Web Design and Search Engine Tips to Create Your Own Hudson Valley Job during COVID-19
COVID-19 is changing how people in the Hudson Valley live and engage with the world around them. And one of the biggest ways is how small business is going to be done: it’s going to be more dependent on having a website, showing up on Google, and having a mastery over your web presence. Additionally,…
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Visiting Rhinebeck’s 18 Most Instagrammed Places
As part of our series on the most-Instagrammed Places in the Hudson Valley, we present Rhinebeck: known as “a town in Dutchess County.” It’s been home to a range of characters over the last 100 years, ranging from John Astor IV (a millionaire businessman and investor who was born in Rhinebeck and died on the Titanic),…
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Visiting the Town of Esopus NY’s 10 Most Instagrammed Places
When we think about the Town of Esopus, NY 5 Hs come to mind: Hikes, History, the Hudson, and Headless Horseman. We pulled down a year’s worth of Instagram posts taken within the town, and did some data magic to figure out which locations got geo-tagged the most by people posting pictures to Instagram. The…
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The 11 Hudson Valley Hikes That Get Googled The Most
Some people have mythical, trusted sherpas who can relay all of the details of different Hudson Valley hikes to them. For everyone else, there’s Google, which leads to Mike Todd and Hike the Hudson Valley. Going on a hike requires a lot of information, and his site has the goods. On his 75+ hiking guides,…
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The New York Capital Region’s 66 Most-Instagrammed Places and Influencers
Kingston will always be the first capital of New York, but we decided to turn our gaze to the north and see what’s going on in New York’s fourth capital, Albany. We discovered that Instagram is very much an Albany thing (in addition to the steamed hams). As a digital marketing agency based in the…
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Is Medicare for All Politically Viable? A Guide to 561 Congressional Candidates.
One of the biggest questions about Medicare for All from Democrats is about viability. Sure, it’s great to have a hypothetical debate about what system would produce the best outcomes while reducing costs and covering everyone, but how can it actually get done? Whether you’re a diehard Medicare for All supporter, or just curious, here…
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We Visited Beacon’s 16 Most-Instagrammed Places
This is our tenth entry in a series of articles about the Most-Instagrammed Places in the Hudson Valley and Catskills. We do these articles because we’re curious about what inspires and excites people in different local communities; looking at social media data is one way of reverse-engineering that. Why are we covering Beacon? We’ve been…
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New York’s Top 37 Breweries and Beer Influencers on Instagram
There’s no end in sight for the popularity of craft brewing. Two thirds of Americans have an average of four alcoholic drinks a week. Instead of buying mass-produced beer, more and more people are flocking to the world of craft brewing, trying to taste authenticity, community and craftsmanship for a couple of dollars more than…
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The Top 10 Music Artists Who Recorded on Facebook Live
Facebook rolled out Live Video starting in August of 2015, and it’s been quick to grow beyond a tech gimmick into an enabler for must-see moments. NASA used it to broadcast the recent solar eclipse and repairs to the International Space Station, the Walking Dead used it to reveal their Season 8 trailer and Elizabeth…
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The 67 Most-Instagrammed Locations in the Catskills
In today’s world, the act of pulling out your phone, taking a picture someplace, and posting it for your friends on Instagram is a significant action. It means in that moment, whatever you’re doing, in whichever place, is inspiring to you, and you want to remember it. While Instagram data can’t tell us the actual…
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