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What is a customer journey map and how to make your own [examples included]

Sprout Social

They see your ads, interact with you on social media and explore your website before they buy. To keep up with it all and better inform your social media marketing strategy , create a customer journey map as a blueprint to help you understand your customers at each stage. It doesn’t need to be a two-way interaction.

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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. For example, if you got X number of leads from influencer marketing in the previous year, you can propose an X+10% increase in budget for the same activity this year.

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How to Target Users of Specific Software with LinkedIn Ads

Webbiquity SMM

But if you don’t get your targeting right, it can end up costing you a lot of money. Software” in this context can be anything from which content management system a company used to build its website and which analytics and tracking tools they use, to something like what live chat software is being used or what CRM software they have.

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How To Start A Blog For Your Small Business

Buffer Social

A blog can also be a low-cost way to elevate your small business’s reach and also build credibility with your followers, making it a win-win situation. Another benefit of blogging is your posts are “owned content,” meaning you have complete freedom to create your blog as you please without relying on third parties.

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Foundations for integrated digital marketing

Sherrilynne Starkie

And, all ideas, activities, plans and campaigns are categorized into one of the following four interdependent media categories : Owned Media : You publish and distribute your own content online. For example, you might publish thought leadership articles on your blog, produce a podcast or go ‘live’ on Facebook.

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Stop Writing for Free and Launch Your Own Profitable Blog

ProBlogger

To see the traffic and the success necessary to justify launching your own site, you’ll need to focus on a few key areas: Content Quality. Some will cost you a bit of money ( like Coursera’s class on Crafting Effective Writers ), but others are completely free (a Google search will yield plenty of free results).

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How I Got My Job As Director Of Social Media – Step 1: Build Experience Then Blog, Tweet, Collaborate!

SocMed Sean

When people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them I’m a Director of Social Media for a digital agency, they usually respond with 1 of 2 questions: 1) Does that mean you get to play on Facebook all day? -or- Social media is about people and relationships. or- 2) How did you get that job?