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

Buffer Social

For instance, on Instagram, hashtags can help to increase your reach , but they don’t quite have the same effect on Facebook. Here’s a quick video on how it works: Mistake 6: Not curating user-generated content (UGC). UGC grew our Instagram account by 500% within six months.

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Trendjacking: Jumping In on Internet Culture & 3 Brands Doing it Right

Pixlee

Trendjacking is the practice of jumping in on trending topics, hashtags, events, or memes. Perhaps try using UGC or customer content to help engage your audience even better! Perhaps the most memorable post of there’s was a timely tweet during the SuperBowl in 2013. Three Brands Trendjacking Right.

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How to Build a Strong Instagram Community

Later

A few years ago in 2013 right at the very start of Chupi when it was just me and friends helping out I was nominated for an @image Businesswoman of the Year Award. Instagram Community Tip #4: Develop a Consistent UGC Strategy. Speed Up Your UGC Collection with Later. View this post on Instagram. View this post on Instagram.

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How to Build a Strong Instagram Community

Later

A few years ago in 2013 right at the very start of Chupi when it was just me and friends helping out I was nominated for an @image Businesswoman of the Year Award. Instagram Community Tip #4: Develop a Consistent UGC Strategy. Speed Up Your UGC Collection with Later. View this post on Instagram. View this post on Instagram.

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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.