Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Every week listeners get to hear directly about what is working, what is failing, and how different brands are adapting to the ever-changing nature of social media. In this article, we’ve compiled the top five crucial insights for marketers crafting their digital strategies for 2024. What other brands peak their interests?

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Sprout Social

APRIL 4, 2023

When a brand is able to create positive buzz around their brand by just mentioning a product enhancement or product drop, you know they have a great marketing strategy behind them. But how are some brands, like Apple, able to attract new customers and elevate their positioning in the market with a simple announcement?

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Even the most well-known legacy brands need to adapt to attract audiences over the years. A strategy that made a brand successful years ago may be obsolete in the future, that’s why building brand awareness remains critical for established and upcoming businesses alike.

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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. What is customer marketing?

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Saptarshi Banerjee, Senior Lifestyle Analyst at Mintel Reports India, emphasized the need for brands to consider consumers’ preferences when developing their social media marketing strategies. Authentic reviews and humorous content were found to be instrumental in connecting with 56% of consumers.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 12, 2023

External communication, marketing and public relations (PR) have been tricky for brands over the last few years. With a documented brand strategy that incorporates a set of core values, companies are better positioned to engage with their audience on a regular basis as well as respond to unexpected events when they inevitably occur.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We unpack how your brand can use these examples to spark your own scroll-stopping ideas—while maximizing your budget and doing more with less. According to The Sprout Social Index™ , the most memorable thing brands can do on social is respond to their customers. The play: Social customer care isn’t just for digital-first brands.

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Buffer Social

JULY 3, 2023

When did you last pay attention to a generic brand video that wasn’t for research purposes? Many social media users share my perspective, so many brands struggle to create content that connects with their audience in popular formats like short-form video. People want people, not brands or ads. The probable reason?

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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? What is review analysis?

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Ignite Social Media

JULY 6, 2023

In today’s digital age, personal branding on social media is more important than ever for thought leaders and executives. A well-crafted personal brand not only enhances credibility but also establishes a strong connection with your audience, and ultimately drives business success.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 11, 2024

However, the one mistake brands make is using social networks to talk at their audience instead of communicating with their followers. Moreover, research shows that: 79% of consumers favor brand messaging that develops a relationship. 83% of people care as much about how a brand treats them as they do about the quality of its products.

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The Realtime Report

APRIL 16, 2024

The measures taken by Google include prioritizing original and authentic reviews over recycled information that passes around aggregator sites. “AI Another recent example of not using AI responsibly is the accusation that Sports Illustrated posted articles by nonexistent authors.

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Pixlee

AUGUST 9, 2021

Consistently creating authentic, relevant, and engaging content on a regular basis can be challenging. However, the content your users produce may be less-than-optimal by your brand standards. There’s a high volume of content available to most brands but let’s face it: a lot of that content isn’t perfect.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JANUARY 28, 2021

When it comes to using Instagram to market your brand, your follower count isn’t the be-all-end-all. Your Instagram captions are an opportunity to connect with customers and build brand trust and awareness. Clarify Your Brand Voice. Your brand voice is the core of boosting engagement on Instagram.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

With its ability to get in front of a wide array of consumers, social media may be the darling of retail and B2C brands, but it is increasingly difficult for ANY business to ignore the power of social media marketing. Like many brands, Slack uses their social media to appeal to different subsets of their target audience.

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Hootsuite

JULY 12, 2022

And all that strategy got us thinking about the relationship between social and brand identity. Classic marketing wisdom used to say the brands we love earn our trust with an amazing product experience and consistent, emotionally resonant messaging. Social-first brands like us are taking it one step further. hot dog combo.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 3, 2022

Building a unique, authentic brand is essential for any business. But many founders confuse their business brand with their personal brand. Your personal professional brand is a perfect platform for sharing and promoting this type of work while still allowing the business to continue to operate as normal.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 26, 2013

Brooks Thomas , Communications Specialist at Southwest , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the progressive setup of the Southwest social media team, the widespread success of a long-running corporate blog, and keeping an authentic voice for a large brand. This, they hope, keeps it authentic. Listen Now .

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In this article, we’ll give you 39 engaging Instagram Story ideas to help spark more content ideas, without burning yourself out in the process. There are always tips and tricks you can use to boost engagement, like using stickers (which you’ll see a lot of in this article) and posting up to five times a day. Behind the scenes.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 10, 2023

And with 79% of marketers describing influencer content as necessary for their customers’ experiences, brands need to be strategic to create campaigns that resonate. In this article, we’ll cite more data from our Q3 2023 Pulse Survey as we explore campaign types. What do different types of influencer marketing campaigns look like?

