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AUGUST 20, 2014

It''s laughable that the vast majority of marketing professionals are still seen as those who spend the money on the TV commercials. They''re asking marketers to do more than spend money on advertising they want them to: Get in line with the CEO''s objectives. That''s what the 2014 Korn Ferry Marketing Pulse Survey is saying.

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Proactive Report

MAY 14, 2014

Why is digital content taking over the marketing world? What is it that makes it so powerful and why should you be concentrating more on becoming a content creation machine, rather than using only traditional marketing techniques? 5 things to do to be a content powerhouse in 2014. Guest post by Cokey Falkow. This is vital.

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Adam Cohen

JANUARY 13, 2015

Attention digital marketers: It’s time. If you aren’t infusing “why” people are using social media into your marketing segmentation model, you may be missing key ways to make digital marketing successful. This past week Pew Research released their 2014 Social Media Update.

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Adam Cohen

JANUARY 13, 2015

Attention digital marketers: It’s time. If you aren’t infusing “why” people are using social media into your marketing segmentation model, you may be missing key ways to make digital marketing successful. This past week Pew Research released their 2014 Social Media Update.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 25, 2018

User-generated content can help drive reach and engagement. There hasn’t been such a great opportunity to reach and engage your target audience before social media became popular. Facebook studied the messaging behavior of 12,500 people across 14 markets to understand consumers’ growing preference for messaging businesses.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Business-to-business social media marketing is no longer just an innovative way to boost sales—it’s essential to your organization’s survival in the competitive B2B market. In fact, a recent survey found 92% of B2B marketers use social media as a content marketing tactic to drive sales.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 26, 2014

In partnership with PR News , Cision polled the PR community on their social media usage to find out how they engage, which platforms they utilize, and where they spend ad dollars. Below, we dissect a few of the findings and what they mean for PR and marketing professionals. What does this mean? Not sure where to begin?

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Proactive Report

OCTOBER 2, 2013

A recent study commission by Adobe showed that new digital technologies and social media are keeping marketers up at night. Less than half (48%) of the 1000 marketers surveyed feel they understand digital marketing and can get results. PLANNING YOUR DIGITAL MARKETING. IMPLEMENTING THE DIGITAL MARKETING PROGRAM.

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Keyhole.co

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The goal of sentiment analysis is to mine available data from surveys, reviews, news stories, customer service exchanges, and social media posts/comments and determine whether the sentiment from these interactions is positive, negative, or neutral. Your analysis can reveal what your target customers value.

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Proactive Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

PR Newswire released figures a year ago that showed that adding images and videos to a release can increase views and engagement by as much as 9.7%. The PRESSfeed 2013 media relations survey shows that visual content is becoming expected by the media. Make it a priority for 2014. Google Analytics is free. Connect with me.

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Twist Image

JUNE 12, 2014

There was an article published today in Marketing Charts titled, Few Digital Marketers Feel That Digital Has Delivered As A Branding Vehicle. The data was culled from a 2014 Millward Brown digital survey, which polled 300 digital marketing decision makers at Fortune 5000 companies and leading advertising agencies in the United States.

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Socialmedia.biz

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Target audience: Startups, businesses, brands, digital marketers, advertising agencies, SEO specialists, entrepreneurs, educators, journalists, Web publishers. Let’s review some of the reasons why your startup needs social media marketing to attract new clients or customers. According to a recent survey by J.D. Amazing, no?

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Ignite Social Media

JUNE 1, 2016

Social media has evolved over the years and in order to design a successful social media marketing strategy, you must consider the latest social media trends that are likely to have the biggest impacts. So online marketers will be seen polishing their Facebook marketing skills to stay ahead of their competitors.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Business-to-business social media marketing is no longer just an innovative way to boost sales—it’s essential to your organization’s survival in the competitive B2B market. In fact, a recent survey found 92% of B2B marketers use social media as a content marketing tactic to drive sales.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

while the other will probably greatly impact your marketing budget in 2016 and beyond. Seventy percent of marketers expected to spend more on social media ads in 2015 than in 2014. Regardless of your market, you can find ways to make social advertising work for you. By June of 2014, nearly 80 percent of U.S.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 20, 2014

For a long time, there was a perception that social media marketing was free, or at least very inexpensive. In reality, social media marketing has never been free. Most brands now know the real costs of social media marketing are not as great as the opportunity costs of bad social media strategy. billion industry.

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The Realtime Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In 2013, just 7 percent of companies had implemented a mobile app strategy, and 51 percent of companies had no plans to develop one, a FeedHenry survey found. By 2014, smartphone users were spending 89 percent of their device time using apps and just 11 percent using the mobile web. Apps have taken over the internet in recent years.

