Brazil’s most eccentric billionaire, Count Chiquinho Scarpa is no stranger to oddity. After the stir he raised when he announced his entire fortune would be willed to his prized cockatoo, you would think that nobody would be surprised by his antics, but his latest stunt has generated quite the buzz in the social media realm. With the idea of death …
If you haven’t tried using Pinterest as your search engine, I highly recommend you try. As a social media manager for many accounts at Michigan Creative, I need to find unique, interesting, and new content for many different businesses across various industries. I wanted to share with you why I choose to use Pinterest as my search engine over Google or …
This week’s small business showcase features a women’s boutqiue found in downtown East Lansing, Michigan by the name of Jeanologie. Jeanologie is a womens clothing store that offers hand-picked, high fashion styles inspired by the streets of New York. Founded in 2010 by Michelle Gross, a former MSU graduate, Jeanologie strives to be your one stop shop to find that …
A collection of 10 stupidly clever Halloween puns. You’re Welcome.
So Halloween is a week away and if you’re like me, you still have no idea what to be this year. Making your own costume can be strenuous and expensive, but nobody wants to show up to a party wearing a gaudy, Halloween outlet store bought costume! I am here to save your Halloween! Here is a list of my …
It has been quite the interesting year for Fool’s Gold recording artist, Danny Brown. After performing at just about every known festival across the country and touring several times around the United States and Europe, Danny Brown finally unveiled his third studio album, ‘Old‘, streaming free on Spotify September 30th and available on hard copy October 8th. The album was so …
Nowadays when social media has been entirely taken to the next level, the Twitter-verse is a blood thirsty arena where small-business and mega corporations battle it out for consumer attention. So how do you level the playing feel to make sure that your business gets a chance and isn’t lost in never ending world of hashtags and twitpics? Here some …
This week I would like to feature a new small business in the city of East Lansing, Michigan that seems to be flourishing. Michigan Creative strives to support a creative, local economy and nothing says creative like the newest bar in town, Hopcat. According to their description, Hopcat was envisioned, designed, stocked and staffed with one mission in mind: to bring you …
For nearly three weeks every autumn Grand Rapids, Michigan is overtaken by ArtPrize, an international art competition unlike any other. Art installations sprawl through the entire city; murals cover walls of buildings, paintings adorn stores, restaurants, and banks, and sculptures pop up in parks and on sidewalks. The concept is simple; visitors are allowed to walk around the city and …
Let’s start off with what the word “optimize” really means before we dive into what it means for social media accounts. From dictionary.com: The definition I totally made up in my mind of what I think it means to optimize in terms of social media accounts: Optimize: To standardize all social media content, including, but not limited to: graphics, …
