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Welcome back! So as you know, this blog is about social and digital media marketing in the context of a business. You won't find the perfect Instagram filter for summer or "25 Tweets to Make You Seem Deep and Introspective." We're all about leveraging social media to build your brand - whether that is your personal professional brand or your up-and-coming business brand. Congrats to you, by the way, for being bold and courageous enough to put your brand out there. Hopefully I can impart some knowledge and share some tools I've found to be successful to help you flourish in the digital media world.

I'm going to be honest with you, this blog came about from a college class assignment. We have to blog and Tweet about the course material, but I thought, why not just make this into full-time blog? In this day and age, we ALL have to be marketers. Maybe my studies and experiences can help someone in the industry. There's no need to patronize you by telling you how rapidly changing technology is, and how the internet greatly impacts business. You know all that. Look at you - you're on a digital platform learning how to use digital platforms for you business. So you don't need to have a degree in strategic communication or marketing. All you really need is a computer or phone and a strong Wi-Fi connection.

Be on the lookout for more posts to come.

-E

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