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Short and Simple Ways of Making Your Instagram Account Boost SEO

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest post by Kristen Smith. Instagram has really transformed the world of social media with its visual orientation which has enabled a new generation of users equipped with smartphones to click photos, edit them and upload them to their accounts anywhere and everywhere. The sheer convenience together with the capability of displaying their photographic abilities to the world has enabled Instagram to acquire more than one billion monthly active users.

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How to Spot Fake Influencers

Meltwater

Brands are devoting more and more of their budget to influencer marketing: this market is estimated today at more than $1.5 billion worldwide. However, with any big trend, there are… Read More >>>.

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How to Create a Social Media Management Plan That Produces Results

Social Media Today

If you want to maximize your social media marketing success, you need a plan. Here are some key tips to help you build an effective social media marketing strategy.

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Where to Get Awesome Free Images for Your Social Media (Without Stealing Them)

agora pulse

Marketing your business online requires a lot of images. You need visual content for blog posts, social media posts, thumbnails for videos, slideshows, ads … and so on. If you pay for all those images, that cost is going to eat up your marketing budget. So, where can you source free images for your social media? I’ve been on a mission to find more interesting sites where you can source free images that you can use without attribution and have a license to edit.

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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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Top Five Social Media News: Instagram native scheduling is here!

Sherrilynne Starkie

Lots of social media news out this week and here’s a summary of the top five stories you need to know. 1. Pinterest improves organic reach for retailers. Pinterest has launched a personalized “ shopping hub” that displays at the top of users’ feeds with product recommendations pulled from retailers’ organic ProductPins and Catalog feeds. The image-based network also rolled out an updated shopping section that will display below Product Pins, highlighting Catalog content from the respe

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Facebook Ad Rejection: Don’t Abbreviate Facebook or Instagram

Jon Loomer

I’m an old guy when it comes to Facebook advertising. I’ve been doing it for a long time. As a result, I think I know Facebook’s advertising policies pretty well. I don’t test Facebook’s policies or push the limits. I do all I can to follow the rules and stay on Facebook’s good side. Ad rejections are rare for me.

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What is Dark Social and How Is It Affecting Your Brand?

Convince & Convert

The term “dark social” is kicked around every so often by marketers. But what is dark social, how does it affect your brand, and how you can measure it? Messaging apps continue to be on the rise with no end in sight, and they come with a bunch of new opportunities for marketers. The prize: billions of active monthly users, including coveted millennial and Generation Z consumers.

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Facebook Post Updates Coming Mid August

Ignite Social Media

Beginning August 19, your Facebook News Feed will look a little different. As a follow up to their announcements at F8 earlier this year, Facebook is making moves to give users a new design that’s “simpler, faster, more immersive and puts your communities at the center.” The changes will be rolling on out mobile first, with desktop updates to follow.

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Content-The Struggle is Real

Direct Marketing Observations

The short definition of a content strategist, is essentially the person who is charged with keeping the company interesting. Of course the longer definition has to do with content calendars and working with agencies and teams and departments and writers and designers. The reality is that yesterday’s content is gone, today’s will last until about 9 pm tonight and tomorrow is a new day.

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13 Ways to Maximize the Effectiveness of Your Infographics [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Infographics can be a great way to boost your digital marketing efforts - here are some tips on how to get the most out of your infographic efforts.

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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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Steps To Close The Deal With Facebook Conversion Ads

Firebelly

Increasing website traffic is great, but what do you want those visitors to do once they get to your site? Facebook conversion ads allow you to reach people more likely to take desired actions on your website, which means more signups, add to carts or increased sales. Follow these steps and watch your website conversions […]. The post Steps To Close The Deal With Facebook Conversion Ads appeared first on Social Media Marketing Agency | Firebelly Marketing.

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5 best Pinterest analytics tools

Unmetric

Pinterest is the go-to content discovery and curation site for thousands of consumers. A study revealed that 96% of consumers research products they wish to purchase on the channel, and of that 87% end up purchasing the product because of Pinterest. Social networks solely built for visual-sharing attract brands like a moth to a flame. In fact, e-commerce businesses benefit the most out of this network by creating an effective visual presence on Pinterest to reroute the audience to their own site

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Social Media Automation: How to Do It Well and What to Avoid

agora pulse

As a social media manager, you’re constantly juggling everything social, from publishing posts and engaging with followers to monitoring metrics and creating reports. You know that social media automation can save you time and free up your schedule for more high-level strategy—but you don’t want to compromise performance or put your campaigns on autopilot.

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Snapchat Releases Latest Update of Trending Topics on the Platform [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Snapchat has published the latest edition of its 'Snap Chatter' trends report, which highlights key topics of discussion across its network.

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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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Key Tips for Documentary Photography

The Realtime Report

Key Tips for Documentary Photography. All photographs document a moment or scene. But, when we talk about documentary photography, we refer strictly to the recording of reality related to protest or the generation of social conscience regarding a certain topic or characters. Most documentary photographs explain themselves, and their content tends to be overwhelming.

