Sat.May 21, 2016 - Fri.May 27, 2016

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Snapchat – Proof That Simplicity & Authenticity Wins

Mindjumpers

Snapchat has 100 million daily users , 9,000 snaps are shared per second , 10 billion videos are viewed per day and at 500 million Snapchat stories per day, it would take more than 158 years to watch an entire day of Snapchat stories. It’s no wonder that advertisers want a bite of it. CEO Evan Spiegel describes Snapchat’s messaging as “conversational”, rather than “transactional”, which gives the impression you’re just talking to a friend.

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Social Media Marketing For Mobile Games: Firebelly Works With Tap & Smash

Firebelly

We’re excited to announce that we have started working with World Trade Smart, developer of the mobile game TAP & SMASH. About TAP & SMASH. TAP & SMASH is a new and addicting—trust us on this one—game that is simple to play, but difficult to master. Perfect for all ages, it’s loaded with colorful HD graphics and randomly generated levels so that each time you play you have a different experience.

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11 Lessons for Struggling Entrepreneurs

Jon Loomer

[NOTE: I know I typically fill these pages only with articles and tutorials about Facebook ads. This time, however, I’m taking a slight turn to reflect on entrepreneurship and building a business. If you read carefully, you’ll see how much of this can be applied to Facebook ad strategy. Let me know if this is something you enjoy!]. In August, it’ll be five years since I was laid off for the second time in 2 1/2 years.

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How We Generated 2302 Blog Subscribers In 10 Months Using Content Upgrades

The Social Media Hat

Email Marketing How We Generated 2302 Blog Subscribers In 10 Months Using Content Upgrades. If you're focused on building an email list then you probably already have a couple of tricks up your sleeve. Ebook pages, free reports, exit pop ups , the list goes on and on. But like every new trick you employ, eventually you're going to start seeing diminishing returns: that ebook landing page starts to plateau, that scroll pop up starts to annoy your visitors.

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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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How To Use Facebook Audience Insights For Better Targeting

agora pulse

Are you struggling with Facebook ads targeting? Unsure how to find relevant audiences to improve or scale your campaigns? Discovering what your perfect customers are interested in is one of the most crucial parts of Facebook advertising. In fact, just by changing one interest you could more than double your campaign results. In this article, I’ll show you exactly how to use the Audience Insights tool to uncover hidden targeting opportunities, which can result in a staggering 64.83% decrease in y

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Dos & Don’ts Regarding What to Post this Memorial Day

Ignite Social Media

Memorial Day is almost upon us once again. For millions of Americans, the holiday is a chance to remember those in the military who sacrificed their lives for our country. For others, Memorial Day is also the official demarcation of summer. It’s a day to gather with friends and family, and enjoy the warm weather. For social media marketers, posting content related to Memorial Day can be incredibly tempting.

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B2B Marketing Trends 2016-2020: Social Media Breakfast Wrap

Webbiquity SMM

What trends will drive B2B marketing over the next three to four years? Where should savvy B2B marketers invest their resources to optimize results over the next few years? Those were among the key questions I had the opportunity to address in a recent presentation at the Social Media Breakfast – Minneapolis St. Paul ( #SMBMSP90 on Twitter). The genesis for the presentation was the research done a few months ago in conjunction with Tony Karrer , asking the expert B2B blogging contributors

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Snapchat – Proof That Simplicity & Authenticity Wins

Mindjumpers

Snapchat has 100 million daily users , 9,000 snaps are shared per second , 10 billion videos are viewed per day and at 500 million Snapchat stories per day, it would take more than 158 years to watch an entire day of Snapchat stories. It’s no wonder that advertisers want a bite of it. CEO Evan Spiegel describes Snapchat’s messaging as “conversational”, rather than “transactional”, which gives the impression you’re just talking to a friend.

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Why Every Small Business Needs a Website

The Realtime Report

Why Every Small Business Needs a Website. As a small business owner, you may have wondered whether or not getting a website is worth it. The truth is, having a website for your small business is no longer something which should be considered an option. In today’s digital age, having a website is absolutely essential to the success and reputation of a business of any size.

