Social Media Strategies Summit

MARCH 11, 2021

It’s basically mandated that any article about it has to use words like “buzzy” and reference its myriad of A-list users, from Elon Musk to Oprah Winfrey. Unsurprisingly, although it’s still extremely new, brands are already starting to jump on board. If you’re reading this article, you’ve obviously heard of Clubhouse.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Brands are flocking to Facebook but are overlooking the significant opportunities and value that bloggers bring to digital marketing initiatives, according to the T echnorati 2013 Digital Influence Report. However brands are spending 57% of their social budgets on Facebook and only six per cent on blogs.

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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. Social media is an excellent platform for raising brand awareness and engaging your audience.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 8, 2012

What are the defining characteristics of a community? To get to this point, it becomes necessary to define what a community is. According to dictionary.com, a community is. According to dictionary.com, a community is. As community managers, it’s our job to manage a brand’s online (and offline) presence.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 8, 2021

What’s more, its parent company also owns three of the other four platforms to appear in the top five, including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger. Clearly, Facebook hopes that by attaching its latest attempt to an already popular platform, it’ll see much better results. Showcase Your Brand Personality.

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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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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. Source: Hubspot Facebook. PRIORITY PLATFORM: Facebook and Instagram Advertising. Source: Shopify Facebook.

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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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Buffer Social

AUGUST 30, 2023

Both creators and marketers alike are tapping into the power of fostering communities — and with good reason. We asked both online community experts and community-building creators to share their expertise, so you can tap into this powerful approach. What is a community? So how do you do it? And is it worth it?

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Sherrilynne Starkie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Bloggers too, are being taken seriously as true influencers by marketers and are being courted by brands and the PR agencies that represent them. Here are some tips for new bloggers to help get the best out of brand relationships: Seattle-area Blogger Meetup Group Photo (2) (Photo credit: Chris Pirillo). Understand what’s expected.

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Visually SM

AUGUST 19, 2020

A big part of succeeding in Digital Marketing is finding out the right channels to promote your brand. By the end of this article, you will be able to understand: Why does a brand need a social media presence? What social media channels should your brand be present? Why does a brand need a social media presence?

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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?

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Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Facebook rolled out a lot of changes last week. Our designer, Jake Hamilton, shared his opinion in his blog post Facebook Timeline: First Impressions. As someone who helps clients navigate the constantly changing world of Facebook, I was more interested in how these changes would affect brands. Some users hate it.

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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 18, 2019

Does the person who post as your brand on Facebook also work to develop the community that the company is part of? Running a brand’s social media accounts is a lot of work. Typically, most companies find they need at least a social media manager and a community manager. Should they?

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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. It has a unique vibe, which this article will explain. Users create posts in topic-based communities — called subreddits — and interact in comment threads. What is Reddit?

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 11, 2013

So says Ken Evraire , the Ottawa branding consultant for Bytown Sports, according to an Ottawa Citizen story last week. Twitter and Facebook immediately exploded with accusations of racism because of the tomahawk’s place in Native American culture. And that excitement is what we want to link our brand to.”. Related articles.

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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. I’ll spare you the technical jargon around blockchain technology—the foundation for web3—there are countless articles that cover that ground. You can go to Facebook, Twitter or YouTube to create and or engage.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

JUNE 29, 2013

But little by little Twitter and Facebook have taken over the reader duties for me. I like that my online communities help surface the content that is most relevant to me and it seems to keep me up to date with news and events. Facebook would not confirm the reports at the time. Does Facebook affect your brain.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And while anyone can use social media to post an Instagram reel or write a short Facebook photo caption, you’ll need to consistently demonstrate a special set of abilities before you can call yourself a social media expert. build a strong brand identity. Focus on community engagement. Become a better writer.

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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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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 29, 2011

Tweet An important part of your social media strategy is to start and manage your community. Community building is an important exercise since this makes your target customers stick to the brand and makes them come back to see the latest happenings on your brand. Steps for building a community.

