Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 17, 2019

In 2007 when I joined Twitter, those were not front of mind questions for those of us using the social network for the first time. As most marketers know by now, we are pretty far removed from “the what” and “the why” these platforms were built for in the first place. What were they thinking? Absolutely.

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Ignite Social Media

MAY 17, 2022

It’s hard to believe that we’ve provided social media marketing services for 15 years now. As the original social media agency in the United States, we have seen social media platforms grow from small startups into some of the most influential companies today. The Current State of Social Media Marketing.

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Dave Fleet

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Trust Barometer focuses on broader societal issues, but this year’s data touches on something I’ve been speaking about with our clients for several years now: There is an ongoing dearth of trust in the digital marketing field, and especially – but not only – in the social media space. This year is no different.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

One author says it is allowing the social network to catch up with Facebook, but is it? The fact is, both Google+ and Facebook offer marketers a lot of value. Depending on who your audience is, you can use one or both social networks to gain traction for your business and increase your reputation online.

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Ignite Social Media

JUNE 28, 2022

But with everybody turning to video marketing, it has become so hard for some to stand out from the crowd. So, how can you make sure your video content marketing strategy is on point? Here’s your ultimate guide to video content marketing, including tips on how to get started, what to film, and where to post it for maximum reach.

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Ignite Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

And social commerce has also been top of mind as every major social network has released more shoppable features throughout the year. But as social media marketers look ahead to 2022 planning, here are several social media predictions that can help guide your strategies.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

JANUARY 23, 2018

Great social media consultants don’t have to be RGD-certified, but they do need to have considerable design know-how. They should also have some basic design skills to bring to marketing and communications projects. It takes a lot of design knowledge to develop a social media strategy and plan a program.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

JANUARY 2, 2018

When you figure that nine out of ten Canadian adults use social media, it’s clear where the best marketing opportunity is. Many organizations are on social media, yet they don’t see tangible business advantages. It can seem like social media is a waste of both time and resources in a world of competing priorities.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 15, 2023

With trends emerging every day, social networks introducing new additions (hello, Threads!)—not not to mention brand makeovers, like Twitter rebranding to X—marketing teams are forever playing catch up. These enable you to create data-driven, customer-centric marketing strategies that can improve your return on investment.

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Ignite Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2016

This week we see Facebook release a brand new social network aimed at white-collar enterprise workers, proof that Messenger bots are going to be the latest rage (whether we need them or not), and data showing us how many users are viewing Instagram Stories. All of this, in this week’s Social You Should Know.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Even less ostensibly “aesthetic” social platforms are increasingly dominated by visual elements. Marketers often get stuck trying to find the right creative elements for all their visual needs. And while photos and videos (either stock or branded) are great content to have in your toolbox, so are social graphics.

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Ignite Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The stated goal is to reduce, particularly among young people, the negative pressure caused by competing for likes and the embarrassment of low like counts. While this isn’t the best news brands have ever had in social media marketing, it’s also no cause for panic. Social networks do a tremendous amount of good.

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Social Media Marketing

APRIL 19, 2019

The market for automation services is growing every year, and now even representatives of the micro-business are already using several services and how much do you use? Space is a service that allows you to collect all comments, messages and @ mentions from several social networks in one tab, from which you can also respond to them.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more. It’s an exciting time to be a marketer, but it’s also a tremendous responsibility. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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Ignite Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Threads Competing with X One significant factor contributing to Threads’ resurgence is its ability to provide real-time updates and news. While it’s always hard to predict the future, this is the first sign I’ve seen in a while that Threads could become one of the major social networks.

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Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 4, 2010

The offshoot of this has been that I have been paying a lot of attention to the health and fitness social space. With that being said, in my opinion, here are the best social networks for health and fitness that I’ve found. But…Who or what are they missing out on? Lifescript would appear to have it all.

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Ignite Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2021

Since 2020 was such a cornucopia of strange headlines I thought I’d go through the fun horrific exercise of predicting some 2021 social media, digital, tech, and marketing trends that are “so 2020.” Competition Between Major Social Networks Heats Up: 4. Seriously, contact with aliens would have been too predictable.

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SocMed Sean

JULY 17, 2018

Thanks to Kevin for sharing his insights on the skills that every marketer should learn. While a college degree is definitely a great place to learn the mechanics of marketing, these “soft” skills can be the difference between becoming a good marketer and a great marketer! Skill #2: Analytics.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 10, 2022

Influencer marketing is getting bigger in 2022. A recent report shows 76% of brands are planning to increase their influencer marketing budgets this year. If your brand’s not working with influencers on marketing campaigns, you’re missing out big time. Influencer marketing tools for social listening.