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What I Learned from my Social PR Makeover

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest Post by Emma Hawes . My wardrobe last Wednesday included Nike yoga pants, tennis shoes and a coral screen print Delta Gamma Shirt, which, if you knew my time at Mississippi State, had to be two years old. Plus it was topped off with very little makeup and a messy ponytail. If you watched Shonali’s #SocialPR Blab with Corina Manea and Rebekah Radice , I was ambushed, much like Stacy and Clinton do on “What Not to Wear,” but this was a Social PR makeover.

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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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15 Things Smart, Social Savvy Business Marketers Never do on Facebook

Pam Moore

It’s no surprise that Facebook is still one of the hottest social networks around. Check out these statistics published by Facebook as of March, 2016. 1.09 billion daily active users on average for March 2016. 989 million mobile daily active users on average for March 2016. 1.65 billion monthly active users as of March 31, 2016. 1.51 billion mobile monthly active users as of March 31, 2016.

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How I Maintain 20 Percent Organic Reach on Facebook

Jenn's Trends

How many times have you complained about your Facebook reach? Probably more times than you can count. Even I complain about it. Well, I used to a lot more than I do now. You see, I’ve been experimenting with organic reach on Facebook for the last 5 or 6 months. And, while everyone else seems… The post How I Maintain 20 Percent Organic Reach on Facebook appeared first on Jenn's Trends.

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What Is Happening With Blab?

The Social Media Hat

Social Media What Is Happening With Blab? Is The Popular Live Streaming Platform Going Away? The past twenty years have seen social networks come and go. Change and evolve. For users in the midst of those changes, it's a frightful, chaotic time. No one likes to see major changes in the platforms they use and the workflows they've integrated into their work and lives.

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The Future of Community Management

Ignite Social Media

If there’s one thing we’ve learned being the original social media marketing agency, it’s that nothing in our world stays the same for long. Our industry changes every day. So, when I was asked to share what the future of community management would be like, at first it felt like an impossible task. How could I predict the future when the ground underneath is constantly shifting?

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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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3 Ways Sports Marketers Need To Be Using Instagram Data

Audiense

Demy De Zeeuw posted on 433 , his highly popular Instagram account for football fans, with his notifications turned on, the video below is what happened. This is what marketers of major sporting brands can expect when their social media strategy is driving a lot of engagement. Getting to this point is great, but how can it be built on? What can you do with all of those interactions, and the insights they can lead to?

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PR and Marketing Trends: What the Changing Media Landscape Means for Brands

Meltwater

The media landscape has changed significantly and will continue to shift. As technology increases the… Read More.

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The 11 Best Free Email Marketing Tools

Sprout Social

If social media is the fun and unpredictable uncle of the marketing family, then email is an old, reliable grandparent. Sure, it might not be as cool, but it has been proven effective and addresses a very important need. Besides, they’re more similar than you might think. No matter what’s hot or if new marketing trends surface, email continues to be one of the most targeted and valuable channels when you know how to use it.

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3 New Social Media Features to Consider for Your Brand

Ignite Social Media

Implementing new features on social media can be an intimidating task to take on. The moment you see that buzzworthy headline about a new feature on social media during your morning coffee, you’re likely asking yourself the following questions. Could this work for my brand? How much will this cost? How will my audience react? Is this why I’m getting snaps of puking rainbows?

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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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20 Social Insights You Can Learn From Instagram

Audiense

Instagram’s current number of active users stands at 400 million today. And if you’re a regular Instagram user then you would have noticed the regular ads on your stream; Instagram is ready for business, and it’s raring to go. The question is, are you? We will take you through the various social insights you can get about your audience on both Twitter and Instagram, and why this powerful combination should be a part of your marketing strategy.

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#111: How to Get Started with Facebook Live

Amy Porterfield

Are you ready to absolutely kill it with Facebook Live? Or…do you find it a little scary to get started? My guest this week is social media expert, Kim Garst. She and I jump right into how you can absolutely increase your profits using Facebook Live. You just have to get over that initial fear […]. The post #111: How to Get Started with Facebook Live appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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5 Ecommerce PPC Strategies That Can Work For Your Business

Social Media Marketing

There is no better way to execute a Pay per Click marketing campaign than to implement it on an E-commerce store. The results are measurable and almost immediate. From the market leaders such as Amazon and Alibaba to the niche online stores everybody is employing PPC to attract targeted traffic to their stores and boost sales. This has also created immense competition in this business and thus as an online store or a marketer you need to work on some well-conceived strategies.

