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10 Key Ways to Repurpose Content for Your Business

The Realtime Report

10 Key Ways to Repurpose Content for Your Business. Duplicate content gets a bad rap, and it can cause problems in some situations, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t re-use your content. By Google’s own admission, nearly a third of the content on the web is duplicated – and they’re okay with that. Instead of duplicating it, find ways to repurpose content so you can compound its effectiveness.

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Snapchat Publishes New Research on Gen Z, and How Brands Can Connect with Them

Social Media Today

Snapchat has published two new reports on the habits, behaviors and key social media usage trends among Generation Z users.

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21 best social media analytics tools

Unmetric

Updated for 2019! It’s pretty evident that social media isn’t anymore just a medium for communication and funny cat videos. The network is crowded with brand advertisements, contests, free giveaways and much more that vie for consumers attention. We all know how big of a role social media plays for business and that managing multiple social accounts on different social media networks can be time-consuming.

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Social Media Tools Every Marketer Needs To Create The Perfect Toolbox

Firebelly

Social media tools play a major part in implementing a successful marketing strategy. That’s why having the right tools in your toolbox are so important on a day-to-day basis for a social media marketer. Social media tools keep us organized, efficient and thinking outside of the box. Here are just some of the ones we […]. The post Social Media Tools Every Marketer Needs To Create The Perfect Toolbox appeared first on Social Media Marketing Agency | Firebelly Marketing.

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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 Campaign Budget Optimization (CBO) is Performing Around The World

Jon Loomer

Back in January, Jon wrote about Campaign Budget Optimization (CBO) and how it would become the default in September 2019. Now we’re mid-summer, and we’ve all had a few months to learn exactly how CBO works, test it out, and determine the best course of action moving forward. Testing CBO – Discovering Pros and Cons. In preparing for our upcoming course on CBO , I have been testing it everywhere and anywhere I can, along with asking my industry colleagues from around the world w

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20 Ways to Bust through the Digital Noise with a More Human, Relevant Brand

Social Media Today

Digital marketing is about more than just posting pretty pictures and working to beat the algorithms. Here are some tips to help you boost your efforts from contributor Pam Moore.

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A Match Made in Heaven: Interactive Content & Social Media

Meltwater

What is interactive content?Interactive content requires your users to engage with it actively. Its immersive nature means that your audience will spend more time engaging with your business with their… Read More >>>.

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How to Improve Your Rankings Without Link Building

The Social Media Hat

Are you sick of your competitors outranking your content? How would you like to outrank them without even running a link building campaign? Here's how.

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Mary Meeker's Annual Tech Report Outlines Coming Shifts in Social Media and Digital Marketing

Social Media Today

Tech analyst Mary Meeker has unveiled her 2019 Internet Trends report, which looks at emerging market shifts and behaviors which could have a significant impact on your planning.

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Round Up of All of Instagram’s Newest Features and Features to Be on The Lookout For

Ignite Social Media

Instagram is constantly keeping all of us on our toes with new features to the platform, changes to their algorithm, and so much more. Because there are constant changes to stay up to date with, we’ve put together a list of all the recent changes and features to make your life easier. Sorting Options for Followers and Karaoke-Style Music Videos. You’ll now be able to filter your most recent ‘followers’ and ‘following’ lists which would enable you to sort the list by most recent additional, or th

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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 Tips To Make Instagram’s Algorithm Work For You

yMarketingMatters

In my previous blog , I explained how the Instagram algorithm works in 2019 (courtesy Hootsuite ). Here are 7 tips to make the Instagram algorithm work in your favor! (again, courtesy of my friends Hootsuite ). I have distilled it for you: 1. Post more often. If you think you (or your team) have the capacity to increase quality and quantity, go for it!

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Twitter for Business: How to Develop Your Strategy and Authentic Brand Persona that Delivers Results

Pam Moore

Twitter is one of the most powerful social networks to help business and marketing leaders increase brand awareness, establish thought leadership, ignite personal brands and nurture relationships that bring great benefit in both business and life. Unfortunately Twitter is also one of the most difficult platforms for many to understand and master. However, the results can be amazing for those who invest time to learn and understand how Twitter can fit in within their overall marketing and busines

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LinkedIn Presents Latest B2B Trends for Contrarian Marketers

Social Media Today

This past week, LinkedIn held their 3rd Annual ‘B2B Trends for the Contrarian Marketer’ presentation hosted by LinkedIn’s own Peter Weinberg, a marketing strategist, who shared the five trends that all B2B marketers should keep top of mind.

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Stop Focusing Strictly on These Vanity Metrics for Your Social Media Content

agora pulse

As a social media manager, you monitor key metrics on each platform. But are you tracking figures that reflect progress toward your marketing goals? Or are you measuring empty metrics that don’t really matter? Stop worrying about these four vanity metrics, and start finding out what to monitor instead. What Are Vanity Metrics? Vanity metrics are numbers that make a brand look good on the surface.

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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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The 5 Best Shopify Apps to Boost Your 2019 Sales Strategy

The Realtime Report

The 5 Best Shopify Apps to Boost Your 2019 Sales Strategy. Shopify offers over 2,500 apps to help you scale up your ecommerce store and boost sales. Between 300,000 to 500,000 ecommerce sites are built on Shopify every year. From content marketing to email marketing, there is so much you can do on your own to boost your sales. But these apps pick up the baton and use automation to get more done in a limited amount of time.

