Janet Fouts

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Graduates- Think about Your Brand

Janet Fouts

Most students have a social media presence of some sort, but thinking about a professional brand hasn’t been high on their priority list. It’s not too late, but it’s time to take a considered and mindful approach to what your brand represents in the world. What is a professional brand? Practice generosity.

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Advertising Is Not Content Marketing

Janet Fouts

And Content Marketing is not Advertising. Many brand marketers believe their goal in life is to write tasty copy that extolls the virtues of their products and nothing more. That content written by “amateurs” or worse yet “engineers” is not worthy of publication. Learn more about content marketing.

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Influencers! Must read > New Facebook guidelines for branded content

Janet Fouts

An influencer must have a verified Facebook page and tag the marketer's page in any post that mentions a third party brand, product, or sponsor.

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Is Brand Engagement Over on Facebook?

Janet Fouts

Posts that reuse the exact same content from ads. Even brands with deep pockets are feeling the pinch. on the brands we manage. most cases brands are more interested in cost-per-click and cost-per-lead or cost-per-conversion metrics or developing discussion on their page, so these are the metrics you need to be able to generate.

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Community management and content creation

Janet Fouts

.” Community Management Isn’t Content Creation. (go Now, I don’t 100% disagree with him that not all community managers are suited to create content. To tell great stories you have to stop having your community managers produce your content. go read it now and come back). Not always. I’m getting there.

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Content Marketing and Social Business

Janet Fouts

Content marketing is the new buzzword on the lips of every marketer these days, but what does it mean for your newly social business? It depends on whether you can consistently create content that is of high quality, useful and shareable by the people you need to care about it. Where do we get content? Respond naturally.

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Are you missing your best content generators?

Janet Fouts

I have long held that corporations often overlook the most valuable source of marketing content–their own employees. Well, if you’re old school it may be because you’re afraid to let staff speak on behalf of the company because they might make mis-statements or damage the brand. Why is this?

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