November, 2021

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

On October 28, 2021 Facebook filed for a trademark on the word Meta. Of course, that’s not surprising, since Facebook announced that they are changing the company name to Meta. If you go to the website meta.com you’ll be redirected to this web page on Facebook.com. I’ve read quite a number of trademark applications over the years, as part of my expert witness work , but also as part of DNProtect , but when I looked at the Meta trademark application from Facebook, my jaw dropped

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3 Tips for Communicating with Influencers

The Realtime Report

3 Tips for Communicating with Influencers. By. Alexander Frolov. Influencer marketing has quickly become a dominant aspect of any successful brand campaign, reaching a market value of $13.8 billion in 2021 , and that number is only expected to grow. The second year of the COVID-19 pandemic continued to accelerate the popularity of influencer marketing as consumers remained reliant on online shopping and increased their use of social media platforms as an e-commerce platform.

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How to Connect a Podcast to Your Facebook Page

Jon Loomer

If you go to my Facebook page from your mobile device, you can listen to and subscribe to my podcast. In this post, I am going to explain how I did it and how you can connect your podcast to your Facebook page. You can watch the video tutorial below… Connect from Desktop. How you access the Podcasts section of your Facebook page will depend upon whether you have the new Pages experience.

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Top 7 Social Media Strategies CMOs Must Adopt in 2022 [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Social media became even more crucial to marketers amid the pandemic, and this infographic outlines some of the key strategies to help boost your social media efforts.

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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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10 Questions You Should Ask Your Social Media Manager

Ignite Social Media

It can be difficult to evaluate the success of your social media marketing initiatives when social media is just one of the many marketing tactics you oversee. It’s an issue that a majority of marketing executives face, and one that we’re always working to help our clients with. The key is to be willing to ask questions – the right questions, that is.

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8 best practices to grow your Twitter community

Audiense

In the first part of our “Tactics to Grow Your Twitter Following” guide, we shared five essential tips to help you grow your Twitter community. Consistent tweeting, regular engagement, and optimised Twitter profiles play a central role in gaining a footing. To further solidify your position in the Twitterverse, the second part of this guide will provide effective best practices you should follow based on suggestions from 100+ experts.

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Upgrade Your Small Business Saturday Strategy Using These Digital Marketing Tips

The Realtime Report

Upgrade Your Small Business Saturday Strategy Using These Digital Marketing Tips. By. Youssef El-Mansy. As the two biggest shopping days of the year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday rightfully receive a lot of attention in our business. In fact, the entire “Turkey 5” period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday is like the Super Bowl of digital marketing.

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How to Use Google Tag Manager to Manage the Facebook Pixel and Events

Jon Loomer

For the past couple of years now, I’ve used Google Tag Manager to manage the Facebook pixel and events (both standard and custom events). In this post, I’m going to walk through exactly how I do that. I wish I would have started using GTM to manage my Facebook pixel and events sooner. It provides a ton of flexibility and ability to get creative in ways that you can’t while sticking with standard events only.

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TikTok Shares Insights into Some of the Top Brand/Creator Partnerships on the Platform in 2021

Social Media Today

TikTok's Culture Driver List provides insights into some of the most successful brand/creator partnerships throughout the year.

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2022 Social Media Predictions

Ignite Social Media

A lot has happened this past year. 2021 showed us both the rise and fall of Clubhouse , accompanied by some major hype around social audio that most people have already forgotten about. Facebook has been the focus of too many headlines to count, from the iOS updates to the Facebook Files to the Meta rebrand. And social commerce has also been top of mind as every major social network has released more shoppable features throughout the year.

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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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5 Tactics to Grow Your Twitter Community

Audiense

Whether you’re a professional who wants to promote your services or a business that wants to market your brand, growing your Twitter following is one of the important first steps. But growing your community on Twitter is easier said than done, sometimes taking years just to gain a few thousand followers.

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LinkedIn Ads Reporting in Oktopost: A Centralized View of Your Organic and Paid Social

Oktopost

“What about paid social?”, we occasionally get asked by our customers. Here’s what we think about it: the biggest value of integrating social advertising functionality into your social media management platform is all about DATA. And when we say data we mean Social BI , our powerful analytics tool that allows you to ask business-related questions and dig into your social data to find answers.

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5 Instagram SEO Tips to Increase Your Reach

Hootsuite

How do you stand out in a sea of more than one billion Instagram users? Instagram SEO is a great place to start. Getting your content featured in search results pages can help extend your organic reach. Understanding how SEO on Instagram works is important for any business wanting to connect with new followers. Let’s dive in. Bonus: 14 Time-Saving Hacks for Instagram Power Users.

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Test: Can You Promote a Facebook Podcast with Ads?

Jon Loomer

Last week, I showed you how to connect your podcast to your Facebook page so that you could publish all new episodes to your followers (among other benefits). Can you promote these episodes — or your show — with Facebook ads? Tests are fun. Let’s investigate… Natively? No. First, you are not able to promote an individual episode at this time.

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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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LinkedIn Shares New Insights into key Trends and Traits Among Gen Z [Infographic]

Social Media Today

LinkedIn's latest overview provides a range of key notes and insights on Gen Z, which will soon be the biggest consumer group.

