Direct Marketing Observations

MAY 13, 2022

I could probably have shortened this post up dramatically though by just saying that Tik-Tok will be THE platform of 2022, but what’s the fun in that? As 2021 dry-heaved to a thankful close we had no choice but to be optimistic in 2022. What has 2022 brought to us all? It’s not just Twitter and Facebook anymore either.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

While TikTok’s entertainment value is high, it also presents opportunities for marketers in 2022. In particular, TikTok’s popularity with a younger audience than Facebook or Twitter has quickly become fertile ground for marketing campaigns. Is TikTok a good marketing opportunity for businesses in 2022? Another issue is privacy.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 6, 2022

In 2020, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest revamped their shopping tools to help retailers capitalize on this trend. And product-based brands are flocking to this new technology in droves, with 73% of businesses currently selling on social platforms. What are Facebook Shops and how do they work? Shopify, OpenCart, GoDaddy, etc.)

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Likeable

JANUARY 4, 2022

Happy 2022! They’ll not only curate the industry news and trending topics you need to know, but they’ll give you tips and strategies when it comes to planning your social media content as well. If you find yourself searching “social media holidays 2022” or “fun holidays this month” way too often, this is the newsletter for you.

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Ignite Social Media

JULY 15, 2022

When compared to other traditional social networks like Twitter (35 minutes/day), Facebook (31 minutes/day), Snapchat (30 minutes/day), and Instagram (29 minutes/day), TikTok has the lead. Compared to other social channels like Facebook, the social giant reigns supreme, with a staggering 67.7% What TikTok Commerce Looks Like in 2022.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

For comparison, it took eight years for both Facebook and Instagram to hit that milestone. With a platform as wildly popular as TikTok, you want to make sure you’re creating a presence for your brand so you can reach and engage some of those billion users. Create and brand your TikTok account. What is TikTok marketing?

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Hootsuite

JULY 11, 2022

Developing a successful plan for your brand requires knowing a lot about your audience, and that includes which social platforms they use, and how, and why. Download the full Social Trends report to get an in-depth analysis of the data you need to prioritize and plan your social strategy in 2022. Source: Digital 2022.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In marketing, brand awareness is a significant focus—in fact, it’s likely one of your main goals. In this article, learn how to build your own customer marketing strategy, how it creates customer trust and see some stellar customer marketing examples from brands who are getting it right. This is where customer marketing comes in.

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Pixlee

JANUARY 24, 2022

As marketers, we are constantly trying to innovate the various spaces our brands occupy to ensure maximum audience engagement and retention. A new renaissance period is emerging in technology and branding: Web3. Tech-savvy brands like these seek out creators within the space to capitalize on pre-existing community and notoriety.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

All it takes is one click to kickstart a relationship between a consumer and your brand. In this article, we’ll explore: What social shopping is and why it’s huge for brands. A round up of expert predictions for social shopping in 2022. What social media shopping does for brands. The different types of social shopping.

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Pixlee

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Even with a relatively high engagement rate, Facebook can be a tough channel to drive conversions from. But with the right type of content and a reframing of ROI, you can connect your ecommerce conversions directly to this channel. These five tactics stand to help turn Facebook into a high-converting channel.

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BeingOptimist

JANUARY 14, 2022

So, learn how to bootstrap your SaaS startup in 2022, and this post will help you with that. Create the Content Marketing Strategy for Your SaaS Product. Compared to outbound marketing, content marketing costs about 62% less. However, content marketing may be time-consuming if you do not use the right strategy.

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Hootsuite

JULY 6, 2022

2022 is shaping up to be a big year for this rapidly growing industry. Here’s everything you need to know about making the most of Instagram eCommerce in 2022. Instagram eCommerce tags, or Shopping tags, are tags on products featured in content. And to crowdsource sentiment on your brand. enabled Instagram Shopping.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Yet those top performers only post on TikTok once per week on average, compared to four times a week on Instagram and seven on Facebook. Looking to add TikTok to your marketing mix, or need some inspiration for your TikTok content strategy? Check out these ten examples of TikTok content for higher education: 1. Harvard College.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What does it take to build brand awareness? Today, we have brand mascots faking forbidden romances, sponsored dance challenges and internet beefs over—ironically enough— chicken sandwiches. Building a memorable brand takes some big swings but you have to walk before you can run. What is brand awareness? Our advice?

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Employee advocacy, how your employees express themselves about your brand on social media, is a hot topic for many that want to cement their employer branding, increase positive brand sentiment, and boost their social selling efforts. Statistics on Employer Branding and Talent Acquisition. LinkedIn ). Eldelman ).

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s no secret that video is becoming a staple in innovative brands’ marketing strategies. The sheer number of available formats and venues for social media video illustrates the point well (think TikTok, Instagram Reels and Facebook Stories, just to name a few). Half of social media users prefer video over other types of content.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 12, 2022

Here’s what you can expect from the PR landscape in 2022 and beyond. Consumers continue to hold their favorite brands and businesses accountable for social and political issues. Building a positive public image now also means understanding how to increase online engagement, get backlinks and identify opportunities for content.

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Hootsuite

MAY 19, 2022

“Like us on Facebook” has become such a common phrase that it’s hard to imagine the platform any other way. If the Facebook Like was a person, it would have been bar or bat mitzvahed by now. But we haven’t always wondered how to get more likes on Facebook. Then in 2009, Facebook added an identical feature to its platform.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 25, 2022

Brands will spend differently depending on their unique goals. That number includes all costs related to content creation, advertising campaigns and social media management software. Content creation: $5,250 per month. Launching a social channel and creating content. Content development. Ad campaigns.

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Buffer Social

AUGUST 3, 2022

Any company can sell its customers a product or service, but a great brand offers its followers something even better – a sense of community and belonging. After all, a major goal for all businesses is customer retention, that is, having loyal customers who repurchase from your brand time and time again.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 7, 2023

But an ever-crowded space filled with brands and creators means your relevancy is always at risk. When a brand experience is consistently good, it champions powerful brand recall, turns customers into advocates and builds credibility that ultimately increases your repeat business. What is brand experience?

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Hootsuite

MARCH 27, 2024

The main difference that identifies a boosted post vs ad is that boosted posts generally (but not always) start as organic content. A boosted post looks almost exactly the same as regular organic content. Find out how to boost a post on Facebook , Instagram , and LinkedIn. Boosted posts vs. ads: what’s the difference?

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Sprout Social

JUNE 27, 2023

In a world where star ratings can make or break a brand, review analysis is your north star. It gives you deep insights from customer feedback so you can uncover trends, make targeted improvements to your business and build a richer brand management strategy. Why should brands carry out review analysis? Let’s take a closer look.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

While some B2B brands are still committed to more traditional sales methods, social selling can be even more efficient. Even though every B2B brand is unique, social selling can be a powerful tool for virtually any kind of business. How to Do Social Selling on Facebook. Interacting with prospects through LinkedIn content.

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Sprout Social

JULY 6, 2022

Brands looking to participate in trending topics need to be timely but conscious of the brand’s values in the process. Now, with new features like Twitter Spaces and Twitter Communities , businesses and brands alike can further build relationships with followers. How social media drives cryptocurrency for users & brands.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 25, 2023

Fake social media accounts are an ongoing problem for both social media platforms and for brands. While the number of fake accounts on Facebook has been slowly falling over the last couple of years, the problem on TikTok has started to spike. Impostors on social media present a real challenge for all major brands.

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Ignite Social Media

JUNE 28, 2022

You’re probably here because you’re looking for ways to spice up your brand with the best video content, right? As the Original Social Media Agency in the US , we’ve been here long enough to know how brands often struggle with keeping up with the latest trends — in today’s case, video content. .

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Sprout Social

APRIL 4, 2023

Most brands expect to drive engagement and generate leads with social media strategies. However, ephemeral content is often overlooked in favor of long-form and feed content to achieve these goals. If leveraged properly, ephemeral content can help you beat the algorithm and keep your brand top of mind.

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Sprout Social

MAY 11, 2023

Operating on social media without brand safety tools is like browsing the internet without malware protection. Brand safety has traditionally been relegated to just protecting brands from advertising on or near inappropriate content online. What are brand safety tools? What are brand safety tools?

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Pixlee

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When examining brands that advertise, social media advertising was seen used by about 83% of marketers and ranked second in success behind SEO marketing. In this article, we’ll take you through the trends to look forward to and be aware of in 2022 to help you ace the social media marketing game. Trends to Watch in 2022.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 11, 2022

What you may not know is they’re part of the greatest shift in the internet since the advent of Facebook. Consumer capitalism is about the production of identity through brands more so than strictly goods. — John Patten (@jpatten__) March 21, 2022. You could read, but you weren’t creating content.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 8, 2022

And, 98% of all Pinterest users say they’ve tried a new brand they found on the platform. This post covers everything you need to know about Pinterest shopping, including the free and paid tools you should be using in 2022. How can brands benefit from Pinterest shopping? Can you shop on Pinterest? Yes… and also no.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

That growth, combined with 40% of Gen Z searching social platforms for info instead of Google, makes Reddit a unique opportunity for brands. Download the full Social Trends report to get an in-depth analysis of the data you need to prioritize and plan your social strategy in 2022. And, downvoted content receives less exposure.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 6, 2023

They need brands to provide quick and effective solutions to their problems. 51% of Memorable Brands Respond to Customers According to the 2023 Sprout Social Index, over 50% of brands that stand out on social media respond to their customers. Jay Baer created a brand-new report of this key data.

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Ignite Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2020

With an emerging influx of new engaging users, we have seen a variety of new and old trending social media content stick on social channels over the course of the year and here they are. When it comes to content, one type rules above all else: Video. According to a Cisco study , by 2022, 82% of all online content will be video content.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2023

While this platform has already played a huge role in social media trends over the last couple of years, brands will likely continue to utilize it for advertising purposes this year, despite serious security concerns. Above all, customers want to be able to communicate with the brand they’re interested in.

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