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Facebook Audience Insights: Research an Audience

Jon Loomer

Targeting strategy is an important aspect of finding Facebook advertising success. Which group of people do you target? How do you find those who are most likely to act on your ads? One solution is Audience Insights. These are the powerful things that you can discover with Audience Insights. When you learn more about prospective targeting groups, you can apply this information to further refine your messaging and ad targeting.

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Snapchat Adds 'Sounds' Option to Include Song Clips within Snaps

Social Media Today

After initial testing in Australia and New Zealand, Snapchat is now giving all iOS users access to its 'Sounds' option to add music tracks to their Snaps.

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The Difference the Right Furniture Can Make to Your Office

The Realtime Report

The Difference the Right Furniture. Can Make to Your Office. There are sometimes a million and other things happening in the office, which makes it understandable that you rarely think about the furniture in the office until something happens or it is too late. It is common to downgrade just how important office furniture can be with many just shrugging it off as part and parcel.

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Break Out of the Boring With These 10 Types of Videos

agora pulse

Want to bring new life into your video content marketing? These types of videos can help you start thinking outside of what you usually do. As a social media marketer, you don’t have any excuse not to give video content a try. Especially because plenty of affordable tools can help you create videos in no time. If you don’t know where to start or what video content you need for social, you’re in the right place for help.

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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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Facebook Domain Verification: Link Ownership Control

Jon Loomer

Back in 2017, Facebook started limiting the ability to edit link thumbnail images, headlines, and descriptions as a way to control the spread of clickbait and misinformation. You can still edit your link previews — and limit how others can — if you first go through a domain verification process. Once verified, you will be able to: Edit headlines and descriptions for organic links from your domain to your page.

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Google Announces New Search Updates, Including Improved Contextual Matches and Subtopics

Social Media Today

Google has announced a raft of new search updates, including song identification, the ability to highlight specific passages of text, and subtopic matches.

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Going Global: A Guide to Expand Your Business Overseas

The Realtime Report

Going Global: A Guide to Expand Your Business Overseas. Have you recently come face-to-face with that dreaded glass ceiling? Well, if you want to enhance your profit potential, you’re going to need to find a way to smash through it! Stagnation is very much your enemy in the world of business, which is why you must constantly be looking for ways to grow, expand and evolve your company.

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Facebook Domain Verification: Link Ownership Control

Jon Loomer

Back in 2017, Facebook started limiting the ability to edit link thumbnail images, headlines, and descriptions as a way to control the spread of clickbait and misinformation. You can still edit your link previews — and limit how others can — if you first go through a domain verification process. Once verified, you will be able to: Edit headlines and descriptions for organic links from your domain to your page.

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Instagram Announces New Crackdown on Influencers Who Fail to Disclose Commercial Partnerships

Social Media Today

Instagram will launch new tools, and a new detection effort, to crackdown on influencers that fail to disclose commercial agreements in their posts.

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Which Facebook Ad Objective Should I Choose?

agora pulse

Which Facebook Ad objective should you choose for your Facebook Ad campaigns? Selecting a campaign goal is one of the most challenging parts of setting up Facebook Ads. If you’re new to Facebook Ads, you might be tempted to avoid making a decision and just boost you r posts instead. Yet taking the time to understand Facebook Ad objectives can help you achieve better and more targeted results.

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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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Inclusive Design for Social Media: Tips for Creating Accessible Channels

Hootsuite

Inclusive design may seem like the domain of UX designers and web developers. But social media marketers can practice it, too. Several social platforms have made recent accessibility updates. Automatic captioning is available on Facebook Live and Instagram IGTV. After the inaccessible introduction of voice Tweets, Twitter established two accessibility teams and plans to roll out automated captions by early 2021.

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Facebook Audience Insights: Research an Audience

Jon Loomer

Targeting strategy is an important aspect of finding Facebook advertising success. Which group of people do you target? How do you find those who are most likely to act on your ads? One solution is Audience Insights. These are the powerful things that you can discover with Audience Insights. When you learn more about prospective targeting groups, you can apply this information to further refine your messaging and ad targeting.

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Zoom Launches Paid Events Platform, Begins Testing End-to-End Encryption

Social Media Today

Video meeting platform Zoom has today announced a new marketplace for paid events, along with the next stage of its end-to-end encryption roll out.

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5 Instagram Features That Drive Sales

Socialmedia.biz

Instagram continuously releases new features that help boost engagement and sales. Instagram Live, Shopping, Stories, IGTV and Video Call are all features that can make a big difference to businesses when used strategically. . Instagram live. Instagram live allows businesses to broadcast video in real-time. This offers businesses a great opportunity to boost engagement and win the trust of followers due to its immediacy.

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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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How to Conduct a Social Media Sentiment Analysis (Tools + Free Template)

Hootsuite

Imagine your business just released a product and everyone is talking about it on social media. There are thousands of Instagram posts, Facebook posts, and tweets. There is seemingly no end to the chatter. But is it positive or negative? You need more context. Enter: Social media sentiment. Social media sentiment is the attitude and feelings people have about your brand on social media.

