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9 Genius Ideas to Steal for Your Black Friday + Cyber Monday Marketing Campaigns (with Real-life Examples)

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BFCM — Black Friday and Cyber Monday — is an exhilarating but often daunting time of year for business owners and marketers.  But capturing market attention is well worth doing over this high-spend period. billion in the U.S. Happy BGCM planning! 

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Top 10 Powerful Moments That Shaped Social Media History Over the Last 20 Years

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In light of #SMDay (6/30/2017) , we’re teaming up with Bitly to share stories and celebrate the positive impact that social media has had on individuals, businesses, and the globe over the last 20 glorious years – all using the hashtag #impactofsocial. Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) September 22, 2015. Arab Spring.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr. But Twitter’s significance was really defined by the hashtag , a symbol that’s helped political organizers and average citizens mobilize, promote, and create awareness. If only Bradley's arm was longer.

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5 of the Best Alternative Black Friday Campaigns

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A post shared by The Detox Market Canada (@thedetoxmarketcanada) on Sep 9, 2020 at 1:04pm PDT. Since 2015, REI has closed on Black Friday. And while the campaign was initially created for Black Friday, the #OptOutside hashtag is used frequently on Instagram (over 16M posts!) Ready to kickstart your holiday planning?

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The Ironic Beauty Of Google Indexing Tweets And Why Content Marketers Should Pay Attention

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Since February, 2015, Google has been adding tweets into their search index and then including them in the search results. There’s a history of them doing this, but Google stopped including tweets in their index around 2011. Twitter even arranges links into nice little categories through the use of hashtags. –Sean.

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The Silent Rise of LinkedIn to 500M Members: What Marketers Need to Know for 2018 [SSM069]

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What if I told you that LinkedIn, a social media platform that is now 14 years old, is the next big opportunity for marketers and brands? While much of the focus over the last few years has been on perfecting our Facebook and Instagram marketing strategies, LinkedIn has been silently growing their user base to more than 500 million users.

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A Brief History of Social Media [Infographic]

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In the same year, Chris Messina invented the hashtag – the first method of categorizing social media posts, which then became a central feature of Twitter’s platform. A Not-So-Distant Past: 2010-2015. In 2011, Facebook sought other methods of monetization and launched a desktop ad program called Sponsored Stories.