Trends: Social Media
11 Instagram best practices every marketer should know.
When it comes to Instagram, there are a number of things to consider before joining—especially if you are a brand. From handles to filters to hashtags, we’ve gathered the very best practices for your … Read article
Critical resource or just critical? Tips for docs to deal with Yelp’s fortified UGC.
If user-generated content has been giving doctors’ headaches, Yelp’s new partnership with ProPublica might be migraine-inducing. Yelp is working with the investigative online newsroom to bolster its u … Read article
6 brands using social gamification to increase engagement.
Within the past five years, gamification has turned into one of the biggest industry buzzwords, and here’s why. While developing marketing plans, business proposals, and editorial calendars, advertise … Read article
4 popular Instagram formats to tell your brand story.
From cave paintings in Lascaux, frescos in the Sistine Chapel and Campbell’s soup cans with a dash of Warhol to billboards, commercials and now Instagram, visual storytelling has always been popular a … Read article
7 ways to grow your small business on Instagram.
Owning a business can be hard. Growing a business can be even harder. Large businesses may have significant media budgets. But what small businesses lack in size, they can more than make up with custo … Read article
Inspiring examples of Real Time Marketing #4: The Royal Baby.
When Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge was born, the Internet went wild. Twitter recorded more than one million tweets mentioning the birth, and “royal baby” was the most searched term o … Read article
The first rule of brand authenticity: Know your audience.
Authenticity is an important, though fuzzy concept. Important because most consumers opt for authentic brands over and above their competitors. And fuzzy because authenticity can be difficjult to defi … Read article
6 ways your nonprofit organization can be successful on Instagram.
They say a single image is worth a thousand words. This adage has helped make Instagram popular among retail brands. But what about nonprofits? Can a picture capture the power of a cause? Oh yeah. Fro … Read article
Inspiring examples of real time marketing #3: The Dress.
#TheDress tore just about everyone in the world apart, including the Brogan & Partners office. Was it blue and black? Was it white and gold? We all had a different opinion, and so did the marketin … Read article
University Marketing 101: 4 colleges connecting with co-eds.
Did you know there are almost 3,000 four-year colleges in the U.S.? Each year, more than 21 million high school students are expected to pursue an undergraduate degree by attending one of them—but, wh … Read article






















