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James and Howard Freeman, CEO and Executive Producer for The New Jersey Lottery Festival of the Ballooning, sit down for a chat about all things balloons & festivals during the quarantine. Learn about "the new" day to day operations, keeping followers engaged and planning for the upcoming festival. It's just two entrepreneurs talking through one of the biggest balancing acts in the history of commerce and entertainment. We hope our listeners will learn from and enjoy our little convo. Stay strong

Did you know you can still see and engage your customers during a lockdown? It can be done quite easily. James explains the process, the tools and why it's so important you keep the momentum going while home waiting for car dealerships to open for business again. Great info and actionable guidance. Get to it. Stay Strong! #socialbabies #wework

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts..."

As industry leaders, business owners and marketers, we are gearing up for the fight of our lives. It's all on the line in the months following the COVID19 crisis. Our amazing and courageous healthcare workers are the first wave of this fight. The business community is the second wave to help save the livelihoods of tens of millions of Americans potentially staring at months and years of poverty,  devastation, and rebuilding. It's on us, as the business community, to come together and pull off something never done in the history of man, restarting an economy after months of being shut down. Not exactly an easy task but guess what, “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” It was grit, determination, imagination, and passion that got us here in the first place and now we are going to have to do it all over again, together.The Restart Plan podcast features business owners, leaders of industry and top-flight marketers openly discussing and sharing their ideas on how to Restart The Economy.Our ideas are currency, now more than ever. This podcast series will provide an ample amount of ideas, guidance, and advice from those in the business community ready to fight for all we have.This series is about love for humanity as much as it is about getting our economy up and running.We hope you will benefit from the valuable information provided during this series.

With social media, the best way to learn something is to jump in and just start doing it. This podcast is just that, the Social Babies discussing how they produced their first Tik Tok videos. The concepts, styles, edit functions, music are all part of this 35 minute, highly informative podcast about using Tik Tok for the 1st time. The Social Babies' 1st Tik Tok videos can be found at instagram.com/socialbabies in the IG Highlight area titled: Tik TokWe suggest you open up Instagram and look at the videos while you are listening to this podcast.We are just scratching the service with Tik Tok in this podcast and many more shows will follow, like:1. Adding sound and multiple sounds to Tik Tok videos2. Editing in multiple effects and text blocks to Tik Tok videos2. Drafting videos for concepts that require multiple days and locations to shootThose are just a few ideas for upcoming Tik Tok podcasts.Should you be excited about Tik Tok? YES.Should you be learning how to use Tik Tok today? Si.Is it overwhelming and intimidating at first? HELL F'N YEAH.But don't worry, Social Babies got you. Listen, learn and enjoy!

Business owners, marketing managers or anyone looking to hire an intern, this show will give you a great framework on how to do it, applying a forward-thinking & entertaining approach. Social Babies may be making podcast history with this show. We can't 100% verify that it is BUT we also can't 100% verify that it is isn't. The historical moment in question: interviewing-discussing-and hiring an intern in less than 30 minutes live on air.The show breaks out like this:1. Discuss the intern internally with team members2. Call the intern 3. Let the intern tell her story4. Let the staff tell the intern each one of their stories5. Q&A with the intern6. Hang up with the intern and have a team discussion about hiring her7. Call back the intern and give her the good news she is hiredWhat does this all have to do with social media or learning about social media? This is how you create a culture that allows social media marketing to grow and flourish. Keeping it loose, fun and focused from Day 1 with any new team member says "you are about to join our adventure not start a job." and that's how you create a positive and productive company culture in 2020. Social Babies have their approach and anyone listening can create their own. Long gone are the days of hiring an intern and using them to get coffee and re-organize your closets. It's an old, tired and ineffective use of energetic, ambitious and young talent.Let them take ownership of their work. That's the

On January 3rd, 2020, Social Babies CEO, James King, felt the need to share his thoughts on The Holiday Lull. You know, that 2 - 3 week period after the holidays when you feel like you are living on Mars and it seems all the time in the universe has stopped. You know exactly what we mean.James shares 3 tips on how to overcome the holiday lull, quickly. Just like this podcast. Only 15 minutes BUT 15 minutes of pure gold. People travel to weird destinations and pay lots of money to hear what James has to say in this podcast. It's not any other salacious podcast nonsense either. Nothing like that. It's broken down the Social Babies way, simple and easy to understand.Speaking of Social Babies, we will return to our normal social media how-to podcasting next week with all new podcasts, including Hiring A Social Media Intern LIVE ON AIR and Social Babies' first real swing at Tik Tok. Stay tuned.Listen, learn & enjoy!

