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Snapchat has quickly taken over on the social media sphere. It’s the best way to keep updated on your friends and see their lives through their eyes. When used correctly, Snapchat can be extremely beneficial to your business and add a personal element that makes you more engaged with your audience. I’m sharing the four ways that we at Be Inspired PR use Snapchat and how you can use it too!

1. Encourage your clients to get social with you! 
Geofilters are perfect for your clients and guests to do some promotion for you. If you have an event, create a few geofilters that will be available for the event. You do have to design your own and pay for them, but they are extremely user friendly and will not break the bank. Not only will it expose your brand to your guests’ followers, but also those in the area will be able to access the filter and it will get your name out there. For a more permanent geofilter, you can allow your office to have a geofilter, so your visitors can show off your beautiful office!

2. Give your audience a behind-the-scenes look.
Snapchat was created to give your followers a look into your life through your point of view. So give the people what they want! Whether it’s showing them a tour of the office, a BTS of setting up an event, or goofy times with your team, use this platform to show your personality. People love authenticity, so keep it real, but fun.

3. Get user input.
While you can always use the good old-fashioned survey, those have become a little outdated and they aren’t exactly convenient for the on-the-go consumer. Instead, keep it simple and use Snapchat to get user input. Followers can snap or chat you directly, but if you want to take a poll, do it through your story. Share a snap explaining what is to come, and then share the options asking them to screenshot their favorite. What you’ll get is instant feedback!

4. Rewarding those who follow.
I love the quote “Invest in those who invest in you.” With all of your loyal followers, be sure to reward them. Give them exclusive promo codes or first looks/sneak peeks into your upcoming projects that you normally wouldn’t share on Facebook or Instagram. It will be gone in 24 hours and will be special for your Snapchat followers.

Social media platforms are the best way to gain free marketing, so take use them to your advantage. Get familiarized with the apps and the tools you can use to maximize the service. Implement these methods and you’re already on your way to becoming the next Snapchat King or Queen.

In her secret speeches to Wall Street bankers, Hillary Clinton backed free trade and claimed politicians need leeway to make backroom deals — and may have disclosed classified details of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, according to the latest emails disclosed by WikiLeaks.

The emails also revealed that back in 2015, the Clinton campaign strategized about ways to elevate Donald Trump and other “extreme” Republicans — as “Pied Piper” candidates who would ultimately be so “unpalatable,” they’d help her win.

These “Pied Piper” candidates also included Ted Cruz and Ben Carson, according to the email, sent to the Democratic National Committee on April 7, 2015.

The email goes on to advise the DNC to “Force all Republican candidates to lock themselves into extreme conservative positions that will hurt them in the general election.”

Other emails disclosing the content of her speeches to bankers and business groups show Clinton revealing insider details of how bin Laden was targeted.

“I was in the small group that recommended to the president that he go after bin Laden,” Clinton said in a 2013 speech to a ­Toronto business organization.

She went on: “The amount of work that was required to get a strong-enough basis of information on which to plan took more than a decade . . . and then all of a sudden putting this matrix together and saying, ‘This guy used to protect bin Laden — he has just made a phone call. He said this in the phone call. We need to figure out where he is. Then we need to follow him.’

“And that is how we found this compound in Abbottabad [Pakistan]” — where a team of Navy SEALs took out bin Laden in May 2011.

WikiLeaks asked in a tweet if Clinton’s comments revealed too much about the bin Laden hunt by mentioning the phone calls.

It’s unclear whether Clinton’s story was classified. But what she said in Toronto varies from other accounts of how the United States determined bin Laden’s whereabouts.

Many reports of the time said the United States was tipped to bin Laden’s location by a Pakistani intelligence officer; other reports say Washington ­tracked him down with extensive surveillance.

The leaked trove of emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s account also features damning evidence of major flip-flops and doublespeak from the former secretary of state.

The leaked Clinton comment that most captured the imagination of social media Saturday came from an April 2013 speech to the National Multifamily Housing Council. Clinton said politicians must balance “both a public and a private position” while making deals.

“It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be,” Clinton said. “But if everybody’s watching, you know, all of the backroom discussions and the deals, you know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both a public and a private position.”

The full transcripts of the speeches were not released. But WikiLeaks included a document of excerpts from the speeches that Clinton’s campaign flagged as potential political trouble.

In a talk to a Brazilian bank in 2013, Clinton said her “dream” is “a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders,” and asked her audience to think of what doubling American trade with Latin America “would mean for everybody in this room.”

Trump, her Republican opponent, has made opposition to trade deals that he says hurt American workers a cornerstone of his campaign.

Clinton’s onetime opponent for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders, also was vocal in his objection to trade deals, and pushed Clinton to denounce support for the Trans Pacific Partnership.

And there’s more to come.

The leaks came from roughly 2,050 emails sent to and from Podesta, who is also a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton.

WikiLeaks claimed to have up to 10,000 emails.

“We have published 1 percent of the #PodestaEmails so far,” Wiki­Leaks tweeted Saturday.

“Additional publications will proceed throughout the election period.”

Podesta has said some of the leaked emails may have been altered or faked. He is not confirming or denying their contents.

Immunity deals for two top Hillary Clinton aides included a side arrangement obliging the FBI to destroy their laptops after reviewing the devices, House Judiciary Committee sources told Fox News on Monday. 

Sources said the arrangement with former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills and ex-campaign staffer Heather Samuelson also limited the search to no later than Jan. 31, 2015. This meant investigators could not review documents for the period after the email server became public -- in turn preventing the bureau from discovering if there was any evidence of obstruction of justice, sources said.

The internet whistleblowing group Wikileaks released over 2,000 emails involving Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The release comes the same day the State Department published 350 emails previously deleted from Clinton's private server.

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At first inspection the emails date as far back as 2008 to 2016 and cover the gamut from the mundane like "Hillary Clinton’s Chipotle Order” to “Call with HRC” to “My position on the Iran deal” sent from Nancy Rotering to John Podesta.

Wikileaks said Podesta is a long-term associate of the Clintons and served as Bill Clinton’s chief of staff from 1998 to 2001.

Podesta served during Bill Clinton administration. Wikileaks warned on its 10th anniversary it would be releasing more emails.