Social Media Strategies Summit

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Here are ten brands demonstrating the potential of non-fungible tokens for building awareness , promoting campaigns, and driving sales. Many organizations — including conservation charity WWF and video game company EA — have faced backlash from fans and supporters for launching (or even just planning) NFT initiatives.

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Examples Brands Avatar Authentication 177

Social Media Strategies Summit

JUNE 8, 2023

Brands have many reasons to move away from the social media giant Facebook. But the challenge for brands remains: how can you stand out on a platform that prioritizes content from friends and family? Here are six brands achieving killer results on Facebook in 2023 to inspire you. So Facebook can’t be all bad.

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Brands Facebook Influencer Campaign 130

Ignite Social Media

JULY 18, 2019

It’s natural for retail brands to want to learn how to drive direct results via social media, whether in sales or leads. In one of our social media retail case studies, a mid-sized office supply retailer was able to see an overall $1.11 return on ad spend (ROAS) and even higher numbers for its partner products.

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Case Study Retail Study Social Media 98

Sprout Social

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The metaverse is the new internet frontier and popular brands are taking advantage of this evolving technology. Once companies finally understand what the metaverse is , how can they stand out among the many multiverses of metaverses (try saying that two times fast)? Metaverse brand activations: What they look like today.

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Industry Examples Real Estate Brands 109

Quintly

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Whether you are a SaaS company, an eCommerce retailer, or any other kind of business, you can reach out to your target audience via YouTube without any hassles. YouTube is the second-most visited website in the world. With over 14 billion visits every month, YouTube offers an ever-growing audience base for all kinds of businesses.

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YouTube Retail Tips Brands 115

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? Let’s take a closer look.

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Review Brands How To Analysis 126

Pixlee

JUNE 16, 2021

Retail and ecommerce faced significant shifts in the past year, driven by store closures, no-contact shopping and myriad other challenges. Take a close look at these statistics to get a better idea of what’s happening in ecommerce and retail in 2021 and how it might affect your business in the near future. Shoppers Go Online.

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Retail Trends UGC Mobile 52

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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Report Atlassian Brands Sentiment 65

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. Slack is a workplace communication and collaboration platform that appeals to companies large and small.

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B2B Social Media Brands Hubspot 150

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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Reputation Tools Brands How To 129

Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

With the ability to publish longer videos and consumers’ love of short form video, there’s a lot of Reel-estate for brands to get creative and boost their engagement. Instagram Reel ideas for fashion and retail brands. Push creative boundaries for your brand with these ideas: 1. Promote hot in-store items.

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Types Instagram Brands Collaboration 117

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2023

While this platform has already played a huge role in social media trends over the last couple of years, brands will likely continue to utilize it for advertising purposes this year, despite serious security concerns. The success of live video initiatives makes it clear that consumers want to see the faces behind their favorite companies.

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Advertising Social Media Strategy Authentication 238

Pixlee

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The way that retailers acquire customers online has changed significantly over the last decade. Today, brands need to find more authentic ways to connect with their existing and potential customers. Companies that don’t keep up with the latest trends will have difficulty reaching their goals. million by 2022. Social Media.

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Retail Trends UGC Authentication 55

Sprout Social

APRIL 21, 2020

And while the retail industry has weathered significant change lately, sustainability is one trend that just keeps rising. Lyst used Good On You ratings to define what makes a sustainable brand. But with the movement so broad and ill-defined, it was only a matter of time before brands leveraged sustainability for all the wrong reasons.

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Retail Trends Fashion Marketing 103

Social Media Strategies Summit

MAY 10, 2019

Today’s consumers are already interacting with brands on an omnichannel level. For brands that have already embraced omnichannel marketing, the rate of customer satisfaction is 23 times higher than those still using inconsistent or incomplete multichannel marketing. As a response, the brand created Mobile Totes.

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Brands Retail Marketing Mobile 109

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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Brands How To Authentication Collaboration 113

Twist Image

JUNE 4, 2012

There was an old retail paradigm (that still rings true): get them to the store. Many retailers still treat their online store as if it's just another store. This part is true: never before in the history of business have consumers been this much further ahead of the brands in terms of communications, marketing and connectivity.

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Retail Real Estate Loyalty Price 102

Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In fact, mobile commerce — or m-commerce — is likely to make up nearly half of all US retail m-commerce sales by 2025. ASOS is a fashion shopping app home to over 850 brands and 85,000 products across categories like clothing, makeup, shoes and accessories. Rakuten is a cash back shopping app featuring over 3,500 brands.

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Retail Apparel Discount Fashion 125

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 14, 2020

You don’t have to look hard to find an up-and-coming brand ambassador program on social media. That’s because modern companies are looking to reach customers beyond traditional ad campaigns. Not only do your customers already know the ins and outs of your brand, but also introduce your products to your intended audience.

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Brands How To Hashtag Applications 143

Sprout Social

JANUARY 29, 2024

With major changes at the company and new platforms like Threads, users are diversifying their time across platforms while remaining loyal to some legacy networks. Rather than trying to invest in every platform alongside your competition, now is the time for brands to meet their audience in more intentional ways.

