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3 Steps to Creating a Social Media Contest That Drives Sales

The Social Media Hat

Social media is still the arena where the largest number of prospective customers are hanging out. You just need to have a complete strategy to actually turn Fans into customers, using contests.

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The Top Video Creation Tool for Social Media (and How to Use it)

Rebekah Radice

Would you like to use video in your business, but don’t know where to get started? Want to create videos you can share on social media, but struggle to find the right tool? I have good news! You can create branded video content without the stress or worry. And you can do it in a matter of minutes. How? With the top video creation tool on the market – Animoto !

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Why Is Social Media Measurement So Hard?

Convince & Convert

It’s not every day that you hear someone saying, “The return on my social media strategy is outstanding!” In fact, new research from eMarketer shows that less than 20% of B2B marketers know for sure that their social media is generating positive results, and I’d guess the B2C data is similar. And according to The CMO Survey, 44% of marketers haven’t been able to show the impact of social at all, much less point to real ROI.

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Sina Weibo Gains Popularity and Facebook Improves Data Accuracy | Social You Should Know

Ignite Social Media

Tough competition for Twitter and Facebook’s latest moves to remove flaws in data. That and more in this week’s Social You Should Know. Sina Weibo Creeping Up on Twitter. After China blocked Twitter in 2009, a clone emerged in the form of Sina Wiebo. The platform went public in 2014 and experienced very consistent growth. Here’s the rub in under 140 characters: Twitter is 6 million users away from stepping down in the pecking order.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Know What’s Working on Social Media: 26 Free Social Media Analytics Tools

Buffer Social

We’ve refreshed this post for 2017, check out the latest and greatest social media analytics tools below. Where do you turn for meaningful stats on your social media marketing ? I’m grateful for the insight from some truly incredible tools that help make sense of the actions I take on social media. How have my followers grown this month?

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[Video] Minute Masterclass: Turning around a failing marketing campaign, on a budget

Audiense

Welcome to the latest Audiense ‘Minute Masterclass’: the fourth in a series of videos that sticks around as long as a Hoxton foodie trend. Picture this, you’ve spent months working on a marketing campaign, you’ve invested significantly in its success, but no dice. The campaign isn’t performing at the level you wanted, and to really put the boot in, you’ve also run low on funds and you’re not likely to get much more.

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The Top Video Creation Tool for Social Media (and How to Use it)

Rebekah Radice

Would you like to use video in your business, but don’t know where to get started? Want to create videos you can share on social media, but struggle to find the right tool? I have good news! You can create branded video content without the stress or worry. And you can do it in a matter of minutes. How? With the top video creation tool on the market – Animoto !

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Uber Is In The News (For The Wrong Reasons), Facebook Is In The News (For The Right Reasons) And More On This Week's CTRL ALT Delete Segment On CHOM 97.7 FM

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Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio out of Montreal (home base). It's not a long segment - about 5 to 10 minutes every week - about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly on iHeart Radio , if you're interested in hearing more of me blathering away about what's going on in the digital world.

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What Marketers Need to Know About Facebook Carousel Ads

Convince & Convert

Online and traditional marketing can be competitive nowadays. With millions of businesses in the U.S., it can be difficult to get your brand in the spotlight. Some businesses spend thousands, even millions, of dollars on marketing strategies that promise leads. However, with the increasing number of cost-efficient ways to advertise, spending that much can be avoided.

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Social Media Demographics to Inform a Better Segmentation Strategy

Sprout Social

The best marketers you’ll come across don’t sleep until they have a better idea on their audience and segmentation strategy. It truly pays to have your message reach the right people at the right time. In the social media industry, your audience demographics can change in what seems like overnight. The challenge of reaching new audiences has never been harder, but grasping up-to-date data on social media demographics helps.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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7 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid in 2017

ProBlogger

Everybody makes mistakes. This is something that can’t be avoided all of the time. In fact, some of those errors can turn into some of your greatest learning experiences. However, one of the best ways to save time and money in your blogging is to learn from the mistakes of others. If you do that – and avoid those same pitfalls yourself – you will already be ahead of the game.

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Infographic: Changes To The Social Media Industry In 2016 and Early 2017

SocMed Sean

Throughout 2016 and into the early months of 2017 there have been some noteworthy headlines surrounding social media. From efforts to prevent the spread of ‘fake news’ to the announcement of Snapchat’s first physical product (Spectacles) – it’s been an interesting last year in the social media space! In an effort to capture some of these highlights and changes in the digital industry specific to the various social networks, the team at The Website Group has pulled together this great infographic

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183: 9 Types of Questions to Ask On Your FaceBook Page to Get More Comments

ProBlogger

The 9 Questions You Can Ask to Increase FaceBook Engagement. In today’s lesson, I want to give you some really practical things that you can do to increase engagement – particularly to get people to comment – on your Facebook page and if you have them – groups. Most bloggers spend a lot of time on Facebook and it’s for good reason.

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Getting Towards a Mature Data Infrastructure

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Data is the watchword in organizations large and small. In fact, how an organization frames data is the single most important determination of future success or failure. As some put it, Data is the new “oil,” the commodity of most value in the modern age. Many business leaders understand this intuitively. As business-users in the organization are forced to make larger number of critical decisions with larger “payloads” on a more frequent basis, the idea that these decisions must be data-driven i

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.

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183: 9 Types of Questions to Ask On Your FaceBook Page to Get More Comments

ProBlogger

The 9 Questions You Can Ask to Increase FaceBook Engagement. In today’s lesson, I want to give you some really practical things that you can do to increase engagement – particularly to get people to comment – on your Facebook page and if you have them – groups. Most bloggers spend a lot of time on Facebook and it’s for good reason.

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