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The 4 Best Ecommerce Platforms for Selling in 2023

Hootsuite

Bonus: Learn how to sell more products on social media with our free Social Commerce 101 guide. A chatbot can help you save time on customer service and sell more products by answering FAQs , providing customer support, recommending products, taking care of inventory management, and offering in-store appointment booking.

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How to Leverage Your Social Media KPIs to Drive Business Growth

Sprout Social

As social media marketers, it’s easy to get caught up in the fun, creative work of managing a great social media campaign. From tracking how your networks look to social media KPIs (key performance indicators) like engagement rates and follower counts, every section has its purpose.

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Free Culture and Attention as Currency

Waxing UnLyrical

While the repercussion of such an open and free culture invites a discussion in itself, let’s talk about in the context of the startup ambience. Now, with the barriers lifted, a swamp of creators are competing the bigwigs, creating a culture with 1,000 broadcasters for 10 million listeners. The ratio is only poised to rise with time.

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Is Crowdsourcing Really the Industry’s Dark Side?

Waxing UnLyrical

There are two things that all design professionals hate : competing for your business, and doing spec work. Usually this meant surfing the web and flipping through my art books for a few days in order to soak up some inspiration, followed by a long time spent in front of a blank computer screen. Like a lot of designers I was scared.

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How to Outsource Your Way to Better Content

Convince & Convert

Are you acting as content creator, content marketer, social media strategist, web developer, and more? If you’re on this blog reading this post, that means you are in all likelihood a content creator or marketer, or a social media strategist/director. If I had more time, could I improve my social media strategy? (If

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Review of the Online Group Buying Industry

Idaconcpts

LivingSocial first gained notoriety for their Visual Bookshelf application on Facebook, which was the first and largest application allowing users to catalog and share their favorite books with friends. Later on they released the PickYourFive (e.g. It wasn’t until 2009 that LivingSocial started the daily-deal business.

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A Heart to Heart with My Industry: Five Ways to Improve the Business Consulting Industry

Waxing UnLyrical

An experienced startup investor once told me, “Marketing is a race to the bottom.” When business consultants lower their rates to compete, they not only cut themselves out of dollars, but also cut every other consultant out of dollars. Which brings up the next discussion point…. We need to keep our rates high.