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Day In The Life of a Social Media Marketing Intern

Ignite Social Media

“So you’re the new intern? Great! Can you get me some coffee?”. I bet any amount of money that when you hear “intern” that is the first thing that comes to mind. That, or you think of The Intern (a fantastic movie in my opinion). But shockingly, being an intern here at Ignite is more than just preparing coffee. Today I am going to take you on an adventure in the daily life of a social media marketing intern, which is never a boring day at a fast paced advertising agency like Ignite Social Media.

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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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11 Deadly Mistakes Everyone Makes That Kill SEO and Conversion

Kikolani

When looking to set up a website, most of us are rather linear in our approach. We pick a platform, put together a color scheme, figure out some fonts that fit into our brand’s style, slap a logo on the website and call it good. However, after you start learning more about SEO, mobile-friendly design, and conversion, there is a tendency to step back and take a look at your site in a new perspective.

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International Marketing Campaigns: Breaking Through Language Barriers

The Realtime Report

International Marketing Campaigns: Breaking Through Language Barriers. For international marketing campaigns, communicating in the native languages of those customers you are trying to reach is by far the best approach. English is a language spoken in many markets. Indeed, you could say that english has become the global language for business, but a key element in any successful marketing campaign is the ability to speak directly to the customer.

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Social Sidekick 6/5-6/11

Meltwater

Bueller? Bueller? Don’t forget to celebrate the anniversary of Ferris’ epic day off on 6/5… Read More.

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How Brands Can Create Social Engagement Via Music Festivals

Ignite Social Media

$704 million Generated by Coachella and Stagecoach. 99,000 people per day. 9,000 Airbnb rentals. 1 million tweets per day using #Coachella branded hashtag. 40+ million globally experienced #Coachella via Snapchat. 239 million total reach. You heard us right. These are the record-breaking statistics coming out of Coachella 2016, the popular, multi-day, annual April concert that kicks off a plethora of outdoor music festivals across the U.S. every year.

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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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5 Super Easy Tips for Instagram Engagement to Get the Party Started

Socially Sorted

Are you struggling to engagement on Instagram? . Would you love to not just get more eyeballs on your content but actually have people like and comment on your posts? . In this post I share 5 Super Easy Tips for Instagram Engagement to Get the Party Started! . If you are not getting the engagement you expected on Instagram, try some of these tips to jump start the party!

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How 3M Uses Daily Science to Maximize Social Results

Convince & Convert

Data Driven Social Success. 3M is one of those pervasive companies that somehow manages to manufacture the majority of products you have in your office. From Post-it notes to stethoscopes and wrist braces to dish sponges, it is entirely possible that you use any one of their 19,181 US products every day. Adding to this already impressive American presence the fact that two-thirds of their business is outside the US, then you really begin to get an idea of the scale of 3M and its global impact.

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21 Social Media Facts You Should Know Right Now

Meltwater

Millennials are still on Facebook. Images get shared more. Digital ad spending is increasing. People… Read More.

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$100 Off First-Ever Master Class on Community Management Best Practices

Ignite Social Media

For the first time ever, Ignite Social Media is offering a detailed, 3-hour Master Class on Community Management Best Practices for 2016. And readers of our blog can save $100 if you register by May 31st using the discount code EARLYBIRD. (If you’re reading this after Monday, but before June 6, you can still save $50 with that same code even though you’re not the earliest bird out there.

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SMS Marketing: a Grossly Underrated Marketing Tactic

Kikolani

Text message or SMS marketing delivers insanely higher ROIs and ridiculously higher sales than any other digital or conventional media. No convinced? Take a moment to let these figures sink in: Papa John’s SMS marketing campaign boosted sales by 33% and generated an ROI above 500%. Bath Store UK reported a dramatic 32% jump in sales the day they started sending messages.

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