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Todays #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: The Social Media RFP: How to Get the Best Results

Direct Marketing Observations

If you want to purchase an accounting system, customer relationship manager (CRM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for your company, it’s a pretty established process. But if you are a company who needs external help, how do you weed through this entirely new industry? Where to Start?

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How to work with social media agencies (and where teams always go wrong)

Sprout Social

Most companies employ a social media agency to fill some sort of gap: the company does not have enough in-house resources or lacks the in-house expertise. Whatever the reason, companies using agencies for social media work often botch both the relationship and the work. Agencies are very good at taking direction.

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Monday Roundup: Standing Out

Waxing UnLyrical

Why: In this guest post for WUL, Kirk Hazlett provides a real world example of how creating a corporate environment that empowers leads to passionate employees who make a company stand out from the crowd. Updating your RFQ or RFP form. Why: An outdated RFQ/RFP can hurt your business and deter potential customers.

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Social Media RFP: Best Practices and a Free Template

Hootsuite

Learn what information you should include in a social media RFP to attract the best companies and proposals for your business. What is a social media RFP? RFP stands for “request for proposal.”. A social media RFP: outlines a specific project or need your business wants to address It. Company profile.

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How B2B influencer marketing will grow your brand

Sprout Social

Most social platforms have their own professional communities, both formal and informal. It might look like a Facebook group geared toward career development in a specific industry, or a hashtag community on X (formerly known as Twitter). There’s even the WorkTok community on TikTok, if you want to experiment with short-form video.

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4 ways to advance your agency with your social media strategy

Sprout Social

Social media is just one of the strategic communication channels that afford agencies the ability to publish content, build relationships and have meaningful engagement with prospective clients, their communities. Show your work and communicate what sets you apart.

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How To Hire A Marketing Agency

Twist Image

I once heard an insurance company ask their agency to figure out who is the best at selling insurance online and beat them. My only thought was, "why look at who sells insurance best online, when you can study Amazon - a company that is proven to be one of the best players in selling online. Yes, there is a better way. creativity.

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