Top 10 Blog Posts of 2014

As 2014 gets underway, you have probably already implemented the newest ways to connect with social media users for marketing. But have you covered all of the bases? Are your strategies the best that they can be?

I always thought I was a good writer. I would get compliments on my style and lots of social shares. Praise makes a person feel good, right? However that all changed when I got the awesome opportunity to write a blog post for Mark Schaefer and his {grow} blog.

Sooner or later, it happens to every business blogger...the dreaded condition known as "writer's block." The good news is there are plenty of ways to overcome it. I know it's true because I have been there, too. There is not one perfect solution for getting over that hump.

As social media platforms evolve and change what they do, marketers are forced to constantly change up their social media strategies. Many add another platform to their plan or completely abandon one for another. Let me give you one platform that should get some of your attention - Instagram.

If you're active on LinkedIn, the chances are good by now that you're seeing more posts from people in your network. LinkedIn started rolling out long-form publishing capabilities to its members in February, 2014. Some bloggers started using the LinkedIn publishing platform right away, while others have been watching and holding out for a bolt of inspiration to hit them.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality-the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners.

As a member of the millennial generation, I have become well versed in the language of social media. So much so, that colloquial such as "hashtag" has been integrated into my speech. However the one outlet of social media that I feel my generation neglects is LinkedIn.

In today's very social world, it is easy to get lost in shuffle of the constant updates, status changes, and advertisements that have consumed our daily life on the web. However, there is no secret to why platforms such as Instagram and Facebook have grown so dynamically in this industry and are popular platforms for customer engagement.

I have a confession. I just unfriended people on Facebook and unliked over 400 Facebook pages. GASP! (LOL) This shouldn't come as a surprise. Most people go through their social media accounts often and remove pages and people that just do not fit where they are in life or business anymore.

I'll be honest - I am not that savvy when it comes to graphic design. I joke that I took the music route because my artistic ability maxed out at stick people. However thanks to the new site Canva, I look like a pro designer.