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Seven Skills Every Social Media Manager Needs

Webbiquity SMM

Social media managers create innovative, high-quality content to engage followers and grow their company’s social media presence. Agility is a fundamental skill in social media marketing, essential for continuously adapting to the evolving digital landscape.

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24 Tools Every Social Media Manager Should Use

Visually SM

Social media tools are essential for a smart business to manage important channels in their Digital Marketing routine. The good news is that as social media has grown up, so have the tools available to help you master it. Sprout Social. Social Flow.

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Are Social Media Managers Future CMOs?

Oktopost

Want to hear more from renowned B2B marketing leaders? Episode Summary There is a long-standing debate around the role of a social media manager: Are they masters of the online universe or simply digitally savvy youngsters who know how to make extremely engaging videos?

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How to Become a Social Media Manager: 18 Experts Share Advice

agora pulse

Learn from these gifted and experienced social media managers about what it takes to be successful in the social media industry. Are you hoping to become a social media manager, either for your own business or as a consultant to others?

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Top 14 Social Media Management Tools for 2021

Oktopost

Social selling has become an almost inevitable part of B2B selling. Sadly enough, even though social selling is proven to increase company revenue by upwards of 16% , 3 in 4 sales reps don’t implement the strategy. Clearly, your buyers are now all over social media.

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Your Social Media Manager Resume Better Have This

agora pulse

With adoption of social media marketing at an all time high and fans requiring constant attention, both B2B and B2C companies are finding it necessary to hire an entirely new marketing role, one that didn’t even exist 10 years ago — the social media manager. However, the bad news is that nowadays, it’s likely anyone who has their own personal Facebook profile considers themselves a capable social media manager.

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How to become a social media manager: 6 Tips from experts

Sprout Social

Olivia Jepson , Sprout’s Social Media Strategist, is the unofficial face of our brand on Instagram and TikTok. Not only is she on-camera talent, she’s also responsible for creating content, helping build our social strategy and analyzing social data.

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How to Build a Brand Community for your B2B Business

Oktopost

It turns out that creating a brand community for your B2B company can give you that type of mouthwatering ROI. . B2B businesses need to foster a strong spirit of community to serve their clients and customers better. What is a Brand Community? Social Media .

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The 25 Top Social Media Management Tools for Businesses of All Sizes

Buffer Social

How do you stay on top of all your social media marketing tasks? From creating and publishing content to analytics and reporting, it can be pretty overwhelming to think of all the jobs social media marketers have to complete every day. Thankfully, there are a bunch of awesome social media management tools available to help. Here are 25 of the very best social media management tools out there. Sprout Social.

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Your CEO Hired a New Social Media Agency? Here’s How to Partner With them and Not Get Fired

Pam Moore

Subject line reads… “New Social Media Agency Kickoff Meeting Tomorrow.” Just 6 short months ago you were hired to lead the charge with social media. Before you start freaking out, take a listen to episode 241 of the Social Zoom Factor podcast. Our agency Marketing Nutz works with small business, entrepreneurs, franchise organizations with 1000's of franchisees up to Fortune 10 brands. Need some help with social media marketing?

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How Does Digital Marketing Differ From B2B to B2C?

agora pulse

One of the most basic and fundamental rules of marketing is undoubtedly “know your audience.” Without this vital piece of information you won’t be able to find your market, appeal to them, and close the sale (you’re basically just “walking in the woods”). However, in this newer age of digital marketing, many companies are neglecting to design their marketing strategy with the differentiation between B2B and B2C marketplaces.

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B2B Employee Advocacy Best Practices

Oktopost

Why Employee Advocacy Matters for B2B. By sharing company-related content to their personal social media profiles, employees amplify a company’s message. It can take months for a B2B marketing team to build up a company’s presence and credibility online.

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9 B2B Social Media Marketing Tips for Social Media Managers

Hootsuite

Business-to-business social media marketing is no longer just an innovative way to boost sales—it’s essential to your organization’s survival in the competitive B2B market. In fact, a recent survey found 92% of B2B marketers use social media as a content marketing tactic to drive sales. Traditionally, social media was seen as a more fitting channel for business-to-community (B2C) marketing due to its informal nature.

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16 Tools Every Social Media Manager Should Use

Visually SM

Smart businesses know that social media is a power to be reckoned with: social media channels create a direct line of communication between your company and consumers, and they give anyone with an Internet connection instant access to the latest buzz around your products or services. But social media managers have a million balls to juggle at once, so using that direct line of communication effectively can be a major achievement. Sprout Social.

