Boot Camp Digital Blog

• Patrick Carroll

Every week we encounter at least one trainee with questions about starting their own social media business. With the amount of businesses outsourcing social media marketing up 130% this year, we are always enthusiastic about the idea. But, even though we have vast experience on the subject, we always fell short when helping our customers because […]

• Patrick Carroll

Facebook releases a “save” feature, Public figures get improved fan interaction in a new Facebook app, and Pinterest builds communities with “specialized interests”. “Facebook Mentions” App Interacting with millions of fans is a fairly difficult task for most “influencers”, or at least for their social media managers. Facebook wants to maintain its position as the […]

• Krista Neher

I’ve been on Twitter since early 2007, and recently, I’ve noticed more and more businesses are joining Twitter and totally screwing up their “community building” or whatever it is they are trying to do. When I logged into Twitter today, I had the 3 Tweets waiting for me to view. All from businesses/organizations, none of […]

• Krista Neher

Boot Camp Digital is pleased to announce that Jonathan Richman, Principal at Dose Marketing will be joining us as our Pharma and Healthcare social media training specialist. Boot Camp Digital has been training companies since 2008 in Social Media and Digital marketing, and has worked with a wide variety of healthcare companies including hospitals and healthcare providers, healthcare […]

• Patrick Carroll

Research and Listen Start by listening and discover the photos people share related to your business or industry. Discover: How people use Instagram How your competitors use it What people talk about and take pictures of The most popular accounts 5) How people talk about your industry. Develop a marketing strategy Determine what you want […]

• Patrick Carroll

This week in social media features an exciting new visual app called Pixotale, important (and incredibly useful) analytics updates from Twitter, ANOTHER LinkedIn App, and a few interface updates from Vine. New Tweet Activity Dashboard Looking for more detail from Twitter’s analytics platform? Just released on Friday, the “activity dashboard” offers more metrics for the data-driven social […]

• Patrick Carroll

Instagram is one of the fastest growing social networks… Learn strategies to get amazing results in our Instagram Training Course Are you interested in getting ahead of your competition? Learn how to get massive results from your visual content through Instagram marketing. Instagram provides an effective venue to grab the attention of your audience with […]

• Patrick Carroll

Still not sure how Pinterest can help your business? Learn what a Pinterest marketing strategy can do for your business and exactly how to pin effectively to see results… With over 70 million highly-active users, you can’t write off Pinterest as just a trend. It doesn’t matter what type of business you are – B2B […]

• Patrick Carroll

This week in social media marks a huge boost for local businesses on Pinterest, Facebook’s new log in finally pushes more privacy, and product Ads become even more robust. New Pinterest Notifications With the new Pinterest update for Android, small businesses are getting a huge boost. Each time you walk by that clothing shop whose dresses you […]

• Patrick Carroll

Are you unsure about the social media guidelines you should have for your employees? If your employees are representing you online, it’s important to identify appropriate social media practices for personal and professional usage. Employee social media accounts can be a valuable asset or a ticking time bomb… Making sure you have social media guidelines […]

• Patrick Carroll

Is your digital marketing strategy mobile ready? Use this cheat sheet to evaluate each portion of your mobile marketing strategy. If you haven’t already optimized for mobile, the potential improvements to your marketing strategy could be incredible. And, if you’re really serious about taking your mobile marketing to the next level, join us for a […]

• Krista Neher

This made me smile today so I wanted to share. Axe launched a Social Effort Scale, which will tell you if you “try too hard” at social media. Basically, they analyze your social media content and tell you how hard you are trying… your goal should be effortless perfection 🙂   I had a fun time […]