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Facebook Explore Feed: The Launch, the Test, and What Might Be

Jon Loomer

If you’re a brand or marketer, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the Facebook Explore Feed. A recent isolated test has marketers concerned, if not downright panicked. Some believe it signifies the end of organic brand content on Facebook. I have other opinions. Let’s take a closer look at what we know and don’t know about the Facebook Explore Feed and how it may impact you… Facebook Explore Feed: The Launch.

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Raise Your Game: A Step-By-Step Guide To Gamification Marketing

The Social Media Hat

Marketers have been using gamification techniques since the very first shop owner decided to implement an incentive to trigger the word-of-mouth as a way to promote his products. Here's how you can too.

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What the Social Media Lab Has Brewed This October

agora pulse

Did you know that we here at Agorapulse have a Social Media Lab dedicated to applying the scientific method to social media marketing “best practices?” Each week, we present our findings on social media managers’ pressing questions about social media marketing. Here’s what we revealed last month. 1. Is it Better to Send Quora Ads Traffic to a Blog Post or a Landing Page?

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Best Practices For Managing A Social Media Crisis

Firebelly

A social media crisis is bound to happen at some point to your brand. This could be as small as a negative review/comment or as big as when Adidas tweeted , “Congrats you survived the Boston Marathon.” What ever your crisis is, be prepared to handle it with these tips: Plan Ahead As the saying goes,“Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.” Being prepared is the first step to surviving a social media crisis!

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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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Marketing Is Made Easier With A Great Website Design

The Realtime Report

Marketing Is Made Easier With A Great Website Design. If you’re getting ready to build your first website, you might think that the only role of site design is to make your website good looking and easy to navigate and use. The fact you might be missing though is that great site design is also a critical element of marketing. Here are just some of the ways that website design can help you market your products or services.

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Takeaways from Social Media Mashup 2017

Jenn's Trends

If you didn’t already know, I’m a total conference dork. I love a good conference! So, when I get invited to speak at a conference, I usually try to attend as much of the event as possible. This week, I was invited to speak at the Ragan Communications Social Media Mashup conference at Disneyland. Now, […]. The post Takeaways from Social Media Mashup 2017 appeared first on Jenn's Trends.

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Something new coming soon!

Sherrilynne Starkie

Watch this space for something new coming soon!

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How To Create A Political Management Blog

The Realtime Report

How To Create A Political Management Blog. Whether you’re working in politics, studying for your online masters in political science, or simply have an interest in politics and the government, starting a political blog can be an excellent hobby that could even open up opportunities for you when it comes to your future career. This is especially true for political management students.

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Digital Marketing Strategy Should Keep Pace with Changed Trends

Social Media Marketing

Online search marketing is incessantly changing and this may appear agitating on occasions. Systems that were working one time, may not be successful in the present. Do you know why numerous organizations are not able to outrun their contenders? It's basically since they are not willing to adjust with consistently, changing the world of digital media.

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116 | Money Saving Tip from a Mailman, Great Parking Job and Is there a fire or did someone turn the heat on?

Taylor Marek

Sorry for the delay, this has been a crazy week as the stories we have today can attest to. Hope you guys enjoy. ??. Show Notes: #1: Money Saving Tip from a Mailman. #2: Great Parking Job. #3: Is there a fire or did someone turn the heat on? Get In Touch With The Show! Message me on Facebook | Tweet me on Twitter | Send me an email. Outro Music Credit: Epic Song by BoxCat Games.

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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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???????? Lakers vs Clippers, ???? ?? ???????? ?? LAX: From global to local insights ????????

Audiense

As two Pacific Division giants within the NBA, sharing not only their home city of LA but also their stomping ground of the Staples Centre how different could their fan base be? Having put ourselves in the shoes of a sports brand looking to sponsor some homegrown talent we decided to analyze each team’s’ fan base (local, national and international) identifying who they are whilst uncovering their interests, affinities and personalities.

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How To Improve Your Business Success Rate

The Realtime Report

How To Improve Your Business Success Rate. Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur or you own an established company, you should continually look for ways to grow your enterprise and improve your business. To help you do so, we’re sharing some handy tips on how to increase your business success rate. Professional Development. Regardless of your industry, you must strive to provide your customers or clients with exceptional value.

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Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and LinkedIn Updates You Need to Know

Meltwater

2017 has seen a stack of exciting updates from all the major social media platforms.… Read More.

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Instagram Stories for Business: 7 Easy Ideas (+ Free Templates)

Socially Sorted

Not sure where to start with Instagram Stories for Business? You’ve heard it gets attention. You’ve heard it gets engagement. But how do you get started? What is the best type of post to make? In this post I share 7 Easy Ideas for Instagram Stories (and some. // Read More. The post Instagram Stories for Business: 7 Easy Ideas (+ Free Templates) appeared first on Socially Sorted.

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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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6 Things That No One Tells you About Employee Advocacy

Oktopost

Dear marketing leader, You read on some flashy statistic sheet that 64% of companies credit employee advocacy with attracting and developing new business, while 45% attribute new revenue streams to advocacy. Perhaps you also watched one of our awesome webinars, showcasing Fujitsu’s astounding 360% ROI from its employee advocacy program.

