by Melissa Drozdowski | Jul 27, 2018 | Marketing, Social Media
Benjamin Franklin once said, “The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade.” Almost two and a quarter centuries later, and his advice is still spot-on. If you’ve been following this Master Class series or checked out our webinar on event marketing and...
by Melissa Drozdowski | Jul 10, 2018 | Marketing, Social Media
“A minute of video is worth 1.8 millions words.” ~ Dr. James McQuivey, Forrester Research If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is one second of video worth? According to Forrester’s Dr. James McQuivey, it’s 30,000 words. My math skills aren’t the best but...
by Melissa Drozdowski | Jun 26, 2018 | Marketing, Social Media
So, in Parts I and II of this event marketing Master Class series that is the companion to our recent Boosting Conference Engagement with Live Social Media webinar, we looked at the why and how of live social sharing. Now, I want to zoom in on one particular aspect:...
by Melissa Drozdowski | Jun 4, 2018 | Marketing, Social Media
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime ~ Chinese proverb You know what they say – give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and he’ll be out on the lake every dang weekend with his...
by Melissa Drozdowski | May 15, 2018 | Marketing, Social Media
“Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.” ~ Walt Disney Event marketing. A tried-and-true staple of... by Melissa Drozdowski | Nov 7, 2017 | Content, Social Media
“The wise are who they are. They work with what they’ve got and do what they can do.” – Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh I don’t do yoga. “Zen” sounds suspiciously like a calculus term to me. But then I found Benjamin Hoff’s lovely little work, The Tao of Pooh....
by Melissa Drozdowski | Aug 23, 2017 | Social Media
Recently, much of the U.S. witnessed an amazing natural spectacle – a solar eclipse. In my little corner of paradise, we experienced a partial eclipse, with the moon obscuring nearly 94 percent of the sun. Yay, science! As the skies grew dim, a herd of nearby cattle...
by Melissa Drozdowski | Jul 25, 2017 | Social Media
We’re only just past the halfway mark for the year 2017 and oh, what a year it’s already been on the social media fails front all around the world. Leaving out the most obvious examples (paging Sean Spicer…), the first six months of the year have produced a...
by Melissa Drozdowski | Jan 31, 2017 | Social Media
It seems like every year, I write the same article over and over again. You know, the one about social media failures and why people should’ve known better? Every year I think to myself, “This year will be different. This is the year we see no social media fails at...
by Melissa Drozdowski | Dec 9, 2016 | Social Media
Welcome back to part two of our discussion on Twitter Moments, the storytelling-via-tweet functionality that Twitter recently unleashed on the Twitterverse. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you can always check out Part I of this series for a rundown of...