Sprout Social

MARCH 20, 2023

But first, let’s get into a few highlights about short-form video, and ways you can get buy-in. This bite-sized content can supercharge your social strategy and brand awareness. Short-form video statistics speak for themselves The data behind short-form video doesn’t lie—it’s a winner. Shorts can be up to 60 seconds long.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Securing C-suite buy-in is essential to getting any new project off the ground. Decision makers want to see proof of success and the measurable benefits your company will gain by launching a brand amplification program. Using Sprout’s Employee Advocacy platform is the easiest way to launch a brand advocacy program.

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Pam Moore

MAY 27, 2019

It's easy to get lost in a sea of avatars and data insights. People buy from people. Marketers must use the data and social media insights to connect in a more human way. We should use the data to build more quality relationships and emotionally connect with the humans we want to do business with.

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Oktopost

APRIL 25, 2022

Social media leader, Dylan Doyle reveals how he was able to get buy-in from leadership and 10X EY’s social strategy. . But as a brand-new social media marketer, how do you get buy-in across leadership to implement your big ideas? Gaining social media buy-in from executives and leadership. Episode Summary.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 7, 2023

But an ever-crowded space filled with brands and creators means your relevancy is always at risk. When a brand experience is consistently good, it champions powerful brand recall, turns customers into advocates and builds credibility that ultimately increases your repeat business. What is brand experience?

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Sprout Social

JUNE 27, 2023

In a world where star ratings can make or break a brand, review analysis is your north star. It gives you deep insights from customer feedback so you can uncover trends, make targeted improvements to your business and build a richer brand management strategy. Why should brands carry out review analysis? Let’s take a closer look.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 28, 2022

Each one is a chance to impress an audience and show that your brand can be funny, smart, and authentic. Read on for inspiring TikTok comment ideas, tips for moderating the comments of your own TikTok videos, and why buying comments is the ultimate thumbs-down-emoji move. Should you buy TikTok comments?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 12, 2024

Nevertheless, we know it takes much more work to manage a brand on social media. This includes the importance of social media for discovery, reputation management, community building, and brand awareness and engagement. 55% of consumers discover brands for the first time on social media, according to Sprout Social. What’s yours?

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 23, 2024

We will unpack how your brand can use these examples to spark your own scroll-stopping creative ideas—while maximizing your budget and doing more with less. We help you envision how social can increase your brand’s awareness, foster community engagement and grow the bottom line. Within 24 hours, the posts racked up 2.9

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

The great content marketer Ann Handley advocates for making your customer, rather than your company, the hero of your brand story. Getting that part right is as critical to a good brand story as it is to your favorite novel or TV show. How to create a buyer persona using data from social media. What is a buyer persona?

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Influencer marketing has long been a staple for business-to-consumer (B2C) brands looking to cultivate more authentic connections with their audience. It’s time for B2B brands to embrace the power of influencers. However, influencer marketing is not only viable for B2B brands; it can play a crucial role in B2B social media strategies.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Intent data is your key to simplified B2B marketing lead generation. Intent data allows you to build robust targeted campaigns, boosting lead generation efforts, enhancing conversion rates, and increasing ROI for your business. Jump to Section: What is Intent Data? How Do You Collect Intent Data?

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Ignite Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2017

We are officially in 2017 and you may have some looming questions as to how best utilize your social media buys for the remainder of the year. Here are some quick tips and reminders to keep in mind for your 2017 social media buying. Buy while the going is good! Good luck out there and happy buying. Invest in Instagram.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Even the most well-known legacy brands need to adapt to attract audiences over the years. A strategy that made a brand successful years ago may be obsolete in the future, that’s why building brand awareness remains critical for established and upcoming businesses alike.

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Ignite Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One of the most common questions we get from clients is how to create branded TikTok videos. But creating high-quality branded TikTok content can be a challenge or a mystery for many brands. Who Can Brands Put in Their TikTok Videos? As a brand, figuring out who will be in your TikTok videos is important.

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Ignite Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Buying followers is one of the worst ways to spend your social media budget. Running a program to get your brand more fans or followers on social media is an absolute waste of time, but more importantly, it’s a waste of your money. Buying Followers. Now, for those of you who are less familiar with media buying CPMs, that’s BAD.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 4, 2023

When a brand is able to create positive buzz around their brand by just mentioning a product enhancement or product drop, you know they have a great marketing strategy behind them. But how are some brands, like Apple, able to attract new customers and elevate their positioning in the market with a simple announcement?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 11, 2024

The latest data from January 2024 shows that 93.2% However, the one mistake brands make is using social networks to talk at their audience instead of communicating with their followers. Moreover, research shows that: 79% of consumers favor brand messaging that develops a relationship. Source: linkedin.com 3.

