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What is hashtagging and how to use it effectively

Sprout Social

To hashtag or not to hashtag? The short answer: Yes, definitely use hashtags. Hashtags are an essential asset in your digital marketing toolbox. According to 72% of our LinkedIn community , hashtagging impacts the overall performance of social media content. What is hashtagging? How to use hashtags.

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4 Social Media Mistakes Easily Prevented By Common Sense

Firebelly

Baked goods company @Entenmanns faced backlash on Twitter a few weeks ago by capitalizing on the #notguilty hashtag made popular by the Casey Anthony trial. A Twitter uproar started, as Twitter uproars often do, and Entenmann’s was very quick to apologize, admitting they didn’t know what the hashtag referenced.

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Instagram 101: How to Get Your Small Business Started on the Platform

Social Media Strategies Summit

Take a look at the way the apparel brand, Knix, supports visuals of its new store with a heart-warming caption: Image via Instagram. Leverage the Right Hashtags. One of the ways through which Instagrammers find new content is hashtags. To benefit from hashtags, you’ll have to do some research. Image via Instagram.

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Creative Communications: Lessons from Health and Wellness Brands

Waxing UnLyrical

These pictures feature artfully crafted breakfast bowls, sweeping landscapes, and trendy apparel. In fact, during Colon Cancer Awareness month in 2016, they live streamed a colonoscopy on Periscope accompanied by the hashtag #ScopeScope. The majority of posts feature user-generated content.

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Coach Admires The View From Above

Convince & Convert

Using the #coachfromabove hashtag, fans are asked to share photos of their Coach shoes on Instagram or Twitter for a chance to be featured in a gallery on the company’s website. With the temperatures increasing, Coach is asking its customers to take a minute and admire the view from above – of their shoes, of course!

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2017 Social Media Trends Check-In

Ignite Social Media

Think about appropriate hashtags and keywords to add to the conversation. As of today, any apparel, beauty, or jewelry brand, in the US that has added their product catalog to Facebook can apply to use Instagram Shopping. Social Shopping.

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How This Fashion Brand Found the Sweet Spot in Blogger Relations

Convince & Convert

He invites them to come to the store, try on apparel, and take home something for free for authentic word of mouth buzz about the stores. He had bloggers perform a new social media challenge and share it with a branded hashtag. Each time Lorna Jane opens a new retail store, Sam identifies and reaches out to bloggers in each city.

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