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AI is not always the answer
Read more: AI is not always the answerEvery week, I’m reading more and more articles about AI. When I think every side has been covered, another angle pops up. To say AI is hot for every industry right now is more than an understatement. In social media, people are trying to use it to take the place of the social media manager…
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Why I’m giving up on Giving Tuesday
Read more: Why I’m giving up on Giving TuesdayEvery year, it’s the same thing: Let’s make a plan for Giving Tuesday that will really wow our fans. What actually happens? EVERYONE in the organization gets involved and the ideas get so diluted that they wouldn’t be all that effective to begin with. That would be enough for me to throw my hands up.…
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Moving From Reactive Social Media to Proactive
Read more: Moving From Reactive Social Media to ProactiveI see it on so many social media accounts. They are reacting rather than driving the narrative. Breaking news? They’ll post. Events? They’ll post. Someone talking about them positively? They’ll post. None of those happening? No posts. There is nothing proactive about it. Although that kind of content is great and can get your audience…
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Losing Trust and Moving Forward
Read more: Losing Trust and Moving ForwardThere is nothing more devastating to a relationship than losing trust. And there were many of us who watched the TikTok debacle go down and realized we fully cannot trust anyone who runs a social media network anymore. Of course the big problem is that so many of us work in social media with zero…
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The Role of Patterns to Keep You Consistent
Read more: The Role of Patterns to Keep You ConsistentWhat I can do better than most is staying consistent on social media for clients. There are a lot of secrets on how I do it, but the first one I recommend to those getting started is creating patterns. What do I mean by that? And how can you create your own pattern? Let’s get…
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Signs You Need a Social Media Consultant
Read more: Signs You Need a Social Media ConsultantFiguring out when it’s time to bring in an expert can be difficult, especially when you’re talking about a social media consultant. Do you have the budget? Is it worth spending that budget with a consultant? Might it make a bigger difference somewhere else? To be honest, those are questions only you can answer. I…
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Think Small on Social Media
Read more: Think Small on Social MediaWe are so programmed to constantly think of going bigger that it’s not surprising that we think that way on social media. Chase after bigger influencers, get bigger engagement and more. Makes sense, right? But what if I told you that in most cases it’s better to think small when it comes to social media?…
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When It is Not a Social Media Strategy
Read more: When It is Not a Social Media StrategyRecently, on Threads, a man posted his strategy for the rest of 2024. He then proceeded to list the number of times he would be posting on different networks. A woman reposted his post with the comment, “This is not a strategy.” Predictably, she was roasted by a certain kind of internet dweller with taunts…
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How to Do Social Video with Little to No Work
Read more: How to Do Social Video with Little to No WorkFirst off, I want to make it clear: Great social video takes work. It takes a lot of time and effort. But not many of us have the time to be great. It sounds terrible to say, but it’s just a fact. And unfortunately, video is getting to more feeds than anything else, so it’s…
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Just Say No to Extra Twitter Characters
Read more: Just Say No to Extra Twitter CharactersElon Musk is throwing the book at Twitter Blue to try to get people to purchase it. The latest? A whole 4,000 Twitter characters if you become a subscriber. Four. Thousand. Characters. For someone who likes to write long form and not be constrained by these character limits, it’s probably enticing. But this is in…
