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Best Practices for Using Social Media Listening to Improve Your Marketing Strategy

Social Media Strategies Summit

Want to know why social media listening should absolutely, 100% be part of your marketing plans right now? Soon, people are queuing out the door to buy a book, a hot drink, and a snack. Social media listening is the same as this but on a massive scale. 3 Examples of Social Media Listening in Action.

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How to Develop a Social Media Policy for Employees in 2020 and Beyond

Oktopost

A decade ago Zappo’s had a social media policy for employees that was more or less the industry standard: “Be real and use your best judgment”. But with the metaphorical and literal explosion of social media, defining “best judgment” and “be real” has gotten a lot less straightforward. Use of company social accounts.

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How to Integrate Social Media into Your Website with a Homeland Embassy Strategy

Convince & Convert

I’d like to walk you through a social media strategy concept known as the homeland-embassy approach. Or do they need to socialize their homeland as well? We don’t have that advantage on a social network. We may get to use Facebook for free, but our competitors can buy ads against our conversations.

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Using Social Media to Reach the Hard-Working Class

Social Media Strategery

They like/follow/subscribe to brands in social media…if there’s a deal involved. They use coupons to save money…but also to get that feeling of “getting a deal” They buy generic brands…but will spend more for “tried-and-true” brand names. They use coupons…a lot.

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How Brands & Marketers Should Navigate the 2020 Election

Likeable

2020 has been a hard year for many of us, and even though social media has come under greater scrutiny, we have also found ourselves using it more. In accordance with most people using social media more, most brands are ranking it increasingly more important. Through this, you’re going to be on social media.

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The Taylor Swift Guide to Creating Compelling Content

Convince & Convert

First, figure out why customers are buying your product , what are they using it for? Kathy Sierra calls this finding “the Bigger, Cooler Thing that your product is a part of” For example, people buy cameras because they want to take better pictures. This can come in many places, such as blogs, Twitter, message boards, etc.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic.