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12 Ways to Incorporate Your User-Generated Content on Different Channels

Social Media Strategies Summit

Once primarily thought of as a marketing tactic for edgy brands, user-generated content (UGC) is quickly becoming a bigger and bigger element of content marketing strategies. According to PowerReviews , website visitors presented with user-generated content converted at a 3.8% more likely to convert than the average customer.

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Selling on Instagram: Everything you need to know

Sprout Social

Whether you’re a retailer or ecommerce brand, publishing product photos is a no-brainer to reach your followers and digital window-shoppers alike. User-generated content. That’s why so many brands are making user-generated content a cornerstone of their Instagram social selling strategies. No secrets or surprises here.

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Word of mouth marketing: how to drive conversations and sales at the same time

Sprout Social

In short, this is when employees or colleagues boost your promotions and content on their own accounts. User-generated content and hashtags. For example, user-generated content is more relevant to a past customer that hasn’t made a purchase recently. This includes @mentions of your brand and tagged posts. 1000% recommend.

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20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog

Webbiquity SMM

Yet a Bazaarvoice/CMO Club study showed that only 15% of CMOs could point to a “significant return&# from Facebook marketing efforts, while 9% report no ROI and 35% basically had no idea. Through a blog, marketers become publishers, providing their audience with relevant and valuable content. Speaking at an event?

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Social Pros 27 – Jeremiah Owyang and Rebecca Lieb

Convince & Convert

Jay : Well, just about anything published on grantland.com is about my favorite thing ever. And our buddy Jim Kukral at digitalbooklaunch.com , who in addition to helping authors get their books published digitally is our erstwhile co-host and fill-in guy here on Social Pros. I get the quarterly digest book and the whole thing.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

A marketer who’s an engineer by training (I can relate to that), April has a broad range of marketing experience that encompasses messaging, media relations, lead generation, email marketing, content marketing, social media, analyst relations and sales enablement. Ale Espinosa. aespinosa. Emily Gonzales. EmilysHere. Ilene Kaminsky.

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UGC and Social Hubs: #DigitalPR Chat with Alicia Whalen

Proactive Report

Alicia has been an advocate of using consumer-generated content (UGC) in the PR and marketing mix for the last ten years. Seventy percent of consumers place peer recommendations and reviews above professionally written content. Bazaarvoice). Why does UCG work better than branded content as a Digital PR tactic? .

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