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Behind “Behind the Post” ! Meet the Teacher Gone Social Media Manager

Oktopost

Addie Peters sits down with Host Olivia Messina to discuss her transition from teaching to tech and how she approaches social strategy for a global brand. Addie Peters is asking everything you want to know about being a social media manager!

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B2B Social Media Strategy for a Post-COVID World

Oktopost

We’re working from home, live streaming classes and get-togethers, and shifting even more of our social lives onto social media. B2B marketing has felt these shifts as much as any other field. Re-evaluate Your Marketing Strategy. Create Community.

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Haily Moulton on the Recipe for B2B TikTok Success

Oktopost

Haily Moulton , Social Growth Marketer at Biteable goes Behind the Post. TikTok has absolutely exploded on the social scene over the past few years—and B2B marketers are beginning to test the waters. But where do B2B marketers fit in?

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How to Manage a Social Media Crisis

Webbiquity SMM

A social media crisis is like a wildfire: one mistake can quickly get out of control. When your business commits a critical error on social media, you risk losing not just followers, but also current and prospective future customers. Create a social media policy.

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From Community to Commerce: Making the ROI Connection

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of From Community to Commerce: Making the ROI Connection. This webinar featured Meagan Fish ( @ iRobot ) Global Social Media Manager, iRobot, Andrew Ashton (@ @AndrewLAshton ) Digital Marketing Specialist, Pizza Hut and Jordan Slabaugh (@ jordanv ) Vice President of Marketing, Wayin.

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Pros and Cons of your Social Media Team Structure

Ignite Social Media

With different clients comes different social media team structures that we work with. Social media teams are structured depending on how the brand divides their internal vs. external resources, and there are pros and cons to each approach. Here we’ll look at two social media team structures and the pros and cons of each. Many clients that we work for only have one person who oversees all social media marketing for their brand.

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45 of the Best Social Media Analytics Tools

agora pulse

We’ve culled the best social media analytics tools to save you the time and pain of sifting through everything out there. How do you measure your brand’s progress on social media and make sure you’re on track to reach your marketing goals? Zoho Social.

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10 Important Skills and Traits Your Social Media Manager Will Need in 2017

Buffer Social

A decade ago, the role of a social media manager might not have even existed. Today, however, almost every company is involved in social media one way or another. A quick look at Google Trends shows the rise in interest in the term “social media manager” over the years and it seems that people have never been as interested in the term as they are today. But what does it take to be a great social media manager?

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10 Important Skills and Traits Your Social Media Manager Will Need

Buffer Social

A decade ago, the role of a social media manager might not have even existed. Today, however, almost every company is involved in social media one way or another. A quick look at Google Trends shows the rise in interest in the term “social media manager” over the years, and it seems that people have never been as interested in the term as they are today. But what does it take to be a great social media manager?

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Navigating Social Crises and Community Building with Ease

Oktopost

Jessica Kalbarczyk gets candid about social strategy, crisis communication, and community. In this tell-all episode of Behind the Post, Host Olivia Messina is joined by a social media expert with over a decade of social media experience!

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What in the World … ! Surprising Facts About Reddit Ads

agora pulse

When you think of paid social, do you think of Reddit ads? Here’s a look at all the reasons why Reddit ads can be a secret ingredient in the social media manager’s mix. Let’s talk about paid social ads. Social Media Management

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Your Social Media Guide to the Holiday Season: How to Prepare for It (and What to Avoid)

agora pulse

With the right planning, you can make sure your social media is one less thing to worry about. That’s why you have to prepare your social media for the holidays now. Prepare Your Holiday Marketing on Your Social Media Accounts. Get your social calendar ready now. When that happens, social media is one of the first things to go … You can’t afford to let that happen. Prepare to spend more on social ads.

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Your Social Media Guide to the Holiday Season: How to Prepare for It (and What to Avoid)

agora pulse

With the right planning, you can make sure your social media is one less thing to worry about. That’s why you have to prepare your social media for the holidays now. Prepare Your Holiday Marketing on Your Social Media Accounts. Get your social calendar ready now. When that happens, social media is one of the first things to go … You can’t afford to let that happen. Prepare to spend more on social ads.

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26 Social Media Marketing Books to Advance Your Skills

agora pulse

Need a good social media marketing book that fuels your learning and your career? Here’s our list of favorite reads for different aspects of social media. But what about when you need to master a new-to-you social platform or develop your skills?

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Top 10 LinkedIn Influencers (LinkedInFluencers) to Follow

Oktopost

The term “influencer marketing” often evokes thoughts of popular B2C products showcased by social media gurus with millions of followers. But influencer marketing is not just for B2C. So, where can eager B2B marketers find the best influencers?

