Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

During my 15 years of Web site strategy and usability work (before I got all social media on you) I very much tried to live by the two-click rule (discover the most common questions customers have about your business, and answer them on your site within two clicks or fewer). Social media makes it possible.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 4, 2023

More than three-quarters of the world’s population aged 13+ uses social media. billion people are active social media users. Social media marketing provides a unique opportunity to connect with this massive audience on the platforms where they already spend their time. What is social media marketing?

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The top 7 AI + social marketing use cases for 2024 Given these encouraging results, more companies plan to leverage AI in 2024 to strengthen their marketing teams and prime their overall business strategy. Here are the most prominent AI use cases in marketing for social media managers as they prepare for the coming year.

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Keyhole.co

JANUARY 20, 2024

A Facebook group essentially becomes free advertising. Where traditional ads are expensive and provide uncertain ROI, the cost of Facebook ads is entirely up to you and your advertising budget, and can easily scale with your business. A good social media scheduling tool can help you stay organized.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bonus: Learn how to sell more products on social media with our free Social Commerce 101 guide. Conversational commerce (or social commerce , or conversational marketing) uses conversation to better serve customers. These conversations happen anywhere customers are: social media, messenger apps, and your website.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 16, 2023

Bonus: Learn how to sell more products on social media with our free Social Commerce 101 guide. Use an FAQ chatbot to engage with customers 24/7. When you automate your FAQs, you’re also saving your customer support team from having to do the work. Delight your customers and improve conversion rates.

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BeingOptimist

MAY 17, 2023

Additionally, strategies enable businesses to use social media, content marketing, SEO, and email marketing to increase sales and revenue. Leverage Social Media: Social networking can increase earnings and audience size. With automated email sequences, companies can target and engage leads.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

AI customer service is an artificial intelligence system that interacts with customers on behalf of a company. With it, companies can save money on customer support costs and improve the efficiency of their customer service operations. Answer repeat FAQs and save your team time Customer service FAQ chatbots have a ton of benefits.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

NLP and sentiment analysis Natural Language Processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis enable businesses to understand and interpret human language, making them essential tools for analyzing customer feedback, social media content and other textual data while automating report generation.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Bonus: Learn how to sell more products on social media with our free Social Commerce 101 guide. This makes them ideal for answering FAQs at any time of the day or night. And you can incorporate chatbots to help with customer service even on social media. Delight your customers and improve conversion rates.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Indeed, email marketing and social media marketing are spiritually and procedurally similar.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# Sure, it’s clever outdoor advertising, but given that “where am I going to get coffee tomorrow?&# This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 3, 2023

A Facebook engagement post is a type of social media post that increases your Facebook Page’s engagement rate by encouraging your followers to take action. Sure, there are tons of stats out there about how low organic reach is nowadays, but Facebook is still the world’s most popular social media platform. Need a photo?

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Later

DECEMBER 10, 2019

FAQ #1: Do You Have to Disclose Gifts or Free Products? FAQ #2: Does Tagging a Brand in Your Photo Count as An Endorsement? FAQ #3: How Should You Disclose Sponsored Instagram Stories? FAQ #4: Is Instagram’s Paid Partnership Feature FTC Compliant? FAQ #1: Do You Have to Disclose Gifts or Free Products?

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Pro: You form professional relationships with influential social media creators. Bonus: Get the influencer marketing strategy template to easily plan your next campaign and choose the best social media influencer to work with. What are the pros and cons of sponcon? Pro: It’s great marketing for your brand.

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Hootsuite

MAY 17, 2022

Bonus: Get the Instagram advertising cheat sheet for 2022. seeing your ad on social media or noticing your brand at a local store). Here’s what a simple sales funnel looks like in the context of social media marketing : However, traditional sales funnels miss two important elements of modern marketing: loyalty and retention.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Absolutely.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

A collaboration between RESMARK Systems (a provider of hospitality software), Western River Expeditions (an adventure tour company), Compendium (provider of corporate content creation software), and ExactTarget (provider of enterprise messaging software) shows how this can be done day-to-day. That’s it. It makes sharing simple.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 14, 2011

The following table contains the names of over 100 companies and organization that have published their Employee Social Media Policies or Guidelines online… The left side column is the name of the organization, and it is linked to their organizational or corporate home page. Template: Blogging and Social Media Policy.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse? Focus on how to be social, not on how to do social.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. However, for marketers, a social media address is insufficient to manage that channel.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media. That’s something sorely missing from a lot of traditional advertising, where veracity is neither required nor particularly encouraged. But, I’m not.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2022

Using social media automation tools like chatbots to handle your Instagram messages is one of the best ways to successfully handle customer service and sales. Advertising and marketing are awesome tools, of course, but nothing hits a consumer’s heart quite like a recommendation from a trusted friend. Example 2: Answering FAQs.

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Instagram How To Retail FAQ 90

Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Use video to carry out a social media contest. Give your engagement a boost by creating a social media contest fueled by video. MeUndies collaborated with creators like Lauren-Ashley Beck to promote their social media contest, #GetSpookywithMe. Here’s how you can create Reels for your B2B company: 11.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. Yet before a crisis erupts, no matter what the root of the issue, companies should cushion themselves by leveraging the good work they’re already doing. Don’t be Shy.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

While alterations to search algorithms are helping to bring this to fruition, social media has been the real game-changer, placing the power of relevance distinction in the hands of the consumers. Package for Consumption Observe what types of content social media users are interacting with and where.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. This presentation: “Why Before How: The Keys to Developing a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps&# also formed the basis for my recent MarketingProfs Webinar. Because tools will change.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Do you see social media participation as one of the hurdles businesses now need to successfully clear? Absolutely. Change takes time.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Have you ever messaged a company on Facebook, only to wait so long for a response that by the time they get back to you, you forgot you contacted them in the first place? 60% of people say they are open to receiving personal messages from companies. Meta reports the potential advertising audience for Facebook Messenger is 987.7

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

Companies didn’t seem to understand where she was, who she was, or what she wanted. There is zero advertising on JaneNation.com, and there never will be. John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. It’s on JaneNation. It’s on JaneNation.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Would a company launch a major television campaign if the CEO had never watched TV? Social Media? Most B2B companies have fewer customers, so the opinions of each are magnified.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

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Hootsuite

JUNE 27, 2022

If you work in social media, you may be wondering, “ What is Discord — and wait, why should I care?” ” Discord may not be on your radar as a social media marketing tool. Bonus: Get a free social media strategy template to quickly and easily plan your own strategy. What is the Discord app?

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Social Media Network Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2015

TSU , pronounced Sue, has had a solid backing from venture capital company Sancus Capital Prive who invested $7 million. 50 Cent and NBA star Carmelo Anthony even jumped onto the social networking platform and so has the public. 50 Cent and NBA star Carmelo Anthony even jumped onto the social networking platform and so has the public.

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