Buffer Social

JANUARY 25, 2022

Although anytime can be a good time to switch up your marketing strategy, the start of the new calendar is one that resonates with us quite a bit. With that in mind, we talked to 10 small business owners to learn about what they're changing in their marketing this year.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 26, 2021

As marketers, it’s our job to know our target audience’s needs and preferences. It’s why we conduct market research every year to better understand what our customers want and uncover new business opportunities. But sometimes market research alone isn’t enough, especially when consumer preferences can change overnight.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2023

Social media advertising requires marketing professionals to proactively respond to continually evolving user habits and adapt to different trends. While the social media marketing environment is constantly shifting, there are several social media advertising strategies that marketers may choose to focus on this year.

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Pixlee

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Retail shopping has been permanently changed by internet culture. This combined with the presence of giant ecommerce corporations like Amazon and AliExpress has forced retailers to understand that shopping is no longer a simple errand but rather an experience for consumers. Is this leading to a retail-apocalypse?

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Sprout Social

JULY 6, 2022

Every company should strive to be driven by data. When I think about data, I inevitably think about social media. That might be because I spend my days working with our clients’ executives to capture the voice of their customer, but I think it’s because social media intelligence is the next data frontier. Cast a wider net.

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Pixlee

AUGUST 23, 2018

Today’s consumers rely heavily on social media and tapping into their community when it comes to brand loyalty and their purchase decisions. The question is how to bring the authentic community experience from social media into your stores. “UGC They absolutely love it!

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 9, 2024

Evolving your social strategy to meet consumer demands requires you to listen better, scale your customer care efforts and integrate your social and customer data. What is social media personalization and why are marketers prioritizing it? A CRM or other customer data collection software is non-negotiable.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 12, 2020

By now you know that social media is a marketing powerhouse. Social ROI often comes down to the data you collect and how you use it. Social ROI often comes down to the data you collect and how you use it. Check out the articles and advice below to harness the power of social data and put it into action. Getting started .

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Pixlee

OCTOBER 27, 2021

2021 was a unique year in the world of influencer marketing and ecommerce – and 2022 is shaping up to be similarly transformative. One of the attractions for influencers has been the fact that most are just passionate content creators looking to grow their community around a common interest. Companies see value in influencers, too.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 19, 2022

There’s a universal truth behind the rise of conversational marketing: People miss talking to other people. Relying on one-way communication channels like lead capture forms won’t cut it. To provide the best customer experience possible, invest in conversational marketing. What is conversational marketing?

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

average performance stats for a social platform or industry), it’s difficult to make sense of raw data. And empower you to brag to your boss with data-informed confidence — you’re welcome.) Clear data. Where did this data come from? Without social media benchmarks (a.k.a. But we got you. Not sure how?

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Sprout Social

JULY 13, 2021

Retailers and social platforms outside of China are eager to capitalize on this new commerce opportunity, with brands like the Home Depot already testing out their own livestream experiences. As retailers increasingly experiment with shoppable live video, here’s what marketers need to know about the latest social ecommerce trend.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In business, artificial intelligence (AI) is more than just a trend; it’s a crucial tool reshaping how we approach marketing and customer engagement. According to our research , nearly 9 out of 10 business leaders are gearing up to boost their investments in AI and machine learning (ML), especially in marketing. Why this surge?

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Pixlee

APRIL 11, 2019

Most digital marketing tactics ecommerce brands are using in 2019 can be improved with user-generated content (UGC). When digital marketing tactics are executed well with user-generated content, they offer a powerful advantage to traditional content. Growing a new Digitally-Focused Community.

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Adam Cohen

JULY 12, 2010

It happens in all industries, but lately I’ve seen retail companies keep their “Consumer Insight&# group focused on traditional insight like mall traffic patterns and planograms. But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have.

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Ignite Social Media

JULY 13, 2021

Here are just a few industries that would benefit from offering customer service online: Retail Industry: Your brand sells products or goods – online, in store locations or both. Your Budget – Every Marketers Nightmare. First, we need to determine if your brand falls into an industry where offering customer service even makes sense.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 15, 2020

As brands planned their strategies, they could not have predicted the way COVID-19 has quickly swept up global markets and conversations. In the wake of the crisis, some brands and social marketers find themselves pivoting away from the social strategies they worked so hard to plan. However, not all is lost nor does it have to be.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This article will unpack how social media insights are essential to understanding younger consumers and how brands are using that data to transform and reach new audiences. What younger consumers want from brands Depending on your company and industry, appealing to younger consumers doesn’t always mean marketing to Gen Z or Gen Alpha.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Have your marketing efforts evolved with them? Marketing at the peak of the television era was relatively simple. As a marketer, how do you possibly compete for attention within this constant stream of information? How do you speak to consumers who don’t want to hear traditional marketing messages? The answer: You don’t.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 27, 2022

Can TikTok for B2B marketing unlock the same potential? We spoke with three B2B marketers who are experimenting with and finding success on TikTok. But first, why you need to try B2B marketing on TikTok. “The thing about B2B marketing on TikTok is that you’re always dealing with the customer behind the business.