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20 Ways to Bust through the Digital Noise with a More Human, Relevant Brand

Pam Moore

Building a brand that is relevant, memorable and valuable online requires a lot more than fancy visuals, fast moving video or knowing how to play the last social network newsfeed algorithm. Standing out from the digital noise requires more than hopping on the latest social shiny technology object. At the core you must earn attention, trust and action.

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How to Leverage Immersive Reality to Support Your Social Media Strategy

Social Media Today

While video is currently king of the digital content world, more immersive options, like AR and VR, are slowly taking hold, and could be the next big shift to get ahead of.

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Care for Caregivers- Stories We Tell Ourselves – A Workshop

Janet Fouts

We caregivers can be very, very, hard on ourselves. We tell ourselves the wildest stories and sometimes we believe them without thinking. Stories like: ”I can’t handle this”, I’m not good enough”, ” That person is just trying to make me feel bad”, and the classic “I can never do enough!”. Maybe that’s because of stress, exhaustion, emotional overload, or lack of focus, but whatever the reason it’s not helping anyone even a little bit.

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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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Video Thumbnails: 3 Easy Tips to Getting the Click

Oktopost

Though discouraged by a popular saying, judging a book by its cover is a major element of being human. Whether it be an actual book, a movie trailer, or even a person, our first inclination is to form a judgement based on the images presented. The same holds true for video thumbnails. Video Thumbnails , or compressed preview images, can be thought of as windows that allow prospective viewers to get a quick snapshot of your video.

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Get Down with the OPC! How to Ignite Your Brand with Other People’s Content and Community

Pam Moore

Social media presents tremendous opportunity for us to connect with people across the globe like we could never do before. The power is at our fingertips to ignite relationships and business results. With this power also comes much responsibility and associated risk. Ever heard of the OPC? Note, it's not to be confused with the song, OPP, even though if you have ever attended one of my workshops you have likely not only heard the song but danced to it!

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Instagram and Facebook Add New Features for #PrideMonth

Social Media Today

Both Instagram and Facebook have launched some new tools to help users celebrate Pride Month, including a colorful new Stories feature and updated gender selection options.

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Fully-Insured vs. Self-Insured Medical Plans: Which Is Best?

The Realtime Report

Fully-Insured vs. Self-Insured Medical Plans: Which Is Best? There are two main types of health insurance when it comes to employer-sponsored insurance: fully-insured and self-insured. These two terms quickly become confusing, especially as health insurance legislation continues to change in the United States. While more employers are beginning to recognize why offering comprehensive health insurance is a smart decision, there’s still a lack of clarity around what it means to offer fully-insured

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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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New Security Warning Issued For Google's 1.5 Billion Gmail And Calendar Users

Forbes Social Media

More than one billion users of Google's Gmail and Calendar applications are being warned about a newly discovered security threat. Here's what you need to know.

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Leading a Growing Brand: 3 Strategies for Integrating Regional Communications Teams

Meltwater

Integrating regional communications teams into your marketing and comms organization presents both an opportunity and a challenge. The opportunity is the chance to more fully support brand initiatives in new… Read More >>>.

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8 of the Best YouTube SEO Tools

Social Media Today

If you want to maximize your YouTube performance, you need to align with user search behaviors, in order for your content to be found. These tools and tips will help.

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How to Take Advantage of Your Downtime

The Realtime Report

How to Take Advantage of Your Downtime. The reality is that there will be fast and slow periods of time and months at work. Some days will be busier than others and once in a while you’ll have a little extra down time on your hands. It’s better to always look and be busy than having your employer think you don’t have enough to do. It’s in your best interest to be productive with your downtime than it is to simply play on the Internet and not get anything done.

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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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#267: Are You Known for Something Specific in Your Biz? If Not, Here’s What to Do

Amy Porterfield

If you asked your customers or fans what you were known for, what would they say? We’ve all got that special something that we want to be known for. That thing that attracts your customers to you effortlessly and grows your audience with ease. That “it” factor, what you’re known for, is the foundation for […]. The post #267: Are You Known for Something Specific in Your Biz?

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To Protect Free Speech, Reform Section 230. Don't Put It Into The USMCA.

Forbes Social Media

Article 19.17 of the US-Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) unwisely expands the legal immunity for internet platforms provided by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. To preserve free speech, Congress must remove this provisionand rewrite section 230.

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5 Google Alerts Alternatives You Need to Explore

Social Media Today

While Google Alerts is a helpful tool, there are areas in which it falls down when tracking brand and keyword mentions. These tools will help you pick up the slack.

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How to Make Your Office More Comfortable

The Realtime Report

How to Make Your Office More Comfortable. The environment of a business office plays a role in how people engage with the company and how well your employees work. Most people spend more of their waking hours in the office than they do at home. The more comfortable you can make that environment, the happier and more productive your people will be. The good news is that it doesn’t take much work to make your office more comfortable.

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Ignite Your Week: Facebook’s Clear History Tool

Ignite Social Media

Facebook’s Clear History Tool. Facebook’s clear history tool is scheduled to roll out later this month. The clear history tool, which is officially called off-Facebook activity , will give people more transparency and control over the data shared with Facebook from other apps and websites. When someone disables their off-Facebook activity advertisers will no longer be able to target them based on their behaviors outside of Facebook.

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