Ignite Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2018

Now, we may be biased, but whether you’re a small business or an established corporation, social media marketing is a vital marketing channel. In either situation, you may consider hiring a social media consultant. Over the past 11 years, we’ve noticed a growing trend of companies bringing their marketing resources in house.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s time to take your first steps into social media marketing. No matter your industry—accounting, consulting, dog-food manufacturing, wig-weaving—this is a captive, active audience that your brand can’t afford to ignore. Bonus: Get a free social media strategy template to quickly and easily plan your own strategy.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Digging into your competitor’s approach through a marketing competitor analysis is critical to putting together or updating your brand’s marketing strategy. It is the key to your business’s future success because when you look more closely into your competitors’ marketing, you learn from their successes and mistakes.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Organization is paramount in moving from planning to developing, and then executing, the strategy. You need to plan, then write your strategy based on these findings. For example, this fictitious small business focuses on exit strategies for other small businesses which are selling or passing the business on to future generations.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There lies the magic of B2B influencer marketing. Influencer marketing has long been a staple for business-to-consumer (B2C) brands looking to cultivate more authentic connections with their audience. It’s not just a trend—it’s a proven strategy. In this guide, we’re diving into the essentials of B2B influencer marketing.

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Keyhole.co

MAY 11, 2023

That’s why having a solid Instagram marketing strategy is essential for success. In this ultimate guide to Instagram marketing, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know to create a winning strategy, from optimizing your profile to creating engaging content to using paid advertising. Let’s dive in!

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Sherrilynne Starkie

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Earned media, often referred to as PR coverage, is growing in importance for today’s digital marketing success. Companies and brands that had previously dropped PR to focus just on content marketing are once again waking up to the incredible power of positive media coverage. I first published them in 2006 and then updated them 2018.

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Pam Moore

JULY 22, 2020

SocialZoomFactor · 10 Reasons You Need an Audience First Marketing Strategy. If your marketing strategies and tactics are focused on trying to be everything to everyone, you are likely winding up being nothing to nobody. This is why your marketing foundation must be based upon an AUDIENCE FIRST marketing strategy.

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Pam Moore

MARCH 9, 2020

Why is it so many smart social media and digital marketers claim they want to lead or are already leading their industry and niche? They write blog posts, record and publish videos, live streams, webinars and podcasts teaching and preaching others how to build a unique brand. They forget their core business and marketing goals.

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Oktopost

APRIL 21, 2020

The Boston Consulting Group’s Growth Share Matrix (BCG-GSM) was once used by half of the Fortune 500 list. Today, the BCG Growth Matrix still holds value and can offer a unique view of your business’ digital marketing strategy. The matrix was first published in one of the Group’s essays titled Perspectives.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 9, 2013

Most of us are familiar with the concept of influencer marketing, i.e., marketing to a select group of individuals — such as journalists, bloggers, consultants, or industry analysts — who influence your buyers’ decisions. Image via BigStockPhoto.com. That, in turn, can help move your buyers down the path to purchase.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Retaining your existing consumer base is also, as noted above, much more cost-effective than concentrating entirely on expensive marketing campaigns in hopes of acquiring new customers. Customer-centric strategies. But when customer preferences change daily, how do you ensure your retention strategies drive desired results?

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Oktopost

JUNE 1, 2023

Any marketer has heard plenty about the high ROI that can be extracted from the social channels – in B2C or B2B – but there are still countless companies out there that are having to forgo that ROI. Jump to Section What is marketing automation? Social media marketing What is a Lead Scoring System? What is marketing automation?

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Pam Moore

AUGUST 2, 2020

SocialZoomFactor · Content Marketing: 20 Questions You MUST Answer for a Strategy that Converts to Customers. How do you create a content marketing plan that converts to real customers? A plan that helps you achieve your marketing and business goals at the highest level of ROI possible? Know what impact you want to make.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 25, 2016

Whether you’re starting from scratch or refining a plan you’ve spent oodles of time on, this week’s roundup gives you some key components of strategy development. 7 Questions to Ask When Developing Your Brand Strategy. 3 Questions to Ask while Developing your 2016 Content Strategy. ” asks Erin Gilbert.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 3, 2015

A lot has been (and continues to be) said about measurement, but when you’re in the market for measurement strategy, it’s always smart to revisit some classics. What are some of your tried and true classic measurement strategies? Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Monday Roundup: Classic Measurement Strategy.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Starting your own social media marketing agency. Here are five tips for starting your own social media marketing agency: 1. For example, many TikTok marketing agencies specialize in creative productions and talent management. The same goes for creating your social media marketing agency. Define your niche and services.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 19, 2015

Steve Crescenzo – one of the smartest people in our business, and one of the funniest, and one of the kindest – ended his #IABC15 presentation on “cutting through the clutter” and content strategy with this slide. ” 6 Words on Content Strategy from @crescenzo is a post from: Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc.

