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How to Win with Video (Even If You’re Terrified)

The Realtime Report

How to Win with Video (Even If You’re Terrified). By Cindy Marshall. In today’s rapidly evolving social media landscape, content continues to reign supreme. But there’s so much out there that it’s tough to garner awareness and raise your brand above the noise. Video has proven to be, hands down, the best way to catch the eyes of audiences and even increase sales.

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#SMTLive Recap: How to Choose the Right Marketing Automation System for Your Team

Social Media Today

The right automation tools, used the right way, can have a major impact on your businesses' social media marketing performance.

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How to foolproof your Facebook advertising strategy

Sprout Social

If you have absolutely no idea how to approach your Facebook advertising strategy these days, you aren’t alone. It’s no secret that Facebook’s organic reach has taken a nosedive. Recent algorithm changes have basically forced businesses to invest in paid campaigns or abandon ship. But before you write off Facebook as a lost cause, think again. Facebook is still the preferred place for 97% of marketers to run paid ads for a reason.

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How Transparent Is Your Marketing Spend?

Forbes Social Media

Every effort to measure and improve the contribution of marketing investments to the business is limited by the ability of finance and marketing to work together to improve the way they currently track, classify, and account for marketing spending.

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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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Top 10 Brands on Instagram in Mexico

Quintly

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How Tinybeans Built A Social Network Based On Privacy

Forbes Social Media

In the era of "over-sharenting," S.J. Kurtini wanted to keep photos of her family private. She teamed up with Stephen O'Young and Eddie Geller to cofound Tinybeans, an app that allows people to share precious moments in their children's lives within a safe, closed space.

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5 Keys To A High-Converting Lead Magnet

Forbes Social Media

Most people believe that a lead magnet is simply a way to get people to join your email list. But if done right, it could be a valuable tool that gains attention on its own, driving even more traffic to your site. Win win.

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How To Write A Great Blog Post Your Audience Wants To Read

Forbes Social Media

Over the weekend, I read Grant Cardone’s “The 10x Rule.” It’s a book that will fire you up for sure, and I got to thinking about it for blog posts. In other words, you need to create content that is 10 times better than what is already out there.

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How to Choose a Blog Post Topic that Gets Read

Forbes Social Media

Sometimes it's really difficult to come up with a blog post topic, and even worse, coming up with one with no rhyme or reason behind it. It’s a scenario I've found myself in a hundred times. Here's a four-step process to come up with the perfect blog post topic.

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How to Write a Great Blog Post that Gets Your Audience Wants to Read

Forbes Social Media

Over the weekend, I read Grant Cardone’s “The 10x Rule.” It’s a book that will fire you up for sure, and I got to thinking about it for blog posts. In other words, you need to create content that is 10 times better than what is already out there.

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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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How To Promote Your Blog Post

Forbes Social Media

Unfortunately, most bloggers and marketers don’t do enough to promote their blog post. They’ll post on Twitter and Facebook and maybe email their list. And after that, they get stuck.

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US Companies Can Still Harvest And Resell EU Citizen Data Under GDPR

Forbes Social Media

European Union citizens will find themselves just as harvested, mined, manipulated and monetized as the rest of the world as GDPR’s empty promises collide with the global reality of the modern world.

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Is Legislation The Only Hope To Fix Social Media's Ills?

Forbes Social Media

Not a week goes by that there isn’t yet another story about the evils of social media, from enabling genocide to helping terrorists to human trafficking. Is legislation the only hope to fix social platforms?

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Florida, Pittsburgh Papers Win Pulitzer Prizes For Mass Shooting Coverage

Forbes Social Media

The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch also won journalism's highest award.

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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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We've Stopped Talking And Searching About Privacy

Forbes Social Media

After a year of nearly continuous privacy revelations involving Facebook and, in an era when breaches and privacy failures have become so commonplace they no longer even attract much in the way of headlines, have we as a society simply given up on the quaint historical notion of privacy?

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'Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker' Ltd Secures Series A Funding

Forbes Social Media

Star Wars: The Rise Of The Skywalker trailer has dropped, which prompted Skywalker Ltd to formally announce its Series A funding to secure a future for the Force.

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Scammers With Verified Instagram Accounts Cheating 'Influencers' With Fake Verification Service

Forbes Social Media

The scammer promised verification in just 45-60 minutes.