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The Realtime Report

JULY 10, 2012

Over two in ten internet users worldwide would buy from a brand that a friend “liked” or followed on Facebook or Twitter, according to research conducted by Ipsos in March 2012. While these numbers aren’t huge, they are significant enough for brands to take note. online adults aged 18 or older in May 2012.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 5, 2021

I speak daily with product, marketing, and sales professionals about the impact that social media can have on developing buyer personas, launching a product, building a brand, or even on individuals standing in their respective marketplace. With many only just dip their toes in from a branding or customer service perspective.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What does it take to build brand awareness? Today, we have brand mascots faking forbidden romances, sponsored dance challenges and internet beefs over—ironically enough— chicken sandwiches. Building a memorable brand takes some big swings but you have to walk before you can run. What is brand awareness? Our advice?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

And even if you manage to figure that out, you’re still fighting for attention with other brands in your niche. But it’s one of the most effective tools for identifying your true competitors — not just the brands you think you’re competing with, but those actively targeting the same audience as you. How large is their following?

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The Realtime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Retailers now have to reach a more diverse audience more effectively, and accurate data is vital to successful multicultural and inclusive marketing. We’ve always been grounded on the importance — and benefits — of using well-formed first-party data. A more diverse workforce will serve a multicultural audience more effectively.

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Sprout Social

JULY 28, 2021

Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room. You have to build a structure around that room so that your customer, prospect or industry feels at home with your brand—even if they never use your product. Lay the foundation: Brand positioning. Build the walls: Integrate brand into your product story.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 29, 2013

The phenomenon of big data certainly comes with big promise. After all, having terabytes of data on customer history and behavior is certainly better than trying to extrapolate from just a few data points. Getting to that point, however, requires first harnessing the data. But don’t try to change everything at once.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of social media’s greatest advantages for marketers is the ability to gather data in real-time. Social media data can help you gauge the initial success of a campaign within just a couple of hours of your launch. Social media data mining also gives you key insights into your audience. What is social media data?

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Ignite Social Media

MARCH 6, 2017

Tough competition for Twitter and Facebook’s latest moves to remove flaws in data. Facebook to Improve Data Accuracy. After announcing some flaws in their insights data, Facebook is reworking the platform and striving to provide more accurate data to marketers. That and more in this week’s Social You Should Know.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 30, 2021

And with the right tool, you can wield that power for the good of your brand. Sprout Social’s Listening solution lets you create highly customized Topics that surface conversations that matter most to your brand and answers to your burning questions. What day is leg day? There was a clear answer: Wednesday. In 2020, 96.5

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 16, 2023

But refraining from social media altogether only creates more room for crises to snowball and brand health to plummet. More than ever, financial services brands must take steps to use social media as an essential part of their risk mitigation and brand safety strategy, instead of downplaying its impact or fearing it.

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Audiense

JUNE 16, 2017

These factors are categorised by how likely the audience is to be influenced by brand name, product utility, advertising, social media and word of mouth via friends and family. Based on publicly available data about the makeup of the audiences on these social networks, the channels frequented by this audience don’t surprise us.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 9, 2023

With 93% of marketers leveraging social media for increased brand exposure, it’s vital for businesses to identify ways to stay ahead of the curve. By tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with your goals, you can evaluate your marketing performance and make data-driven decisions to optimize your approach. Or all of them?

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Sprout Social

MAY 5, 2021

In the context of marketing and sales enablement, this support comes in the form of marketing content, data and insights from customer interactions. Many of these touchpoints happen among marketers, especially as people get acquainted with your brand for the first time. Again, the average B2B buyer’s journey is growing longer.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 3, 2014

Brand awareness up top, conversions at the bottom – a nice, easy to understand chart that was simple to explain to the CEO. In its place, the good folks at both McKinsey & Company, Forrester Research, and Scott Brinker at ChiefMarkeTec have proposed maps of the customer journey that reflect the actual complexity of buying behavior.

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Pam Moore

MARCH 8, 2018

A brand is not a logo, colors, fancy tag line or even a fancy Super Bowl commercial. A brand is not your Facebook page cover video, Twitter background or set of beautifully designed Pinterest boards or images on your Instagram profile. The truth is your brand is all of these things and more. The Living, Breathing, Human Brand.

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Sprout Social

MAY 19, 2021

Most consumers expect brands and companies with a social media presence to interact with their customers in meaningful ways. As social continues to evolve, the ways audiences engage with brands will grow alongside it. Choose a brand over the competition (77%). Recommend a brand (76%).

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Pam Moore

OCTOBER 9, 2017

It's not news that people buy from people or that business and life are about personal, human relationships. People have been buying from other people, communicating with other people and connecting with other people for years, decades and centuries. Brand storytelling requires both art and science. Video + blog post + podcast).

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Keyhole.co

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

All it takes is for one person to post a comment about your brand, products, or services on social media and suddenly, you’re the hot topic for the day. If the comments are positive, then your brand has won some free publicity that will win you new customers.

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