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10 Ways to Improve Your Social Media Profiles in One Hour or Less
What? Improve all my social media profiles—in one hour. Really? Yup. I get it—you’re busy. Or maybe lazy (no judgement). Either way, you’ve got posts to review, schedule, and publish. Campaigns to declare, launch, and manage. Emails to write and respond to. Countless...
How Does the YouTube Algorithm Work? A Guide to Getting More Views
Looking to increase your YouTube video views? Step one: find out what’s new with the YouTube algorithm. More than 70 percent of time spent on YouTube is spent watching what the algorithm recommends, according to the company’s CPO, Neal Mohan. And the algorithm is very...
Baby Boomers Possess the Majority of US Household Wealth
The period since the end of the financial crisis has seen considerable growth in US household wealth, with the total sum expected to exceed $100 trillion by the end of 2019. A new report [download page, purchase required] from Packaged Facts estimates that total US...
Twitter Adds Subtitles to Native Video
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show, we explore Twitter video subtitle updates and API changes with...
How to Set and Reach Social Media Goals (+ 10 Types of Goals to Track)
Setting social media goals is a key step toward proving (and improving) the value of your social media work. Writing your goals down and regularly reporting on your progress also significantly increases the likelihood that you will achieve what you set out to do....
Marketers’ Single Biggest Opportunity? Look to Customer Experience and Data
Customer experience continues to stay front of mind for many marketers, according to the latest Digital Trends report [download page] by Econsultancy and Adobe. Out of the more than 12,500 B2B and B2C professionals surveyed, a leading 20% of the B2B organizations...
How to Grow Your Instagram Following: A Strategic Plan
Want to quickly grow your Instagram audience? Looking for a strategy that attracts the right kind of connections? In this article, you’ll discover how to combine an Instagram growth strategy with an ad sequence that can turn followers into customers. How This...
Daily Vlogging: How to Tell Video Stories
Wondering how to tell better stories with video? Wondering how to create interesting stories from mundane events or topics? To explore how to tell fascinating stories with video, I interview Cody Wanner. Cody is a classically trained filmmaker who specializes in...
V2M2 Group Recognized as a Top B2B Company in Chicago on Clutch!
Founded in 2016, the V2M2 Group, which stands for Viral Visual Marketing and Management is a full service, fully integrated digital marketing agency. All of our strategies are built to create sustainable revenue for businesses and create a...
How to Write Instagram Captions That Improve Engagement
Do you want to improve your Instagram post engagement? Wondering how to write strong Instagram captions that move people to action? In this article, you’ll discover how to create appealing Instagram captions that clearly communicate your marketing messages and...
How to Use Hashtags: A Quick and Simple Guide for Every Network
If you want to master the art of using hashtags on social media you’ve come to the right place. Hashtags are, of course, a great way to: Build your company’s brand Boost a marketing campaign Keep in touch with your audience And knowing how to use hashtags is crucial...
New Facebook Group Management Tools
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show, we explore new Facebook group management tools with special guest,...
Why Social Media Doesn’t Work for You
Why Social Media Doesn’t Work For You So why is it that social media doesn’t work for you or your business? Many people will answer this question in different ways. “Yes we started posting on our Facebook page but nothing really happened” or perhaps “We had a...
Three Questions to Ask When Hiring a Digital Marketing Agency
It has been around 7 years since I started my digital marketing agency. Although it did not hit full stride until 2017, there are just some things that have remained constant throughout the years. These constants are not only important with business in general, but...
2 Tips for Creating Great Visual Content
Lately, all of the talk has been about how content is king. More recently, the hype, and rightfully so, has been around visual content. This should come as no surprise because people have been fascinated with pictures for centuries. Having been a professional...
Why teach entrepreneurship?
It’s an old question: “can you teach entrepreneurship?” Many people believe that entrepreneurship just happens – people are either entrepreneurs or they are not. As a consequence, what’s the point in teaching it?Certainly, there’s plenty of evidence that...
The Ultimate List of 30+ Free Instagram Tools to Grow Your Following
Aug 17, 2017 Last updated: Aug 17, 2017 7 minutes to read More than 700 million people use Instagram and 400 million of those users check the app daily.With such a large audience, and some incredibly business friendly updates such as Instagram Ads, Stories, and...
Search Has Changed. Here’s How Your Content Needs to Evolve.
When inbound marketing was on the rise in 2006, search engines were the primary way readers discovered new content. In 2017, this still holds true.Social, video, and messaging apps now occupy a fair share of the content landscape -- but with over 3.5 billion searches...