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4 Content Ideas for Social Media Posts to Spice up Your Channels

Ignite Social Media

Looking for some inspiring content ideas for social media to help liven up your brand channels? We know first-hand how difficult it can be to create social-first content that checks all the boxes. Plus, with the addition of newer social networks rising in the ranks, creative teams also need to consider how one theme can be translated across different mediums.

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10+1 More Tips to Grow Your Twitter Community

Audiense

In the first two parts of our “Tactics to Grow Your Twitter Following” series, we shared valuable tips and best practices that you can follow even without spending money. But sometimes, you need a little more than organic tactics to grow your community. The third part of our guide will provide you with a few additional tips – both paid and free – according to suggestions from 100+ experts.

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4 Ecommerce trends you need to know for 2022

Sprout Social

Today, it’s easier than ever to shop online with just a few touches on your smartphone. Before 2020, online shopping was already on the rise. The pandemic only pushed the growth of ecommerce faster with revenue projected at $5.02 billion in 2022. While physical stores aren’t going away, consumers want choice and conveniene. It’s important for businesses to keep up with the latest ecommerce trends because consumer behavior is constantly evolving.

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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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Experiment: How Many Instagram Hashtags Should You REALLY Use?

Hootsuite

One of the most important steps in building trust in a relationship is consistency. …someone should probably mention that to Instagram. The folks over at Instagram’s HQ have been shaking things up as of late. The corporate-backed Instagram Creators account recently recommended that it’s best practice to only use 3 to 5 hashtags per post. Source: @creators.

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How to Set Up Facebook Conversions API Using Conversions API Gateway

Jon Loomer

The Facebook Conversions API allows marketers to send a direct connection of conversion data from their business (website and offline conversion events) to Facebook. This data combines with Facebook pixel data to improve conversion tracking, optimization, and targeting capabilities. You can set this up using the Conversions API Gateway. The truth is that every online business is set up differently.

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YouTube's Announces Removal of Video Dislike Counts in Order to Limit Downvote Brigading

Social Media Today

The removal of public downvotes will reduce insight into a video's performance, but may help encourage more creators to keep posting.

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What if the Facebook Algorithm Went Away?

Ignite Social Media

In testimony to the US Senate in August, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen proposed a regulatory reform that would make Facebook (and perhaps all social networks) responsible for any content they amplified using an algorithm. While this may seem a reasonable and nuanced approach, the impact on social media marketing would be profound. In fact, it would likely be the single most significant change we’ve seen at our social media agency in over a decade. .

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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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Challenges of Building a Persona at a New Startup

Audiense

When many people dream up the idea of starting a new business venture or a company, they do so with a lot of fear and agitation and it is natural to feel so.

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80% of consumers agree brand awareness makes them more likely to buy on social

Sprout Social

Several years of research has gone into optimizing the ecommerce checkout process. Every facet of the customer experience has been peeled back, tested and tested again, resulting in an abundance of data marketers can use to optimize for conversions. Social commerce , on the other hand, is the next frontier. The latest evolution in online shopping comes with new limitations and opportunities.

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How to Edit Instagram Photos Like a Pro: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hootsuite

Instagram is a visual platform — so having photos that look good is key to a successful Instagram strategy. In other words: quality images result in quality engagement. Thankfully, you don’t need to be a pro photographer to post beautiful content to Instagram. All you need is your smartphone camera, a few editing tools and tricks… and a little practice.

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Facebook Ads: It Depends

Jon Loomer

The most common answer I give to struggling Facebook advertisers who want to know whether the results they’re getting are good or bad is simple: It depends. What’s a good CPC? CPM? Cost Per Conversion? Conversion Rate? Cost Per Lead? Cost Per Purchase? Click Thru Rate? It depends… It’s not that I’m trying to be difficult.

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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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YouTube's Testing a New 'Search Insights' Tool to Help Guide Your Content Efforts

Social Media Today

The new tool will provide insight into what people are searching for on YouTube, which could help guide your content planning.

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How to Build a Lead Qualification Framework

Oktopost

Whether you’re pursuing an inbound or outbound marketing strategy, lead generation is a constant struggle. In fact, 37% of B2B marketers rank it as their number one challenge. Nestled within that challenge is an even more daunting task: finding enough qualified leads. Any good B2B marketing campaign will attract the attention and leads but at different stages of the funnel.

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Facebook Owner Meta Must Sell Giphy, U.K. Antitrust Regulator Rules

Forbes Social Media

The British Competition and Markets Authorities ruled that Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy could harm social media users and advertisers in the country.

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How to get subscribers on YouTube: tips, inspiration and tools to help

Sprout Social

Trying to figure out how to get more subscribers on YouTube? With over 2 billion monthly active users on the platform, there’s plenty of attention to go around. That said, competition on YouTube is fierce and building a community of dedicated viewers doesn’t happen by accident. This is especially true for branded channels. The good news is that there are actionable steps you can take to boost your YouTube subscriber count.

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How to Use TikTok for Business: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hootsuite

At a glance, it might seem like TikTok is simply a platform for comedy sketches and dancing moms, but the business opportunities on TikTok are juicy. After all, TikTok has 1 billion monthly active users. It’s the place to see and be seen, which means ample opportunity for brands to engage with audiences in a whole new way. And with the launch of TikTok Shopping , the commercial potential here only continues to grow.

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