Our beautifully talented Intern, Courtney Alexander is participating in People.com & Minted.com’s quote design contest and needs our help. Courtney has been the visionary genius behind KiMedia Strategies’ re-brand in 2011 as well as our CEO, Kim Randall’s personal blog re-design. She is an extremely talented and deserving artist and we are lucky to have her on board with us.

Voting will begin shortly for this contest and although community voting isn’t the only way she can win, we want to help her get as much exposure as possible.

Her submission can be found below. Your vote is greatly appreciated!

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vote for me!

Check out my competition in holiday photo cards and wedding invitations at Minted.

Punk-ska band, Victims of Circumstances confirms their spot at the Florida Music Festival in Orlando, FL on 4/20/2013.

Stay tuned for more information and follow them on Twitter @VOC_Ska or like them on Facebook at facebook.com/vocfb

When it comes to marketing your brand on Twitter it takes a lot more than just twitter.com to build, monitor and execute the best campaign. There are tools for engaging easily, collaborating with teams, keying into and audience and tracking. We want to share with you some of our favorite tools that help us easily create and manage Twitter campaigns for our clients.

Market Me Suite

MarketMeSuite.com is one of our favorite new platforms that allows us to easily schedule content, engage with the network, run keyword searches and our favorite feature…. the keyword follow tool. They have a free trial and then paid plans that are very affordable. The company is very good about tech support as well as any other questions you might have. Check them out on Twitter @MarketMeSuite

Monitter

Monitter is a great real-time web based Twitter search tool that allows … Read More »

Google+ Pages just changed, again. Here are some changes that you need to know about.

1. Your logo/ picture avatar has moved and is no longer square shaped. Does your image look silly in a circle shape?

2. The cover photo has changed in size. Your cover photo might need to be changed as well due to the new location of the avatar image.

3. The sidebar no longer contains the “Circle the page” section.

4. The “Circle the page” area is now on the right side of the cover photo (remember this when designing your cover photo).

5. The +1 button is also in the cover photo area so design accordingly.

6. The “About” section has an entirely new look and feel (so do the photos and videos, just not as drastic).

Have you noticed any other note-worthy changes? Let … Read More »

Clearwater punk-ska band to release a unique cover of British boy band sensation, One Direction’s hit song “What Makes You Beautiful” on Halloween.

CLEARWATER, FL, Oct 31, 2012–  Victims of Circumstance, popular punk-ska band in Clearwater, FL, will release a one of a kind cover of One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful” on Halloween. The cover will be available for purchase on iTunes on 10/31/12 with an exclusive sneak peak available on Facebook (facebook.com/vocska).

About Victims of Circumstance

Victims of Circumstance, a punk-ska band known for blending pop-hooks with a unique style of ska, have built a dedicated following while playing around their home state of Florida before setting out on a tour that ended with an invitation to The Mighty Mighty Bosstones tenth Hometown Throwdown in Boston, MA in 2007. Victims of Circumstance has since performed with numerous national acts including Voodoo Glow Skulls, … Read More »

My good friends at T-ShirtForums.com are celebrating their 7th anniversary with a t-shirt designing contest. This years theme is none other than “Social Media” and we’re pumped to announce that since we love everything social, we are adding a package to the 1st place prize.

Check out the contest and get designing.

Oh yeah, go like them on Facebook and check them out on Twitter – tell them we sent you their way!

Prizes To Be Won

First Place Design will receive:

Roland Versastudio BN-20 Desktop Printer/Cutter Package (printer, inks and heat transfer material) – over $9,000 VALUE!
$1500 USD in Cash

6 Months of Social Media consulting from KiMedia Strategies (includes social media analytics reporting, social media strategy planning, as well as phone and email support) 

($4200 value)
5 T-Shirts With the Winning Design
A unique forum avatar color of their choice

Second Place Design (second highest number of votes) will receive:

$150 USD Cash
8 GB … Read More »

Escape Routes is a tv show that airs on NBC Saturday evenings. The show features 6 teams of 2 that compete against each other to earn points and to ultimately win the entire challenge. The difference between this and something like MTV Road Rules is that they are also harnessing the power of Social Media in the competitions. Some competitions are physical and timed while others involve votes from “virtual” team mates. 

One of the teams, Ross and Brett, are YouTube vloggers and have already built a network prior to this competition giving them a head start when it comes to the virtual team mates. Other teams aren’t happy and find this to be extremely unfair. I loved listening to Brett and Ross explain why they should create a “strategy” only to get the response of “I don’t have … Read More »

It’s no secret that Melco is a client of mine. I began working on their Online Social Media campaign at the beginning of November (2010). Melco already had a Twitter, Facebook and YouTube account as well as their website and very own niche based Social Media site, but they were launching a campaign for their new Direct to Garment Print technology (G2) and that’s where I came in. I was asked to come up with a strategy that we ultimately named the “Guerilla Social Media Campaign”.

In the first month of the campaign we hit the social platforms  heavily, cleaning up the pages, tracking, targeting, listening and engaging. We used these platforms to see what the target audience was interested in and have began the process of building a very tight niche of connections. Connections that have become evangelists for Melco’s … Read More »

The time finally came for you to hire someone to help your company find their way throughout the interweaving paths on the Interwebs. You researched your Strategist, asked all of the right questions, connected on their Social Platforms and you feel very comfortable with your decision. Chances are your Strategist has already begun putting together a strategy and along with that strategy is going to be a list of things needed. These items could be logo and other design work, company bio, company resources, list of employees using specific Social Media sites as well as other items.

Your first reaction might be to come back to the email a little later and gather all of the needed info. Maybe  you are in a meeting or maybe you aren’t even at the office. Either way there is a huge chance that this … Read More »

With Social Media being one of the largest growing industries, there are many companies that are being taken advantage of. KiMedia Strategies encourages anyone looking to hire someone to handle their Social Media campaigns to do their homework.

Google IS your best friend here.

Searching For A Social Media Strategist or Social Media Company

1. Always Google the company or person before calling.

Googling can bring up the uber good of the company and/or person, but it can also dig up some serious dirt that you are going to wish you knew.

2. Is their Twitter account locked or open?

Why would any company lock their Twitter account, ESPECIALLY one that does Social Media?

3. If you’re able to see their Twitter account, are they social or just pushing content around?

Unfortunately, the amount of engagement they have within their own personal and professional platforms will probably be the type of engagement … Read More »