October, 2021

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The Day Facebook Broke

Jon Loomer

Facebook went down today, along with Instagram and Whatsapp. It wasn’t the first time, and it won’t be the last. It attracted the predictable rush of posts on Twitter and LinkedIn about how you shouldn’t rely too heavily on one platform. That you shouldn’t build your house on rented land. (Irony alert about posting this stuff on other platforms, of course).

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29 ways to use your social listening tool: top benefits for your brand

Awario

Social listening is a buzzword these days, and it's being adopted by more and more businesses. Strangely enough, the focus on the actual use and benefits of the process remains narrow: in most cases, when people talk about social listening, they actually mean brand monitoring.

Brands 195
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7 Questions to Ask During a Social Media Crisis

Ignite Social Media

No matter how buttoned-up a brand is, a social media crisis is likely to occur at some point in time. And if the past year has taught us anything, it’s that things can change … quickly. In a past life, I served as a spokesperson for the Governor of Michigan on business issues. I saw my fair share of PR crises. Since then, Ignite Social Media has also helped several world-famous brands manage social media crises.

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Google Adds Search Console integration to Google Analytics, New Data Attribution Modeling

Social Media Today

The new insights will help marketers better respond to changes in data tracking, particularly in relation to attribution and search performance.

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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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5 Reasons To Include Audiense In Your SEO Tech Stack | Audiense

Audiense

I’ve been talking about ‘Audience-first SEO’ for some time now. Most recently I was given the opportunity to talk on the BrightonSEO main stage about how you can develop SEO personas using multiple data sources, with a focus on integrating audience intelligence data with traditional keyword data.

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Aligning Nano & Micro-Influencers with Your DEI Marketing

Convince & Convert

You’ve probably heard it a million times already, but authenticity and relatability is EVERYTHING. Social justice movements continue to surge on social media platforms and more people are speaking up about matters that align with their own values. It’s taking a lot more than just simple traditional marketing to speak to your audience. . According to the Consumer Culture Report by 5W Public Relations, 83% of people feel that it is crucial that the brands that they choose to support are in alignme

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Top 10 Social Selling Tools

Oktopost

Looking for B2B leads on social media? 3.5 billion active social media users are out there, and many of them are just who you are looking for. Having a distinct B2B sales advantage over your competitors in that environment can be challenging. The sheer volume of users flocking to social media sites proves that it only makes sense to target prospects where they congregate.

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3 Social Commerce Trends for 2022 Planning

Ignite Social Media

With over 230 million digital buyers in the U.S., incorporating social commerce trends and features into your social media marketing strategy is a no-brainer. Add to that, every social media network now has shoppable features that make social commerce transactions easier than ever. But with so many new features rolling out, which big-ticket items should your team prioritize?

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Facebook Announces New $10 Million Funding Program for VR Developers

Social Media Today

Facebook's looking towards the next stage of digital connection, and playing a key role in facilitating new social and engagement activities.

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Audiense and Semrush integrate: Combining data points to enrich your contextual understanding of audience affinities!

Audiense

Audiense has integrated with Semrush to improve the understanding of audience affinities by combining social and web signals.

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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 Get Verified on Facebook in 2021: A Step by Step Guide

Hootsuite

Getting verified on Facebook can be a daunting process, but you don’t have to go into it blind. These tips on how to verify a Facebook Business Page, personal Page, or profile will help you put your best foot forward when you apply for that blue verification badge. Bonus: Download a free guide that teaches you how to turn Facebook traffic into sales in four simple steps using Hootsuite.

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A Facebook Ads Experimentation Guide

Jon Loomer

The most important characteristic of a successful Facebook advertiser is the willingness to experiment. It is your experimentation with Facebook ads that will lead to knowledge, solutions, and success. Instead of asking, “Should I…” related to a basic Facebook ads strategy, know that there is very little black and white (outside of the rules themselves ).

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Being funny on social media can drive serious business

Sprout Social

Look, it isn’t essential to be funny on social media—but my goodness, it helps. Humour is a hugely powerful currency on social, but beyond likes and engagement, how does cracking a joke on social media actually impact your bottom line? Learn your audience’s sense of humor and love language and use them in your social posts. They will appreciate it ??.

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A Guide to Social Media Shopping Behaviors in 2021

Ignite Social Media

Social commerce has significantly evolved over the last few years. From 2020-2021, there was a 35.5% increase in retail social commerce sales , a trend that’s expected to continue to grow in the coming years. It’s evident that with the plethora of shoppable features available across social networks, audiences are beginning to take advantage. That said, it’s important to know which social commerce features are the most popular, which networks audiences are more likely to purchase from, and most i

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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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Twitter Rises to 211 Million Active Users, Though Longer Term Growth Targets Looking Harder to Reach

Social Media Today

Twitter's Q3 numbers are steady, but they don't indicate that the platform has found the key formula for the growth that it's chasing just yet.

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Transforming audiences into communities: Offering real value

Audiense

You’ve carefully plotted your content plan. You’ve scheduled posts to go out every day. But for some reason, your audience remains an unsolved mystery. How can you effectively turn a social media audience into a passionate, engaged community? In this series, we’re talking to real marketers and brands about how they did it. In our previous blog, we focused on creating meaningful conversation.

