Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 29, 2015

Community fundraising goes beyond raising funds for a specific cause. It provides an opportunity to improve an entire community through the efforts of the fundraiser. Here’s one example of an organization that’s clearly been successful through their community fundraising efforts. Guest Post by Kari Kiel.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Spread them around and be sure to keep your blog as your home base and have an email list (for example ConvertKit offers a forever-free trial account ). If you don’t have a blog, you can use Substack to host one. If you don’t the rules on Facebook, for example, they will lock you out of your account. It’s free!).

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As more concerns of performative activism arise, consumers are watching to see if those same brands are staying true to their word or if they’ve already moved on and are investing less in their DEI efforts. Cultural heritage months like Black History Month are a cornerstone to many DEI initiatives for brands.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But when you hit the right chord, you can expect increased brand health, higher-quality leads and an active social following. Plus, we’ll show you some shining examples of what audience engagement looks like. It shows that your audience is actively engaging in a conversation about your brand. What is audience engagement?

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SocialFish

MARCH 3, 2011

This post is the second in a two-part series where guest blogger Garry Polmateer , former association executive currently working at NimbleUser helping organizations with Salesforce, looks at two online brands through the lens of the concepts in our book, Open Community. Open Community Means Collaborating with a Purpose.

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Sprout Social

JULY 21, 2022

You could post on community review sites or live-stream it to the masses. Community blogging sites. For brands, social media networking sites offer an opportunity to build awareness, create a community of customers and followers and drive traffic to websites. Examples: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In this article, we’ll share insights from Port of Seattle’s Social Media Program Manager Abbey Lampert , who speaks about: How to manage an influencer program on a small budget Tips for building relationships with local influencers Best practices for hosting influencer events Her learnings benefit what Abbey calls “less sexy organizations” (i.e.,

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Buffer Social

AUGUST 2, 2017

Facebook has recently launched Groups for Pages, enabling the 70 million+ Pages on Facebook to create their own unique communities and feeds. Facebook Groups are the place to connect with other like-minded people and are becoming increasingly important for brands and businesses aiming to cultivate a community. Let’s get started!

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Hootsuite

JUNE 27, 2022

Discord is a platform for hosting real-time text, video, and voice chat. While other social platforms are oriented around one central community, Discord is divided into servers or many smaller communities. million users in 2016 to 150 million active monthly users in 2022. Build community. What is the Discord app?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

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Oktopost

APRIL 9, 2024

Free trials, samples, ebooks, and educational videos are just a few examples of the value you can give to build your brand recognition and generate demand for your paid products and services. You can also host live or virtual events that facilitate networking, establish personal connections, and create positive associations with your brand.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

AUGUST 11, 2022

Building a brand community isn’t about improving vanity metrics like engagement and follower count. According to a survey from Vanilla Forums , 58% of brands say their communities improve customer loyalty. Nine in ten consumers read reviews before making a purchase, so building review functionality into your community makes sense.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JANUARY 5, 2022

Here are some examples: To nurture an online community. You can then jot down granular goals that will impact your day-to-day social activities. For example, We Wore What Shop favors soft colors in backdrops. Hosting Instagram Live sessions is a great way to interact directly with your audience.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Take the r/explainlikeimfive subreddit, for example. Users share complex ideas and the Reddit community breaks them down. In the example below, a “full class of 11th graders” got a simplified lesson in biology. Improve community engagement. Build a community. Communities can take many forms, too.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Users create posts in topic-based communities — called subreddits — and interact in comment threads. Reddit is all about fostering community by encouraging users (a.k.a. Subreddits serve as mini-communities within the site — like Facebook Groups, but public — and foster user interaction around common interests. What is Reddit?

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In short, an engaged community leads to better sales outcomes. In these examples, UGC creates a sense of FOMO that drives customers to stop in for the latest seasonal treat. Superhost Ambassadors share positive experiences to help new users see the benefits of hosting. Here’s an example of a S.M.A.R.T Use the S.M.A.R.T

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Keyhole.co

JANUARY 20, 2024

Create a separate Facebook group and community page Your first task is to set up your Facebook business page. One Facebook marketing strategy is to create a group for your business, where fans, customers, and anyone with an interest in your brand can come together and form a community. But the business page isn’t the end of it.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million active streamers , with video game streaming and eSports the most popular content for creators to broadcast to their followers. So, however small your niche, there’s likely a community on Twitch ready to be marketed to. Think about communication. or host exclusive events for followers to tune in to.