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This platform empowers users to receive exclusive benefits such as discounts, special offers, cashback rewards, and unique experiences simply for advocating brands to their friends, family, and followers. Already, RedKangaroo has forged partnerships with renowned beverage brands, such as Frazy and HOP WTR. million in pre-seed funding.

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Ignite Social Media

MARCH 18, 2021

It’s safe to assume that more than one person manages many of those Pages, especially when you look at larger brands that are dedicating significant budgets to social media efforts. Major Issues with Facebook’s Brand Pages. Both Facebook and Instagram give brand managers the run around when it comes to page access.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As more concerns of performative activism arise, consumers are watching to see if those same brands are staying true to their word or if they’ve already moved on and are investing less in their DEI efforts. Cultural heritage months like Black History Month are a cornerstone to many DEI initiatives for brands.

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Keyhole.co

MARCH 30, 2023

These unresponded snippets float around and become a looming threat to your brand. On the other hand, your credibility boosts up if somebody mentions your brand and talks about the wow experience they had with you. That’s the best form of marketing every brand dreams of. What is brand monitoring?

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Mindjumpers

JANUARY 10, 2013

Monitoring brand mentions, share of voice, sentiment etc. are the essentials of analysing what is being said about your brand online. But there is a dark side, which, until now, has been immeasurable, to the great frustration of social media analysts: Visual brand mentions. Measure visual brand mentions.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When you think of brands on social media, which come to mind first? People don’t remember brands or sales-y content—they remember stories. And great brand marketing on social is behind some of the most creative storytelling out there. Brands we’re watching. Wendy’s buzz-worthy sarcasm? Sprout’s TikTok? Hint hint.).

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Ignite Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

What Does This Mean for Brands? In fact, brands should be prepared for other changes that could impact their social media marketing performance. ” That certainly seems to be a reflection of the concern outlined in the second article above. What’s Next for Brands? There were five. .”

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Sprout Social

MAY 3, 2021

Brands and companies who are *just* reaching out to hire me and my Asian colleagues for speaking engagements and workshops next month for #APAHM …you’re late! For brands who do push through with their APAHM plans, I’d offer this as a word of advice. How can brands elevate Asian creators, activists and leaders in their industry?

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Sprout Social

JUNE 17, 2019

Having a personal brand, whether you’re job hunting, running your own business or at any stage in your career, is essential. One of the best ways to enhance your personal brand is through social media. Embrace authenticity. How important is authenticity on social media? Keep organized.

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Later

MAY 28, 2021

With over 756 million users , it’s full of opportunities for brand marketing. In this blog post, we’re sharing five ways you can use LinkedIn to market your brand and reach relevant audiences. How to Use LinkedIn for Marketing Your Brand . Share Your Brand Voice. LinkedIn Marketing Tip #4: Share Your Brand Voice .

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Keyhole.co

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

All it takes is for one person to post a comment about your brand, products, or services on social media and suddenly, you’re the hot topic for the day. If the comments are positive, then your brand has won some free publicity that will win you new customers.

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Pixlee

MARCH 11, 2021

When it comes to online brand reputation, any marketer can confirm that they’ve had their share of negative reviews for their brand. But ultimately, designing a brand reputation strategy for the modern era involves a proactive community-driven approach to customer service, and ultimately, reputation management.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Brands have made headlines for their gestures of goodwill—like when Calm paid Naomi Osaka’s fines for skipping press meetings to protect her own mental health and Airbnb introduced temporary housing plans for Afghan refugees. We need some skepticism to keep businesses accountable , transparent and authentic.

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Ignite Social Media

JULY 5, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, creating a social media presence for executives can be a powerful tool to shape a company’s brand, build credibility, and engage with a broader audience. Are they writing articles and sharing original ideas? No worries. We’ve summarized the conversation below. Do they write their own posts?

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Buffer Social

MARCH 9, 2023

If you’re looking to grow your career, make connections with people in your industry, and build a personal brand, you should be on LinkedIn. In this article, I will walk through three steps to use LinkedIn to build your personal brand with advice from me and others who have found success using it.

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Bad things can happen to any business or brand. It’s often what happens next that can make, break or save a brand’s reputation. One well-known, household brand had a bad thing happen. Many people were especially surprised and offended to see that the tweet had come from a well known brand, KitchenAid.

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

  It did mean I went through a very intense period of saying no to dessert (would not recommend), but it also helped me fall in love with exercise (would recommend) — and almost accidentally, build something of a personal brand.  I realized it was time for a personal brand pivot. Naturally, I put it to the experts.

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