Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The more team members you onboard, the more important it becomes to keep up with the best training resources out there. We’ve gathered 32 of the best social media training resources and courses to help keep your growing team up-to-speed and yourself up-to-date. Free social media marketing training and resources. Level: Beginner.

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Keyhole.co

MARCH 24, 2024

By blending collaborative consumption with experiential tourism and replacing impersonal hotel stays with a sense of community. million listings and a community of reliable hosts around the world ready to welcome guests with open arms. Founded in 2008, Airbnb struggled to build trust in its unique business model initially.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 15, 2021

Build a strong brand and you will get yourself a strong community of loyal customers and brand advocates. Some might argue that a strong community is what makes a brand stronger and loyal customers are the best way to promote a brand. But what is a brand community and why do you need one? What is a Brand Community?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 3, 2013

Having a strong community is one of the most important aspects of business. This week’s roundup includes seven posts that are good reads on both maintaining as well as building your business community. How To Be A Better Facebook Community Manager. So You Think You Want to be a Community Manager?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JUNE 3, 2021

Government agencies can leverage social media to share (sometimes critically) important information with their communities. She suggests joining the Government Social Media Group on Facebook. This closed Facebook Group highlights other agencies and shares updates that are relevant to those working in government.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 25, 2014

So I told her I’d try to find a few resources for her, so she could put her best foot forward to find the job she’ll love. ” I’m blown away by the number of people who shared resources, pointed to coaches, or stepped up themselves. 8 Resources and 3 Tips for PR Job Seekers is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical.

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Keyhole.co

JANUARY 20, 2024

The answer is Facebook marketing. Anyone can market on Facebook–big brands, small businesses, and individuals alike. Facebook marketing is a cost-effective way for a small business to reach a big audience on a minimal budget. In fact, surveys show that the majority of Facebook users follow at least six brands.

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Harp Interactive

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Being prolific in social media, I am always on the prowl for useful tools, resources and social media platforms to expedite the time involved in producing and sharing relevant content across the social universe. Amplify is, in my opinion, one of the most useful, powerful yet simple to use free resources available. It’s that easy!

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 30, 2022

Discord is the future of online communities. Gen Z, in particular, is opting to spend time in smaller, private online communities. Marketers, creators and community builders looking to future proof themselves should take a moment to reflect—are you part of that “digital campfire?” Instead, it is a community platform.

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Firebelly

JULY 11, 2012

During the AllFacebook Marketing Conference , I was particularly excited about attending the Facebook Pages: Using Content & Conversation to Build Community session. However, I did come out of the session with some interesting opinions, statistics and tips for community managers. Engagement is 100% higher for videos.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JUNE 8, 2023

Brands have many reasons to move away from the social media giant Facebook. From its slowing growth to its constant algorithmic changes , the environment on Facebook gets more challenging every day. But despite all of these reasons to move away from Facebook, there is no denying the platform’s continued influence.

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Oktopost

MAY 12, 2021

It turns out that creating a brand community for your B2B company can give you that type of mouthwatering ROI. . B2B businesses need to foster a strong spirit of community to serve their clients and customers better. Let’s take a deeper look to learn how you can build a beneficial community around your B2B brand.

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Buffer Social

AUGUST 30, 2023

Both creators and marketers alike are tapping into the power of fostering communities — and with good reason. We asked both online community experts and community-building creators to share their expertise, so you can tap into this powerful approach. What is a community? So how do you do it? And is it worth it?

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Jon Loomer

MAY 12, 2021

We were first warned about iOS 14 and how it would impact Facebook advertising in 2020. You are likely seeing messages from Facebook about your custom audiences shrinking. If someone opts out of iOS tracking, Facebook will receive the highest ranking event from a given visit. Now that Apple has launched iOS 14.5

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SocialFish

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We’re very excited to be kicking off a regular series of Open Community case studies, in which intrepid association blogger and freelance writer Deirdre Reid will be digging into associations (and other kinds of organizations when relevant) who are living and breathing their open communities in the ways we describe in the book.

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Pam Moore

JUNE 2, 2017

Facebook Groups provide a unique opportunity for brands of all sizes to build community, increase brand awareness, generate leads and even increase sales of products or services. You may be a member of a neighborhood or personal Facebook Group. This is why Facebook Groups can be very helpful to your business.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 10, 2019

Facebook Ads Manager changes constantly. ” Luckily, Facebook has recently made available some features to help with these types of questions, keeping advertisers aware of changes. ” Luckily, Facebook has recently made available some features to help with these types of questions, keeping advertisers aware of changes.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

About Lynn Abate-Johnson In addition to being a caregiver, mother, and entrepreneur, Lynn is a stellar community manager. She’s currently growing the global online community as “the voice” of the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) , one of the world’s most respected leadership development and professional coach training organizations.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Seeing as how February, as a month, is all about love, I wanted to focus this month’s #measurePR chat on the folks who give us the most love in our businesses: our community. On how online community impacts PR and vice versa: A3: An engaged community can be a fantastic PR resource, esp in times of disaster.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

AUGUST 7, 2018

Organic engagement on Facebook pages has decreased by half over the past year, according to a study conducted by Buffer and BuzzSumo , the online content insights provider. The study looked at 43 million posts from the top 20,000 brands on Facebook to compare organic engagement levels year on year. Rethinking Facebook Marketing.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 27, 2017

While my focus has and will continue to be on Facebook ads, I have plenty to share about what I’ve learned while building my business.]. In particular, I struggle with launching a product for my entrepreneur community because it’s brand new for me. Do I have enough interest to launch a community for entrepreneurs?

