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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. Do your research You need to be aware of the market conditions to allocate the right marketing budget.

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

Sherrilynne Starkie

They are highly-qualified professionals with specific digital marketing and communications skills and experience. A lot of people think of social media as marketing, and it’s an important part. But, its use is not limited to marketing. The consultant always listens to gauge audience sentiment to inform all activity.

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What is a customer journey map and how to make your own [examples included]

Sprout Social

To keep up with it all and better inform your social media marketing strategy , create a customer journey map as a blueprint to help you understand your customers at each stage. When coupled with social media market research , they help brands: Provide an overview of the resources your customers use. Generate marketing campaign ideas.

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11 Qualities of the Ideal Social Media Strategist

Sprout Social

A social media strategist’s toolkit could include a range of productivity apps, a social media management tool like Sprout and they might even need familiarity with content management systems. Tagging messages for sentiment is one of the easiest ways to track customer feedback. Audience Focused Vision.

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The 17 Best Social Media Management Tools

Webbiquity SMM

And SnapChat may become difficult for B2B marketers to ignore; the mobile messaging app now has more than 150 million daily active users , and half are older than 25. Add multiple companies (as an agency or social media consultant may manage) and it borders on overwhelming. Now part of Salesforce.com Marketing Cloud.