We have a winner! The gloves are off and images trump blocks of text hands down. Enter the dawning of the new image-sphere as original visual content “floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee” when it comes to likes, shares, and driving online traffic. Research reveals levels of engagement are much higher when images dominate social media marketing (receiving 53% more likes on Facebook alone), so why fight it? ANSWER: You shouldn’t.

Leave it to those wild ‘n’ wacky Germans to always be so dang innovative and uber-cool. But it’s not all gummi bears, bratwurst, and three-ring binders. (Yup, they even invented those.) Think Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Puma, Henkels, Hugo Boss, Siemens, T*Mobile (who knew?), and a long list of popular global brands that surprisingly hail from Deutschland. One that’s near and dear to me is Volkswagen — my very first car was a classic 1972 fire engine red VW Beetle with white leather interior.

Hola! We admit, it took mucho hair pulling and many sleepless hours (okay, kinda), but our brand-new website is LIVE! That’s right, Splinkink is up, raring, and ready to help kickstart all those big dreams you’ve kept brewing on that dastardly back burner. (You know the ones.) Splinkink takes the fear out of Facebook, the tizzy out of Twitter, the worry out of WordPress. Yup, we feel your pain and realize being a social media superstar means so much more than perfect “It” shoes or the hottest