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What’s your social media marketing budget?

Sherrilynne Starkie

What should be your social media marketing budget? Newbies are often surprised by how much time social media can eat. Newbies are often surprised by how much time social media can eat. Start by pinning down exactly what you want social media marketing to do for your organization.

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10 Inspiring Examples of Amazing Brand Communities

Social Media Strategies Summit

With that in mind, in this article, we’re going to take a look at 10 of our favorite brand community examples and the insights we can learn from them: 1. The online community allows Sephora customers to share their favorite looks and beauty tips, sample new products, ask questions, and generally connect with like-minded shoppers.

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57 Social Media Policy Examples and Resources

Dave Fleet

Over time I’ve found myself doing more and more foundational work for organizations looking to dip their toes into social media. One of the key elements of this work, in my opinion, is creating a social media policy that fits well with the organization’s goals, culture and risk tolerance. Social Media Guidelines.

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6 Tools to Fine-Tune Your Social Media Advertising Strategy

Convince & Convert

Social media advertising is a great way to quickly generate new customers and create a social media buzz around your (new) product. Social media strategy needs constant tweaking, analyzing, and learning from your or your competitors’ successes and failures.

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Social Media Marketing During COVID-19: March 23 Update

Ignite Social Media

One week ago today, we wrote a blog post on how to think about social media marketing during the COVID-19 outbreak around the globe. Social Media Use, Engagement and Paid Efficiency are Way Up. They saw a median daily increase in page likes of 544% while the overall sample rose just 6%. It’s a worthy debate.

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How to build a competitive analysis report with examples and tools

Sprout Social

For example, if you’re selling video editing software, you might use a competitive analysis report to learn how easy or difficult it is for novices to use your tool compared to your competitors’ tools. A social analytics tool like Sprout Social helps you conduct market research on social channels using advanced social media listening.

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How to Use UTM Parameters to Track Social Media Success

Hootsuite

Bonus : Download a free guide and checklist to help you convince your boss to invest more in social media. UTM parameters are just short pieces of code that you can add to links — for example, the links you share in your social posts. Examples: facebook, twitter, blog, newsletter, etc. UTM Example.