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How to Run a Social Media Competitive Analysis

Social Media Strategies Summit

Social media is a cut-throat world. But it’s not all bad news because those same rivals can be a major source of inspiration for your own social media strategy, helping you identify new opportunities and close gaps in your content calendar. Read on to learn how to run an effective social media competitive analysis.

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Sprout Tested: The answer to why you put links in the comments on LinkedIn

Sprout Social

And one of the biggest questions we’ve seen about LinkedIn content is whether or not you should put links in your posts, or in the first comment. We were curious too: why put the link in comments on LinkedIn? Why put the link in comments in LinkedIn posts? Comments vs. post? So we designed an experiment to find out.

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Is Your Brand Ready for Customer Service on Social Media?

Ignite Social Media

Social media is meant to be one thing and one thing only – and that’s social, right? This may not be surprising if you work in social media since this trend with needing customer service on social has been growing very quickly, especially over the past year.

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TikTok Tests New Options to Add External URLs to Clips, Comment Downvoting

Social Media Today

TikTok has expanded its test of adding external links to videos, with some users now able to add Wikipedia, TripAdvisor and Yelp links.

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Creating A Friendly URL For Your Google Plus Page

SocMed Sean

If that’s the case, then social media strategists shouldn’t ignore it, since it’s likely going to be a big part of the SEO formula going forward. While Google+ is pretty easy to setup and use, one of the things I don’t like about Google+ pages is the fact that you can’t create a friendly URL.

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How companies use video content on social media

Visually SM

If you haven’t already made substantial investments in video content for social media platforms, then it’s about time to get started. Of course, you can always post the URL to any old video that you already published. Why use video for social media? Facebook is a good social media for longer videos.

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A healthcare team’s guide to HIPAA compliance on social media

Sprout Social

You’d be hard-pressed to find healthcare marketers that don’t understand the value of social media for healthcare , according to Jill Florence, Director of Enterprise Sales at Sprout Social. However, as Katherine Van Allen, Senior Solutions Engineer at Sprout, points out, the benefits of social outweigh the risks.