Showing up on social can be intimidating, but there are some posts that every business should publish when first starting an account. Here's our list of the...
9 Essential Posts When Starting a New Instagram Account
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We know you’re always looking for reliable information about how to market your business. Each week we compile the best information on marketing strategy, social media, and more to share in our newsletter (see below) and on our blog. If you have a topic you’d like to hear more about, send us a message. We’re always looking for new topics to share about.
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What do Stratos and Spider-Man Have in Common?
What do content repurposing and Marvel have in common? Kat spoke about this on a recent Marketing in the Wild podcast! You can listen to the episode here....
Words Matter
The other day I was at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago with my family. About halfway through our visit, we had stopped to eat a snack downstairs near the...
How to Sell Without Being Salesy
This week, I joined Julia on the Marketing in the Wild podcast to talk about how to sell without being salesy. You can listen to the episode by clicking the...
Three Mistakes New Content Creators Make
Do you ever see these influencers go from zero to a million followers and wonder, "How can I do that?" Do you ever crave the rush of arguing with someone...
3 Simple Formulas for Your Marketing Plan
Use these 3 simple (but strategic) formulas in your marketing plan. Each of them produces different results, but all will help you grow your business!
Four Simple Emails You Can Send This Week
BE HONEST. Have you dropped into the inboxes of your audience recently? If you haven't, I have four ideas to get you started on an email you can send this...
The Top 12 Questions You Should Ask when Hiring a Social Media Manager
Over the past few years, we’ve talked with business owners and social media managers about the quirks around social media growth. We’ve compiled a list of...
Reels Inspo and Examples We’ve Gathered for You
Hey friends. You’ve probably heard us talking about breaking into the reels game lately. It’s something we are doing for a number of reasons: It...
How to Get Excited About Social Media Again
The other day, a neighbor asked me what my least favorite part about marketing is, and without hesitation, I said, “Social media.” Then, they asked me why....
4 Types of Blogs You Can Write
Here at Stratos, we use blogs as a regular part of our work and our marketing. This started with Julia writing blogs about related marketing topics and...
Let’s Talk About Failure in Marketing
If you’ve been around here long enough, you know we’re big advocates of using stories in your marketing. One piece of storytelling that is underutilized is...
3 Things We Would Steal From Steal Like An Artist
Do you see yourself as a “creative,” or maybe even an artist? Let us guess. If you don’t paint or draw, you probably don’t consider yourself an artist....
Pricing for Social Media
When you hire a lawyer, you probably have a general idea of what they might cost. You can shop around, but their pricing will most likely be competitive and...
One 4 letter word you don’t want to forget in your marketing
When I was in college, the first design class I took was called “Interactive Media 1”. We built powerpoints and dynamic PDF files. We watched informational...
Fill Your Creativity Cup
Picture this… it’s Monday morning and you proudly sit down to write next month’s social media content. You’re working ahead instead of leaving your content...
Think Your Work “Speaks For Itself”? Here’s Some Tough Love.
Your work is like the beautiful truffula trees in Dr. Seuss’s classic, “The Lorax.” It has deep, intrinsic value. But it doesn’t speak. At least not in...
11 Tips For Email Marketing Mastery
If you struggle with email marketing, aren’t convinced that it matters, or just haven’t gotten around to building an email strategy that makes money, this is...
What does social media have in common with kids? (Part two)
Last time I wrote, I touched on some ways that babies and social media marketing are the same. If you haven’t read that blog yet, you can find it here, but I...
What does social media have in common with kids? (Part one)
I am a person who likes consistency. I thrive on a set schedule and rigorous repetition. My husband and I like to joke that if he wants to go out for a beer...
Could your business benefit from some spring cleaning in your marketing?
Ahh spring! For a lot of us the sun or warmth of the sun is finally being felt on our skin, and it feels so good. This past weekend was full of warm sunny...
A Guideline To Photoshop & Editing Ethics
Over the past few years I have travelled more than in the rest of my life combined. My husband and I hit 12 new countries and several states in the past 4...
3 ways to make writing nurture emails easier
Clients have asked us, “how do you put out an email EVERY WEEK? How do you find so much material to talk about? How do you have the bandwidth to do it?” Well,...
Confessions of a Bookworm: How I Found My Little Corner of Social Media
A decade ago, my oldest and dearest girlfriends—women I’ve known since elementary school—teased me mercilessly for not being on Facebook. “Stretch your...