard this time and again, much like a broken record, – “social media is here to stay”. In some form or another, it is. Social Media 2006 is far different from the Social Media of 2014 and businesses of all sizes are taking notice. Social media has allowed us to stay […]