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How to start a brand ambassador program from scratch

Sprout Social

You don’t have to look hard to find an up-and-coming brand ambassador program on social media. That’s because modern companies are looking to reach customers beyond traditional ad campaigns. With the growing popularity of unfiltered content and “everyday” influencers, brands are looking to build relationships with satisfied customers who can advertise for them.

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Twitter Shares Insights into How People are Communicating During COVID-19 [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Twitter's UK team has shared some new insights into how people are tweeting during COVID-19, and how brands should adapt their messaging.

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The Secret to Work Productivity

The Realtime Report

Image by chenspec from Pixabay. The Secret to Work Productivity. There’s always one who just has their life together. Signing out at 4pm with their neat desk off they trot after finishing all their work yet again. Are they some sort of cyborg machine built to make an example of the rest of us? Whilst this is probably a problem you have already looked to fix, and google has unsurprisingly left you with not a great deal of alternatives, we are going to try and explore the secret to work prod

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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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The Untold Secrets of Growth Hacking For the Curious Mind

Oktopost

Approached by Google to mentor start-ups and now sharing their growth hacking expertise on our podcast, Stefanie Amini and Melanie Amini , the co-founders of Gossip Media guide the conversation on this episode of Stuff You Should Know About Our Changed New World , Oktopost ‘s original podcast show. And no, you are not reading double! These marketing gurus are identical twins with a long standing career in building start-up marketing strategies and helping larger organizations “th

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From awareness to acquisition: Creating a content funnel that converts

Sprout Social

As social marketers, we spend a lot of time focused on content marketing conversion. It’s how leadership measures results, even as marketers we know that conversion is just the desired end result and not the whole journey. In order to reach the finish line, we have to guide our audiences from being unacquainted with our brand to awareness, and from awareness to consideration.

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Twitter Updates Privacy and Safety Settings to Help Users Better Understand Their Options

Social Media Today

Twitter has rolled out a new update to its privacy and safety settings, including new video overviews of how to utilize the various options.

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Twitter Suspends Fake Accounts Posing As Black Trump Supporters

Forbes Social Media

The social media giant said the accounts, which were retweeted or mentioned 265,000 times, researchers found, violated its policies on spam and platform manipulation.

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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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BMW vs. Audi: A brand race [social listening analysis]

Awario

Audi and BMW are the two German car manufacturers that have conquered the most consumer hearts worldwide. We took a look at the brand rivalry through our own social media monitoring and analytics tool Awario.

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What is brand monitoring and why is it important?

Sprout Social

Your business’s health and longevity means keeping a watchful eye on the public perception of your brand. There are more ways than ever for your audience to talk about you, but luckily, it’s never been easier to track your brand mentions through online brand monitoring and have a comprehensive understanding of how people feel about your brand.

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TikTok Refutes Claims Made Against it in White House Executive Order as it Pushes to Remain in the US

Social Media Today

TikTok has issued a response to the White House Executive Order to force the sell-off of the app, essentially saying that the claims against it are incorrect.

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There Are Apps, And Then There Are Chinese Apps

Forbes Social Media

China knows more about short videos and virality than the rest of the world combined: they have a highly competitive, well-financed ecosystem, with a huge market, and a fundamental characteristic: a one-way power relationship with the Chinese government.

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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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How to Build a Successful Agency Pitch Deck

agora pulse

Is your pitch deck ready to wow potential clients for your social media agency? Or is lacking some key components? Make sure your agency pitch deck is everything it needs to be before you present it. Social media agencies typically offer high-value, detailed services to potential clients that could drastically impact their businesses. So, it’s common that a client will shop through multiple options for agencies before settling on one.

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What is Boolean search and how to use it? (cheat sheet)

Awario

From this cheat sheet, you'll know how to create search queries using Boolean search - a social listening method that allows you to do almost anything.

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Twitter Is Testing Prompts Which Would Recommend Users Hide Potentially Offensive Replies

Social Media Today

Twitter looks to be testing a new prompt which would ask users if they want to hide potentially offensive replies to their tweets.

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How Brands & Marketers Should Navigate the 2020 Election

Likeable

The election is upon us—and you’re not ready. . In your defense, it’s probably never been less clear in our lifetime what a U.S. election means or how to be prepared for it. That goes for individuals and brands alike, and really for anyone trying to make sense of COVID, Black Lives Matter protests, and a very polarized political landscape in which tremendous numbers of people believe our democracy faces existential threats. . 2020 has been a hard year for many of us, and even though social media

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Sprout Social named to Fortune 100 Best Small and Medium Workplaces in 2020

Sprout Social

I’m honored to share that Sprout Social has been named to the Fortune 100 Best Small/Medium Workplaces list. We’re proud to be listed at #23 alongside the other notable companies mentioned. To determine the ranking for the annual list, Fortune partnered with Great Place to Work® to analyze confidential survey feedback from employees about various elements of their workplace experience.

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