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Employee Spotlight: Aly Morrison
The efforts at Center for Rural Enterprise Engagement (CREE) are supported by many staff members and students that specialize in the areas of research, communications, design, and more. Learn more about these staff members and students who work hard to help advance the CREE mission! ALY MORRISON...
Instagram Story Links: What they are and How to Use Them
To expand users’ ability to create, share, and educate, Instagram recently expanded the ‘Link Sticker’ option to all Instagram users, regardless of account size. That means that now anyone with an Instagram account can add links to their Instagram stories. In the past, using links was limited to...
CREE Launches New Website
The Center for Rural Enterprise Engagement (CREE) is thrilled to announce the launch of its new website redesign. CREE has updated both the look and feel of its website, including updating the center’s logo, color palette, and style to better serve its audiences. The website redesign features a...
Boosted: Could your business use a BOOST online?
It is no secret that the internet is a big place that is continuing to grow. In today’s times it is so important for small businesses to have a presence online, either with a website or on social media; however, this feat doesn’t come without challenges. One major challenge is creating...
Selling Safely: Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Small, Rural, Ag Business
Cyber-attacks are a continued and growing threat for all businesses. Small businesses, like agricultural and rural businesses should not think they are immune to this threat: obscurity is not security. Small businesses may even be more at risk, because they tend to have fewer practices in place to...
Touchless Transactions: E-commerce Guidance for Rural Business Managers Considering Online Sales
Touchless transactions in an online space can seem intimidating if you don’t regularly conduct exchanges this way or haven’t already established your online presence. But, they are possible and can be a simple (and profitable) addition to your business strategy to keep things moving, even during times of social distancing.
Conferencing from the Couch: Best practices for hosting and attending virtual conferences and meetings
Hello CREE community! We want to begin this blog post by saying that our team is thinking of those affected by COVID-19, as well as wishing everyone a safe and healthful journey during these unprecedented times. Speaking of those times of social distancing, I’m sure we have all been affected by...
New Year: New Ways to Learn with CREE
Happy New Year (and decade), everyone! If you’ve been following along with the CREE blog since back in the day, this isn’t our first introduction. I’m Anissa, and I previously worked for CREE as the marketing communications intern during my undergraduate studies. As an intern, I wrote many blogs...
CREE Second Quarter Analytics
In order to continue our goal of transparency, CREE has decided to post the insights from our own analytics taken from our Facebook page. This post will cover the second quarter of 2019 (April-June). Overview CREE posts on Facebook on Mondays and Fridays. Occasionally, Wednesdays are added to our...
It’s getting hot for CREE!
The Center for Rural Enterprise Engagement (CREE) is expanding south with the move of one of its co-founders, Dr. Lauri M. Baker, to the University of Florida. What does this mean for CREE? New and exciting ideas and more resources dedicated to generating and sharing knowledge about new-media...
CREE hosts third annual conference, Insight Summit
The Center for Rural Enterprise Engagement (CREE) hosted their third annual new-media marketing conference, the Insight Summit. The conference featured topics related to new-media marketing that included storytelling across platforms, basic and advanced analytics, social-media strategy, visual...
Pinterest vs. Instagram: 3 attributes for how each can help market your business
We are living in a digital age with marketing strategies evolving to online outlets and social-media sites. Sites like Pinterest and Instagram have become popular in small and large business marketing. But do you know all the benefits and resources these sites provide for business marketing on...