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5 Symptoms of Content Strategy Failure (and How to Get it Back on Track)

Social Media Today

Is your content approach meeting the modern consumers' needs? Check out these common strategy failings, and notes on how you can improve.

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How to Choose That One Instagram Profile Link That Works Best for You

agora pulse

Instagram is a marketer’s dream, with higher-than-average engagement and a particular enthusiasm from users to discover and engage with brands on the platform. So, it’s relatively easy to drive engagement on Instagram and use it for brand awareness. What’s trickier is to take that on-platform engagement and drive it into meaningful, off-platform action , taking users to the site of your choice.

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How to Find, Nurture and Sustain Influencer Relationships

Meltwater

Building influencer relationships isn’t a new concept for brands. However, the digital boom brought a new generation of influencers with it. Insta famous fashionistas, globetrotting bloggers and YouTube Vloggers have… Read More >>>.

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The Complete List Of Beauty Holidays For Beauty Brands

Firebelly

With this complete list of beauty holidays beauty brands never need to run out of content ideas. Whether your brand involves makeup, skincare, hair or anything associated with these products, here is the only list of beauty holidays you need to consult when creating content for your social media. Beauty Holidays January National Bath Safety […].

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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 Convert Employees into Brand Ambassadors on LinkedIn

Webbiquity SMM

Guest post by Anastasia Masters. There are still a few old-school managers out there who are hesitant to encourage their employees to stay active on LinkedIn. After all, it is a platform that connects talent with recruiters. However, most enlightened executives now realize LinkedIn is a powerful tool to transform their already-engaged employees into company brand ambassadors.

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7 of the Best Social Media Tools for Agencies

Social Media Today

Finding the right tools is key to ensuring that your agency is able to deliver the best data and service to your clients. Here's an overview of some of the top social management options.

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Agencies & consultancies: 6 views on the present and future of creativity

Audiense

The recent movements of Accenture betting on its expansion in the creative field - in addition to other consultancies of the calibre of Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers - are reshaping the advertising sector. The consultancies are “everywhere you go” such as in the edition of Cannes Lions that has just started, Erik Oster commented the other day, in this article on adweek.

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Social Media Ad Objectives: Clicks vs. Conversion

Ignite Social Media

Many advertisers believe getting people to click is the driving force behind social media advertising. This social media ad objectives strategy suggests that users who are more likely to click on an ad will ultimately complete a desired action, following the notion of “if they click, they will come”. Typically, the traffic or clicks-to-website objective works best to gain as many clicks as possible, reinforcing quantity over quality.

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Facebook Highlights Evolving Topics of Conversation in Latest 'Topics to Watch' Report

Social Media Today

Facebook has released its latest 'Topics to Watch' report, highlighting all the key subjects seeing significant increases in mention volume across The Social Network.

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Make it Happen

Mindjumpers

Challenge: Maybelline New York came to us wanting to narrow the gap between New York and the Nordics. New York was (and always will be) a key part of their brand DNA, so we had to make it relatable to a young Nordic audience. Solution: They had just changed their brand line to Make it Happen. It was an aspirational shift from Maybe She’s Born with it, Maybe it’s Maybelline.

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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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Separated by a common language? How different are agencies and consultancies when they both speak fluent digital?

Audiense

This is a guest blog written by Phil Lynch, Managing Director of social media research agency Newton Insight & visiting lecturer in media analytics at the University of Westminster. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

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Product Review: MoShow–Slidehow Movie Maker App

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest Post by Dan Farkas. Social video has moved from nice to necessary. Anyone reading this blog or spending any time with Shonali knows this – or will know it soon enough. It’s easy to talk about creating more content. How can we do this quickly? There are plenty of apps that promise Spielberg and deliver something more Mac and Me than ET. So when I had a chance to review the MoShow app, I was hopeful to find something that fits into a larger social video strategy.

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Google Adds More Social-Like Options to Google My Business Listings

Social Media Today

Google has announced a new set of features for Google My Business profiles, which will provide additional opportunities for business listings across Google's offerings.

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#OtterBoxCityMeets

Mindjumpers

Challenge: OtterBox is a company who produces stylish phone cases, protecting the key creative tool of a modern generation. They came to us asking for a campaign that could span six markets, essentially creating a diverse eco-system of quality content in a cost efficient way. Solution: #OtterBoxCityMeets – six markets, six influencers, six cities, six events… hundreds of pieces of content.

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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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7 best Facebook analytics tools

Unmetric

What started as a means to catch up with friends back in ’04 has swept the world with its phenomenal success. Today, Facebook plays host to over 60 million business pages on its site. Brands all over the world vie for their customers’ attention to their Facebook page. Marketers hustle to push out engaging content every day to skyrocket their engagement levels.

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28 Qualities of Amazing Content Marketing

Pam Moore

Content marketing is the new yet not new buzzword. The truth is content marketing has been around for decades, since conversations and business has existed. Content marketing is not a new shiny object invented via social media. Yet, content is at the core of everything brands and people do online. Without content and humans, social media and digital marketing wouldn't exist.

