On February 3rd, 2022, Business Brew returned to the in-person format for the first time in two years. Our guest was Sarah Brown, who joined us to discuss growing a social media presence. A big thanks to Slabaugh Media for…
Elevating Your Brand Image with Storytelling Photos that Sell: Business Brew Work-From-Home #5
On October 1st, 2020, Tanya Goodall Smith from WorkStory Photography joined Josh to talk ‘Elevating Your Brand Image with Storytelling Photos that Sell’. You can watch the full Business Brew below. Here are some of the highlights from that conversation….
A Crash Course in Social Media
The hardest part of social media has nothing to do with knowing anything about Facebook, or Twitter, or Instagram. It isn’t how to use a Facebook Business Page, or how to switch to an Instagram Business Profile, or figuring out…
The Hardest Thing About Social Media
The hardest thing about social media for business isn’t learning the functionality of a social media site. It isn’t how to use a Facebook Business Page, or how to switch to an Instagram Business Profile, or figuring out hashtags. Those…
You’ll Never Believe What Happens Next
You clicked on clickbait. That’s what happened. The social media space is bursting at the seams with websites that claim to have the best pictures or best information, when, in reality, they have neither. These sites have one goal: get…
The Bait and Switch Follow on Twitter
The bait and switch method on Twitter doesn’t build your brand, but it does do a great job of destroying your character. Let’s define this for clarity. A Bait and Switch Follower is a person or brand that follows you…
They say before you start a war. . .
…you better know what you’re fighting for. When you correct someone’s grammar on twitter, what are you fighting for? What are you fighting for when you slam a business on Facebook? When you gossip or spread rumors (and I’m great…
Don’t Poke the Bear
Sometimes temptation can get the best of us. You may eat one too many cookies, or speed to avoid being late, or hit the snooze button one too many times. None of those are particularly serious temptations, but as the…
Cell Phone Cameras, Social Media and Your Next Big Event
Social media and cell phones offer a unique opportunity for people to share, in real time, pictures while attending an event. The awesomeness of this, especially for the event producers, is that pictures typically capture so much more attention on…
Door-to-Door Sales
I had not one, but two people from the same carpet cleaning company stop by my house the other day. They were offering a deal and they were going door-to-door to sell it. The deal was for one free room/floor…