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The State of Social 2018 Report: Your Guide to Latest Social Media Marketing Research [New Data]

Buffer Social

To better understand these changes, plus what’s ahead for 2018 and beyond we teamed up with Social Media Week to collect data from over 1,700 marketers and create the State of Social Media 2018 report. – About the data. – Your thoughts + downloadable data & charts. Contents: – Key takeaways.

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How to measure brand awareness

Sprout Social

Looking at data from popular posts provides insight into the most effective social media platforms, post types and influencers that best promote your brand to a wider audience. A sentiment analysis of reviews, social media comments and feedback surveys identifies areas that excite customers and those that need work.

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Social media personalization: The opportunity and risks to consider

Sprout Social

Evolving your social strategy to meet consumer demands requires you to listen better, scale your customer care efforts and integrate your social and customer data. To reach (and exceed) these high standards and make social media personalization a reality, you need a way to integrate customer data —including social data—in one place.

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We wanted to explore consumer misconceptions of social media professionals: Instead, it sparked a dialogue about the need for greater diversity

Sprout Social

That’s the question we set out to answer when we surveyed 1,623 consumers from the US and the UK. The results are telling: According to our Q4 2023 Sprout Pulse Survey, respondents believe the average social media manager is: white (65%), female (73%), 25-40 years old (55%), and a part-time employee or freelancer (40%).

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Brand awareness: What it is and strategies to improve it

Sprout Social

Brand surveys. Brand surveys are routine (often biannual) surveys that assess what an audience thinks and feels about your brand. Data from brand surveys can be used to track brand perception over time, providing businesses with the insights needed to shape their company’s image in the right direction. Your stuff.

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How to Make Social Advocacy Part of Your Employees’ Daily Routine

Convince & Convert

According to a 2016 survey from Bambu by Sprout Social, seven in ten employees are using social media at work. Blocking popular networks and monitoring browsing history isn’t going to stop anyone from checking Facebook—especially when 11 percent of those surveyed admitted to using social media during bathroom breaks.

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Top five: Women rule content marketing!

Sherrilynne Starkie

The workshops will cover data security, verification and fact checking and data journalism. A Nielsen Fanlinks survey showed that the number of self-identified “avid” podcast fans rose from 13 million homes in 2016 to 16 million in 2017 — a 23 percent increase. Podcasting continues upward trend.

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