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The Most Influential Futurists, Analysts, and Forecasters You Should Be Following on Social Media

Meltwater

These days tweets and Instagram posts are a dime a dozen. All it takes is a few strokes of the keyboard for aspiring influencers (and self-proclaimed futurists, analysts, and forecasters) to… Read More >>>.

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3 Reasons Why Audience Intelligence Should be a Priority in 2020

Audiense

This is a guest blog written by Michael Brito, EVP of Digital & Analytics at Zeno Group. Connect with him on LinkedIn or Twitter.

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The 15 Biggest Data Breaches of the Last 15 Years [Infographic]

Social Media Today

With data breaches becoming a rising concern for personal users and brands, here's a look at some of the biggest incidents in recent times.

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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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4 Alternatives to Iconosquare to Manage your Instagram Accounts

agora pulse

Iconosquare has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a free Instagram analytics tool. It now supports both Instagram and Facebook. It also supports some scheduling and management of your Facebook and Instagram profiles. However, with more functionality also comes a heftier price tag. Its smallest plan starts at $29/month and limits you to only three social profiles and two team members.

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4 Small Business Financial Challenges

Socialmedia.biz

No matter how great your product idea or business plan is, you are bound to experience some challenges when you are running a company. Apart from the smaller, daily obstacles, you’ll also have to deal with more serious roadblocks. Some of the most frustrating problems you can encounter as an entrepreneur are financial challenges. Keep in mind that although a good plan will help you deal with certain situations, unexpected problems can always occur.

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Instagram Stories: How to Use It Like a Pro and Build Your Audience

Hootsuite

Brands are on board with Instagram Stories. Half of businesses on the platform have created at least one Story in the last month, and nearly all U.S. marketers who are currently using IG Stories ads plan to continue doing so. Instagram users have also proven their desire to engage with brands via disappearing content. More than half a billion people use Instagram Stories every day, and a third of the most-viewed Stories are posted by businesses.

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New Study Examines How Much Users Would Pay to Use the Most Popular Apps

Social Media Today

How much would you pay to use your favorite apps, if a subscription fee was required? That's what this new survey sought to find out.

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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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US Businesses Are Benefiting From Ambitious Environmental Goals

Forbes Social Media

The study shows that although businesses are still driven to manage their resources efficiently from an economic standpoint, they have also become more engaged in sustainable development. Environmental considerations have become a more serious talking point among company decision-makers.

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What Is an API & Why Does It Matter for Social Media?

Sprout Social

Your Internet experience runs on APIs. The acronym has helped you compare the best prices for flights, allowed you to embed a map into your store’s website and seamlessly processed your credit card payments. But what is an API and why does it matter to you? In this article, we’ll give a high-level overview of APIs and how they relate to your daily life.

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How the LinkedIn Algorithm Works And How to Make it Work for You

Hootsuite

LinkedIn’s algorithm tends to fly under the radar—save for the #broetry blip last year. But it’s not for lack of news. Over the past two years, updates to the LinkedIn algorithm have spurred a more than 50% increase in viral activity. More than two million posts , videos, and articles are now filtered, ranked, and displayed in the feeds of LinkedIn’s 645+ million members.

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8 Things to Know About Facebook's Coming Libra Cryptocurrency

Social Media Today

Facebook recently announced its coming Libra cryptocurrency, which will theoretically facilitate a whole new era of on-platform utility.

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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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Last month on social: Brands, bananas, and banter

Unmetric

As always, it was a wild month on social media in July, starting with the US winning the FIFA Women’s World Cup and ending with people dramatically aging themselves using their phones. Brands cashed in on all the chatter on social with their own twists and take on popular trends. Discover Content Inspiration. Here are a few posts from July that stood out to us while curating #UnmetricBrandStars.

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WhatsApp Hack Attack Changes Your Messages, And Facebook Doesn't Seem To Care

Forbes Social Media

During the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Facebook-owned WhatsApp was shown being hacked to change the text of a message and the identity of the sender.

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If Likes No Longer Matter on Social Media, Then What Does?

Buffer Social

You’ve probably heard the news: Instagram is in the process of removing like counts from posts in the Instagram feed. At first blush, this might appear to be a massive change. They’re removing one of the most recognizable elements of social proof that’s ever existed. Likes are the way that we measure the world’s most popular posts , they’re a core element to engagement metrics , and they’re the easiest way to react to the people we follow.

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Google Will Now Highlight Individual Podcast Links Within Search Results

Social Media Today

Recognizing the rising popularity of podcasts, Google will now display individual podcast episodes within relevant search results.

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4 Ways To Increase Factory Throughput

The Realtime Report

4 Ways To Increase Factory Throughput. Increasing throughput is important to many businesses. It may be necessary to fill the larger orders your customers are submitting. Relying on overtime to fill orders raises your costs, while delays in delivery could cost you your customers. Greater throughput could even reduce your price per item, increasing profits.