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5 Data-Backed Social Media Trends You Need to Know for 2019

Buffer Social

2019 is here and gone are the days where generating audience engagement on social media was primarily a passive process. The brands that are successful in delivering personalized experiences to their audiences are the brands that are likely to thrive with their social media strategies in the coming year.

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Book Review: APE – Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch

Akamai Marketing

The Social Role in Self Publishing. Many writers might think the only role for social media is in the marketing and promotional phase. But throughout the book, Kawasaki provides examples of how his social community made the book better, during each phase. But few writers have access to actual focus groups.

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My End of Tour. #LinkedInLife

Koka Sexton

I led a social selling movement initially with no data but a solid belief that this was the right thing to do. Social selling became my new religion and I spread the gospel every chance I could. Then in 2013 I was given the opportunity of a lifetime. I was head of social media at LinkedIn. I got IN for real.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. Effective crowdsourcing delivers exactly this and it can super-charge your social media efforts along the way.

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How to Get Free Instagram Likes (Because They Still Matter)

Hootsuite

A group of men relax and drink Tuba (coconut wine) on a table off the beach in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines, on 20 April 2014. ?????? Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Visayas region of central Philippines, on 8 November 2013. More than that, have you differentiated your Instagram audience from your social media audience as a whole?

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