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The Story of Ignite Social Media, The Original Social Media Agency

Ignite Social Media

I’m Jim Tobin, the founder of social media agency Ignite Social Media (2007) and influencer marketing agency Carusele (2015). Ignite Social Media is known as “ the original social media agency ” because we were the first social media agency created out of whole cloth in the United States.

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15+ social media platforms your customers are using in 2021—and why you should be using them

Sprout Social

Rather than employ the spray and pray method, identifying which social media platforms a brand’s customers use is a more effective way to connect with one’s target audience. According to the latest Sprout Social Index™ Edition XVII: Accelerate , Facebook, Instagram and YouTube are the top three platforms where consumers follow brands.

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Pro Tips to Spot and Dodge A Social Media Crisis Before It’s Too Late

Keyhole.co

Social media management seems like a safe and cushy job, that is until you have a full-blown social media crisis on your hands. Imagine this: A social media manager scrounging for content stumbles upon a share-worthy graphic on Tumblr that fits with their brand’s July theme. Not convinced? Plan Ahead.

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Search + Social = Online Reputation

Socialmedia.biz

I have been doing online reputation management (ORM) for clients since 2003. There’s one thing that everyone who comes to my door has in common, whether it was for NMS, Abraham Harrison, Reputation, Gerris , or now for Status Labs : too little content online! And if and when you draw that kind of attention, it’s usually negative.

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How to Create Effective Social Media Guidelines for Your Business

Hootsuite

Every business should have social media guidelines. That’s true even if your company is not on social media (psst: here’s how to get started ). Your employees are on social media. Social media guidelines lay down some rules. Think of them as an employee manual for social media best practices.

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Employees Are A Critical Element To Your Social Media Success – Are You Leveraging Yours? Apple Isn’t!

SocMed Sean

Social media and social networking are both about connecting people. Without people and their personal relationship information, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter would be reduced to…well…MySpace. A barren wasteland full of bots and spam. Those people. It explained a lot to me, though.

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Call it what you want, Taylor Swift is a model community manager

Sprout Social

As a social media marketer and Taylor Swift stan , I’m constantly in awe of her community management mastery. Social is at the center of how she and Taylor Nation —her fan engagement and hype team—connect with fans and share clues about what could be coming up next in the world of Taylor Swift.