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Vanity Metrics: Definition & Examples for Marketing

Hootsuite

Lucky for you, we’re here to help you cut through the vanity-metric hype to find those beefy, meaty metrics that help you prove the true value of your social media marketing. #1 These metrics are best contextualized by more concrete numbers such as click-through rate or visitor-to-lead conversions. Clear data.

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A Guide to Standard Events, Custom Events, and Custom Conversions

Jon Loomer

This is possible with the help of standard events, custom events, and custom conversions. In this post, we’ll focus on the following: Definitions of standard events, custom events, and custom conversions Examples of each one Explanations of how they are used General tips on how they are created When should you use each?

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Top Video Marketing Trends of 2024

Social Media Strategies Summit

Video is no longer optional for marketing teams, with 91% of businesses using it as a marketing tool and 88% describing video as an important part of their marketing strategy. If you’re going to see success from video marketing, you need to know what works (and what doesn’t ) — and the landscape changes fast.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Balancing activities across owned, earned, shared and paid media strategies is the best way to get a demonstrable return on investment (ROI) for today’s marketing and communications campaigns. This is the integrated digital media and marketing communications framework I use with my clients, no matter the challenge.

Marketing 367
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Influencer Marketing 101: Definitions, Benefits and Success Tips in a Nutshell

Pam Moore

There is no doubt influencer marketing is a powerful way to zoom your social media and business success online. According to TapInfluence, Influencer marketing content delivers 11X higher ROI than traditional forms of digital marketing. You know that influencer marketing is something you need to consider. Click To Tweet.

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21 Performance Goals: A Guide to Meta Ads Optimization for Delivery

Jon Loomer

There are 71 different possible ways, based on different objectives and conversion locations, to select 21 unique performance goals. There are nine different combinations of campaign objective, conversion location, and engagement type that will lead to this performance goal. Do not gloss over this. Does how you get there matter?

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Viral and Cultural Moments: How and When Brands Should Tap into the Conversation

Social Media Strategies Summit

But tapping into buzzworthy conversions isn’t a silver bullet for social media success. With that in mind, we gathered a panel of leading social media marketers to discuss everything you need to know about jumping on trends, including real-world examples of brands that got it right (and wrong).