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31 free social media templates that will elevate your workflows

Sprout Social

This customizable Google Sheets template is designed to help you break down your strategy to audiences beyond marketing with thoughtful hooks and benchmark data. When implemented strategically, it can help you synthesize data, automate processes and scale your operations. Download the template 2. Get the template 21.

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See innovation differently: How social media holds the key to true differentiation

Sprout Social

The sharp, brand-defining edges of inspired ideas are often worn down in focus groups as innovation teams strive for mass relatability at the expense of deeper relevance with their desired audience. Certainly, major missteps are avoided with such a measured approach—but so are opportunities to create significant connections.

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In bull or bear markets, social media intelligence makes all the difference

Sprout Social

Every company should strive to be driven by data. When I think about data, I inevitably think about social media. That might be because I spend my days working with our clients’ executives to capture the voice of their customer, but I think it’s because social media intelligence is the next data frontier. Cast a wider net.

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How to use social listening tools for business-wide success

Sprout Social

Social media is the world’s largest and most transparent focus group. Social listening lets you tap into that focus group, their conversations and the trends happening not just around your brand, but around your industry as a whole. Tools like Sprout Social save time by crawling listening data for you. What power!

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How to collect and mine your social media data for growth

Sprout Social

Virtually all business leaders believe social media data and insights have a profound impact on top business priorities, according to The 2023 State of Social Media report. But raw data points without context don’t tell the full story. What is social media data? How does analyzing social media data work?

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

I’ve always found Foursquare a bit creepy; turns out there’s actually an app named Creepy that aggregates “GPS coordinates for any user (of geolocation services like Foursquare, Twitter and Flickr), pointing out their most frequented hangouts on a map…Essentially, it’s a stalker’s dream app.&# The solution?

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Who’s Driving the Data Movement? Social Media Managers

Buffer Social

What if the most valuable data person on your team is your social media manager ? When you think of all the many data roles on a team, social media rarely bubbles to the top. Instead, you think of: Data scientists. Regardless, teams with social media managers are sitting on a goldmine of data and information.