Social Babies recently received a phone call from one of their agency partners, Customer Bloom. Their Operations Director, Micahlynn, asked Social Babies if they could enhance the ad campaigns for the medspa clients they manage for Customer Bloom.That was the moment James and Social Babies Ad Man, Nick, jumped behind the mics and developed a new approach to the medspa ad creatives, targeting and offers on a podcast, in less than an hour.The information & step by step details they develop, on-air, is what agencies and businesses pay the Social Babies tens of thousands of dollars for. For being a loyal listener, you get it for free. How sweet is that?Listen, learn and enjoy.

For some odd reason in 2019, there are still some businesses, BIG & small, who have a real problem creating real & authentic content of their staff, products, services, etc. The smartphone is like the moon to them. What do you do? How do you create engaging content without using stock imagery and videos?You dust off your creative turntables and start re-mixing other content. Technically, it's called content curation. Diana and James of Social Babies give a ton of tips and tricks on how to curate content, cut it up, jazz it up and make it pop on your social feeds. If you are one of these "I don't know how to create content" peeps, this podcast is for you. There are enough ideas to keep you busy for a while.Listen, learn and enjoy!

What you all have been waiting for.....The conclusion of the Social Babies' New Year, New Me Brainstorm session. Angelica & James flesh out their 6-post Tik Tok launch campaign for their NJ car dealerships with the help of Mrs. King. Besides their Tik Tok launch, they develop the rest of the month's campaign. In this two-part series, you get a really good understanding of how to approach creating a content calendar for business. Besides the creative aspects, Social Babies discuss their approach to production. 10 years of experience producing social media campaigns and our lucky audience gets to listen to the magic happening. How awesome is it to be you : )Listen, learn and enjoy!

If you are looking to beef up your Facebook & Instagram ad campaigns, this is the podcast for you! Social Babies' ad man, Nick Acampora, and James King go through 4 of their med-spa accounts and break down the following: ✅ Best type of social ad creatives✅ How to build target audiences using lifestyle & interests.✅ Appropriate social ad budgets for local businesses.You will also get a lot of practical advice on how to shoot ad content, edit it, what offers to use and much more.There is so much to talk & learn about when it comes to FB/IG ads. We are starting with this podcast as a foundation to all our other ad podcasts. A must listen!Next AdCast (you like that?): How to boost posts, CORRECTLY!For now, sit back, press Play and enjoy the "Whoa...That's a Fat Ad" Show.

What you are about to listen to is a good ole' brainstorming session. It starts here and ends up waaaaay over there and it's beautiful. The session is with James King and Angelica Southward of Social Babies. We set the groundwork for Part II of this podcast. If you want to peek in and listen to how the creative sausage is made, we suggest you tune in.Oh yeah, the idea we come up with is FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC and you're going to want to steal it. You can. We like you

Maybe you heard of Tik Tok? Maybe you haven't? But you are hearing about it now so listen up.In this episode, the Social Babies have an open discussion about Tik Tok. What it is and how you can use it to market your brand or business. This episode is the 1st in a series of episodes about Tik Tok. It's a lot to take it in so we will take baby steps to help you learn.Enjoy the next 18 minutes of pure infotainment, Social Babies style....

Twitter doesn't get much love from businesses and marketers anymore BUT is still one of the best communication tools in the world. You just have to know how to use it.In this episode, the Social Babies team discusses how to use Twitter for public relations, customer service and also how to get your star athlete kid a college scholarship or professional contract. As always, we review the good, the bad and the ugly of other Twitter accounts and boy are there some doozies this episode.This show is short, sweet and loaded with info about Twitter. Enjoy!

This is Social Babies very first podcast. It's raw and loosely structured BUT filled with loads of valuable information. With examples of great social accounts vs. terrible social accounts, Social Babies walks their audience through the in's and out's of what makes a great (and not so great) Facebook and Instagram account for car dealerships.The payoff: The Social babies creative team has a live and uncut creative collaborative session on air. You will hear them come up with a 12 Days of Christmas campaign concept for one of their car dealership clients. We hope you will join this entertaining and informative podcast journey with Social Babies. Follow us here and everywhere @socialbabies.

In the 2nd Social Babies podcast ever, we delve into the world of chiropractic and Facebook groups. Before we end the show with our how-to segment on building and developing a Facebook group, we highlight the good, the bad and the ugly in the chiropractic field on social media. A casual conversation amongst social marketing professionals you don't want to miss, even if you aren't a chiropractor. The information is valuable for all interested in marketing in Facebook Groups. Listen, learn and enjoy!Follow us here and everywhere @socialbabies