Year: 2020

  • Curating an Interesting and Useful LinkedIn Feed

    If you are not constantly adding new sources of information to your LinkedIn feed, then you are missing out on interesting and useful articles and posts.  Keeping your LinkedIn feed updated and modern keeps you in touch with the latest trends as well as letting you know what your network is up to.  It takes work, but…

  • 5 Tips for Keeping your Social Media Brand Lean and Mean

    If you’re a small company or a business that doesn’t have a marketing department or person or if you have an intern or your sales manager doing marketing “when they have time”, then you probably aren’t fully taking advantage of social media and marketing for your brand.  Not to fear, though.  There are some things…

  • A Quick Brand Management Checklist to Make Sure You’re on Point

    You probably know that keeping a consistent brand voice across all your platforms, website and social included, is super important.  You may also not know where to start if you are a company of one or if you have not had the time or inclination to make sure you’re being represented in the best possible…

  • Stories Comes to LinkedIn Business Pages

    LinkedIn launched their version of the Instagram Story a few weeks ago, called Stories.  I wrote about it HERE, including some things I’d like to see included in upcoming revisions.  As of yesterday, it seems that Stories are now available to some LinkedIn Page owners, myself included, in addition to your LinkedIn Profile.  It’s not…

  • Crafting a Great LinkedIn Connection Request

    The debate on whether or not to include a note when sending a connection request on LinkedIn has been raging for some time, but in my opinion, is a no brainer.  Always, always, always include a note.  Not only is it proper etiquette, but it can increase your chances of successfully connecting by a huge…

  • Taking a Look at the New LinkedIn Stories Feature!

    We knew it was coming…Stories on LinkedIn…just not when.  Well, turns out the new feature was just launched on September 24th as part of a major redesign of the entire LinkedIn platform.  Along with making the LinkedIn experience easy, inclusive, enjoyable, and putting the community front and center, they have added a more human way…

  • How to Get More LinkedIn Profile Views in Just 15 Minutes a Day!

    You don’t have to spend hours every day and week on LinkedIn to have an impact on not only who’s checking your profile out, but how many people are engaging with you and your content. I have seen this routine in many variations and many places, most recently from LinkedIn expert Wayne Breitbarth, but it’s…

  • Sell the sizzle, not the steak!

    It’s a principle that goes back more than 75 years, but remains applicable to this day- don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle. I’m going to let Elmer Wheeler explain in this two minute video from 1947 and then we’ll get back to it. Take a look at the following two pictures and tell me…

  • Exclusive Interviews – The Boys Season 2 Cast and Crew

    Tai Freligh interviews the cast and crew of The Boys Season 2… The Boys, on Amazon Prime Video, is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. Showrunner Eric Kripke along…

  • Exclusive Interview – Co-writer Dave Sirus chats The King of Staten Island

    Tai Freligh interviews The King of Staten Island co-writer Dave Sirus… Known for his early prank interviews as fictitious reporter Brick Stone with the Westboro Baptist Church, Dave Sirus has established a name for himself in the comedy world with his Emmy-nominated writing on Saturday Night Live and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Now, in The King of Staten Island, Dave utilizes his…