We’ve all heard that ‘a picture’s worth a thousand words,’ but the proof is more personal. When you flip through a magazine, browse online or read a blog post, where do your eyes go? To the pictures. So it should be no surprise that images are the number one most important factor in optimal social media content.Continue reading “Get Visual With Content Marketing: 5 Tools To Help”
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Warning: Appropriate Hashtag Usage on Instagram Will Result in Major Traffic Increase
Hashtags: you either love them or hate them. This blog has pondered hashtag usage before and received a mixed response from readers on their effectiveness and aesthetic appeal. But more than a year after that discussion, one thing is clear. Hashtag usage should be defined more than ever by social platform. Social Platform Hashtag Usage Twitter?Continue reading “Warning: Appropriate Hashtag Usage on Instagram Will Result in Major Traffic Increase”
Should You Slim Down (on Social Media)?
One of the first things I always discuss with clients (or even prospects) is that you can’t be everything to everyone — even on social media. We all know that, but as small business owners or business professionals, it can be difficult to weed out any ‘potential’ customers. Do what I say, not what I do.Continue reading “Should You Slim Down (on Social Media)?”
Free Your Mind and The Productivity Will Follow
One of my favorite college classes was Business Writing. While it was a morning class (night owl here), we were so productive in that hour and fifteen minute time frame. Why? Free writes. Each class, we’d arrive and sit down at a computer. The professor (who was another reason that class was so productive) wouldContinue reading “Free Your Mind and The Productivity Will Follow”
50 Things I’m Grateful For… Summer 2014 Edition
It’s become an annual tradition at the CCC blog to list 50 unique “things” that I’m currently grateful for. It makes me think and reminds me how blessed I am. The first 50 Things I’m Grateful For post published in May 2012, a month after the blog started, and was an immediate hit. The follow-up post,Continue reading “50 Things I’m Grateful For… Summer 2014 Edition”
An Omnipresent View? The Life of a Small Business Owner
As I sit here and watch the conclusion of the Nets-Heat game, my thoughts keep drifting back to my business. It’s not for lack of excitement: this game, and especially the 4th quarter, has been a back-and-forth affair. In fact, I’m loving the view on TNT Overtime: Wouldn’t it be great if you had thisContinue reading “An Omnipresent View? The Life of a Small Business Owner”
You Don’t Know Jack About Brandjacking
In the mid-nineties, there was a trivia game called You Don’t Know Jack. As a trivia buff, I loved the game and even had it on CD-ROM (remember those?). OK, I also loved telling people, “You don’t know jack” when they answered incorrectly. Which brings me too… Brandjacking. What is it? When someone hijacks your brand,Continue reading “You Don’t Know Jack About Brandjacking”
Global Expansion: Thinking Outside Your Borders
Clearly Conveyed Communications is excited to welcome Sloan McKinney as the latest contributor to the CCC blog. You can learn more about the author at the end of this post. Small businesses make the mistake too often in assuming that just because they’re small, international expansion will never be an option. It’s this kindContinue reading “Global Expansion: Thinking Outside Your Borders”
Shop Small, Support Your Community
It’s Small Business Saturday week, one of our favorite times of the year at CCC. Small Business Saturday is a day dedicated to supporting small businesses across the country. Founded by American Express in 2010, it’s celebrated every year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, which falls on November 30th this year. Think about this: over 50%Continue reading “Shop Small, Support Your Community”
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