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Nick Valente


Employee Social Media Advocacy: Leveraging Your Team’s Influence for Effective Marketing
What is Employee Social Media Advocacy? Employee Social Media Advocacy refers to the practice of encouraging and empowering employees to...
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Jun 28, 20234 min read
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Chasing Viral, and How to Catch It
It’s what you secretly want. You know it, I know it, your agency knows it, and your executives ask for it once a month. The elusive viral...
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Jul 21, 20162 min read
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The Real Marketing Lesson Behind the Success of Pokemon Go
There are already some articles on the marketing lessons on Pokémon Go. An article in Business Insider suggests it’s about engaging in VR...
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Jul 12, 20161 min read
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Find Content Before Others Do
Quibb Reddit Quora Twitter Lists
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Mar 11, 20161 min read
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6 Social Media goals for 2016
Be more human. Don’t talk like a salesperson or a political partisan. No one cares. Once you go to “that place” most people stop...
roxburynick
Dec 31, 20151 min read
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Diversity in Marketing & Advertising
Diversity is a greatly underused in day to day marketing activities. Diversity in Reaching Millennials Everyone knows that millennials...
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Oct 30, 20151 min read
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The top 5 things to never post on your company social media handles
A direct hit on a competitor. Calling out a competitor for an error or mistake, especially if the same event could have easily happened...
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Oct 29, 20151 min read
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5 Ways to use Instagram you may be afraid to do.
Instagram has now been with us for 5 years. Who would have thought a simple photo sharing app could have gone so far in such a short...
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Oct 14, 20152 min read
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5 Thoughts on #Fail Resistant Messaging
The Internet is an insatiable beast. It needs fodder to keep churning out giggles, laughs, tears and of course, outrage. For the most...
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Sep 24, 20152 min read
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10 Social Holiday Checkup Ideas
Are you ready for the holiday and the social challenges and opportunities it brings? Now is the time to check your holiday plans twice...
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Sep 23, 20151 min read
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Your Company Needs What Trump and Sanders Have in Common
Please note the following is not a political statement or endorsement of any candidate or ideal. Seriously, it’s not. Passion Both Bernie...
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Sep 14, 20152 min read
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Painc Free Social Media
Don’t Panic – Getty Images We’ve all been there. Something happens in the social space that sets your C suite off into panic land. It...
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Aug 5, 20152 min read
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Facebook vs. Twitter – Which is Better for Companies?
Facebook Facebook has a targeted reach unmatched by other platforms, reaching 71% of the adult population. Granted at this point the...
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Feb 28, 20151 min read
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Can a 1.5 Star Review Sink Your Product or Service?
Over the years I’ve used both TurboTax and H&R Block (aka Tax Cut). Both function well and got the job done. To be honest most of the...
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Feb 1, 20151 min read
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How to get Consumers to Love You – the hard way
Why is it important to STAND for something? As I learned a young salesperson, people want to buy things from people they like. In fact...
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Dec 20, 20142 min read
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Social Reach vs. Engagement, which is better?
There is much talk about social reach vs. engagement on Facebook. Although there is something to be said for both as a goal. At a base...
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Aug 1, 20142 min read
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Less Branding, More Filling
Though not the best example of minimal branding I think this is still an excellent example of a lightly branded campaign that does...
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Jul 10, 20141 min read
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Whe the Image you Post is Co-Oped
It’s easy to make errors in Social. Even easier to do so when you hand your protagonists a gift as both Michele Obama and Ann Coulter did...
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May 14, 20141 min read
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Angel Olsen, Young Thug, King Krule & Millennial Marketing
I just finished reading three well written articles in The Fader, </a>a music focused magazine. Fascinating articles really. All paint...
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Mar 29, 20142 min read
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Social Media Content Strategy
Udate – 9-16-13. A lot has changed about content since I first wrote this article a couple of years ago. For one, content is no longer a...
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Sep 27, 20122 min read
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