What to know before you choose a social media monitoring tool, according to Ragan. There is no shortage of social media monitoring tools. It’s easy to become overwhelmed when trying to find the best one for your business. Since each business

For millennials, information comes from everywhere, according to Media Post. Millennial consumers are expanding their influence, but targeting them in the same-old ways, with the same-old tactics may not be the best way to reach them. “The way they

Several months ago, our aging desktop PC flashed its final “blue screen of death”, and we retired it to a local school. We decided to replace it with a shiny new iMac, and for a few weeks, my wife, teens, and tweens all wanted a turn on the new t

From Stratosphere Studio: Should I use Instagram in my fixed ops marketing? With the many social media outlets available for body shops to use in their marketing these days, it can be confusing trying to figure out which ones to participate in. Of co

Your Facebook page’s organic reach is about to plummet, according to Social Media Today.  Your Facebook page’s organic reach is about to plummet — even more so than it has in the past six months, down to a lowly 1-2%, actually. That means

How different generations use smartphones, from Marketing Profs. Millennial smartphone owners spend 14.5 hours a week—more than two hours a day—on average using their phones, according to a recent report from Experian Marketing Services. In fact,

If it’s all about location, location, location in real estate, it’s all about leads, leads, leads for auto dealers. Not surprisingly, almost all are laser focused on keeping a high number of inbound leads flowing regularly. One obvious way to do

In 1996, I helped design and build the first website for my father’s GM dealership. The “interweb” was in its infancy and most car dealership didn’t even have dial-up Internet service, let alone a website. I’ll be honest, we had no idea wha

Most of us have had that dream where it is a day before graduation and you realize there is some class you have never been to and must pass top graduate. I bet there is a marketer’s version of that nightmare where a time traveler from the 80’s la