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Personal Branding 101: Power Up Your Business with the Authentic YOU FACTOR

Pam Moore

Do you need a personal brand as a working professional or business owner? Or is a personal brand only for narcissistic “online gurus” who yearn to be rich and super famous? News Flash: You have a brand regardless if you plan it or not. Your brand is what others think and say about you.

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For financial services brands, social media is a risk mitigation friend—not foe

Sprout Social

It was a scene out of futuristic fiction—a decades-old bank collapsing mere hours after a social media post went viral. In what was supposed to be a non-event, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) announced they were selling securities to raise capital. It stops ripples about your brand online from becoming a tidal wave.”

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Post Performance Report: Brands transforming social customer care

Sprout Social

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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Expert Reveals the Top Social Media Scams of 2023 and How to Avoid Them

The Realtime Report

Cybercriminals are always producing new ways to steal from unsuspecting social media users, often trying to obtain account login credentials, personal information, or bank and credit card information. Use Strong Passwords And Enable Two-Factor Authentication. Only Buy From Verified Profiles And Brand Accounts.

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Social-Led Brands Are the Future—Here’s Why

Hootsuite

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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Importance of UGC and Creating Brand Advocacy

Ignite Social Media

Cultivating UGC for your brand not only saves you time, energy and recourses but helps create brand advocacy by making it easy for your customers to share what they love about your brand to the world. 75% of users say that user-generated content makes messaging more authentic. Why UGC Works. UGC in Action.

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Top B2B Brands on Social Media

Social Media Strategies Summit

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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