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Pixlee

JUNE 29, 2020

With UGC and influencer marketing, they don’t have to. . An aptly titled article from RetailDive sums up the impetus for brands to embrace social change: Consumers want retailers to do the right thing. Every marketer has thought over this exact challenge for the past month. The Duty to Represent Authentically.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 1, 2023

Everyone—from marketers to social media users—loves creators. According to a Q1 2023 Sprout pulse survey, over two-thirds (79%) of marketers plan to spend up to 50% of their total social budget on content creators. Another 39% of marketers work with creators on a monthly basis. your potential customers) can come in handy.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 24, 2022

Not only is she on-camera talent, she’s also responsible for creating content, helping build our social strategy and analyzing social data. I love how personal and genuine brands can get on social media and the communities they can create. Successful creators don’t just churn out content, they inspire communities. Data analysis.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 22, 2013

When Wal-Mart announced plans to use its retail locations to fulfill online orders last week, the media and business community broke into a collective game of word association. Wal-Mart has the significant advantage of already having 10,000 retail locations—something Amazon can’t currently compete with.

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Sprout Social

MAY 15, 2020

Leveraging social data is one way to help pinpoint what’s working: what type of content drives attention, who your audience is and how you should schedule your posts to reach them. Unfortunately, finding the time to distill social data is also an ongoing challenge for marketers.

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Sprout Social

JULY 30, 2020

Ingredient is a food marketing agency and several of their clients are grocery stores, which were deemed essential businesses during COVID-19 and were one of the few places consumers still regularly visited during the pandemic. – Sara Staats, Social Lead, Aroluxe Marketing. Social is an essential tool for essential businesses.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Online marketing activities preovide marketers with a wealth of metrics; actually, too much information. The challenge in deciding which strategies to pursue, increase, modify, or drop, in most cases isn’t a lack of data but an over-abundance of it. But like any good thing, data simplification can be overdone.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 30, 2014

“Just get us the millennials” This mind set is short-sighted and mindless old-school marketing at best! Millennial’s are just one demographic in your potential market and you need to think carefully before you focus entire marketing campaigns on them. Are you ready to market online? They’re social.

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Ignite Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

With its infinite scroll functionality, thumb-stopping content, and the high possibility of video virality, TikTok has taken the world by storm and it’s a no-brainer to infer that retailers and CPG brands alike should be thinking of ways to integrate the platform into their social media mix. Glossier Embraces UGC & BTS. Followers: 161.7k.

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Hootsuite

JULY 6, 2022

Within those billions of users, Instagram fosters niche communities. Shared common interests bring these smaller communities together. People feel much more connected to a brand that actively engages their community. It lays everything out in a way that makes it easy to make data-driven decisions. It gives you legitimacy.

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Later

APRIL 9, 2020

Thinking about jumping into affiliate marketing on Instagram? In this blog post, we’re explaining what affiliate marketing is, how to get started, and how you can use an affiliate program to fast-track your brand’s growth and success! Table of Contents: What is Affiliate Marketing? What Are the Benefits of Affiliate Marketing?

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Devumi

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The Devumi blog is chock full of ideas to help move your social media marketing forward. The most successful social media business accounts will be massive, sprawling communities bursting with users, comments, and information. How you can make a bit of sense of all this is through social media data analysis.

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Buffer Social

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In this article, we’ll go through what vertical networks are and the opportunities for businesses to adopt them in their marketing strategy. it’s a new year we're excited to share some things we’re exploring for Communities early 2022 🤞 — Twitter Communities (@HiCommunities) January 5, 2022.

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Pixlee

JANUARY 21, 2020

Every community-driven brand looking to thrive in 2020 has at least one thing in common: they’re prioritizing personalization. Personalization requires clean and plentiful data – and can be costly to achieve. Unfortunately, the average click-through rate for retail display ads is around 0.5%. A Custom Experience at Scale.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 27, 2020

Earlier this year, we presented our regular update with the latest data on the best times to post on social media. With these changes, we reviewed data from our 20,000+ customers to see how usage of social media has changed during this time. Updates to LinkedIn times to post. Changes in social media message volume. with 9 a.m.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In spite of all the research and prep that marketers funnel into campaign planning, creative production or hashtag ideation, campaigns tend to chart a path of their own post-launch. Initially, #AthleteAnd was just a hashtag we used to brand and market players’ stories. Social data strengthens NFLPA partnerships.

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The biggest retail dates of the year are just around the corner. Do you have your social media marketing ready? We’ve researched some of the trendiest marketing ideas for Black Friday + Cyber Monday, including flash sales, messenger marketing, and UGC. Inspiring examples of Black Friday / Cyber Monday marketing.

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