Tue.Oct 09, 2018

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How to Make the Most of Influencer Marketing This Holiday Season

Social Media Today

By adding influencer content into the mix, brands may be able to grab consumers' attention at a time when many are bombarded with product promotions, seasonal ads and deals.

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Top 10 B2B Social Media Tools to Use in 2019

Oktopost

Being a social media manager can be overwhelming. In a few hours, you’re expected to write compelling messages, brief your designer on the right visual direction, as well as identify powerful hashtags for driving engagement. With 2019 just around the corner, adopting the right set of social media tools could drastically simplify your day-to-day and […].

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The Role of the CEO on Social Media

Social Media Today

Social media offers leaders of organizations the opportunity to speak directly to their audience about values and decision-making processes. In turn, this has the potential to help create organizational transparency and build trust.

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What do you do when life hits the fan?

Janet Fouts

The older we are, the more we are likely to become a caregiver for family and friends or need care for ourselves. In fact, a survey of family caregivers from Caregiver Action and AARP tells us that 29% of the U.S. population provides care for a chronically ill, disabled, or aged family member or friend during any given year and spend an average of 20 hours per week providing care for their loved one).

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Google+ to Shutter After Reports of Exposed User Data

Social Media Today

While 90% of sessions on the platform last under five seconds, the tech giant will maintain the service for companies that use it for employee communications.

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25 Great Saved Replies to Save Time on Social

agora pulse

Want to save time and improve customer experience? Using saved replies can help you do just that. A lot of social media managers I speak to worry that using saved replies will make them sound unnatural and robotic. Or even worse– spammy. They don’t have to. If you use them well and make them a part of your communication strategy, saved replies can speed things up without sacrificing post quality.

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7 Mental Health Tips for Social Media Managers

Later

October 10th is #WorldMentalHealthDay, which is a cause that is close to our hearts here at Later, because of you ! Social media managers, entrepreneurs, and influencers have a unique set of mental health challenges because they spend their days in the trenches of the internet. Self-care is an important part of mental health, and sometimes that means taking a break from social media, our phones, and technology.

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Live Streaming for Businesses: How, When and Why You Should Use It

Social Media Today

This inflographic provides facts and examples to show you the benefits of live streaming as well as help you implement this into your social media strategy.

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Introducing SocialChat by Buffer, the Easiest Way to Start Conversations With Website Visitors

Buffer Social

Today, we’re excited to launch, SocialChat by Buffer, a simple, free tool that enables visitors to start social media conversations on your website. Each and every day, people visit your website to learn more about your business. The problem is a large percentage of websites don’t really support visitors in helping them to find what they want.

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Rebekah Keat Grows Coaching Business by Marketing to Beginner Triathlete Buyer Persona

WebInKnow

Gosh I love when somebody takes my ideas and runs with them (pun alert) to grow their business. I recently caught up with Rebekah (Bek) Keat of Team Sirius Tri Club to learn about how she uses online content and social media to reach beginner and weekend warrior triathletes who want to know basic information. This approach to marketing by targeting a specific buyer persona has led to Team Sirius Tri Club growing from just 4 athletes to 240 in just under two years.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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Can We Finally Stop Terrorists From Exploiting Social Media?

Forbes Social Media

Hash-based blacklisting has become the dominate approach to fighting terrorism online, but fails to understand context. We have the tools to truly combat terrorist posts, but will Silicon Valley finally decide to bring its immense capabilities to bear on its terrorism problem?

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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

You don’t have to be a sports fanatic to know how much sports fans love to share updates about their teams on social media. Fantasy sports have played a huge role in shaping fans’ communities and conversations on social platforms. What are fantasy sports? Fantasy sports are a game where participants build imaginary teams. The teams are made up of real-life players.

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How to Use Instagram Quick Replies in Your DMs

Later

If you’re using Instagram for business, managing all of your direct messages, comments, and replies can be a huge waste of time — thankfully Instagram Quick Replies are here to help! In case you haven’t noticed, Instagram recently updated their Instagram Direct interface for businesses accounts. Along with new sorting and filtering abilities, you can now create Instagram Quick Replies for all the questions and comments that you commonly receive.

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5 Key Takeaways from Advertising Week New York 2018

Likeable

In its 15th year, Advertising Week continues to serve as a useful way to take the pulse of the current state of the advertising industry (and guess about its future). Digiday’s “In and Out” panel did just that, in fact, polling marketers from Equinox, GIPHY, Gimlet Media, and GE on where they stood on hot topics ranging from artificial intelligence (in on the practical applications of the technology, out on the gimmick) and influencer marketing (a resounding rebuttal against inauthentic #ads) to

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.

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Rebekah Keat Grows Coaching Business by Marketing to Beginner Triathlete Buyer Persona

WebInKnow

Gosh I love when somebody takes my ideas and runs with them (pun alert) to grow their business. I recently caught up with Rebekah (Bek) Keat of Team Sirius Tri Club to learn about how she uses online content and social media to reach beginner and weekend warrior triathletes who want to know basic information. This approach to marketing by targeting a specific buyer persona has led to Team Sirius Tri Club growing from just 4 athletes to 240 in just under two years.

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Advertising Week (And More) 2018: What Did We Learn?

Forbes Social Media

Did this year’s Advertising Week, or the New York Media Festival’s “Future of TV” (there still is one!) help in lending any clarity to the complicated picture? Here’s one man’s take of a few key insights both live and in color.

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Live Streaming for Businesses: How, When and Why You Should Use It [Infographic]

Social Media Today

This inflographic provides facts and examples to show you the benefits of live streaming as well as help you implement this into your social media strategy.

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Google+ Breach -- What Happened, Who Was Impacted And How To Delete Your Account

Forbes Social Media

Here's what you need to know about the Google+ hack

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.