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Kristen Hicks is an Austin-based freelance content marketing writer and lifelong learner with an ongoing curiosity to learn new things. She uses that curiosity, combined with years of marketing experience, to cover marketing trends and best practices for Velocitize.

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Make Marketing Memorable: The Rise of Experiential Marketing

Kristen HicksJanuary 2, 2020

Much of marketing depends on passive consumption. You hope the people who read your blog post or watch your video …

Hashtag Community: Why Start a Twitter Chat

Kristen HicksDecember 4, 2019

Twitter moves fast. It’s the nature of the platform. Open it up three minutes from now and you’ll see an …

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Using Facebook Groups for Community Building

Kristen HicksNovember 25, 2019

This article was updated on November 12, 2021. Marketers have a complicated relationship with Facebook. Many still haven’t gotten past …

To Slack or Not to Slack: Using the Platform for Online Community Building

Kristen HicksNovember 14, 2019

This post was updated in November 2020. Think about how you spend your day online. It’s not all checking email …

Search Me: 3 Tips to Prepare for Smart Speaker SEO

Kristen HicksOctober 22, 2019

Marketers are always talking about the next big thing, which can make it hard to discern genuine changes in the …

Privacy Laws Explode: Preparing for CCPA and Its Analogues

Kristen HicksOctober 17, 2019

You feel like you just got finished worrying about GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance, and now everyone’s talking about …

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