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Instagram Will Now Keep All Content Captured in the Stories Camera for Seven Days

Social Media Today

Instagram will now give you more time to decide on what you want to post to your Stories, with all content captured in the Stories Camera to remain available for a week.

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Food, Glorious Food

Mindjumpers

Most people eat with their eyes first and foremost. That’s certainly the case when they’re scrolling through their feeds, drooling over their phones as they tag their friends in that dish they “have to try next weekend!”. Our job is to make content that looks good enough to eat, which we’ve done for Lurpak®, Castello and Arla, just to name a few. Hungry yet?

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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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3 Things You Should Know About Real Estate Mediation

The Realtime Report

3 Things You Should Know About Real Estate Mediation. As the alternative to going to court, real estate mediation resolves different problems. For instance, you bought a home and after a month or so later, grey water starts flowing back. You realize that this is a serious plumbing issue such as a blockage. To resolve the problem, you hire a professional plumber.

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Social media manager vs. community manager: What’s the difference?

Sprout Social

Does the person who post as your brand on Facebook also work to develop the community that the company is part of? Should they? Running a brand’s social media accounts is a lot of work. You’re simultaneously asked to be a customer support person, marketing person and occasionally, a graphic designer. As the social media industry has evolved, each role in the marketing team has developed along with it.

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Facebook Will Remove Certain Business Page Info Sections as of August 1st

Social Media Today

Facebook is removing certain Page information fields as of August 1st, with new prompts urging Page managers to integrate their information into remaining sections.

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Influencer Collaborations

Mindjumpers

We live in an age of self(ie)-made celebrities. They make life look so darn good, you can’t help but want what they have. Sounds like a marketing dream, right? As a brand, there’s a number of ways you can work with influencers; each with their own set of pay-offs and limitations. We help navigate those murky waters, facilitating the relationship between brand and influencer.

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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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6 Types Of Influencers And How To Identify A "True" Influencer

Forbes Social Media

Tamara McCleary, a top influencer, explains how marketers can find and leverage these 6 types of influencers (hint, they aren't always celebrities) to harness the "potency of a diverse group of influencers to get the word out" about your brand.

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Personal branding trends to tap into on social media

Sprout Social

Having a personal brand, whether you’re job hunting, running your own business or at any stage in your career, is essential. It’s what separates you from the rest of the pack and helps build important connections that boost your growth and development. One of the best ways to enhance your personal brand is through social media. Just as social has given rise to the likes of influencer marketing , there are opportunities across a wide variety of networks in which to build and enhance your personal

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Community Management is Essential to an Effective Social Media Marketing Approach

Social Media Today

Getting attention through standout visuals is important, but its how you maintain connection with the community that you build which will set your business apart.

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How to Get Started in Media Planning and Buying

The Realtime Report

How to Get Started in Media Planning and Buying. The simple days are gone. Businesses can no longer simply put ads on products, in the newspaper, on the radio, and on television and call it good. We’re in a new age of media. Smartphone applications, social media sites, and innovative technology gets invented daily. To the opportunist, this means there’s an array of positions opening to help businesses break through the clutter.

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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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The Top 10 B2B Marketing Strategies for 2019

Oktopost

It’s 2019, and businesses now have many ways to gather, slice up, and analyze data. With all that available, there’s no excuse for running a business-to-business marketing campaign that can be accurately described as, “throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks”. For digital marketers, that’s even more important. The industries and markets that digital B2B businesses serve are undergoing constant, dramatic changes.

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Sprout Social’s Justyn Howard named a Glassdoor Top CEO for a third consecutive year

Sprout Social

I’m pleased to announce that Sprout Social founder and CEO, Justyn Howard, has been recognized as a Glassdoor Top CEO for U.S. companies with 1,000 employees or less in 2019. This is the third year in a row that Justyn has been placed on the list and is a reflection of the supportive culture we’ve been able to establish and maintain at Sprout. Recognition from Glassdoor is entirely based on reviews from Sprout employees who share their thoughts about job and company satisfaction, senior leadersh

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4 Proven Ways to Improve Customer Service Using Social Media

Social Media Today

Social media can be an excellent platform for connecting with your customers - here are some tips on how to boot your social customer support process.

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5 Ways to Make Your Instagram Photos Stand Out

Socialmedia.biz

Instagram is the perfect way to share photos of significant events with your followers. However, there’s more to it than point, shoot, and post – a lot more. If you want your photos to be noticed, you need to be conscious about how you take them. Have you ever looked at someone else’s Instagram photos and wondered why yours don’t look as good?

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#268: LinkedIn Tips and Tricks to Attract a Bigger Audience with Viveka von Rosen

Amy Porterfield

Do you have questions about LinkedIn? I get questions all the time about LinkedIn, and because I'm not an expert in the area or even a regular LinkedIn user (yet), I haven't had the answers to those questions. But guess what? Out of 250 million monthly LinkedIn users, only 3 million of those users share […]. The post #268: LinkedIn Tips and Tricks to Attract a Bigger Audience with Viveka von Rosen appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.