Tag: Be Visible Associates

Last night I saw a commercial for Bing For Schools. I don’t know if you saw it, too, but it ran before the president’s speech about Syria. Let me tell you why I think it’s a brilliant concept. Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, has never been able to gain a significant share of search because users have [...]

Instagram is the mobile-only photo and video creating and sharing social network that was recently purchased by Facebook. It is an especially valuable Social Media platform for thousands of brands and businesses. All photos taken on Instagram are shareable directly to a company Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, or Tumblr account. Here’s a step-by-step manual on how [...]

A frequent question that I get from many of my clients (with a lot of trepidation) after they have decided that they do want to have a business blog, is this: “What in the world should I write about?” Regardless of what your goal is for having a blog, my advice is, don’t try to [...]

This is the second in a series about how the Mobile Web, mobile user behavior, mobile websites, and mobile devices are changing the ways businesses communicate with their customers and vice versa. You can read the first blog here: The Mobile Web: 10 Incredible Facts Your Probably Didn’t Know. 10 Incredible Facts About The Mobile [...]

The Mobile Revolution. We’ve been anticipating it for years and now it’s officially here. Smartphone usage is up by 50% just since 2011. 90% of us have our phone within reach 24/7. And in 2013 mobile phones will surpass PCs as the primary means of accessing the Internet. So, if you haven’t begun thinking about [...]

The latest big disruptor in our digital world is going to be (and already is) the staggeringly rapid increase in the use of mobile devices. For everyone involved in marketing, this is something that we have to educate our clients and ourselves about. Because more than anything else right now, this shift affects every business’s [...]

A few months ago we posted a very popular blog, How To Create A Pinterest Account For Your Business. At that time, Pinterest did not offer “official” business or brand pages. Well, just like everything else Social Media, things have changed. Pinterest is now embracing its active community of businesses and brands by allowing Business [...]

Ever since brands and businesses began to embrace Social Media there has been a lot of discussion around whether it is more effective to build an in-house team or to outsource Social Media services. As a seasoned Advertising and Marketing executive, our friend Diane Epstein has worked at big agencies and small ones -  most [...]

A reported 97% of consumers search for local businesses online. Have you ever Googled yourself or your business? If you’re not so pleased with the results, not to fear:  here’s a suggestion for you to improve your online visibility right now: Set up your Google Plus (Google+) Local profile page It’s Google so it will appear in Google [...]

We are happy to introduce you to Phil Gerbyshak: Social Media, branding, and business coach, chief connections officer, master public speaker, published author, blogger extrordinaire, and so much more! His guest blog for Be Visible provides 5 highly accessible and critical reasons why as a business owner it’s a great idea to embrace public speaking to supercharge [...]