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Pam Moore

OCTOBER 8, 2020

SocialZoomFactor · Audience Marketing in a Nutshell: How to Build an Audience First Marketing Strategy that Attracts Your Dream Customer. If your digital marketing and social media conversations are targeting everyone, you are targeting nobody! Successful marketing equals targeted marketing!

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 23, 2015

Need some spring cleaning for yourself and/or your business strategy? How to Validate that your Social Media Marketing Strategy is Working. How will you refresh your business strategy this spring? Monday Roundup: Renewing Your Business Strategy is a post from: Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And with more than half of marketers anticipating hiring between two to six new positions, teams are in dire need of more help. From providing content support to spinning strategies, agencies provide a team’s worth of creative, strategic and tactical support for your social channels. Drop & Hook.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 28, 2016

Spring cleaning your strategy can be a breath of fresh air. Why: While I love pretty much anything Janet Fouts does, I really really love her new mindful approach to social media marketing. that I’m going to use for my own “strategy spring cleaning.” 13 automation apps and tools to streamline your whole life.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A lot of social marketers ask, does our brand really need to be on LinkedIn? Your LinkedIn social media strategy will be a bit different than your strategies for other platforms. Building a strong organic LinkedIn strategy is still an essential foundation for success on the platform. In short, yes.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 12, 2022

Customer conversations are among your most valuable marketing assets. With a defined word of mouth marketing strategy, you can create a consistent flow of customer conversations that regularly result in new business. What is word of mouth marketing, anyway? What is word of mouth marketing, anyway? Good question!

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Ignite Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2022

Features Overview: Dashboard Social Listening Publishing. Publishing Calendar – Get an overhead calendar view of your content schedule including previews of titles and images or thumbnails of videos. This can be helpful to make sure your social media marketing goals are staying on track. . Smart Inbox Reporting.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 5, 2017

For years, we’ve been told that silos between customer service and marketing are just facts of life–something to expect. According to recent Forrester research , one of the most significant hurdles to excelling in this new reality is support teams and marketing teams not being on the same page. Something amazing is happening.

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Keyhole.co

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In short, there is ample opportunity for anyone looking to engage the crossroads of social media and marketing. One of the most lucrative and rewarding ways to do so (and to be fair, one of the most competitive) is to launch a social media marketing agency. What is a social media marketing agency?

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In 2021, NFT users doubled to about 550,000 , and the market value of NFTs grew by 37,000%. Download the full Social Trends report to get an in-depth analysis of the data you need to prioritize and plan your social strategy in 2022. Many artists sell digital paintings and illustrations on NFT markets. What is an NFT?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They can help you devise strategies to ease your workload, better organize your time, and prioritize the right tasks so you’re not constantly playing catch-up or putting out fires. Indeed, research published in Computers in Human Behavior found that college students who multitask in class spent longer on homework and had lower GPAs.

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Keyhole.co

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Your target market regularly consumes dozens of financial services ads; publishing generic content won’t yield results. So if you feel like your marketing campaigns aren’t converting, reassess your content first with social media analytics. He says, “Consider your target market. Finance writing demands authority.

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Pam Moore

MAY 18, 2020

Are you sick and tired of spinning your social wheels in the content marketing engine feeling as if you are creating, creating, creating loads and mounds of content yet getting nowhere? Maybe you are falling to some lazy content marketing tactics without even knowing it? 8 Bad habits that stop content marketing ROI in it's tracks.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 17, 2017

Our just-released 2017 State of Social Marketing Report shares survey results from 2,738 social media marketing professionals from 111 countries. Here are the three biggest challenges social marketers are facing right now, according to social marketers themselves. percent of marketers in 2017, compared to 61.1

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 14, 2020

Social media managers wear many hats, filling necessary and strategic roles ranging from marketing specialist to customer care provider. Marketing generalist. A marketing generalist role is perfect for social media managers looking to transition to something new. A marketing generalist will try their hand at everything.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 4, 2023

Social media marketing provides a unique opportunity to connect with this massive audience on the platforms where they already spend their time. But what exactly does social media marketing entail? How do you “do” social media marketing, and how do you get started? What is social media marketing? A whopping 4.74

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 3, 2011

It’s important, as a small business, to have a content marketing strategy. A better strategy is to plan your content marketing so that all levels of your content work together for the good of your customers and your company. First, you need to outline what content strategies you are going to employ.

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The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 4, 2008

36 am My Dear Consultant – Think About It ! With dreams of making it big and hopes of benefitting from the ‘web-wave’ I thought of approaching a top-notch consultant one day. Now… Poor me, why am I being taken for a ride by my so called ‘niche’ consulting firm? Consultant , Web2.0 His Thoughts.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 27, 2012

Guest post by Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute and Junta42. Joe evangelizes content marketing around the world through keynotes, articles, tweets and his books, Managing Content Marketing and Get Content Get Customers. Is content marketing required for professional services companies?

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