July, 2018

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Chatbots: understanding the sector that is revolutionizing brand & consumer communication

Audiense

2018 is the year of consolidation of chatbots and their application in diverse and wide ranging sectors of the economy. Intelligent conversation systems are no longer a trend but an undeniable reality: chiefmartec.com has included it in its Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic 2018. This year, LiveChat & Chatbots has emerged as a new sector (within the Social & Relationships category) encompassing almost 100 new platforms. “Both text-based and voice-based chatbots have had a

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Seven Key Categories of Social Media Marketing Tools

Webbiquity SMM

Savvy B2B marketers put significant effort into developing a professional, attractive, and highly functional website design —as the company’s website is often the first impression prospective buyers will get of the business and its offerings. But that first impression may instead come from the company’s social media presence (and if not the first, very often the second).

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It’s Time to Reconsider ‘Best Time to Post on Social Media’ Studies. Here’s What to Do Instead.

Buffer Social

If you are a social media manager, you’ve likely looked at ‘best time to post on social media’ studies to come up with several posting times for your brand. I know I have. But now, I believe it’s time to reconsider these studies. In the last few years, more and more studies on the best times to post have been released. (At Buffer, we contributed to this too!

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How Do You Build A Brand? Start by Asking What Drives Human Behavior

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest Post by Simon Erskine Locke. When it comes to building brands most experts will likely start with the tactics: Develop a mission statement or messages, create a logo, use PR, advertise and leverage social media. To be clear, these are all important components of the brand building process. But there’s a problem when we go straight to tactics – you may end up spending months or years, and thousands or millions of dollars, trying to build a brand that does not resonate.

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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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Facebook offers translation for Canadian Indigenous language

Sherrilynne Starkie

In 1993 the territory of Nunavut was established in Canada, and as part of the 2018 Nunavut Day celebrations, Facebook announced that it is opening Inuktut for translation so that the community can help translate Facebook into their language. . Done in partnership with Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) and Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit (IUT), now Inuktut speakers can use the Translate Facebook app to offer a proposed translation for the strings of words and phrases.

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6 Ways Emerging Technologies Are Set to Change the Use of Social Media

SocMed Sean

Today’s guest post comes from Maria Jones, an expert consultant on emerging technologies. Maria writes for a variety of blogs and today she shares her thoughts on how a variety of emerging technologies could potentially impact our use of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Thanks to Maria for sharing her thoughts, I’ll be curious to see how these technologies adapt our use of social media, especially when it comes to augmented and virtual reality!

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7 Instagram Analytics Tools to Boost Your Platform Strategy

Social Media Today

With the recent changes to the Instagram API, some Instagram analytics tools no longer work. Check this list of 7 tools Instagram analytics tools which worth trying in 2018.

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Top Benefits of Using Social Media for Business

yMarketingMatters

“Why should my business be on social media? I do feel it’s important, but is it really that important? or “It’s so much work. I don’t know where to begin.” Does this sound familiar? I hear this so often and just recently had this conversation with some business owners at a networking meeting. So I thought I would share my thoughts and hopefully this will help you.

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15 Golden Rules of Content Marketing in 2018

Pam Moore

Content marketing is becoming more challenging even for the most experienced marketers. Gone are the days of simply needing to know how to write textual content for a white paper, marketing collateral or direct mail flyer. Now businesses large and small must learn not just how to inspire and engage their audiences with content, they must also learn the technologies, mediums, social networks and how to orchestrate them all together to somehow rise above the noise.

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Facebook Post Reach: Post-Level Reporting

Jon Loomer

I’ve written previously on Reporting on Facebook Reach , particularly at the Page Level. Another opportunity is to dive more deeply into Reach reporting at the Post Level. This can be useful in many cases and allows us to more fully understand Facebook Post Reach. Why You Need to Report on Facebook Post Reach. There are a couple of times in particular when reporting on post reach is useful… 1) When you want to consider organic results in your reporting for paid posts.

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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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[Answered] Are Guest Blog Posts Even Worthwhile Or Am I Just Giving Away My Content?

SocMed Sean

Great question came to me yesterday regarding the activity of link-building through guest blogging. Thought this answer might help those out there who are wondering whether back-link building is even a worthwhile activity anymore. Hey Sean – Thanks for all the guidance you provide through your articles. I have a small blog and want to grow it and I have read a lot about back-link building.

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How To Simulate Twitter Lists Within Agorapulse

The Social Media Hat

Wouldn't it be great to be able to view Twitter List content within Agorapulse so that you can reply, retweet or even assign that content?

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Redefining ROI: What Real Return Looks Like for Social

Social Media Today

For years, marketers have tried to attribute social directly to sales, but industry standards and consumer data reveal that their true focus should be expanding awareness and consideration.

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The Most Important Elements in Your Social Media Budget

Rebekah Radice

Every entrepreneur understands the importance of budgeting time and money. After all, no one has unlimited resources, especially when it comes to social media. That’s why monitoring costs and developing a realistic budget makes sense. It ensures that you never spend what you don’t have. It also helps you look ahead, forecasting and prioritizing what matters most to your business.

