Category: Bad Rhino

Bad Rhino Reading: 3 Time Saving Social Media Tools

Website: Social Media Examiner Article: 3 Social Media Tools That Help Marketers Save Time Why spend more time on your social media marketing when there are ways to make your it quicker? Here’s one reason: the budget. The answer to that lies within these 3 tools that will greatly lower your time spent working on your marketing (without breaking […]

4 Signs It's Time to Hire a Social Media Agency

EDITOR’S NOTE: This post first appeared on LinkedIn.com. You’ve put up a brilliant fight and the effort hasn’t gone unnoticed. However, the daily job of managing, monitoring, and creating content for your company social channels is a daunting challenge and quite frankly, your time is best spent elsewhere. Whether you’re a small business owner, a […]

The Rise of 2nd Screen Viewer Engagement & It's Implications for Advertisers

#200532276-001 / gettyimages.com The first time I heard the term “second-screen viewing” or “second-screen viewer,” I rolled my eyes. We have been watching TV and eating, reading, doing homework, “studying,” emailing with clients, etc. for as long as the TV tray has existed. But what we haven’t experienced for decades is the ability to track […]

4 Keys to Successful Blog Promotion Using LinkedIn

Mickey Baines is the President & Founding Partner at Fourth Dimension Partners, a higher education consulting practice. In addition, he appears regularly as an on-air guest for QVC and co-hosts a local TV show in central Pennsylvania. You can tweet Mickey @4DPartners. . . If you blog regularly to promote your business, you are putting in a significant amount of […]

Why Your Business Needs a Crisis Management Plan for Social Media

Social media can be both a blessing and a curse for businesses. On the one hand, it gives you personalized and nearly constant access to customers and gives your company a friendly and helpful voice. On the other hand, it’s all too easy for a company or its employees to make a careless mistake that […]

How You Can Benefit From Social Media Influencers

There’s lots of buzz on the Internet about finding and engaging with industry influencers. We see lists of influencers, are encouraged to connect with them, and even strive to become an influencer ourselves. It’s often stressed online, that if you want your company blog to get noticed and talked about, you have to know influencers […]

How the Higher Education Industry Benefits from Social Media

Christina Philbert is co-owner of bpcp Consulting and is an experienced and passionate non-profit and higher education administrator. While social media has permeated nearly every industry and most brands maintain a presence online, the world of higher education as a whole has shied away from the new social-digital paradigm. Even though colleges and universities are on the cutting edge […]

Virtual Currency and Social Media: What's the Connection?

If you’re at all keeping up with the world of cryptocurrency (gotta love that word), then you’ve probably watched its up-and-downs, including skyrocketing values, friends in bad places (Silk Road), and worldwide rulings across the board. Most of this is related to bitcoin, the favorite virtual currency, but there are a number of virtual or […]

The Early Adopter Effect and It's Implications for Non Mega-Brands

A few weeks ago I read an interesting study by Business Insider about brands that “get there first” (so to speak) when it comes to new social networks. They found that there’s a positive relationship between being an early adopter and a brand’s audience size. Basically, the brands who created their profiles on a new social […]