Facebook is doing Facebook all wrong*. Recently, I visited the company’s official Facebook page to report a problem with some recent posts on the business pages I run. I noticed that the posts were only reaching one or two people. Naturally, I wanted to go to Facebook’s Facebook page and let them know but upon visiting, I immediately identified three …
Last month, hackers got into Adobe servers and released a list of 130 million (and growing) user logins and passwords. These accounts, some active and some inactive, were linked to Adobe products, credit card information, personal names and addresses and a multitude of other customer information. Jeremi Gosney with “Stricture Consulting Group” analysed the password and user information and …
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 …
Usually each time I write a new blog I try to decide between video and marketing, so this time I figured I would just combine the two. I mean, it is a pretty big deal! You can use a ton of different methods to market your business, but my personal favorite is video marketing (big surprise!). Whenever I see …
What I thought was the oddest question was posed to me by a coworker. I was sharing my latest blog post and after reading it, he stopped and said, “but aren’t businesses ruining social media?”. Of course my immediate reaction was “of course not!”, but it really got me thinking. I posed several questions as a reaction to that statement …
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 …
Usually when we find ourselves posting to Facebook or Twitter, we have an ideal audience in mind that we want to reach, impact, and connect with. As social media marketers, it’s a goal to captivate an audience full of diversity to effectively share your product or idea. The largest social media outlets may be global, but at times its difficult …
The internet is a wondrous place. You can find almost everything known to mankind and many things that mankind would be better off not knowing. I spend time there now and again, and I’ve noticed that sometimes people get so wrapped up on being part of the internet that they sort of forget how people interact in the real world. …
Yes, I have called Comic Sans evil. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, this is what the Comic Sans font looks like: Now, it’s not that I hate this font for being the font it is. It works nicely for things like birthday cards and children that are learning to type. When it bugs …
So, You Want to Make a Movie in Michigan? Well, I just think that’s a great idea! I think it was a better idea a few years ago, but there’s truly no sense dwelling on times past. Returning to the point Luke made last month, Michigan saw a drastic change in film incentives from 2010 to 2011 when the budget …