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I read through more than 20 studies on Instagram marketing from companies like Facebook, Simply Measured, and News Whip. 8 Actionable Instagram Marketing Tips, Backed by 20+ Studies. Using both hashtags and location tag drives the most engagement. Videos might overtake images as the most engaging type of content.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 24, 2014

Lauren Salazar , Director of Social Media for Weight Watchers , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss empowering the customer service team to embrace social as a tool, gamification as a way to engage customers socially, and how Weight Watchers has already embraced wearable technology. Holy Social!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 24, 2015

More than half of executives (59 percent) surveyed by Wakefield Research said they do not fully understand the role and capabilities of PR. Fewer than half (44 percent) said they were “very involved” in establishing PR goals in 2014, according to the survey done in partnership with the Public Relations Society of America New Jersey Chapter.

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Social Media Marketing

JUNE 5, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter for our team that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

It’s no wonder, then, that the “sharing economy” is estimated to be $110 billion (and growing fast), according to a November 2014 Leo Burnett study. In a world where people don’t aspire to own their own homes or even openly despise the idea of owning a car, where does that leave the tool, yard care and appliance markets?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 7, 2015

When it comes to creating compelling content, marketing is leading the way for communication functions. Content marketing is realizing that “when you sell a product, you make a customer for a day, but when you help them, you make a customer for life” ( Jay Baer ). workers engaged in their jobs is on the rise (average 31.7%

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Social Media Marketing

APRIL 3, 2013

Each week at Ford, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep the wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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Proactive Report

MAY 12, 2016

And being ahead of the pack, in no small way, means that your content needs to be visually engaging. It’s no wonder then that visual content is the top marketing trend for 2016. Especially when you’re talking about marketing and digital PR. 60% of marketers plan to invest in video this year – up 20% from 2015.

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 23, 2017

Robert is a content and marketing specialist at one of the leading essay writing companies. He graduated with honors from Columbia University with a degree in Marketing and Advertising Previously, he worked as a content marketing manager for a tech software firm. This week we welcome guest blogger Robert Everett.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 10, 2015

These days, mobile strategy is an imperative for marketing departments across every industry. This way, you engage them with service instead of making them ask for it. Rethink the window shopping experience for mobile , and make it as engaging as possible to lock in the sale. Window Shopping. Keeping the Conversation Open.

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Myrland Marketing

JULY 6, 2018

Congratulations to Greentarget and Zeughauser Group for the release of The 2018 State of Digital and Marketing Content Survey, a refresh on their survey that serves to inform lawyers and legal marketers about the behaviors of in-house legal departments when it comes to their consumption of social, digital, and content marketing.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Or have too many social media marketing statistics.” How effective is social media in comparison to other digital marketing channels? How does B2B social media marketing differ in effectiveness from B2C use? What type of posts generate the most engagement on Facebook? Image credit: Business 2 Community. 68% of U.S.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 23, 2016

Many small- and medium-sized companies see growth in brand awareness, site traffic, shares and customer engagement when there’s a plan in place. One of the biggest advantages of social media marketing is it’s less reliant on a large budget. Marketers spent more than $8.3 Social Media for Business by the Numbers.

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Ignite Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This past year many marketers struggled with their social media advertising efforts. 2020 was a unique year for social media marketing, but the state of social ad buying specifically had some interesting points we want to address. You usually can’t get this type of engagement in other digital spaces.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

What are the most common social media questions marketers get asked? We put the question to our LinkedIn community and based on the responses one thing is clear: There’s a lot of people out there who don’t know what social media marketers do. Questions marketers get asked often include: So do you just scroll around Facebook all day?

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Though social media marketing is now used in about 90% of companies, techniques, platforms and best practices continue to evolve. Increase use of video marketing? Marketing Pilgrim ). Marketing Pilgrim ). 90% of companies with 100 or more employees use social media in their marketing mix. MindJumpers ).

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 23, 2017

According to recent research from Forrester, digital marketing spend in the US will reach $120 billion by 2021. Spread over paid search, video marketing, social media and other online channels , digital is expected to account for more than 46% of all advertising in the next five years. Simplify your messaging: Video marketing.

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Writtent Blog

JUNE 10, 2013

Ever wonder how your fellow marketers are using Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest to generate brand awareness? 86% of the professionals surveyed for the social media marketing report said that Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other platforms are important to their business – a 3% increase over 2012.

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Ignite Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In this session, Jim shares his personal journey of success in the world of social media and influencer marketing. We then founded Carusele in 2015 based on the assumption that’s proven true that basic influencer marketing could be improved and optimized. Tune in now if you are ready to take your career up a notch!

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Keyhole.co

JULY 25, 2023

From the heartwarming Love Has No Labels video, which has reached 60M views and was shared by Michelle Obama, to the engaging, Girls Who Code digital experience, which encouraged girls to code a video game character in defiance of a lack of female representation across the industry. This has led to some inspiring campaigns.

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