Google Shows 3 Ways To Boost Digital Marketing With Google Trends via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google’s Daniel Waisberg and Omri Weisman share three tips for improving both online and offline marketing strategies. They explain how to leverage Google Trends search data to make better decisions about products, optimize strategies, understand consumer behavior, and focus marketing efforts for a higher ROI. Google offers three tips: How To Benchmark Against Competitors Analyzing…

BlueSky is pitching itself as a Threads alternative now

BlueSky isn’t trying to replace Twitter, all of a sudden. Instead, it’s making a pitch to replace Threads, Meta’s Twitter alternative. The social media platform created an account on Threads this week and immediately began pitching itself as an alternative to the site. Threads has come under fire lately for its haphazard content moderation and…

A 10-foot skeleton named Steve is on sale at Walmart

Save $75: Walmart’s 10-foot-tall skeleton named Steve is on sale for $174, down from its typical list price of $249. It might just be the next best thing to Home Depot’s viral, sold-out giant skeleton. Opens in a new window Credit: Walmart Steve the Poseable 10′ Skeleton $174.00 at Walmart $249.00 Save $75.00 Get Deal…

Teens feel burnt out. Social media can make it worse.

Lydia Bach, a 15-year-old sophomore living in New York City, has a message for adults who think teens can’t possibly experience burnout. “If people want to find out what teens are burnt out about, they have to just take a look at the world,” Bach says, rattling off stressors like gun violence and global conflict,…

Have writer’s block? Delete your drafts.

Listen up, losers: We can tell when your posts are made with an audience in mind and we don’t like it. It sounds like ChatGPT, it is the lowest possible denominator of posting, and, worst of all, it’s boring. I come to you with a solution: Delete your drafts.  It’s a strategy I learned with…