Buffer Social

JANUARY 22, 2024

  As we dive into this new era fueled by changing consumer behavior, the influence of AI, and the shifting of how platforms function, certain key trends emerge, painting a picture of a different digital world. Recently, platforms have been dominated by short-form content centered around trending audio.

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Pixlee

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When examining brands that advertise, social media advertising was seen used by about 83% of marketers and ranked second in success behind SEO marketing. In this article, we’ll take you through the trends to look forward to and be aware of in 2022 to help you ace the social media marketing game.

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Rebekah Radice

APRIL 30, 2018

And that’s where the power of influencer marketing comes in. Still not sure if influencer marketing is right for your business? The Case for Influencer Marketing (and How it Will Change Your Business). Influencer marketing is one of the most effective ways to get it. Source: Hubspot. Source: Jeffalytics.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JULY 28, 2022

We are a fully remote and global team of marketing experts! We’ve also recently added a Marketing Intern to our team who is a jack of all trades! As much fun as it is, keeping up to date with the changes to education and Digital Marketing trends, strategies, and techniques too can be challenging. This question is easy!

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Ignite Social Media

MARCH 25, 2021

I’m Jim Tobin, the founder of social media agency Ignite Social Media (2007) and influencer marketing agency Carusele (2015). While other companies have pivoted over the years to add web development, digital marketing, or some related field, we’ve stayed true to our roots. Paid advertising on social media was still 4 years away.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Instagram is a fantastic platform for B2B marketers. You need to be marketing to this demographic, which means you need to consider marketing on Instagram as a great opportunity to build your brand and generate leads. Here are seven examples of B2B brands doing Instagram marketing the right way.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In today’s competitive commercial landscape, marketing professionals increasingly depend on digital channels for assistance. In the US alone, research from Statista shows that B2B marketing spend has already decreased by over 50% in early 2020. 89% of B2B marketers turn to LinkedIn for lead generation.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 25, 2022

That number includes all costs related to content creation, advertising campaigns and social media management software. Social advertising: $5,000 per month. Sydney Nielsen, Sprout’s Manager of Customer Marketing, says, “Working with agencies is an investment that delivers high return. Content creation: $5,250 per month.

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Pixlee

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Why Invest in TikTok Marketing. Brands have to be alert to a myriad of new trends popping up every day. With a growing user base and consistent trends for brands to hop on, we say yes. Trend-based videos (dances, hashtag challenges, etc.). According to Social Media Examiner, only 5% of marketers use TikTok.

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Writtent Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Content marketing moves incredibly fast. So fast that just a decade ago, most of us had never heard of it – today, the tactic is used by 93% of marketers. We’ve curated 59 of the most powerful content marketing stats from the latest, high-quality research reports. 44% of marketers have a documented content strategy.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 12, 2022

Knowledge of SEO, influencer marketing, social media campaigns, link building and trending topics all sit on the wishlist of skills. Social media has also become a significant driver for news, business operations, sales cycles and marketing. Today’s PR professionals are digital multi-hyphenates who require a diverse skillset.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 1, 2018

Trade show or event marketing offers an excellent opportunity for businesses and marketers to gain valuable face-to-face time with potential clients, customers and business partners. Use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram to advertise your upcoming trade show appearances. Guest post by Reno Macri. Image credit: CPS, Inc.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Paul Roetzer ( @paulroetzer ) is founder and CEO of PR 20/20 , a Cleveland-based inbound marketing agency, and author of The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley). Digital marketing has revolutionized the industry, and the job market. The most valued talent in the emerging marketing agency ecosystem will be hybrids.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 2, 2015

In their haste to produce marketing messages that demonstrate the value of their products and services, many companies default to the text-heavy, jargon-loaded, spec-focused content they relied on in the analog days. Visual Marketing Magic. Image via Hubspot. Image via Microsoft Stories. Image via MailChimp. Image via Chango.

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Sprout Social

JULY 25, 2023

With practical data such as tracking your social efforts against actual revenue-generating clicks, sign-ups and subscriptions, and giving you in-depth audience insights, Google Analytics provides contextualized social metrics to elevate your marketing strategy without overshooting your budget.

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Buffer Social

MAY 30, 2023

It’s your best bet if the consensus is anything to go by — 85% of marketers say short-form video is the most effective format on social media. Google defines it as any video over 10 minutes, while HubSpot found that the optimal length is 31-60 seconds. But that’s not very creative or sustainable.

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Rebekah Radice

APRIL 30, 2018

And that’s where the power of influencer marketing comes in. Still not sure if influencer marketing is right for your business? The Case for Influencer Marketing (and How it Will Change Your Business). Influencer marketing is one of the most effective ways to get it. Source: Hubspot. Source: Jeffalytics.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 15, 2020

As brands planned their strategies, they could not have predicted the way COVID-19 has quickly swept up global markets and conversations. In the wake of the crisis, some brands and social marketers find themselves pivoting away from the social strategies they worked so hard to plan. However, not all is lost nor does it have to be.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 19, 2014

But you don’t have to go Full Monty to be able to use data to improve your marketing. Slim’s Pickins records used this solution and ended up getting their contest hashtag trending worldwide on Twitter world-wide. This is also known as “progressive profiling” and “drip marketing.”

