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How to Structure And Staff Your Internal Social Media Marketing Team

Ignite Social Media

No company feels like they have enough resources for what social media requires. Whether you have a large team at a large corporation or a small team at a start-up, you’ll probably find insufficient resources allocated for social media management.

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How (and why) a tech company shifted their social strategy from product- to community-focused

Sprout Social

Your first instinct when implementing an organic social media strategy for a technology company would be to showcase your tech, right? About a year after BentoBox invested in organic social media by hiring a social media manager, we shifted from a product-driven strategy to a community-driven one. Community is a vague word though.

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AI won’t replace social teams: Here’s why

Sprout Social

This new era of artificial intelligence (AI) naturally has social teams thinking: Is an AI social media manager about to take my seat? It’s about connection, and building a community—a human element AI just can’t fully replicate. Using AI enables your team to get ahead of these challenges. Let’s get into why.

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How Buffer’s Content Team Collaborates + Our Content Calendar Template

Buffer Social

Any individuals or teams working in those worlds know how essential it is to have the right tools in place to make everyday work flow more smoothly. At Buffer, not only are we writing and publishing blog and social media posts every day, we’re also a fully remote and distributed company. Enter our content calendar.

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How to work with social media agencies (and where teams always go wrong)

Sprout Social

Most companies employ a social media agency to fill some sort of gap: the company does not have enough in-house resources or lacks the in-house expertise. Whatever the reason, companies using agencies for social media work often botch both the relationship and the work. Agencies are very good at taking direction.

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L.L.Bean’s social team went off the grid: Here’s how you can do it, too

Sprout Social

Though the idea might seem infeasible for many social marketers, the L.L.Bean team went “off the grid” for the second year in a row this May in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. To quote the company founder, Leon L. Did your team really unplug from L.L.Bean’s presence completely? What did other team members do?

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Annual Social Media Budget Planning For Companies And Bloggers

SocMed Sean

Whether you work for a Fortune 100 company or a blogger who relies on revenue from your content to supplement your income, it’s important to think about what goes into your social media headcount. How big your marketing or social media team is will define how many licenses, tools, and headcount you need to secure funding for.

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