Sat.Dec 17, 2016 - Fri.Dec 23, 2016

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A Basset Kind of Holiday

Waxing UnLyrical

Last week I talked to you about doing something a little more practical than simply coming up with your “three words” et al. Several of you wrote in, telling me what a chord it touched in you. Thank you so much for that. I truly appreciate the time you took to reply. I’m heading out for the holidays, but before I go, I have two gifts for you.

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The 2017 Mystery Trip: Where Should Ignite Go Next?

Ignite Social Media

It’s that time of year again. The time when there’s a chill in the air and the entire office seems to have a case of the winter blues. Hopefully, you have survived the hectic holidays, embraced your winter body and paid up your Netflix account. Now all that’s left to do is snuggle up and wait for spring…. …Unless you’re lucky enough to work at Ignite Social Media.

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5 Tools for Successful Digital Marketing Campaigns

Kikolani

Recent statistics show that the average person spends more time online than they spend listening to the radio and watching TV combined. If you are looking to target new customers, you should be focusing your efforts on digital marketing. There are a lot of aspects involved in digital marketing, SEO, link building , social media management, content management and analytics, just to name a few.

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How to Use LinkedIn Messaging to Connect With Active Prospects

Devumi

LinkedIn has recently made changes to its messaging platform – making it better streamlined to help businesses continue their conversations with their peers, customers and clients in a quick and easy way. Now LinkedIn users can send short messages to their connections in a chat-conversation format which makes it more convenient to send messages back […].

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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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5 Super Cool Facebook Messenger for Business Examples

agora pulse

Communication is evolving into quick, short interactions. Research uncovered that 63% of consumers say their messaging with companies has increased over the past two years. This trend offers an opportunity to use Facebook Messenger for business. From resolving customer inquiries to facilitating sales transactions, here are five brands unlocking the potential to build consumer connections with messaging. 1.

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The Best Brands Utilizing Instagram Stories

Ignite Social Media

Oh, snap—our favorite disappearing video app is getting some serious competition! Ever since its launch in August , Instagram Stories (a platform so similar to Snapchat it’s sometimes difficult to tell the two apart) has been emerging as a force in marketing, engaging the platform’s 500 million monthly users and inspiring them to share stories. In the five months it’s been around, we’ve seen Instagram Stories blow up in our feeds, and, truth to be told, we like what we see.

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5 Under-the-Radar Social Media Studies to Make You A Smarter Marketer

Buffer Social

We are very grateful for all the research that has been done on social media. Social media studies have given us great ideas to improve our social media marketing , helped us understand the psychology behind social media behaviors , and made us better marketers. To help you better understand the ever-changing social media landscape, we jumped into the latest social media research papers, hoping to discover someunder-the-radar insights to help supercharge your social media marketing strategy as w

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Raising Social Awareness: 2016’s Top Instagram Hashtag Campaigns

Meltwater

Remember the "Just Say No" or “Stop, drop, and roll” campaigns from the 1980s? In… Read More.

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6 Tech Giants Get Bitmoji’ed!

Ignite Social Media

These industry giants can be mythic, intimidating figures to us average joes, but, through the magical whimsy of bitmoji , these tech greats become a lot more relatable! Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO. This once child prodigy has become a full-fledged member of the tech elite, and a bona fide pioneer of the social media sphere, with his groundbreaking brainchild.

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How Can I Get More Instagram Video Views?

agora pulse

Most brands have always wanted more views on their Instagram videos, but ever since the number of views are now publicly displayed underneath each video, the pressure is officially on. In the past year, Instagram has skyrocketed in ranks of social media platforms businesses need to be marketing on. The visual-centric platform is known for its high engagement , and social videos are just as important here as they are on other platforms.

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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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8 Tips to Build Customer Relationships With Social Media

Sprout Social

When you think of brands like Starbucks or Chipotle, you’ll notice a common theme. Each has a loyal following of customers that trust and love them so much, they’re willing to stick with the brand through all highs and lows. That’s because these brands know how to build strong customer relationships. Think back to the food sickness incident Chipotle had in 2016.

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Why Your Social Media Needs an Editorial Calendar

Meltwater

For many social media managers, a typical day starts by scanning their social listening platform… Read More.

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Instagram Goes Live and Facebook Misses Metrics | Social You Should Know

Ignite Social Media

We’re talking FTC guidelines on influencer marketing that aren’t really as complicated as they may appear and why now’s the time for your brand to jump on the “Going LIVE” bandwagon, all in this week’s edition of Social You Should Know. Have You Gone Live Yet? If you haven’t, it’s time. Facebook is making big moves to take “Going Live” mainstream. They’ve been running a national TV campaign teaching users how to use Facebook live for a couple months now, started pushing notifications every time

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3 Reasons Why Huggies Excels on Social Media

Unmetric

You would think that being an infant care brand on social media is cakewalk. After all, who can resist those adorable baby pictures and videos? But making the most out of your social media presence is not just about getting a load of ‘awww’s. If you aren’t convinced, take a look at how Huggies carefully plans and skillfully executes its social media strategy.

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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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Avoid Scams: Buy Safe YouTube Views From a Trusted Provider

Devumi

With so many people getting into YouTube marketing, the platform has become very crowded with competent video creators. All of this competition has led to another group of people seeing a market: Scammers. These scammers are trying to essentially steal money from you by selling you poor quality YouTube views. To buy safe YouTube views […]. The post Avoid Scams: Buy Safe YouTube Views From a Trusted Provider appeared first on Devumi.

