Webbiquity SMM

JULY 23, 2024

B2B companies often struggle to keep up with rapidly changing market demands. Traditional B2B marketing methods often fall short. Image credit: Mikhail Nilov on Pexels According to a recent study, businesses that use AI in their marketing strategies see a 40% increase in productivity. This is where AI comes in.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MAY 5, 2025

Should You Reply to Social Media Comments? It’s a great question—and one I hear often from marketers and solo social media managers who are juggling content calendars, ad reports, and engagement strategies with little support and even less time. And remember: the brands that win aren’t always the loudest.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Global social media marketing strategies and new tools are empowering more brands than ever before to reach a worldwide audience. Going global effectively requires investing in a carefully crafted social media marketing strategy. What is a global social media marketing strategy?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

From a brand awareness and community engagement perspective, jumping on social media trends can be rewarding for higher education institutions. How To Spot Social Media Trends The first challenge of jumping on social media trends is to spot those trends in the first place. Let’s get into it.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Back in my agency days, I worked on the first-ever digital ads and social media efforts for Coca-Cola. It was like learning a foreign language while landing on a new moon… Fast forward 20 years, as a seasoned social media pro I’ve seen it all. It’s that brands are going mega-viral without even trying.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 9, 2025

Social media has always been a fast-moving channel, with no guarantees that what works today will still work tomorrow. But what are the biggest opportunities in social media right now AI? Instead, its about focusing on the right opportunities for your brand and audience. Personalization? Something else?

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Which social media networks should your brand focus on? Social media management is evolving rapidly, and consumers are becoming more discerning about where they engage. And they expect your brand to meet them where they already are. What is a social media network? But times have changed.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

There are some many different types of social media content to create and enjoy, from carousels to GIFs to videos. To successfully manage social media content creation across networks, you need to maintain a consistent brand voice, adapt to distinct formats and meet (or exceed) audience expectations.

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Sprout Social

MAY 22, 2025

Social media was born from a desire to connectacross neighborhoods, borders and causes. While much of todays content skews commercial, nonprofits have a unique opportunity to return social media to its roots: building community, inspiring action and amplifying human stories. What is nonprofit social media marketing?

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Buffer Social

MARCH 5, 2025

Social media marketing is using social media platforms — like Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, etc. It also includes paid social media marketing, like running ads and influencer marketing. A content calendar is the place where you slot your social media posts.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A social media marketing strategy is a summary of everything you plan to do and hope to achieve on social media. In this post, we’ll walk you through a nine-step plan to create a winning strategy for social media marketing. Social media is always changing! Keep it concise.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 3, 2025

Want to know why employee-generated content is such a powerful marketing tool? If youre ready to start leveraging these benefits, youre in the right place, because weve collated eight inspiring examples of real-world brands using employee-generated content. Theyre also in a social-friendly niche, with approximately 4.6

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 13, 2025

In 2024, we saw social media evolve in many ways — from numerous updates to some platforms ( cough Meta) to explosive growth for others (Bluesky!). With all the changes on the horizon, it’s safe to say that social media will look a little different in 2025. We’re also watching things like the U.S.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Before the 1960s, young people were seen as an undesirable marketing audience and mostly ignored. They were the largest and most influential generation in the history of modern consumerism, yet their social movements and corporate distrust confounded advertisers who had to completely rethink their playbooks. Sound familiar?

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In times of historically low employee satisfaction levels, brand perception has never been so important. A strong employer brand can reduce the cost per hire by as much as 50%, and a negative reputation can cost a company as much as 10% more per hire. What is employer branding? Builds brand awareness.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 30, 2024

New platforms, changing algorithms, and increasing audience expectations mean social media management is now a complex, full-time job. (We’re We’re preaching to the choir here, but social media isn’t just for interns anymore. What is social media management ? Honestly, was it ever? )

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In today’s ever-changing retail landscape, brands are divided into two groups. Those who see social media marketing as a key part of their customer engagement strategy and those who view it as a nice to have. The importance of social media in UK retail has only grown. Let’s start with the basics.

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Sprout Social

JULY 30, 2024

But what made this event even more unsettling was Claiir’s then-ongoing partnership with vegan, cruelty-free brand, MCoBeauty. When the brand found out about the crisis, they released a statement condemning Claiir’s actions and announced that their partnership was terminated—a move that protected the brand from further outrage.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Wondering which of your social media tactics are working? Busy social marketers need effective social media analytics tools to focus their efforts. What are social media analytics tools? Which network drove the most brand awareness for our product launch? That’s the theory.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Who is your social media audience, really? Done right, social media audience analysis goes beyond the basics. It can give you actionable insights to drive your social strategy. Key takeaways Social media audience analysis is about more than just demographics. What is social media audience analysis?