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Later

MAY 28, 2021

June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate the strides that the LGBTQIA+ community has made towards equality and inclusivity. . And while many festivities won’t be in-person this year, brands are still hosting virtual Pride events to show support. 3 Brands Hosting Virtual Pride Events. Lululemon. #1: 1: NYX Cosmetics.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 10, 2013

This week: From ExactTarget , a free white paper called “ 3 Truths Every CMO Needs to Know About Social Media and the Customer Experience “ From Expion , a case study about how H&R Block mobilized 90,000 tax professionals in social media using Expion to guide their activity. The Social Activator.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 9, 2023

It can be difficult to correlate corporate communication efforts to business impact. We also included examples from brands to inspire your strategy. What is corporate communications? For instance, the content creation team may also handle internal communication initiatives. Some companies, like QAD Inc.,

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Mindjumpers

JANUARY 2, 2013

Throughout the year, we’ve seen great examples of brands leveraging Timeline for visual storytelling and thus optimising fan engagement by encouraging fans to go back in time and explore the Timeline. Brands quickly picked up on the importance of visual communication and started building Instagram communities.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 23, 2024

Threads by Instagram now has an estimated 160 million monthly active users and counting. To put that into perspective, that’s a little over a third of X’s (formerly Twitter) monthly active users of 550 million — and X has a good 16 years on Threads.  Buffer users are big fans of the platform, too.

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Later

AUGUST 25, 2021

In the following post, we’re sharing the key to successful offline-to-online marketing — as well as five tried-and-tested strategies you can use to build your take your community online. With this in mind, here five tactics you can use to successfully transition customers from offline to online: Host a Virtual Event .

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 22, 2024

Lia’s prediction is bolstered by her research on LinkedIn for a client and seeing examples of what corporate accounts such as Lyft, Robert Half, SEMRush, Vista Social, and Hubspot are doing on the platform.   There's a growing preference for smaller, specialized, trusted groups in community building.

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Ignite Social Media

MARCH 4, 2021

Users can create or join Clubs (like groups or communities) or rooms where speakers can discuss whatever the host decides to allow. Rooms in Clubhouse are a bit like a panel at a convention; the host can invite people to come up to a virtual stage and those people can take turns talking. What is Clubhouse?

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Sprout Social

JUNE 22, 2021

billion global active users. With billions of active users spanning all ages, Facebook is one platform businesses can’t afford to ignore as part of their digital strategy. billion global active users. Key Stats: 199 million daily active global users. Key Stats: 459 million monthly active users. Key Stats: Over 2.8

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Sherrilynne Starkie

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

The new law provides a safe harbour to those who create and also those who host that content, for example.”. Lobbyists from the film, music and video games industries even hosted a fund-raising dinner for Bulte in advance of the election. Activity can be undisciplined. Movements tend to be distributed.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 13, 2023

I spoke with Loren Siegel Atlassian’s Community and Social Engagement Senior Team Lead to learn how Sprout helps her team execute premier social customer care, boost team productivity and understand their audience to craft better community connections. in savings over three years. Atlassian started using Sprout Listening in 2019.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

APRIL 6, 2013

The classic example is Jonathan Swift’s 1729 essay ‘A Modest Proposal’ in which he suggests eating the Irish children as a solution to the country’s famine, thereby mocking the heartless attitudes among the rich people of the day towards the poor. Most of the online conversation is being fuelled by Fox News’ vitriolic reaction.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I don’t think of social as exclusively a brand or marketing activity,” says Dietrich. The ability to activate on social is a critical muscle that companies need to exercise, even in times of economic pressure,” says Dietrich. How active are your competitor’s mentions, tags and comments? How often are they replying?

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Oktopost

MARCH 4, 2024

B2B SaaS marketing refers to all marketing activities B2B SaaS companies use to improve brand visibility , get leads down the funnel, and ultimately increase customer acquisition, retention, and revenue. The goal is to implement a range of top, middle, and bottom-of-the-funnel marketing activities covering every funnel stage.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Meryoli Arias , Senior Social Media and Community Manager, and Daniel Cmejla , Senior Director of Community, Customer Marketing, Events, PR, and Social, of Chili Piper gave us an inside look into how they approach social selling. According to Cmejla, being helpful is how you maintain authentic relationships within online communities.

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Pixlee

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In this particular example, content was collected from customers for the brand’s 2022 Calendar, but Trupanion was able to continue to utilize and procure additional value from this user-generated content in its Facebook marketing. The hosts discussed how easy it is to create designs on a laptop and let the xTool M1 do the rest of the work.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 19, 2023

For example, extended reality (XR) headsets can record a user’s facial attributes, blinks, movement, surroundings and activities in the metaverse. For example, fingerprint scanning and facial recognition will likely become a default step to log into the metaverse. NFT giveaways, in-experience currencies, etc.).

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Coffee brand Dutch Bros, for example, employed a clever way to ask customers what their favorite product was. For example, a customer who participated in the Dutch Bros’ conversation complained about the brand not being present in Michigan. Here’s a real-life social media listening example from our X account.

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