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4 Emerging Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Social Media Strategies Summit

In 2019 we saw several social platforms grow and continue to mature – from industry giants like Facebook and Instagram to emerging platform TikTok and more niche sites like Pinterest. This trend toward growth and diversity means that no one social platform or channel can be ignored. Source: Facebook Groups.

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How To Use Customer Insight To Power Your Business

The Realtime Report

You may have conducted offline focus groups or non-structured interviews as a business, so you will most likely be aware that they are used to gather opinions and responses to stimuli. Research is conducted using community platforms or on a one-to-one basis. Use Online Market Research.

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What is a brand community and how to build a successful one

Sprout Social

It’s your job to find this community, connect with it directly, and build a strategy for individuals within the community to interact with each other. And you want to do this because your brand community is a powerful business tool. For example, how will a brand community help marketing, support, sales?

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Ask Buffer: How to Create High Quality Content

Buffer Social

If an Instagram post got 50 likes and a Reel got 500, but you also got more questions and ideas from the post, that’s more value for you quality-wise. This method enhances your focus on the task because you don’t have to switch from format to format or platform to platform and also boosts productivity.

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Audiences or communities? Defining the new social media landscape

Sprout Social

The answers change as you move across platforms and through time. If you joined Facebook in the mid-2000s or Instagram in the early 2010s, your goal was probably to see what your friends were up to. Keeping up with your community. Community platforms work in the same way, putting the focus on interpersonal relationships.

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You Need These Roles on Your Social Media Team [Skills + Salaries]

Hootsuite

But social success is a lot more complex than posting occasionally on Facebook and Instagram. For example, some community managers help engage with Slack communities or Facebook Groups to build an engaged community of customers and followers. There are endless benefits to using social media for business.

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