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Your Escape From 9 to 5

JUNE 27, 2022

Breaking into a market is challenging. Many companies feel that once they have this identified and are able to target their advertising to it, they will see their market share increase. Competing brands will also be targeting the same niche and will be making an effort to take their business. Locate New Markets.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 27, 2022

Can TikTok for B2B marketing unlock the same potential? Not all B2B companies may not be able to capitalize on those instant #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt B2C conversions, but that doesn’t mean they won’t get any value out of the network. We spoke with three B2B marketers who are experimenting with and finding success on TikTok.

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Social Media Marketing

MARCH 31, 2013

It strikes me as odd that we've taken the old style of mass marketing, which itself has been competing for attention and eyeballs for years, and simply moved it over to digital marketing - and then, to make matters worse, have transferred that to social media. articles by two authors just three days apart.

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Freelance Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2008

The surging social-networking giant is talking to a number of song-streaming services and music community sites, including Rhapsody.com, iMeem.com, iLike.com and Lala.com, about an outsourcing deal that would more deeply integrate their music experience into Facebook, sources familiar with the situation said, the NY Post reports.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 21, 2014

Nobody in a sane state of mind can say that marketing is “easy,” but the truth is that sometimes we overcomplicate things. The truth is, you probably already know most of the things you need to know to be a great marketer. Your email subscribers are really the life-blood of any inbound marketing strategy. Are you ready?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Consumers have evolved even faster with the advent of high-speed Internet-enabled mobile devices and social media. Have your marketing efforts evolved with them? Marketing at the peak of the television era was relatively simple. As a marketer, how do you possibly compete for attention within this constant stream of information?

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Pam Moore

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Content marketing in 2018 is going to hit a new dimension of importance, organization and integration. Smart and savvy marketers know the days of throwing social spaghetti at the wall and hoping it sticks are over and done. The social web is getting noisier by the minute. The social web is getting noisier by the minute.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 21, 2021

Oscar Wilde said “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”—and social networks are really taking that quote to heart. Case in point: it took less than a year for the big names in social to start developing their own audio chat product to compete with rising newcomer, Clubhouse. Hear me out….

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The Social Media Incubator

MARCH 9, 2015

As we’ve seen in the past, Twitter could absorb the app and take control of it, or it could develop it’s own live streaming capabilities to compete. Meerkat could also stay a separate entity and maybe try to enter other social networks such as Facebook. Will Meerkat be something brands can take advantage of?

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Hootsuite

APRIL 5, 2021

Any hot new social media app is bound to go through this rags-to-riches-to-Twitter-mockery trajectory (RIP, Google Plus ). We turned to our in-house expert — Nick Martin, Hootsuite’s Global Social Engagement Specialist — to find out if brands should pay attention to Clubhouse. Does it fit with your social media goals?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 7, 2013

Posted in Blogging Business Intelligence Communities Content Marketing Conversational Marketing Enterprise 2.0 Facebook Lead Generation Lead Nurturing People Sales Social Business Intelligence Social Media Social Networking Strategy Thought Leadership Twitter. Most people who write on social media.

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Direct Marketing Observations

AUGUST 9, 2019

Let’s talk about the monolith in the room, Facebook, which has the largest audience of any social network at more than 2.07 See what the content strategist is competing with every single day? That’s right, the users , their behavior, and social media sites as a whole have evolved. See my point?

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Pixlee

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Fighting for your audience’s attention share on social media is harder than ever before. You aren’t just competing against other brands’ sponsored posts – you’re competing against viral content creators. While the influencer marketing industry is expected to reach a market cap of 5.8

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Atom Thought

OCTOBER 5, 2011

many of them without any concrete logic expressed their agreement with Online classifieds being a winner takes all market. It’s easy to describe a market as ‘Winner Takes All’ It’s easy because it gives one an easy way out of many questions. Observe the Print classifieds market- there is no single winner.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Step #1: Identify Your Social Media Competitors Google might seem like an odd place to start a social media audit. 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.

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Social Email Marketing

APRIL 22, 2011

Email and social marketing are not competing channels. They are simply two of the many channels which consumers now travel in. They share a fundamental power to bring people together in communities and nurture and grow those communities via quick and easy communication. The sooner you shake off the.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

But if your property is a boutique hotel with evening wine tastings and local art, you’re not necessarily competing directly with the Holiday Inn. Having a thorough understanding of your keyword inventory will help you develop a clear picture of who you’re really competing against online. Then click on Pages in the top menu.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 18, 2022

Vertical social networks aren’t overnight sensations. Understanding what these niche social media platforms say about the future of social media as a whole can help marketers stay ahead of the trend curve. But first, what are vertical networks? But first, what are vertical networks? it’s a new year.

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