Content Marketing

Cultural Holidays: To Post or Not to Post?

By John Kultgen and Andrew Minucci

Social media users are getting increasingly intolerant of brands stepping into terrains that aren’t relevant to their business. In traditional advertising, brands can fly under the radar when utilizing cultural holidays, but social media offers the consumer a quick, visible and viral way to create a backlash.

Some brands don’t do anything at all. For instance, Pepsi, Southwest Airlines, and Samsung Mobile are just a few big brands that decided to stay silent on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2016.

But if you do choose to speak up, how does your brand mention a cultural holiday without ending up on one of those “social media fails” lists?

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How to Make Your Brand Stand out in the Feed

By Mikey Dunn

“Attention is a currency.” More than ever, this is extremely relevant for social media marketing.

When a person checks their personal Facebook account, there are several things demanding his or her attention – notifications, messages, events, posts, ads, and so on. If you are a brand trying to reach and resonate with this person, how can you earn their attention?

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