The Powers That Be Media

07/29/2020

The Powers That Be are ex-fb, ex-big ad agency folks offering consultative social and digital service offerings, including:

- Social Media advertising strategy, targeting, execution, optimization, reporting

- Social Media content strategy, development, publishing, community mgmt

- Influencer campaigns

- Digital SEO, SEM strategy and campaigns

- Digital advertising, strategy, planning, buying, execution, optimization, reporting (display programmatic)

- Website content strategy, creative development, execution, content management

- Lead generation and workflow process

11/20/2019

Small businesses: We know a lot about social media advertising targeting to reach your potential buyers: Custom audiences using your CRM data, look-alike audiences, web re-targeting, off-line conversions to measure sales - you name it.

Social Media is hard. We make it easy. >>[email protected]

10/19/2019

We're introducing Social Media "Office Hours" for small businesses looking for consultative help with the limitless opportunities of social media advertising to help grow your business. Office hours are at Starbucks at Lahser and 15 Mile Rd., Birmingham, MI.

If you're in the Metro-Detroit area, you can book time on Tuesdays 7-9pm and Sundays 1-3pm - just click this link

>>https://square.site/book/3CC3DSEZYT2MT/the-powers-that-be-social-media-consultants

We can help small businesses with:

- Social Media Advertising on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and the social media ad network.

- Behavioral Re-Targeting - Serve ads to people who visit your website or social media page and go back to Social Media.

- Look-alike Targeting - Serve ads to people who look like your social media fans, website visitors, and current clients.

- Custom Audiences - Serve new product/service ads to current clients 1:1.

- Lead Ads - Collect hand raiser info of people who are interested in your product/service for later .

- Interest Targeting - Ads targeted to people who have interests that align with your business.

Office hours are at Starbucks at Lahser and 15 Mile Rd., Birmingham, MI.

01/27/2018

Ultimate Brandon Calhoon Playlist, a playlist by Jeffery Hupp on Spotify

Check out the ultimate Brandon Calhoon Spotify Playlist here! Lots of great music placements over the last year - Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers, VICE, etc. Listen here!

>>https://open.spotify.com/user/12208745/playlist/20Dk39gm6t1tuIWXSDzdC1

#commercialmusic #detroit #detroitrockcity

Ultimate Brandon Calhoon Playlist. Michgan-based Singer-songwriter at Rooster Traxx and Musician at Tobacco River Band. Detroit, Alt Country, Country Rock.

12/22/2017

Blunk Street Music, a playlist by Jeffery Hupp on Spotify

Here's some music we've had the pleasure of exec. producing over the last five years or so with various artists, producers, engineers, musicians and biz partners/producers.

You can listen here on Spotify! >>http://spoti.fi/2CXkIZe

Tracks produced or distributed by Michigan-based music house, Blunk Street Music. Dig it! #Detroit #Michigan

09/30/2017

♫ I'm the One - Brandon Calhoon. Listen @cdbaby

A new/old track from Brandon Calhoon. Been on the shelves a bit, but dig it! Reed Recording Company.

Click to listen at CDBaby

09/28/2017

Detroit City - EP by Brandon Calhoon on Apple Music

A track from a few year's back from Brandon Calhoon - "Detroit City":

Get it on itunes: >>https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/detroit-city/id297470544?i=297470556

#Detroit

Listen to songs from the album Detroit City - EP, including "Detroit City", "Golden Boy", "Hello Sunshine", and many more. Buy the album for $4.95. Songs start at $0.99. Free with Apple Music subscription.

09/22/2017

Company That I Keep

Company That I Keep by Brandon Calhoon. Get it here >>>>http://apple.co/1TL8yXj

Provided to YouTube by CDBaby Company That I Keep · Brandon Calhoon Park Avenue ℗ 2015 Brandon Calhoon Released on: 2015-06-23 Auto-generated by YouTube.

09/19/2017

The Powers That Be Media

Brandon Calhoon's "That's What I'm Talking About" jam in this year's Chevy In The D!

If you dig it, you can get it here >>http://apple.co/1TL8yXj
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#detroit #nashville #rockmusic

Brandon Calhoon's "That's What I'm Talkin' About" in the new Chevy In The D ad.

A The Powers That Be - A Social Media Agency Joint: North Star Media Brandon Calhoon Reed Recording Company

09/09/2017

Park Avenue - EP by Brandon Calhoon on Apple Music

Brandon Calhoon's latest release, featuring "That's What I'm Talkin' About" and "Company That I Keep." Detroit grit, Nashville guts.

Get it here >>http://apple.co/1TL8yXj
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Reed Recording Company North Star Media

Listen to songs from the album Park Avenue - EP, including "Ride", "That's What I'm Talkin' About", "Company That I Keep", and many more. Buy the album for $4.95. Songs start at $0.99. Free with Apple Music subscription.

09/09/2017

The Powers That Be Media

09/09/2017

The Powers That Be Media's cover photo

12/28/2016

Timeline Photos

11/15/2016

Adweek

Finally.

Twitter gets a little more serious about tackling abuse on its platform.