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Pam Moore

JUNE 12, 2019

The OPC = other people's content and other people's community. People are the heartbeat of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Communities create markets, but only after you make the first investment in the human beings within. 10 Golden Rules to Benefit from the OPC (other people's content & other people's community).

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Firebelly

JULY 24, 2013

David Spinks – Community Man. To say that David Spinks loves community is an understatement. He’s all about community – and he’s got a track record that proves it. His other enterprises include BlogDash and The Community Manager where he still actively writes. Can every company grow and maintain community?

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SocialFish

MARCH 3, 2011

This post is the second in a two-part series where guest blogger Garry Polmateer , former association executive currently working at NimbleUser helping organizations with Salesforce, looks at two online brands through the lens of the concepts in our book, Open Community. Facebook: Salesforce employs multiple Facebook profiles as well.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And lead gen campaigns on Facebook and Instagram are 10X more expensive than brand awareness advertising. Somewhat surprising: the top challenge identified, by far, is a shortage of resources (talent, time, and budget: 44.4%). Nearly three-quarters of companies plan to maintain or grow their content marketing teams over the next year.

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SocMed Sean

MAY 1, 2013

Before launching new social media channels and campaigns, you should be thinking through the specifics of what you want to accomplish with channels like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Featured best practices budget cartoon comic facebook resources social social media social networking strategy Twitter YouTube' –Sean.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a great discount code for November, and life on Facebook on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. Is Facebook missing 370 million users ? 5 ways to create welcome tabs for Facebook – a look at five applications.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Tools like Creator Studio for Facebook and Instagram can help. You can schedule posts, interact with your community and even monetize your content. It has recently been renamed Meta Business Suite and combines Facebook and Instagram Creator Studio features—like planning posts and sending messages—in one place.

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Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Brand leaders around the globe are freaking out as they read the blog posts, watch the videos and see the tweets fly by from the Facebook fear mongers crying that the end of Facebook as we know it has arrived. Facebook 2018 is all About Engagement. It is true that big changes are coming to Facebook. Let’s get real.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Have you ever messaged a company on Facebook, only to wait so long for a response that by the time they get back to you, you forgot you contacted them in the first place? Most brands don’t have the resources to offer 24/7 online customer service and sales support. What is a Facebook bot (a.k.a Facebook Messenger chatbot)?

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Jason Yormark

JULY 22, 2009

While community is a hot buzz word these days, it’s still quite a ways before most businesses truly embrace the idea. Companies like Starbucks , Dell , even my previous employer Microsoft Advertising , all do community incredibly well and it has paid off for all of them many times over.

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SocialFish

MARCH 9, 2011

This post is part of our regular series of Open Community case studies, in which intrepid association blogger and freelance writer Deirdre Reid will be digging into associations (and other kinds of organizations when relevant) who are living and breathing their open communities in the ways we describe in the book. Community: GoPlow.

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Buffer Social

AUGUST 3, 2022

Any company can sell its customers a product or service, but a great brand offers its followers something even better – a sense of community and belonging. This is where Facebook Groups come into the picture. Many brands are also harnessing the power of online communities to better connect with their customers.

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Mindjumpers

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The recent cry-out following the changes in Facebook’s Edgerank algorithm has helped social media managers focus on what really will make brands gain value from social media: To value your existing Facebook fans by providing them with relevant content and thereby making them grow into becoming Superfans over time. Be imaginative.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 15, 2015

Regular WUL readers know that Shonali (a friend and former colleague at Socialmedia.biz ) showcases guest posts about how to build, engage and sustain an online community, among other things. so that others might gain insights for their own community efforts. Follow Cruiseable on Facebook and Twitter.

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Pam Moore

JUNE 6, 2017

Facebook advertising is an incredible way to increase sales, brand awareness, build community and achieve your business goals. Developing and launching a Facebook advertisement is easy and only takes a few minutes. 7 Top reasons your Facebook ads may not be converting. Facebook Advertising Policies in a Nutshell.

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Pam Moore

AUGUST 23, 2017

Would you like a competitive Facebook edge? Maybe up your game with Facebook marketing and do something your competition hasn't figured out yet? . I'm going to help you get that competitive edge in a quick and easy way by using Facebook Messenger. billion people using Facebook Messenger? What is Facebook Messenger?

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