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Entrepreneurs: The Importance of Monthly Recurring Revenue

Jon Loomer

[NOTE: This post continues a series exploring the topic of entrepreneurship. While my focus has and will continue to be on Facebook ads, I have plenty to share about what I’ve learned while building my business.]. I’ve learned countless lessons since my entrepreneurial journey began in 2011, but one of the most important is this: Monthly recurring revenue is the key to efficiency, stability and sanity.

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5 Reasons Action Digital Loves to Use Agorapulse

agora pulse

The following guest post is written by Zoe Christodoulides of Action Digital. With a global presence and clients in over 40 countries relying on Action Digital to successfully manage their digital campaigns, our team of online experts was on the lookout for an efficient solution to manage all of our client’s social media pages via a centralized and powerful social media management tool.

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How to Use Hashtags More Effectively in Your Marketing

Meltwater

Does anyone really understand how to use hashtags effectively? From the looks of many social… Read More.

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Make Money with Twitter: Get Rich in 140 Characters or Less

Devumi

Twitter has long been proven to be an effective tool to market businesses. Marketers are finding that the platform can be used to directly generate income. Read on to learn about some of the strategies that can help you make money with Twitter, and how you can increase the effectiveness of your own tweet monetizations […]. The post Make Money with Twitter: Get Rich in 140 Characters or Less appeared first on Devumi.

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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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When to create an Instagram or Snapchat story

Ignite Social Media

Creating “stories” – be it from the original Snapchat or the latest Instagram version, can be a great way for brands to connect with its fans and followers. But many brands tend to stray away from it, from lack of knowledge on how to best incorporate their content into short 15 second videos. We’re here to make the case for outstanding content and engagement via Stories!

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4 Instagress Alternatives That Won’t Leave You

agora pulse

Marketers across the Instasphere are crying because their favorite automation tool Instagress is gone. Quickly these folks are asking their friends and Dr. Google for Instagress alternatives to keep their Insta-mojo going. We can help — but not without a little lecture beforehand. The short of it: Automating your interaction on Instagram is bad social media.

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How Employee Advocacy Can Help Your Declining Social Reach

Convince & Convert

During my most recent exhibit at a B2B marketing conference in London, I met and spoke with lots of great customers, partners, and prospects. Although they came from different countries and industries, there was one common theme that stood out to me: the decline in organic reach and engagement on social media. And they were certainly not blind. With a quick Google search, I discovered that only last year, organic reach for Facebook pages plummeted by 52 percent.

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New Rules of Best in Class Social Media Image Composition

Ignite Social Media

Losing precious sleep over how you’ll achieve the perfect composition for your next Facebook post? Pulling your hair out trying to capture the most proportionally optimal image for your next tweet? If mastering your next Instagram post is a priority, then you’ve come to the right blog post. Here, we’re going to discuss the new rules of best in class social media image composition in a simple, practical way.

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United Airlines PR Disaster: What you Can Learn from Their #FAIL

Devumi

Social media has become an indispensable tool for brands to connect with their customers and the general public. There are times, though, where companies fail to properly communicate on these platforms. When left unchecked, they turn into PR disasters like what happened to United Airlines recently. Read on to understand what went wrong, and how […].

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Crossfunctionality: Making Social Important Across Your Business

Meltwater

When you think of who manages a company’s brand presence on social media, which department… Read More.

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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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Launching an Employee Advocacy Program: How to Train Employees in Less Than 2 Weeks!

Oktopost

Most of your employees are already vocal about their company on social media. However, some of your employees are going to be new to the ‘social world’. These guys will definitely require more guidance, safety, and tools to boost up their confidence.

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Executives Role in Social Media Strategy

Ignite Social Media

As social media has become a bigger player in a brand’s overall marketing mix, more c-suite executives are taking notice. Social media has also created a space where people can build their personal brands. Many executives use these channels to build a following and influence. There can be a mutual benefit to leveraging your company’s c-suite executives through the brand.

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How to Measure the Value of Social Media

Sprout Social

ROI has always been one of the most debated topics in the marketing department. John Wanamaker, a very successful 18th and 19th century merchant, is credited with coining the phrase, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.”. Social media ROI is no different. What’s the value of a Like? How much return do you get from a Retweet?

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Staying on Trend: The Importance of Monitoring Trending Topics Online

Meltwater

One of the most effective tactics you can implement for public relations (PR), social media… Read More.

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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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The Audience (Formerly Known As The Audience)

Twist Image

Who is your audience? On my early morning drive to the airport, I caught the tail-end of Howard Stern interviewing Sheryl Crow. Crow was live and in the studio promoting her upcoming album. The constant reflections and self-commentary on how she's just a middle-aged white woman, were both self-deprecatinglty funny and illuminating. Even rock stars question their own relevancy every now and again (maybe brands should come at it with the same self-reflection and humour?).

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Instagram Looks More Like Snapchat and Facebook’s New Video Metrics | Social You Should Know

Ignite Social Media

Instagram Copies Snapchat (Again) and Facebook Puts a New Twist on Video Metrics. All that and more in this week’s Social You Should Know. Instagram Replicates another Snapchat Feature. If you have been keeping tabs on what features Instagram is rolling out to compete directly with Snapchat, you can add the latest direct messaging feature updates to the list.