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72 Beautiful Instagram Story Templates (And How to Use Them)

Hootsuite

Want your brand’s Instagram Stories to look clean, polished and consistently stylish? Instagram Stories templates are the way to go. The truth is, most of your favorite brands probably already use them. But really, it’s no surprise they want to make their Stories look good: half a billion users interact with Instagram Stories daily, and 58% of people say their interest in a brand or product increased after seeing it in Stories.

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Create a Custom Facebook Event for a Watched YouTube Video in Google Tag Manager

Jon Loomer

Imagine you have an important YouTube video embedded on a page of your website. If someone watches that video, it will tell you that they are a potential lead. You can create a custom Facebook event to track, optimize, and retarget them with Facebook ads. The original inspiration for this approach came from this blog post. I made some alterations. Feel free to make your own alterations to fit your needs.

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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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Researchers Uncover ‘Coordinated Campaign’ Against Harry And Meghan On Twitter

Forbes Social Media

A small number of Twitter accounts are responsible for more than two thirds of hateful tweets about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, analytics service Bot Sentinel has found.

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Marketing Lessons Learned From the 2021 Facebook Outage

Ignite Social Media

The week of October 4, 2021, Facebook’s week went from bad to worse when the company’s entire family of apps were inaccessible to users with no warning. The massive outage, which impacted Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus, lasted over 5 hours. Both platform users and marketers were frustrated during the outage, especially with very little information being released to the public in real-time.

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YouTube Answers 5 Common Questions About How its Recommendation Algorithms Work

Social Media Today

Wondering if YouTube's changed its algorithm recently? Here are the answers to some of the most common queries from YouTube creators.

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How to tap into your brand purpose: Advice from Universal Standard’s Alexandra Waldman

Sprout Social

When Alexandra Waldman and Polina Veksler launched the first Universal Standard apparel collection in 2015, all 3,000 pieces sold out in six days. “When we first started, we were all stuffed in my one bedroom apartment,” says Waldman. “We were designing jeans on the floor, never having done anything remotely like this. When we sold out of those 3,000 pieces, we knew this was a real business and it had real potential.

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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 Best TikTok Hashtags to Use to Grow Your Views and Reach in 2021

Hootsuite

Creating great TikTok content is one thing; getting people to actually look at it is another. But harness the power of TikTok hashtags to complement your editing techniques, and you’ll be set to conquer the TikTokosphere (a cool new phrase that is not taking off at the rate I want it to). If you’re here reading this, you probably already are more than aware TikTok is the social media app that’s swept the world’s smartphone users off their feet.

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How to Use URL Parameters for Facebook Ads Tracking

Jon Loomer

Facebook advertisers need every method available to properly and thoroughly track the impact of their campaigns. One tool available is URL parameters. While the use of URL parameters shouldn’t replace your Ads Manager reporting, they can provide a backup related to the traffic sent to your website from an ad (or even organically from your page or some other source).

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Jacksepticeye’s 2021 Thankmas Charity Push Launches, Raising Money For Homeless Programs

Forbes Social Media

Sean “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin's annual Thankmas holiday fundraiser will launch in early December, taking on homelessness and supporting innovative charity New Story. The campaign, backed by Tiltify and Real Good Touring, hopes to double the nearly $5 million Thankmas raised in 2020.

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How to Use Analytics to Inform Your Customer’s Challenges

Audiense

When it comes to your customers’ challenges, do you really know what they are struggling with?

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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.

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Facebook Adds New Shipping Options to Marketplace Facilitating More eCommerce Activity

Social Media Today

Shipping will enable Marketplace sellers to reach a wider audience, which could also help to fuel Facebook's broader eCommerce ambitions.

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11 ways to get more followers on TikTok in 2021

Sprout Social

One of the newest social media platforms to the scene, TikTok , is all about creating short and engaging viral video content. But for brands that are just starting out, it feels like it can take ages to grow a healthy following. To help you ramp up your profile and get more followers on TikTok, we’ve put together 11 actionable tips. Let’s get started. 1.

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How to Go Viral on TikTok: 9 Pro Tips

Hootsuite

Going viral on TikTok isn’t just for dancing teens anymore. The platform has emerged as one of the most vibrant social media communities of today. It’s also one that makes going viral accessible in a way that few other social media networks do. Anyone can blow up on TikTok, whether they have 2 followers or 200K. It’s not by accident. The app’s algorithm provides an equal opportunity to all users to go viral and build an audience over time.

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Facebook Attribution Setting Default Changes Again

Jon Loomer

Facebook has changed the default method for reporting and optimization of conversions — again. The default Attribution Setting going forward will be 7-day click and 1-day view (it may not be reflected on all ad accounts yet). If your head is spinning, you’re not alone. It’s been a long year for Facebook and Facebook advertisers when it comes to conversion attribution.

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#400: My Favorite Books & A 400th Episode Giveaway

Amy Porterfield

The books that built my business — library card not required. This episode is a celebration for bookworms and those who consider themselves “podcast people” alike. I wouldn’t say I’m a bookworm by any stretch of the imagination. (More of an audiobook and podcast girl, myself.) But I DO know that books have played a […]. The post #400: My Favorite Books & A 400th Episode Giveaway appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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