Should a Thanksgiving Menu be SOOOO difficult to find online?

  • Fran Stephenson
  • November 19, 2024
  • 3 min read

The short answer to this is NO. But the long answer is that it WAS difficult to find online.  Here’s a story about my journey to avoid cooking this Thanksgiving and to patronize a local business to enjoy a beautiful Thanksgiving meal. And it’s a cautionary tale for small businesses this holiday season on sales […]

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The Many Styles of Social Media Managers

  • Fran Stephenson
  • October 9, 2024
  • 3 min read

Social Media Managers are all different. Which one are you? It’s tough being a social media manager (SMM) these days.  More and more tasks are being asked of them, and their skillset is often stretched to the limit.  Some are able to rise to the occasion, but our experience in coaching and assisting social media […]

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Is Your Influencer Campaign Ethical? 

  • Fran Stephenson
  • September 18, 2024
  • 4 min read

In honor of PRSA Ethics Month, we’re taking a look at Influencer Campaigns We don’t know where influencers belong most of the time. Are they organic stakeholders? Are they paid advertising? Are they media? And when we’re working with a new client to imagine what working with influencers looks like to them, we get lots […]

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Meta Set to Change Metrics for Facebook and Instagram

  • Fran Stephenson
  • August 19, 2024
  • 8 min read

Earlier this year, Facebook announced that some of their page level metrics were being deprecated (which happened about 30 days later in April).  Maybe you saw your engagements go the same direction as this chart from one of our clients. At the time, it looked like it was just “reactions” (formerly called likes) that were […]

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How Often Should I Post on Social Media?

  • Fran Stephenson
  • July 9, 2024
  • 2 min read

How often should I post on social media? We get this question all the time and the answer is different for each brand we work with. Travel and hospitality brands feel compelled to post every day to keep their destination or location in the mind of consumers who are planning their travel. Nonprofits feel the […]

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Do Hashtag Generators Work?

  • Jennifer Hatton
  • June 12, 2024
  • 3 min read

The short answer is yes, the long answer is more nuanced, with some warnings and explanations below.  Hashtag generators are a quick timesaver to get an initial list for research. In short you can use them to get a list of hashtags to research yourself and also check against the most recent banned hashtag list […]

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How To Handle Negative and Irrelevant Comments on Facebook

  • Fran Stephenson
  • June 12, 2024
  • 7 min read

Should you ever hide Facebook comments? When you are managing Facebook pages, it is likely you will have to answer this question. In the process of managing Facebook pages for numerous organizations, we’ve had to take action a number of times. Some comments should be ignored. Some comments deserve a response. Others should be hidden […]

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Getting More from the Content Creators in your Agency

  • Fran Stephenson
  • April 22, 2024
  • 3 min read

Like many agency leaders, you need great people running social media for your accounts, whether they are paid or social.  So you hire someone who seems to have great content on their social channels, knows a lot about the functionality of the various social networks and bam, you’re set. Except. Except.  You Want More! Here’s […]

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Content Ladders: How To Build Them Into Your Social Media Channels

  • Jennifer Hatton
  • March 22, 2024
  • 5 min read

What is a Content Ladder? A content ladder is our way of thinking about building expertise around a topic or content theme.  We use them formally and informally with a lot of our clients to take advantage of the repetitive nature of social media and to increase the shelf life of certain types of content. […]

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Are Hashtags Relevant in 2024?

  • Jennifer Hatton
  • March 19, 2024
  • 6 min read

What is a Hashtag?  First off, hashtags are words and numbers following the # symbol that categorize and track content on social media. They are used across multiple platforms so we will discuss the importance and role on each.  Hashtags can be words, sayings, holidays with years and locations. Branded Hashtags  A branded hashtag is […]

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