Influencer marketing during the holiday season can be a great idea for brands. Keep in mind though that like us, they are busy too. We want them to act quick, come up with great content and check off all our ‘wants’ detailed in their agreements....

Running a sweepstakes for your brand can be a great way to reward your loyal fans and find new ones. Doing a live video sweepstakes on Facebook is a new playing field and we think one that shouldn't be ignored. We’ve already touched on Facebook...

What are our customers spending their time doing? What are they saying about us on their channels when we aren’t being tagged? Is there a need they have that we could be fulfilling? How can we interact with them to show them that we get...

Live-Streaming isn’t a new tactic, it’s been around awhile now with companies such as Live Stream and UStream just to name a few. In the past couple years however, live-streaming has become more accessible to the average Joe, making it so that if you have...

Whenever I try to describe what influencers are and what they do to anyone outside of the social media industry, I find that people generally have a misconceived notion about what they actually do. Typically one of the first things that I hear is, “I...

In the world of influencer events and conferences, the list is quite extensive and looking through one can often leave brands wondering which ones are worth the investment. There are a few different ways to answer that question, so for now we’ll just pick one....

When Google+ came into existence in 2011, it was a lot to take in and viewed as a rival to Facebook. There were a lot of jokes about it being introduced around the fact that you had to have one in order to do pretty...

It’s a new year, well it’s been a new year for a couple weeks, but since we’re still in January let’s talk about how you can look at utilizing influencers in 2016. We previously spoke about how brands should consider working with influencers, so now...

We all know that the holiday time can be stressful, people are consuming more information than they typically would during other times of the year. For brands, it can be difficult for their messaging to get through the clutter, but one way to push through...

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