Tue.Jul 30, 2019

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Firebelly Wins Platinum In The 2019 dotCOMM Awards Competition

Firebelly

We’re excited to announce that Firebelly was named a platinum winner in the Social Branding Campaign category during the 2019 dotCOMM Awards competition. What are the dotCOMM Awards? The dotCOMM Awards are an international competition honoring excellence in web creativity and digital communication. The competition is unique in that it reflects the role of creatives […].

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How to Increase the ROI of Your Video Content

The Social Media Hat

83% of marketers use video marketing because it gives them good ROI. Let’s take a look at how you can increase the ROI of video content even further.

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Twitter Provides New Marketing Tips via #BrandsTalkTwitter Initiative

Social Media Today

Twitter's UK arm has started a new initiative to highlight the strategies of some of the best performing brands on the platform.

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The most important social media metrics to track

Sprout Social

From follower counts to post engagement percentages, the world of social media metrics can be confusing to wade into. On top of that, a new important metric seems to be created on a weekly basis. What should you be tracking? Is it even important for your business? In this guide, we’ll take you through the most basic metrics that every company should be paying attention to based on your goals.

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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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LinkedIn Provides New Tips on Choosing Ad Campaign Objectives

Social Media Today

LinkedIn has published a new guide on how to make best use of its objective-based marketing ad approach.

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5 Huge Warning Signs of a Bad SEO or Digital Marketing Agency

Social Media Marketing

With the increase in the demand for SEO, the industry is rapidly growing with an enormous quantity of digital marketing agency. There is no doubt that nowadays everyone wants to grab a strong online presence for their webpage and has only one goal in mind, i.e., to be on the top of the first page in the SERPs. But to make this wish a reality, you need to make sure that your website is full to search engine optimized.

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iPhone iMessage Security Vulnerability Lets Attackers Read Your Files From Anywhere

Forbes Social Media

Users of the Apple iMessage messaging service are being warned of a security vulnerability that enables attackers to read files on their iPhones remotely. Here's everything you need to know.

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TikTok's Parent Company is Developing its Own Smartphone, Flagging Broader Ambitions

Social Media Today

ByteDance, the maker of popular video app TikTok, is developing its own smartphone, in another sign of its ambitions beyond being the latest fad app.

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Will Facebook’s Libra Help Bring Cryptocurrency to The Masses?

The Realtime Report

Will Facebook’s Libra Help Bring Cryptocurrency to The Masses? When Facebook announced plans for a stablecoin called Libra, the reaction from the cryptocurrency world ranged somewhere between skeptical and cautiously optimistic. But, regardless of any specific merits of Facebook’s version of a digital coin, the social-media giant’s move could help speed the adoption of cryptocurrency to a larger audience, says Kirill Bensonoff , a serial entrepreneur and an expert in blockchain.

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How to Use Twitter as a Lead Generation Machine

Social Media Today

Looking to generate more leads from your Twitter efforts? Check out these tips.

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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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Do You Have Customers Or Consumers?

Forbes Social Media

Knowing if you have a customer that is different than your consumer will save you a lot of time and energy when creating your marketing strategy, channels and messages.

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3 Video Techniques Your Brand Should Try

Likeable

You’ve heard it before: Video is the future of social media. It’s the number one preferred content type of the average consumer, it accounts for more than half of total media consumption, and 54 percent of consumers want to see more video content from brands and businesses they support. However, even in 2019, most companies and brands have yet to take full advantage of all that video marketing has to offer.

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No, There Are No Longer Seesaws At The U.S.-Mexico Border

Forbes Social Media

On Saturday, professors Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello placed bright pink seesaws on the border wall at Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas.

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Top 5 Up-and-Coming Travel and Food Influencers

Pixlee

Food and travel are blossoming as digitally native millennials prioritize experiences over belongings. Naturally, who doesn’t want to eat Spaghetti alle Vongole in its native home of Naples, Italy? Marketers within these industries are always looking for ways to authentically scale their content to relate to consumers. Fortunately, with social media and influencers, marketers are finally getting the answers they’ve been looking for.

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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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Strange Emails Climate Scientists Receive And Why People Write Them

Forbes Social Media

Climate scientists receive some strange emails. Here's a sample and scientific explanations for why people send them.

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7 Tips for a Successful Employer Branding Strategy

Oktopost

Every era has a predominant mass media format, and today we are living in the era of social media. If you want as wide an audience as possible, and to get your message out in the most cost-effective way, that means your marketing should include social media. The statistics speak for themselves. More than three billion people — nearly half the world’s population — are active on some form of social media.

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If Social Media Prioritized Reading Over Responding Could That Stop 'Fake News'?

Forbes Social Media

Would forcing users to actually read and deeply comprehend articles before sharing or commenting on them on social media curtail today’s plague of uninformed falsehoods?

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Despite Missteps, Twitter Reports Strong 2Q Performance — What’s Next?

Webbiquity SMM

Some companies succeed by innovating, continually improving product quality, and listening to their customers. And some succeed despite not doing any of those things. Twitter is in the second camp. Despite choosing to squander development time building a new, preschool-ish, wildly unpopular user interface (UI) rather than fixing functionality gaps that become more glaring the longer they go unaddressed, the company reported surprisingly strong second-quarter financial results.

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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.

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The Malaise Of Peak Wokeism Within Online Culture

Forbes Social Media

How have certain forms of education and new technology formed the template to woke culture today? This piece examines the link between social media and new technology to the outwoking of the wokest through a veritable closing of the mind.

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How to Get More Clients for Your Social Media Agency

agora pulse

Whether you’re launching a new digital agency or you’re growing your social media business, you need a few essentials. Social media management experience, high-level strategic knowledge, and business savvy are all critical. But if you really want to set your agency up for success, building a solid client roster should be at the top of your to-do list.

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How A Union Campaign in Europe Could Change YouTube

Forbes Social Media

Last Friday, the YouTubers Union joined with the IG Metall to start FairTube, a campaign that advocates for greater transparency from the YouTube company and a greater voice for independent creators on the platform in decision-making.

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Everything You Need to Know About Instagram Business Accounts [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Maximize your use of Instagram for business with this overview of business profiles and ads on the platform.

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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The Future Of Content Moderation Emphasizes Words Not Ideas

Forbes Social Media

When it comes to the future of content moderation, a shift from censoring ideas to moderating words might lead to a far more civil and less hateful and toxic online discourse.

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What is Beto O'Rourke a Passionate Fan of?

WebInKnow

Today and tomorrow are the second round of Democratic Presidential debates in the 2020 cycle. Over the past few months, I've traveled to candidate town halls to ask each candidate a simple question: “Outside of your work and your family, what are you a fan of, what are you passionate about?" Today we share what Beto O'Rourke told us.

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A TikTok Phone Won't Be Coming To The U.S.

Forbes Social Media

The company behind TikTok confirmed Monday it’s plans to enter the smartphone business, but U. S. fans of the video-sharing app won’t get to buy one.

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The EU Just Threatened Facebook's Biggest (And Least-Known) Advantage

Forbes Social Media

Facebook has an invisible web of data connectors on more than 8 million sites

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.