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Choosing Your Ally in Growth: The Consultant vs. Agency Dilemma

Convince & Convert

So you’re at the point in your business where you’re looking to outsource support, whether it’s fixing an issue, auditing your current techstack, or attempting to scale, and you’re debating between hiring a consultant or an agency? First, let’s identify what exactly is the role of a consultant and an agency?

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Five content marketing tricks of a great social media consultant

Sherrilynne Starkie

Here’s five content marketing tricks to improve content marketing initiatives. As in most professions, an experienced social media consultant knows certain tricks of the trade to content marketing work better, faster, easier. Then campaigns are easy to test, and to prove the return on investment (ROI).

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What’s your social media marketing budget?

Sherrilynne Starkie

What should be your social media marketing budget? In the not-too-distant past, marketers used three per cent of turnover as the marketing budget ‘rule of thumb’. Start by pinning down exactly what you want social media marketing to do for your organization. Run one ad campaign per month. 2 new partnerships in Q1”.

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What the heck are social media consultants and what do they do all day?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Social media consultants are not masters of the dark arts. They are highly-qualified professionals with specific digital marketing and communications skills and experience. Companies often call a consultant in because social media is not working. Companies often call a consultant in because social media is not working.

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What's the vibe? 6 trends marketers should look out for in 2024

Audiense

Sometimes, marketing can feel a bit like magic, charting the unknown territory of the consumer landscape. We carefully consult our consumer insight reports, we pull our marketing data, and we add a sprinkle of expertise and optimism to create what we hope will be a winning campaign concoction.

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Sink or Swim? How SMBs Can Overcome Digital Marketing Challenges

The Realtime Report

How SMBs Can Overcome Digital Marketing Challenges While digital marketing can provide targeted access to buyers at budgets within reach of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), potentially leveling the playing field, it can also result in quickly escalating costs with little to no results. Sink or Swim? In the United States, 33.2

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Do You Need a Social Media Consultant?

Ignite Social Media

Now, we may be biased, but whether you’re a small business or an established corporation, social media marketing is a vital marketing channel. In either situation, you may consider hiring a social media consultant. Over the past 11 years, we’ve noticed a growing trend of companies bringing their marketing resources in house.