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Social Media Strategy Exercises Retail 111

Sprout Social

MAY 19, 2021

Most consumers expect brands and companies with a social media presence to interact with their customers in meaningful ways. As social continues to evolve, the ways audiences engage with brands will grow alongside it. Choose a brand over the competition (77%). Recommend a brand (76%).

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Engagement Brands Review Influencer 135

Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Imagine a company that has upscale retail locations around the United States receiving tens of thousands of customer visits. Yet some brands are terribly underutilizing these pages, making them basically brochureware repositories — essentially inviting customers in but not engaging them or giving them an incentive to return.

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Brands Repository Analysis Sentiment 275

Mindjumpers

MAY 2, 2012

Tweet When the QR (Quick Response) codes first became available for smartphones, it seemed to be the new big thing so companies went along with the trend by incorporating the 2D codes into their marketing strategies. Spanish railway company offers download for their passengers. Similar Posts: LinkedIn Launches ‘Follow Company’ Button.

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Brands Posterous Retail Collaboration 269

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 17, 2022

We’ll also showcase brands that have embraced their inner hostess with the mostess to surprise their customers and develop their brand affinity. This approach can foster brand awareness and affinity because it creates memorable moments with customers, especially if the brand personalizes the gift or experience.

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Brands Fashion Hosting Eventful 97

The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Under a federal court order, the FDA faced a September 9 deadline to rule on applications from e-cigarette companies to keep their products on the market. Retail assessments in the 43 stores surveyed demonstrate that flavored e-cigarettes also remain widely available in stores across the country.

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Report Applications Survey Retail 172

Ignite Social Media

JULY 24, 2020

The 2019 holiday shopping season became the first-ever trillion-dollar retail season in US history. The 48-hour experience continues to push large sales for the retail giant year over year. Add to that the 5,300 US stores that have closed just this year, proving that the retail apocalypse that began in 2010 is far from over.

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Retail Upcoming Buy Social Media 177

Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

But while this is a yearly slam-dunk for big box retailers, Black Friday can bring more challenges than benefits for small businesses. Slashing prices to make sales cuts straight into their bottom line — and with limited marketing budgets and resources, competing with big brands takes courage, insight, and creativity. What is Pantee?

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Campaign Brands Fashion HootSuite 89

Sprout Social

MAY 3, 2022

The cannabis industry is booming, which means more brands are leveraging social media as a channel to promote their products, share educational information about cannabis use, and advocate for decriminalization, social justice and destigmatization. Now more than ever, brands are fighting for higher visibility amongst cannabis consumers.

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Social Media Brands Content Guidelines 87

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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Strategy Brands Hubspot Survey 130

Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s no longer enough to respond only to @mentions of your brand online. If that’s all you’re keeping an eye on, you’re most likely missing a variety of messages that only mention your brand by a variation of your name or shout out a product. Responding to customers has been shown to lead to stronger brand loyalty among customers.

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Social Media Strategy Brands Airlines 135

Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This is thanks to increasing online purchases and the growth of omnichannel retail. Gartner predicts chatbots will be the main customer service tool for 25% of companies by 2027. Chatbots save retailers time and money by allowing them to customers at any time. This is a major time and money-saver for online retailers.

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FAQ Retail Overview Loyalty 120

Social Media Strategies Summit

AUGUST 28, 2019

Advancements in Artificial Intelligence are offering companies better ways to do just that. In fact, by 2021, companies are expected to be spending $57 billion on AI platforms. To achieve this goal, the space they’ve created is a true brand experience that combines food, games, shopping, and a garden. Source: Shopify.

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Examples Marketing Retail Automotive 200

Sprout Social

JUNE 27, 2022

This new opportunity has revolutionized how B2C brands interact with their customers. Quite a few brands are trying to answer that question for themselves. Not all B2B companies may not be able to capitalize on those instant #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt B2C conversions, but that doesn’t mean they won’t get any value out of the network.

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B2B Brands Marketing How To 135

Mindjumpers

JUNE 13, 2012

Mindjumpers Network is a global network of local country community managers enabling international companies to execute and maintain brand communities in a structured, quality assured and cost effective way across markets with the aim of creating effect and value. Local activation for global brands is on the rise.

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The Realtime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2012

A new study by Adobe found that brand engagement (defined as likes, comments, and shares) on Facebook rose 896% year-over-year. What led to the increase in brand engagement? more effective social marketing by brands. more effective social marketing by brands. use of new acquisition and engagement metrics.

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Engagement Automotive Brands Paid Search 194

Pixlee

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Brands who embrace diversity in their campaigns, content, and hiring practices are representing a wide range of races, genders, orientations, and abilities, to name a few things. More than ever before, consumers are holding brands accountable to make key marketing changes to showcase different faces and voices. ThirdLove .

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Brands Content Authentication UGC 77

Adam Cohen

AUGUST 24, 2010

How many people at your company are trained, equipped and empowered to talk to customers? How many customers does your company have? No doubt the numbers stack up in a heavy ratio against people inside the company that are trained to engage them. (Well, the decision to leap anyway – the benefits can be much more reqarding.)

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