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Community as a Marketing Strategy: Protecting Your Business From What’s To Come

The Social Media Hat

Because None Of Us Know What's To Come In Business The post Community as a Marketing Strategy: Protecting Your Business From What’s To Come appeared first on The Social Media Hat.

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Marketing, community, support or all of the above?

Dave Fleet

Over the last few years, social media has evolved away from this – away from personal interaction, and towards what is increasingly push marketing. Marketing objectives generally focus on sales – demand gen, acquisition, etc. The easiest way to visualize this shift is to look at the traditional marketing funnel.

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#651: Gutsy Entrepreneurship: How To Nurture Community For Yourself & Your Business with Community-Building Expert, Natalie Franke

Amy Porterfield

Listen on… Building a supportive and thriving community for you and your small business with Natalie Franke.

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5 Tactics to Grow Your Twitter Community

Audiense

Whether you’re a professional who wants to promote your services or a business that wants to market your brand, growing your Twitter following is one of the important first steps. But growing your community on Twitter is easier said than done, sometimes taking years just to gain a few thousand followers.

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Inside The Arboretum: How Sprout built a 10,000-member strong community

Sprout Social

Social media marketers understand the power of community more than most. But for a long time, communities built specifically for them have been few and far between. Since its public launch in April 2023 , The Arb community has experienced remarkable growth in engagement, with membership consistently on the rise.

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Become the Pied Piper of Community Building

Waxing UnLyrical

Communities have been around for centuries, however online communities have only been around for a few decades. According to Computerworld the first “online community” came about in 1973 when Talkomatic for the PLATO time-sharing system released a text-based group chat. Let’s get right to it, how to build your brand’s community.

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Transforming audiences into communities: Offering real value

Audiense

How can you effectively turn a social media audience into a passionate, engaged community? In this series, we’re talking to real marketers and brands about how they did it. In our previous blog, we focused on creating meaningful conversation.