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Knowledge Base: Social media strategy with Brent Ireland, Collab Digital

NZ Entrepreneur

In 2023, business social media platform LinkedIn celebrated its 20th birthday signifying at least two decades since social media has been available for businesses to use as part of their marketing and communications mix. What are some common mistakes new businesses make when trying to use social media to grow their brand?

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Brand journalism: What is it and what can it do for your brand?

The Zapier Blog

It follows forms of journalism through use of third-party interviews and external expert analysis, researched or reported news, and feature stories. Assume that when I use "brand journalism" below, I'm talking about both forms unless I say otherwise.) Companies use brand journalism to get their presence into that mix.

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Why I Create a Vision Board Every Year—and How It Creates Impact for Me and My Team

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Although electronic quotes and images on Pinterest will work, I prefer the old-school, tactile method of physically searching for and cutting out imagery and words from magazines and deciding where to place them on the board. Some people set a theme for their board or their year—others use inspirational quotes.

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Sanity, a platform to build and manage content flows on sites, raises $9.3M from Ev Williams, Threshold and more

TechCrunch

Now, after picking up some 25,000 customers, from “traditional” publishers like Conde Nast and National Geographic through to hundreds of others like Sonos, Brex, Figma, Cloudflare, Mux, Remarkable, Kleiner Perkins, Tablet Magazine, MIT, Universal Health Services, Eurostar, and Nike, it is announcing funding of $9.3

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Plant-based cereal startup OffLimits pours $2.3M into new products

TechCrunch

OffLimits uses whole ingredients, and its flavors are organic, vegan, gluten-free and lightly-sweetened with organic cane sugar. Crosslink, Canaan, DBC Creative CEO Dana Cowin, Surface Magazine CEO Marc Lotenberg, TikTok executive Nick Tran and NTWRK president Moksha Fitzgibbons. She even wrote a book on breakfast. s startup studio.

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5 ways entrepreneurs can make the most of downtime

NZ Entrepreneur

Use this time to revise your business plan and reshuffle systems that might not be working so well. There’s no one way to feel about the pandemic or seemingly endless lockdowns, but you can bet your clients will be feeling a mix of anxiety, stress and frustration. Connect with customers. Review finances. Remember to enjoy the ride.

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Smart hacks for recruiting on social media

NZ Entrepreneur

We use it for news, gossip, communication, relationships, recommendations, research and, yep, for cat photos and showing off too. Basically, all of the things that make us human! According to online magazine Human Resources Director 92% of companies are using social media as part of their recruitment strategy.

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