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The Must-Follow Principles of B2B Social Media Success

Convince & Convert

Please read it, Jonathan has some amazing tips for marketers everywhere, especially in the B2B sector. How an internally driven social plan (versus externally created) leads to a trustworthy and speedy network. Why “social” means “democratic” when it comes to structure. How letting down your competitive guard leads to a successful B2B social presence. Why B2B social exists in more than just the Marketing/Communications Department.

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3 Phases of Digital Transformation: Mindset, Skillset, Toolset

Oktopost

Digital transformation is not something new to any sales or marketing organization. Talking about professional sports and adversity in business, Hackett gives an additional perspective to how B2B marketers can approach rapid digital transformation with the right mindset, skillset and toolset.

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Driving Teams to Exceptional Levels of Performance

Oktopost

Which management approach drives exceptional levels of performance? He shares an immense amount of value and vision into the world of B2B marketing along with disclosing some of the less talked about aspects of being a marketing leader. B2B Marketing Podcast

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What Can Social Media Do for SEO?

Oktopost

Backlinks are the backbone of SEO, but Google does not consider backlinks from social media websites as strong as other links. Nevertheless, your SEO efforts with social media are still valuable. What is the connection between SEO and social media?

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The 32 Best Twitter Marketing Tools

Webbiquity SMM

While Facebook is far and away the largest social network, when it comes to driving B2B website traffic and brand visibility, Twitter and LinkedIn are tops. HubSpot has noted Twitter has more than 300 million active monthly users, and “accounts for 16% of referrals to longer articles from social sites and 14% for shorter news articles.” Sample review: “Grow and manage your following using Tweepi. ” — Social Media Today.

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Social Pros 9 – Christopher S. Penn, WhatCounts

Convince & Convert

This is Episode 9 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. Penn , the Director of Inbound Marketing for enterprise email company WhatCounts. Read on for insights from Chris, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: social media as a B2B lead generator!). Social Pros Transcript For Your Reading Enjoyment. Jay: And we are back with Episode Number Nine of the Social Pros podcast.

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Social Pros 9 – Christopher S. Penn, WhatCounts

Convince & Convert

This is Episode 9 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. Penn , the Director of Inbound Marketing for enterprise email company WhatCounts. Read on for insights from Chris, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: social media as a B2B lead generator!). Social Pros Transcript For Your Reading Enjoyment. Jay: And we are back with Episode Number Nine of the Social Pros podcast.

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The Top 10 LinkedIn Influencers (LinkedInFluencers) to Follow

Oktopost

The term “influencer marketing” often evokes thoughts of popular B2C products showcased by social media gurus with millions of followers. But influencer marketing is not just for B2C. So, where can eager B2B marketers find the best influencers?

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22 Expert Guides and Reviews of 200+ Social Media Tools

Webbiquity SMM

As social media marketing has become ubiquitous ( 88% of marketers say social media is important for their businesses), hundreds of new tools have developed just in the past few years: tools for social media management, monitoring, measurement, automation, identifying influencers, creating graphical content, and more. Image credit: Buddy Media. 26 Social Media Monitoring Tools [Reference Guide] by Razor Social. ** 5 STARS.

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Social Pros 6 – Instagram Lessons from a Giant B2B Company

Convince & Convert

This is Episode 6 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Jonathan Wichmann the head of social media for Maersk Line , the world’s largest container shipping company. Read on for insights from Jonathan, our “Work It Out” advice segment, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: are we unfriending each other more than ever?). I can’t do social media.”

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How to start and grow a social media marketing agency

Sprout Social

The demand for social media and content outsourcing is growing. Agencies are expanding their services and teams to keep up with the ever-changing social media landscape. Starting your own social media marketing agency.

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23 Outstanding Social Media Marketing Guides

Webbiquity SMM

Though the use of social media and social networks for marketing is now nearly ubiquitous, and 78% of companies have dedicated social media teams, many marketers sill struggle with certain aspects of social marketing, such as formalizing strategies and measuring results. Yet as buyers make increasing use of social media to evaluate the offerings of and engage with vendors, expectations will inevitably increase.

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How to Integrate Social Media Throughout Your Sales Funnel

Oktopost

A sales funnel is a crucial part of any successful marketing strategy. The top of the funnel (TOFU) pulls its leads in from a wide range of channels, such as through search engines, blog posts, and social media. Quick Jump Links: The Social Media Marketing Funnel: 3 Core Steps.

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What Is Social Media Marketing? [Complete 2023 Guide]

Hootsuite

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.