Improve Your Email Marketing

The success of your email marketing campaign is often based on a set of complex factors. However, a number of these issues can be proactively managed to ensure an optimized response. When developing your next email campaign, consider the following guidelines. 1. Your list. Certainly one of the most important aspects of any email marketing [...]

Kenneth Cole & The Power of Twitter

Brandon wrote a post a couple of weeks ago about things going “not according to plan.” Well, I guess you could say that’s how things went for clothing designer Kenneth Cole when he sent the below tweet via Twitter. Just like that, in 140 characters or less, something that Kenneth Cole meant as an “attempt [...]

How do you make a smart manager even smarter?

Who knows what you need better than you?  Simple question to answer I would assume.  If you are a talented manager or supervisor then you can see the problem with that first question.  As well as you know what motivates you, what drives you, what needs you seek to meet in your life and your [...]

Why We Still Need Websites

With social media gaining popularity on a daily basis, the focus in the web industry has shifted to following companies on Twitter or becoming fans on Facebook as opposed to searching for the corporate website. Furthermore, companies are also directing a lot of their web traffic to their blog instead of their primary marketing base: [...]

Seasonal Content Management for Nonprofits

December is notably a month where Americans spend less time in the office and more time celebrating the holidays with family and friends.  Many think social media is a 24/7 job, but do you really want to be sending business-related tweets or Facebook posts while you are enjoying your time off work?

7 Steps to a Successful Live Streaming Broadcast

This past June 24th, Kiwanis International announced their next worldwide service project at their 95th annual convention in Las Vegas.  To help get the word out, we decided to stream the announcement of this monumental project live over the internet for the 243,000 Kiwanians who were not attending the convention. My first thought was this [...]