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Social Media Automation Rules No Brand Should Break

Sprout Social

Automation gets a bad rap. Usually when you hear about social media automation, you picture the cringe-worthy automatic direct message that sometimes happens after you follow a new account. “Thanks for the follow, Bob! Check out our new product at this yourwebsitehere.”. When done right, automation isn’t awkward or off-putting. It may not even look automatic to an outside observer.

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3 Customer Interview Tips for a Great Case Study

Meltwater

Any company that provides a service, especially if that service involves the Internet, (and what… Read More.

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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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United Airlines: Principle Over People & Profits…Was It Worth It?

Myrland Marketing

You have to think twice. No, you have to think more than twice. You have to think before, during and after a crisis to make sure your response is calm, measured, sympathetic, accurate, and correct. Unless you’ve been stranded on a remote island for a few weeks, you are well aware of the incident on United Airlines that resulted in a passenger being forcibly removed from the plane.

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First Look: The Analyst's Canvas

Net-Savvy Executive

I was recently asked how I define media intelligence , which is a bit tricky because my definition starts with objectives rather than a list of capabilities. It's another industry term with the flexibility to reflect the priorities of the person saying it, so the answer is something like "what do you need it to be?" I also like to consider the client's job and next steps in the process: "what do you need to do with it?

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Optimice los esfuerzos en las redes con los comentarios en anuncios de Facebook en la bandeja de entrada inteligente

Sprout Social

La publicidad a través de las redes sociales es un mercado de mas de $ 8.4 mil millones. Solo en Facebook, un informe reciente muestra que el 92% de los especialistas en marketing a través de las redes sociales están aprovechando las oportunidades de distribución pagas que ofrece la plataforma. A medida que las personas interactúan cada vez más con los anuncios a través de las plataformas sociales, la capacidad de monitorear y participar con comentarios en los anuncios (similar a como lo harías

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Rule Breaking Should Be a Hobby: 3 Questions to Consider Before Breaking the Rules

Meltwater

Following the rules has never been my “thing.” Rules, in my mind, are for people… Read More.

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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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What Makes A Great Brand?

Twist Image

Not a good brand. Not a successful brand. a great brand? In fact, before attempting to answer this question, it's probably important to define what, exactly, a brand is? For me a brand is the complete experience and manifestation that a company produces, and how it is then internalized by the consumer. Candidly, that's a little bit vapid when you consider that piles of business books and courses have been written and conducted to explain what a true brand is.

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Augmented Reality is Coming to Facebook!

Stay N' Alive

(Image source: Jim Wilson/The New York Times). Evidently, nobody was more inspired by Pokemon Go than Facebook’s very own Mark Zuckerberg. To him, it showed that the future of augmented reality is coming and its coming fast! Although virtual reality was his original focus, Zuckerberg announced at Facebook’s annual F8 developers’ conference that their new focus would be making augmented reality tools for third parties.

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El verdadero engagement en las redes sociales

Sprout Social

Cuando nos abocamos a elaborar estrategias de redes sociales para nuestros clientes surgen entonces una serie de objetivos que lograr. Obtención de KPI´s muy específico como likes, leads y seguidores están dentro de los más comunes. Sin embargo, los desafíos en redes sociales son cada vez mayores y ahora de lo que se trata, es de vincular nuestro negocio a emociones positivas en nuestros fans como fidelización, satisfacción, valores compartidos y sentido de permanencia.

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Social Sidekick 5.7-5.13: Social Holidays, Themes, and Noteworthy Events

Meltwater

Welcome to (Good) Burger Month! So many people have wondered about the origins of these… Read More.

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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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Fidget Marketing For A World That Won't Stop Moving

Twist Image

How should brands connect to consumers who just can't stop moving? Social psychology and marketing professor, Adam Alter , has a new book out. It's called, Irresistible - The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked (you can check out my conversation with Adam right here: The Business Of Addictive Technology With Adam Alter - Episode #562 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast ).

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3 Ways to Check if Your Brand Influencer Has Fake Followers

Pixlee

Working with brand influencers is an excellent way for a brand to expand its audience, develop social proof, and create user generated content. However, brands need to carefully vet their influencers before initiating a partnership. One important thing that brands should look out for is fake followers. Instagram influencers are powerful due to their large number of followers and the trust their followers have in their opinions.

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Digital Disappointment: Brands Getting CX Wrong

Proactive Report

Brands large and small are scrambling to keep up with the rapid convergence of the physical and the digital world. Customers are living in an environment where technology surround them, affects their everyday activities and makes many of the old ways obsolete. The customer journey is not what it used to be and people interested in your product or service have many avenues of information available to them now.

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Streamline Social Efforts with Facebook Ad Comments in the Smart Inbox

Sprout Social

Social media advertising is more than a $8.4 billion dollar market. On Facebook alone, a recent report shows that 92% of social media marketers are taking advantage of the platform’s paid distribution opportunities. As people interact more and more with ads across social platforms, the ability to monitor and engage with comments on ads—similar to how you would on organic posts—is essential to a successful brand strategy.

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What Makes A Great Brand?

Twist Image

Not a good brand. Not a successful brand. a great brand? In fact, before attempting to answer this question, it's probably important to define what, exactly, a brand is? For me a brand is the complete experience and manifestation that a company produces, and how it is then internalized by the consumer. Candidly, that's a little bit vapid when you consider that piles of business books and courses have been written and conducted to explain what a true brand is.

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