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Predictions for 2015: Start Off the New Year Knowing the Future of Social

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Predictions for 2015: Start Off the New Year Knowing the Future of Social. We discussed what each person is predicting for 2015. billion by the end of 2014.

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How to Use Social Media to Market Your Business Like a PRO

Rebekah Radice

Marketing your business on social media is tougher than ever. That doesn’t include Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus and the many other social networks. Or why so many businesses are eager to create differentiation through social media? — Ann Smarty (@seosmarty) June 30, 2015. link] #vcbuzz.

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4 Emerging Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Social Media Strategies Summit

According to data from Pew Research , messaging apps dominated social networks in 2019. The top messaging apps now boast nearly 5 billion monthly active users combined (compared to the combined social networks which top out around 3 billion ). 3 Social commerce will come into maturity. Source: Facebook Groups.

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42K+ Followers on LinkedIn: How I Built My Audience and How You Can Too

Buffer Social

It was 2015, and I was in my first year of college when I learned about LinkedIn. Here’s an example of a generic post: In this post, I just talked about my birthday and how my year had been. A swipe file can provide you with examples of catchy headlines that have garnered attention.

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How Participation Marketing Elevates Your Social Media Strategy

Convince & Convert

Altimeter’s 2015 State of Social Business Report revealed that “building employee advocacy” programs are becoming a high priority and strategic initiative for marketers, jumping from 13 percent to 45 percent in 2015. This helps battle the decline of organic reach in social channels. Other data suggests the same.

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Why social media teams will be at the center of conversational commerce

Sprout Social

According to Chris Messina , who coined the term in 2015, conversational commerce is about “delivering convenience, personalization and decision support while people are on the go, with only partial attention to spare.” Imagine, for example, you reach out to a brand on Facebook Messenger because you’re looking for a particular shoe.

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????????? Cyber Monday: Discovering the online consumers

Audiense

Last year was a record-breaking Cyber Monday for online sales reaching an astounding $3 billion, up 12% since 2015. In effort to visualize the unseen we decided to analyse a sample of 115,000 users who published content containing relevant keywords or trending hashtags related to Cyber Monday in 2015 and then in 2016. Age Demographics.

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