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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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23 Tips to Build a Brand that is a Sweet Orange in a World of Bitter Apples

Pam Moore

How do you build a brand that is a sweet orange in an online social world of bitter apples? How do the brands that leave lasting imprints in your head do it? Why is that jingle you hear one time on the radio or TV in the morning stuck in your head all day? Why do you consistently buy one brand over another? Standing out in a crowd of noise, confusion, spammers and fake bots online is a challenge.

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Best Practices for Working with a PR Agency

Meltwater

Those who work at public relations agencies have a reason to smile these days. The agency business is projected to grow substantially over the next five years, according to a… Read More >>>.

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[ANSWERED] How Do I Leave A Facebook Group And Will The Other Members Be Notified When I Do?

SocMed Sean

Just a quick asked/answered tip for today, but one that is asked pretty frequently. Hi Sean – Is there an easy way to leave a Facebook group without letting everyone in the group know that I left? Thanks! –Alaina. Facebook makes joining a Facebook group pretty easy. Just find the group and then click the “Join” button. If the group is an open group, you’ll be joined automatically.

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5 Content Creation Steps for Bloggers

The Social Media Hat

To genuinely help your business, you need to systematically produce high-quality, super-relevant and SEO-friendly materials with more value to the users than your competition. Here's how.

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.

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10 Benefits of Social Media for All Businesses

Social Media Today

While social media has become a key part of the modern interactive process, there are still some who are unsure of the potential benefits for their business.

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SEO in 2018, Which Practices You Should Avoid and Why.

Social Media Marketing

SEO is a never-ending race and marketers and bloggers know that. In order to achieve success in the SEO world, it's important to stay updated on Google's changes, impact and new avenues, therefore, these are some important pieces of advice on which practices you should avoid while optimising your content online. Link Building: Avoid Forum Posts John Mueller posted this after someone asked if Reddit comments are dofollow.

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How to Use Social Media to Sell More Products

Rebekah Radice

Social media is more than a traffic and engagement driver. It’s also one of the best ways to sell more products and increase sales. Sure, it takes time to build trust with your audience, but as you do… … that trust turns into motivation to purchase. But to do that, you need a holistic solution. Rather than focusing on one-off tactics, you connect strategically align your sales and marketing efforts.

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Take Your Ads From Failing To Scaling

Jon Loomer

We’ve all been there. Your ads are running just fine and then seemingly out of nowhere they stop performing. You’re surprised and disappointed to learn that your ads have stopped producing a profitable return-on-ad-spend (ROAS), they don’t have a steady click-through rate, and/or you don’t have any new quality leads. When the initial shock begins to wear off, you’re stuck wondering where to go next with your ad performance.

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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[Comic] Three Lessons You Should Learn From Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

SocMed Sean

It’s been a few months now since the big announcement of that Cambridge Analytica was gaming Facebook by leveraging lacking policies regarding the harvesting of data using Facebook apps. While data security isn’t usually a humorous topic, since it is often surrounded by works like “lapse”, “breach” or “failure” but I thought I’d lighten up the mood around the topic with a new social media comic and some tips for handling and managing your onl

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Social Media and the Keynote Speaker: Pro Tips from the Experts

The Social Media Hat

Here's how to build up, and maintain, the excitement the audience has for your presentation OUTSIDE of your presentation.

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5 Social Media Automation Tools to Help You Manage Your Time More Efficiently

Social Media Today

Social media automation, used the right way, can save you time and amplify your results. Here are five social media automation tools worth exploring.

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25 Male Influencers To Check Out

Ignite Social Media

When influencer marketing first started, there weren’t many male influencers. Times have changed, and there’s no shortage of social channels to go to if you’re looking for a male opinion. Or if you’re just looking for some great content to consume. A handful of years back we gave you 100 women bloggers to check out , now let’s see how many men bloggers (now referred to as influencers as they don’t always have a blog) we can find!

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.

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3 Steps to Set Achievable Social Media Goals For Your Business

Rebekah Radice

If you want to achieve success on social media, you need to set the right goals. And yet, strategic goal setting is a challenge for over 80% of small business owners. Though the statistics might sound daunting, don’t worry. You can create social media goals, track and measure them, and do it all without it being a huge time-suck. During this Brand Authority Podcast , you’ll get clear on the… Who.

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How PR Pros Can Become Master Trend Forecasters

Meltwater

PR professionals are always looking to find the most efficient ways to broadcast their messages. There are few better ways than by trend jacking. Think about it: if people are… Read More >>>.

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Social Media Managers And Digital Pros – How to Keep Track of Your Tasks When You’re Offline

SocMed Sean

Today’s guest post comes from Sean Blaney, the co-founder of CalendarTable.com. Among other things, Sean’s business provides provides access to highly personalized calendar printout formats so you can add photos, quotes or other inspiring material at your disposal. That way, you can get the most out of your day, week or month, depending on how you plan your time.

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Why SEO Should Be An Essential Aspect of Your Business's Promotional Activity?

Social Media Marketing

If you haven’t remained aloof to modern marketing techniques you would have definitely heard and read a lot about search engine optimization. For most people it is a means to improve their digital footprint and grow their brand digitally. But SEO services are often misunderstood in terms of value they add to your promotional activity. They are merely seen from the narrow prism of traffic and rankings on the search engines.

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A Guide to IGTV - How to Post, What to Post and Tips to Help Maximize Your Efforts

Social Media Today

Instagram recently launched its new, longer-form video platform IGTV - here's an overview of how it works, and how to get the most out of it.

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