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Buffer Social

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This trend leverages social media platforms to build connections and establish meaningful relationships with potential business prospects — and when it comes to social selling, LinkedIn is the MVP. The reality is that the best LinkedIn users are marketing machines. What’s the true ROI? The ROI is insane.

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yMarketingMatters

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The great hashtag feature keeps you up to date with latest trends and news worthy events. Do you have the financial resources to grow your followers with advertising on Twitter? Use hashtags with your keywords and stay on top of the trending hashtags as well. Promote your company and your content, and Get Noticed!

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Audiense

JULY 16, 2018

Intelligent conversation systems are no longer a trend but an undeniable reality: chiefmartec.com has included it in its Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic 2018. Much more functional marketing. 2018 is the year of consolidation of chatbots and their application in diverse and wide ranging sectors of the economy.

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Keyhole.co

JANUARY 27, 2023

Social media is quickly becoming the go-to method medium for B2B marketers looking to promote their business. This has made producing social media content a top priority for 95% of B2B marketers. Sagefrog reports that 66% of marketers have seen a positive return on investment (ROI) from social media marketing.

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Socialmedia.biz

MARCH 30, 2019

According to Hubspot , 76% of Facebook users use their feed to discover content that aligns with their interests, which has lead to the creation of more than 4 billion posts per day. With an average of 1.47 Keep an open mind and experiment with content frequently to find what works for your brand.

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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. Hubspot has the answer.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

There’s plenty of confusing jargon in the inbound marketing realm – like funnels, the ever-changing lingo of SEO optimization, and agile marketing. When many marketers think of a call to action, their minds turn to something like the basic buttons displayed to visitors to the MailChimp homepage: Image credit: Spectacled Marketer.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 11, 2011

Cartoon: HubSpot via Flickr, CC 2.0. I came across this Small Business Trends article about Yelp! It is all perspective , and as a business owner or strategist you need to cut through the fluff and look at things properly so you can decide the value of every marketing channel out there. Do you see where I’m going with this?

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Buffer Social

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“How did you get into marketing?” ” At Buffer, members of our marketing team are often asked this question. Kevan, our Marketing Director, was a sports reporter. 7 Tips for building a career in marketing. ” And at Buffer, we’ve built our marketing team around our individual, core strengths.

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Buffer Social

JULY 16, 2018

Needless to say, Instagram advertising is becoming a huge deal for Facebook and an even greater opportunity for business looking to diversify their advertising channels and reach new customers. Why UGC ( user generated content ) and influencer marketing are a few of our go-to Instagram marketing strategies.

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Buffer Social

JUNE 16, 2016

But then it dawned on me — I’ve never taken the time to write any of this incredible information down to share with other marketers! It was inspiring and motivating to see all the answers, from 150 marketers! Grant Gurewitz , Zillow – Developing a report of summer housing trends for real estate professionals.

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Socialmedia.biz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

With an average person using 7 social media accounts , it comes as no surprise that marketers and business owners everywhere are flocking to these platforms to create brand awareness, interact with the existing audience and attract new customers, amongst other things.

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

When I first started out with digital marketing, I was blown away by the sheer amount of online marketing resources and social media classes. I read hundreds of articles and enrolled in as many marketing courses that I could possibly get my hands on. Digital marketing classes (9-17). Topics include : Social trends.

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Pixlee

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In today’s highly competitive world of ecommerce, it takes more than building a product, pushing it to the market, and making claims about being the best to get consumers to actually pay attention to your business and buy from you. Run Engaging Influencer Marketing Campaigns. A strong brand has an active community of consumers.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

64% of CMOs feel that brand marketing should be given higher importance, but CFOs aren’t entirely on the same page: only 26% agree with further investments in this area. But brand marketing does come at a cost – and one that, apparently, not every stakeholder may be willing to accept. What is a brand marketing solution?

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Buffer Social

OCTOBER 14, 2019

So we want to highlight some of the biggest news items from recent weeks that might impact your social media marketing. We’ll touch on Facebook’s most recent product changes and strategic plans, how Pinterest continues making splashes with its business and shopping features, and the latest data on social media trends and usage.

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Writtent Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

That may come as a shock, but the longer I’m in the business of content marketing, the more I begin to believe that it’s actually a science. In one of my favorite studies ever done on blog titles, HubSpot’s social media scientist Dan Zarrella reviewed 2.7 Leave it to Zarrella to trend the most-Tweeted words until he found some answers.

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Keyhole.co

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Today, social media has become an integral part of our lives, and Facebook stays dominant in the marketing landscape. This article will equip marketers with the knowledge and skills necessary to leverage this powerful platform for successful marketing campaigns. Why Facebook Marketing? Educational content strategy.

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