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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. Ready to get started? Let’s dive in!

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Keyhole.co

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

billion are active Facebook users. That means more than one-third of the world uses Facebook. As of late 2023, Facebook is the most widely used social media platform in the world. What is Facebook marketing? Facebook marketing creates awareness and promotes a company or individual via the platform. Out of those 8.1

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Mindjumpers

JULY 10, 2012

Tweet The following post is part of the Mindjumpers Network series and written by our Community Manager, Sara Hansson. Social media has opened up for the possibility to easily connect people across countries, which further provides a great possibility for international brands to penetrate new markets. Local vs. global.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 4, 2023

Our research among 4,000 US respondents ages 18-75 reveals that out of 10 social media platforms, only Facebook is primarily associated with serving social connection. Social connection: Facebook is about connecting and bonding; it is the only platform primarily associated with the ostensible purpose of “social” media.

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SocialFish

MARCH 3, 2011

This post is the second in a two-part series where guest blogger Garry Polmateer , former association executive currently working at NimbleUser helping organizations with Salesforce, looks at two online brands through the lens of the concepts in our book, Open Community. Open Community Means Collaborating with a Purpose.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 8, 2013

Inspired by the passion and enthusiasm people have for cereal, there’s a new, “Hello Cereal Lovers” co-branded social media community from General Mills that is generating buzz for its creative and collaborative visual storytelling approach. What’s unique about this community is that it’s inspirational, versus highly branded.

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Socialmedia.biz

MARCH 25, 2021

In this article, we’ll explain what hashtags are, why they work with audiences, and we’ll cover some of the typical strategies used in hashtag marketing to grow the reach of social updates. Hashtags have become so large that communities pop up around their use. Initially, hashtags were created for content tagging. Trending Hashtags.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“Who do consumers think runs brand accounts?” We aspired to write an article that would prove consumer stereotypes wrong. What does it say about the way brands co-opt BIPOC culture? Kikora Mason, Vice President of Social Listening and Community Management of Chase Social Media , anticipated this result.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

If you can combine the element of Trust across a wide range of fans, followers and advocates then you have a community. The word community is often overused now that Social Media has come along. Share this on Facebook. Sharing is how you build a Brand In a recent BusinessWeek article featuring Tony Hsieh from Zappos.

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Pixlee

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The ways in which fitness brands engage with audiences has evolved at warp speed in recent years thanks, in part, to rampant social media adoption. Digital disruption is not unique to this industry, but the opportunity afforded fitness brands is massive. People trust peers advocating for a brand more than the brand itself.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JANUARY 12, 2023

Far from managing accounts for one or two brands and sub-brands, they might be responsible for managing social media profiles across dozens — or even hundreds — of different departments. One way Ohio State has overcome silos is by creating a social media community of practice group led by Dani’s team. You can’t do it all alone.

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Later

JUNE 2, 2021

Facebook Messenger is about to change in a big way — say hello to new customer service and sales-focused tools for businesses. . Announced at F8 Refresh , Facebook’s annual developer conference, the keynote speech focused on bringing more Messenger capabilities to businesses of all sizes. . Source: Facebook.

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Buffer Social

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When I first started building Diversability with the vision of creating a community of people with disabilities (and the allies who support us) elevating disability pride, I kept encountering roadblocks when trying to get the word out. Now, in 2023, we have 80,000 followers across our social networks and 5,800 in our closed communities.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

AUGUST 15, 2023

Josie has a website , a YouTube channel, and Instagram , Facebook , and Twitter accounts. The scuttlebutt in the economics community this week about identifying toxic professionals stems from an online forum. And she’s the author of the book Organic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online Communities. Everywhere!

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Hootsuite

JUNE 28, 2023

You share an amazing Hootsuite blog article to your work Slack (hint!). Dark social is the oldest social network in action: private, untraceable human-to-human communication. Dark social is sharing content or mentioning brands on private social media channels, including through direct messaging, email, private groups, and more.

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