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Social Sidekick 1/8-1/14: Social Holidays, Themes, and Noteworthy Events

Meltwater

In the throes of the post-holiday blues, we find ourselves wishing that humans hibernated from… Read More.

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Stories From Smaller Nonprofits ~ Dotted Line Divas

Diva Marketing Blog

During this tinsel time of year we often look to nonprofits to help families bridge the gap in providing items that will help make the holidays a little brighter. However, what often gets lost in the crowded NPO space are the smaller nonprofits whose work is critically important. During December I open Diva Marketing Blog's virtual doors and invite smaller nonprofit organizations to tell their stories in their own special way.

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5 Tools for Successful Digital Marketing Campaigns

Kikolani

Recent statistics show that the average person spends more time online than they spend listening to the radio and watching TV combined. If you are looking to target new customers, you should be focusing your efforts on digital marketing. There are a lot of aspects involved in digital marketing, SEO, link building , social media management, content management and analytics, just to name a few.

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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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Beyond The Entrepreneur's Myth With Michael Gerber - This Week's Six Pixels Of Separation Podcast

Twist Image

Episode #545 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. Very few business thinkers have influenced me as much as Michael Gerber. His best-selling book, The E-Myth , made me rethink everything (from a business and a motivational perspective). It also came at the perfect time. just as Twist Image (now Mirum ) was starting to take shape.

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Enduring 2016 Team Building Activities

Meltwater

Creating an inspiring, and productive work culture requires more incentives than a generous salary. This… Read More.

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How Team Sprout Uses Its Twitter Listening Report for Content Creation

Sprout Social

It’s well-known that social media isn’t simply a broadcast platform. Any successful social media strategy includes sharpened social listening to know who you are and aren’t reaching within your industry—as well as what content you should be developing to best suit your community’s needs. The social listening market is growing quickly; a Forrester analysis found that in 2014, more than 50% of marketers expected listening budgets to grow by at least 5%.

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5 Tips to Blog Faster

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from ProBlogger Expert Ellen Jackson of Potential Psychology. Running a business is a time-suck of epic proportion. Planning, administration, product development, sales, delivery, email, bookkeeping, social media, marketing. It takes time. Throw in a family and you flit from demand to crisis without a moment to reheat that cup of tea you made three hours ago.

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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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Happy Holidays

Twist Image

Let's start with this: don't be so hard on yourself. I'm talking to myself here (maybe to you as well). There were plenty of things that I didn't get done this past year. Some of it professionally, some of it personally, some of it for my community. In fact, I could argue that it wasn't just stuff that I didn't get done, it was also stuff that I used to be more responsible with, that I let go by the wayside.

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17 Marketing Trends to Watch out for in 2017

Meltwater

December is the time of year when every strategist should be taking a step away… Read More.

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Why “Regram"? How Reposting on Instagram Can Build Your Brand

Pixlee

Your brand uses Instagram for a range of purposes. From sharing new products to getting the word out about pop-up sales, it’s an important platform to connect and engage with your customers through pictures and videos. You probably spend a significant amount of time and hard work generating original content to share. But have you considered reposting others' content on Instagram and getting the same positive results?

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6 Things You Can Do in January to Make Your Blog Better in 2017

ProBlogger

As 2016 winds down, many of us are looking towards 2017 wondering what we can do to take our blogs to the next level. Will next year be the year we finally: Turn our blog into a legitimate side-hustle? Score a guest post on a big site? Launch that online course? Whatever our individual goals might be, every blogger can benefit from doing the following six things in January: 1.

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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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Uber's Self-Driving Cars, Yahoo Hacked, Last Minute Tech Gift Ideas And More - The 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 broadcasting 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.

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Stories From Smaller Nonprofits ~ Dotted Line Divas

Diva Marketing Blog

During this tinsel time of year we often look to nonprofits to help families bridge the gap in providing items that will help make the holidays a little brighter. However, what often gets lost in the crowded NPO space are the smaller nonprofits whose work is critically important. During December I open Diva Marketing Blog's virtual doors and invite smaller nonprofit organizations to tell their stories in their own special way.

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The 10 Top eCommerce Conferences of 2017

Pixlee

If you want to learn more about how to be successful at eCommerce, the 2017 year has a lot to offer. Attending these conferences can help you to learn from the best in the industry and bring that knowledge back to your team. In this post, you will find a list of the top 10 eCommerce conferences in 2017 with amazing speakers covering a wide variety of topics from influencer marketing to digital storytelling.

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Podcast SEO: How to Improve Your iTunes Ranking

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Kate Toon, SEO expert and trainer at The Recipe for SEO Success. When most people start their own podcast, the last thing on their minds is SEO. They’re too busy developing eye-catching graphics, buying a cool microphone, and trying not to make that horrible saliva sound when they speak. Why? Because most podcasters think SEO is all about Google, and nothing to do with iTunes, Stitcher or SoundCloud.

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The digital marketing trends & ideas to take into 2017, and beyond

Audiense

In an age when industries can seemingly pivot on a dime, keeping one eye on digital marketing trends to avoid getting caught out is a no brainer. With Forrester expecting that ⅓ of CMOs will be fired for their inability to “carry the torch forward” on digital business and customer obsession, everyone in marketing needs to know where improvements need to be made – and how.

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