Digital Marketer
Well, it’s been exactly one month since I started writing a blog post every day (except Sunday) on this site. It’s been a great journey so far. I’ve learned a lot about the process and gained some traction.
I’d like to recap what I’ve written and show you the top five blog posts that have gained the most attention. In this post you’ll have the opportunity to read or re-read them again!
Continue ReadingToday I wanted to write a post that is a little different, okay a lot different than my usual post. I think we’ve all been at a certain point in our lives where we look back and think, “How did life end up this way?” or “How did I get here?”. We seem to channel our inner Mark a la RENT in self reflection and more currently our inner Kate a la If/Then.
We fantasize about the ability to do what Marty McFly did in Back to the Future, to travel back in time and deliver a message to ourselves or someone else to help guid them down a different path. We think that if we can go back to the past we can fix our present, and consequently improve our future.
[Read more…] about Dear Twenty Year Old Me: What I Would Tell Myself NowMarketing is an exciting career field because of it’s various forms it takes and the type of people you get to work with on a daily basis from your coworkers, to your clients.
But, with any career field you learn quickly what the seedy side is. The excitement wears off and is replaced by a new reality. In my experience, here are a couple hard truths that I learned recently.
Continue ReadingMarketing is hard work. Sure, it looks a lot of fun with event marketing, working in cool locations with your ultra hip MacBook, and crushing your goals all while enjoying a cool drink in one hand and snapping selfies with your iPhone in the other.
But, there’s a darker side to marketing that nobody wants to talk about. True, we want to do our best work but sometimes, but success is often harder than what marketing professionals play it up to be. In this post, I’ll share with you the one thing every marketing professional needs to succeed.
Continue ReadingThe marketplace is full of people that do what I do: create marketing plans, execute strategies, write, create, etc. Their work is valuable and necessary for those that they serve. I might even say that their work is better than mine right now.
I do similar work, in that I create and maintain social media strategy, website content, and a range of other services. I think I’m best at writing, social media, and email marketing. What sets me a part from others?
Continue ReadingTwitter is a top social media platform that millions of people and brands use everyday to connect with others in the social media landscape. With just a couple hundred characters you can make an impact in the world.
Twitter has many different features and users are creating their own methods of interaction. In this post I want to introduce you to the concept of the Twitter Chat. I’ll share with you the who, what, why, when, and where on this relatively new method to use Twitter.
[Read more…] about Let Me Introduce You To Twitter ChatsWhether or not you’re an arts marketing professional, or just the average office worker you know that time is a valuable commodity. Productivity is dependent on time and your management of it.
The challenge is that we all have 167 hours in the week. Time is limited. How can we make the most use of time and how can we maximize our productivity? In this post I’ll share my top five timesaving tips and tools you can use too!
Continue readingAbout ten days ago I wrote, in Michael Hyatt’s words, “a great, honest review” of the Full Focus Planner. And, Joel Miller, Chief Content Officer for Michael Hyatt, & Co. said it was “a solid review of one of our key products.”
And, with the release of a new podcast from MH&Co, called Focus On This where they talk about just using the planner, I thought, why not write a post on how you can maximize your use of the planner.
Continue ReadingCharacter traits and soft skills in marketing and business are being talked about more these days, because the theory is that you can teach skills to people but you can’t teach them to have passion or drive in their job.
I think there are some things that successful people in the arts (and in other industries too) have and do that unsuccessful people don’t. In this post I’ll explore what those are.
Continue ReadingWorking in marketing and business I’ve come to use a lot of tools. These tools and apps and such are outlined in a previous post you can find here. There are other tools and apps that I have, as well.
In this post I’ll rummage through my office and tell you about the 10 tools I use the least. And, for my own benefit and yours too, I’ll see if I can motivate myself to use them more.
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