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Hootsuite

APRIL 9, 2025

100% of marketers who read these social media statistics will have the data they need to plan and optimize their social strategies in 2025. Grab a bevy and dive into the latest social media stats for ol faves Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Pinterest, plus newcomers RedNote and Bluesky.

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Sprout Social

JULY 23, 2024

.” This quote from Megan Thee Stallion during a recent chat at Social Media Week captures the buzz we’ve been hearing in marketing circles: Pinterest is having a moment. Here are five brands using Pinterest to build successful campaigns in 2024. Headspace Despite only having 14.3

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Social Media Strategies Summit

MAY 21, 2025

Where e-commerce brands are concerned, virality can often come from unexpected places. Which will hopefully translate to a bunch of extra sales and revenue Lets get into it Example #1: Beardbrand Beard care is big business, with the US mens grooming market expected to surpass $6 billion in 2024. Easy try to go viral.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Its time for a special edition of the Post Performance Report (PPR), a series where we showcase social media posts and campaigns inspiring us, and explore what makes them so genius. We unpack how your brand can use these examples to spark your own scroll-stopping ideaswhile maximizing your budget and doing more with less.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 18, 2025

Generation X (Gen X), born between 1965 and 1980, was one of the first generations to grow up with traditional media and go digital later in life. Their social media habits reflect this evolution, with them having profiles on both long-standing and emerging social networks. Now, social media drives culture.

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Hootsuite

JULY 26, 2024

Social media competitor analysis tools should be a staple in every social manager’s toolbox. Unfortunately, there’s often a temptation to focus inward and get stuck micro-analyzing your own internal social media performance. Keep reading to get into the best competitor analysis tools for social media.

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Ignite Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2025

Back in 2021, we shared a blog post showcasing the most popular social networks of the time, emphasizing the remarkable evolution of the social media landscape since its inception. In 2025, its clear that social medias influence has only deepened, reshaping how we connect, communicate, and consume content.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 31, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is supercharging social media marketing. Think of AI social media tools like Sprout Social as your marketing pit crew. They can fine-tune your social media engine, swap out tired tactics and keep you running at peak performancethey just cant drive the car.

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Oktopost

JULY 21, 2024

Let’s be radically transparent here: social media managers are exceptionally hard-working professionals. With all the different hats to wear, how can a social media manager stay productive? With all the different hats to wear, how can a social media manager stay productive? The list just goes on.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s crowded social media landscape, social marketers know how challenging it can be to get their brand’s content to rise above the noise. But trying to identify relevant content for multiple social networks all the time is exhausting—and costly. What does this process look like in practice?

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The world of social media influencers has transformed significantly in recent years. What began as brands sending free products to popular social media users has now evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, where contracted brand deals are closely aligned with targeted campaigns.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 30, 2025

Social media content in B2B marketing is about starting conversations that guide, inform, and generate mutual value. Even worse, poor accessibility can give the impression that a brand doesnt care about making its content available to people who cannot see the text and images and are using tools that read the posts out loud.

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Buffer Social

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Conferences have been on my mind a lot lately—specifically, the ones that bring together the brightest marketers and creators in the industry. After sharing the list with my Marketing team, one thought echoed across the board: "Our readers would probably love this, too."

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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 16, 2025

Once upon a time, you could feel confident that when you posted something on social media, a decent chunk of your audience would see it. Image source Declining reach is a big problem for government agencies and public sector teams, which rarely have the budget to spend on social media ads. Sadly, thats no longer the case.

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Buffer Social

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Creating content on social media can be powerful, both for businesses and aspiring creators — but it can be tough to figure out where to begin. You’re hemming and hawing over which social media platforms you should be on, which content creation tools you should use, and building a social media content strategy.

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Sprout Social

MAY 29, 2025

Social media ROI reports often present a challenge: a disconnect between available metrics and actual business impact. Social teams need to prove real business impact, but the metrics social networks traditionally surfacereach, click-through rates and impressionswerent designed for that purpose.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 20, 2024

TikTok has exploded onto the scene, becoming more than just a social media platformit’s a cultural phenomenon. Yet, as organic reach becomes more elusive, brands are looking to TikTok branded content as a way to truly connect with their audience. What is TikTok branded content?

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