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SMS marketing 101: How to use text messaging in your marketing strategy

Sprout Social

Looking to tap into the marketing strategy that gets 4x more open rates than email? It’s SMS marketing—one of the easiest and most effective ways to reach your target audience. What is SMS marketing? Marketing by SMS has several advantages over other mobile marketing strategies like email marketing and push notifications.

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4 Emerging Social Media Platforms To Watch In 2019

Social Media Strategies Summit

In the midst of 4th quarter marketing campaigns and the race to end 2018 with a bang, marketers should also start looking ahead to the new year. It’s a good time to take stock of your social media marketing strategies to assess what’s working and where you have room to improve. So how is a social media marketer to decide?

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What is a customer journey map and how to make your own [examples included]

Sprout Social

To keep up with it all and better inform your social media marketing strategy , create a customer journey map as a blueprint to help you understand your customers at each stage. When coupled with social media market research , they help brands: Provide an overview of the resources your customers use. Generate marketing campaign ideas.

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Just get us the Millennials! #Marketing #Fail

Janet Fouts

“Just get us the millennials” This mind set is short-sighted and mindless old-school marketing at best! Millennial’s are just one demographic in your potential market and you need to think carefully before you focus entire marketing campaigns on them. Are you ready to market online? They’re social.

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China: The State of Social Media

Mindjumpers

Nielsen, IT Entrepreneur. A survey done in 2012 by McKinsey, showed that 95 percent of those living in Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 cities are registered on a social media site and proves at the same time to be the most active users. They prefer services that have a good mobile interface, services like Sina Weibo & Weixin (WeChat).

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7 Ways to Lighten Up Your Marketing and Generate Conversation

Convince & Convert

As content marketing explodes, so too, does the volume of noise. And, according to a global Nielsen Survey of Trust in Advertising conducted in September 2013 (58 countries), almost half (47%) of respondents said that humor resonates more than any content approach. Brainstorm some ideas and try them out.

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3 Projects to Improve Auto Financial Services Websites

Idaconcpts

Throughout my experience in online marketing, I have found that the auto financial service industry has a lot of great opportunities in improving its sites. Remember from my previous article on responsive design , that according to a July 2011 – January 2013 survey from the Media Behavior Institute, 43.5% of the U.S.

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