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Your Complete Guide to Creating a Social Media Strategy

Social Media Strategies Summit

Yet the proportion of marketers using social media to reach new and existing audiences has risen every year since 2013: Image source. User-generated content (UGC) isn’t just a time-saver for marketers; it’s amazing for driving sales. GoPro is a master at UGC. Content Curation.

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We Made These 10 Social Media Mistakes so You Don’t Have To

Buffer Social

Not curating user-generated content. Curated content helped grow our Facebook fan base. We used to shy away from curated content because we thought it wouldn’t contribute to our bottom-line: traffic, signups, and revenue. Five out of our recent top 10 Facebook posts are curated from others. The strategy?

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11 Creative Ways to Use Instagram Carousel Posts for Your Business

Later

Check out how Later customer, Dermalogica uses carousel posts with UGC content to reveal before and afters, thanks to their customers’s at-home snaps: . Instagram carousel posts are a great way to share more personal brand stories on Instagram, without disrupting a carefully curated feed. . And what’s better than a single piece of UGC?

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Social Media Stories: What Brands Need to Know About Ephemeral Content

Ignite Social Media

A Brief History : Snapchat Stories launched in late 2013, just two years after the app’s inception. Pinterest touts that it’s ideal to use this feature to create step-by-step guides or curate a collection of products, so keep that in mind if your content already follows this type of strategy.

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A First-Class Guide to Social Media for Travel

Sprout Social

Pinterest is a great destination for curating valuable content—just ask the Four Seasons. With profiles for its 81 hotels and resorts, the luxury travel brand curates travel, food and lifestyle content for its guests around the world. Airbnb made headlines in 2013 when it published the first short film made entirely of Vines.

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The Case for Letting Your Social Media Managers Get Weird

Hootsuite

Meticulously curated flatlays, uninspired user-generated content (UGC) campaigns, and branded hashtags that sound like they were spooned out of a corporate soup. In a 2013 interview with Digiday he explained their Twitter strategy bluntly: “I aim for a mix of useful and completely useless, funny and dead serious, local and global.