10/28/2016

Funny Or Die

Hope you enjoyed your six seconds of fame.

10/27/2016

Twitter Just Shut Down Vine 4 Years After Buying It for $30 Million

Well, that was quick. "#Twitter Just Shut Down #Vine 4 Years After Buying It for $30 Million" >> http://ow.ly/i04k305BnB1 #socialmedia

Vine will not be an infinite loop. It was four years ago this month when Twitter bought Vine for a reported $30 million, but now the relationship...

10/25/2016

Ad Age

ouch.

Twitter is planning to fire about 8% of its workforce as the struggling social-media company prepares to go it alone for the time being. http://bit.ly/2e7Fucx

10/25/2016

Adweek

Adweek

Marisa Thalberg is our 2016 Brand Genius winner for restaurants.

10/25/2016

Adweek

Have you checked out our free social media advocacy guide yet?

Marketers are increasingly turning to their employees to promote positive, intriguing or helpful stories that are on-brand.

10/25/2016

Turn your #employees into advocates for your brand. Here's our #SocialMedia #Advocacy Best Practices Guide >>http://ow.ly/d/5niH

10/20/2016

Copy and paste before it's too late!

Sharing just in case, can't hurt :)

10/19/2016

Can we please stop falling for this Facebook privacy hoax?

Can we, please? #facebook #socialmedia #really?

We've been debunking this hoax for SEVEN YEARS now, and here we are doing it again.

10/11/2016

Ow.ly - TPTB_SOCIAL MEDIA ADVOCACY GUIDE_102315.pdf uploaded by...

Turn your #employees into advocates for your brand. Here's our #SocialMedia #Advocacy Best Practices Guide >>http://ow.ly/d/5niH

Download and share TPTB_SOCIAL MEDIA ADVOCACY GUIDE_102315.pdf uploaded by @BraunAbility and hosted by Ow.ly

10/09/2016

Home

New client alert: We are honored to now be managing #socialmedia for Detroit Bearing Co.! Their skateboard, rollerblade and roller skate bearings were designed and developed by legendary musical equipment engineer and inventor Joe Naylor - the man who launched the seminal brands Naylor Amps, Reverend Guitars and Railhammer Pickups.

When his semi-pro Rollerblader son, Luke Naylor, was looking to buy better bearings after being continuously disappointed by quality and speed by the current offerings, Joe did what he always does - he created his own superior design that would compete to be the best bearings in their class.

Dig them here >>www.detroitbearingco.com

You’ve been spoon-fed the same break-one-month-after-you-buy-em bearings since this whole thing started. We said “To hell with that,” and started making bearings our way because their way just wasn’t cutting it. That means a new bearing designed to go faster, roll smoother, and take more abuse. Sure...

10/07/2016

Social Media Today

#B2B on #SocialMedia can be tougher than you think. Here's some good prep ideas before you get started from Social Media Today.

4 Tips to Maximize Social Media for B2B Marketing!

10/07/2016

The Onion

Ha - we love The Onion!

"I want all Facebook users to know that you’ll never again encounter any ideas on our site that are in any way novel or ideologically challenging to you."

10/06/2016

Twitter shares drop 20% as takeover rumors fade away

Someone got a looksie at the metrics and was like, "it dead":
Twitter shares drop 20% as takeover rumors fade away

Twitter has performed incredibly well on the stock market for the past couple of weeks. But the honeymoon is over as it’s back to reality and correction..

10/05/2016

The RNC accidentally put up its "Mike Pence won the debate" post early

A community manager is getting fired somewhere! 'The RNC accidentally put up its “Mike Pence won the debate” post early' #VPDebate

Oops.

10/04/2016

Adweek

Interesting. "Social" is growing up and moving out of the house. #SocialMedia

Snapchat is now a camera company, Twitter is a news app, and Facebook can't even remember the last time it used the term.

10/03/2016

Social Media Today

And the migration to be Facebook v2 continues...

Did you know that you can now save your Instagram posts as drafts so you can come back and complete/post them later?

09/30/2016

Ow.ly image uploaded

Download the Top 10 rules of #socialmedia for #business from your friends at TPTB here (it's free!): >>http://ow.ly/d/5i5H. #marketing

Download and share TOP 10 SOCIAL MEDIA RULES_TPTB AGENCY_COM.pdf uploaded by @HS_UserImages (Hootsuite User Image) and hosted by Ow.ly

09/28/2016

Facebook Business

Anyone here use Facebook canvas?

We want to share some of the ways Canvas has been used by marketers to achieve their brand results, and showcase some of the new features that will enhance the ad experience and make creating a Canvas even easier.

09/27/2016

All your burning questions answered about Snapchat's—er, Snap Inc.'s—new Spectacles

Whoa. Here's how Snapchat's new Spectacles work.

There are lots of questions about how Snap's Spectacles will work, but The Verge has new information from the company to answer basic questions.

09/27/2016

TechCrunch

ouch.

Google sucks at social, Twitter sucks at...everything else

09/26/2016

TechCrunch

Is Disney buying Twitter? Wowza.

Disney could be trying to buy Twitter