Social Media Sites You Don’t Know About

Establishing a social media presence is one of the very first things most businesses do to build their brand. You may make posting to social media a high priority, but have you considered looking beyond the top sites like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, or Pinterest?   The most important point to consider is: where does …

4 Ways to Help Your Business Bounce Back for the End of 2020

No one could have predicted the kind of year we have all had collectively. A public health emergency, lockdowns, quarantines, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, rampant unemployment…the list goes on. If your business has taken a hit this year (as many have), you might be tempted to write off the rest of this year, go to bed …

TikTok, Byte, Reels, YouTube, and Snapchat – The Who’s Who of Creative Video Content Platforms

Wicked Marketing Podcast Episode  It’s the Who’s Who of Video Platforms. Join us as we discuss the latest on creative video platforms that are hot, and coming to the industry with content expert and business coach Lia Haberman. Reach engaged audiences by getting creative with short-form videos on platforms like TikTok, Byte, Reels, YouTube, and …

What You Need to Know About TikTok Advertising

If you’re one of those people who’s still scratching their heads trying to learn what TikTok is, join the club. While still quite new, this short-video based social network has taken the world by storm in the last couple of years, rapidly surpassing giants like Twitter and Snapchat for the number of users. With the …

Zoom Event Ideas: Tips, Dos and Don’ts

Zoom, the free video conferencing app (that most everyone has heard of by now), has become one of the most popular platforms for communication due to stay-at-home orders. As of May 2020, Zoom has 300 million daily meeting participants.   Aside from using Zoom internally to chat with telecommuting employees, did you also know you …

Marketing to Gen Z and Gen X—The Major Differences

One of the biggest differentiators in how people respond to messaging is age—or, more to the point, the generational culture in which they grew up. We hear terms like “Gen X” and Gen Z” tossed around often in market-speak, but many people are confused as to what these terms mean or how they can affect …

Instagram: Tips and Hacks to Increase Your Reach

This past weekend Dana and I attended a Pinnacle Global Network event where we had the opportunity to listen to Chalene Johnson speak on tactics and techniques to grow your engagement on Instagram. For those that don’t know Chalene Johnson, she’s an entrepreneur who made a name in the fitness space and has grown to …

How People Can Tell Whether Your Brand’s Message Is Authentic

Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world. —Adam Grant A few years ago, if you described something as “slick,” it was a compliment. It meant that something was polished and terrifically produced. But nowadays, “slick” is increasingly used as a criticism. It’s a …

Candor & Emotional Connection: How to Connect With Millennials and Gen-Z

The narrative and writing style of communications nowadays has to be crafted very differently to what it was just five years ago. For websites, as an example, to develop a narrative that communicates the brand message, we now leverage storytelling, first and third-person perspectives, and interweaved trust validators like quotes and reviews. Whereas in the past, communications focused …