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4 Items To Consider Before Choosing A Virtual Office In Brisbane

The Realtime Report

4 Items To Consider Before Choosing A Virtual Office In Brisbane. There are many reasons to consider a move to a virtual office. These corporate resources are highly affordable, easily accessible, and perfectly shaped to support small businesses and entrepreneurs. They offer a plethora of benefits, particularly for companies with limited funds, as they split the cost of use among all tenants.

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Face Your Fears: Digital Marketing Horrors and How to Deal with Them

Devumi

Digital marketing can be tedious work with all the campaigns that need to be run. And it can be pretty scary too when something goes wrong. Here are some marketing horror stories and how you can deal with them should they happen to you. Horror no. 1: Sending out an inappropriate tweet In most cases, […]. The post Face Your Fears: Digital Marketing Horrors and How to Deal with Them appeared first on Devumi.

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8 Year Old Kids Are On Devices Way More Than You Might Think And More On This Week's CTRL ALT Delete Segment On CHOM 97.7 FM

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Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio out of Montreal (home base). It's not a long segment - about 5 to 10 minutes every week - about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly on iHeart Radio , if you're interested in hearing more of me blathering away about what's going on in the digital world.

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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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Social Sidekick November 2017: Social Holidays, Themes, and Noteworthy Events

Meltwater

Winter is coming, but holiday treats, friend and family time, as well as a well-tuned… Read More.

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How to get started live-streaming for business

Lucy Hall

In this facebook live episode of the Kickstart Social Show, I interview Victoria Taylor of Untwisted Media on how to go about getting started with live-streaming for business.

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LinkedIn Smart Replies Feature Introduced to Keep Conversations Going

Devumi

Engaging in conversations on LinkedIn is an effective way to strengthen your professional connections with potential clients or employers. This site is now is helping users keep those conversations going with the new LinkedIn Smart Replies feature. Quickly respond to LinkedIn messages The new feature works by providing users with a set of reply options […].

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How to Measure the Quality of Your Content

Proactive Report

A while ago I posted a video by Rand Fishkin on how to create 10X content- content that is 10X better than your competitors. So how do you know if your efforts are working? Can you measure the quality of your content? The quality of writing and visuals is very subjective. I may love something that you think is awful. But there are several indicators that can tell you how well your content is doing: The Google Quality Guidelines.

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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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#MeToo Why SILICON VALLEY Can’t Follow EDUCATION in Managing Abuse of Power

Laurel Papworth

How can communities – Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood – manage harassment and abuse situations? Are Health and Education doing a better job? When I evaluate communities online and offline I look for power bases. They include but are not limited to, popular influencers, designated leaders, tribal groups and rites of passage/rituals.

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When Work Becomes Art. Thanks, Gord

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When done well, your work becomes art. That's probably the only sign of success that personally excites me. Fame? Money? Likes? Shares? Follows? When the work that you're doing is, literally, considered art, it truly transcends. This is one of the exact reasons why people laud business luminaries like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. They elevated the ordinary of business to an art form (whether you love their brands or not).

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Twitter’s November Events Calendar Is Here With Plenty of Marketing Opportunities

Devumi

November is just a week away, and Twitter has released its events calendar for the month. They list the celebrations, hashtags, and trending topics that Twitter users can take advantage of. Twitter November events calendar The month’s celebrations are kicked off by #VeteransDay on Nov. 11. Marketers can hop on board not just to promote […]. The post Twitter’s November Events Calendar Is Here With Plenty of Marketing Opportunities appeared first on Devumi.

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Make Your Website a Tool to Grow Your Business

Proactive Report

There are 28.8 million small businesses in the US, which account for 99.7% of US businesses. (Source: SBA Gov 2016 ) Just over half of them (54%) have a website. (Hard to imagine why the other half don’t!) There are thousands of web design companies out there offering to make or update your site. If your company has a website, or is considering making changes, ask yourself these questions: Do I know what I want the website to accomplish?

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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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5 Tips to Help You Consume Content More Productively

ProBlogger

As bloggers, we create a significant amount of content. But most of us consume a significant amount of it as well. In an industry that uses strategies such as SEO, social media marketing and email marketing as key tools, we need to stay up to date with changes and trends so we can keep growing and developing. W e also need to keep abreast of what’s happening in our niche to stay relevant.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #383

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Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll ( Solve for Interesting , Tilt the Windmill , HBS , chair of Strata , Startupfest , Pandemonio , and ResolveTO , Author of Lean Analytics and some other books ), Hugh McGuire ( PressBooks , LibriVox , iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto ) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another

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Social Media Case Studies: PlayStation Doesn’t Play on Social Media

Devumi

Sony’s PlayStation has long been a household name when it comes to video games. To push their brand into the 21st-century they have made waves on social media. Let’s take a look at how PlayStation consistently wins on social media. Social media case studies: PlayStation Unlike most brands on social media, PlayStation doesn’t directly promote […].

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Why Monitoring Brand Mentions Matters

Proactive Report

Eyes Open. Tired Awake Young Man. Back in the 1980s research showed that when someone had a bad experience with your brand they were likely to tell 35 people. Now a negative mention online can reach millions in a flash. If you’re smart, and you have a monitoring system in place, you can catch the negative content the moment it happens and do damage control.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Gen C

Buzzlogix

For the last several years, Millennials have dominated the news, especially when it came to marketing. Everyone was talking about Millennials. They talked about what they wanted to buy, and how to market to them. In reality, if you’re targeting your marketing campaigns to Millennials, you are missing the biggest piece of the pie. Many of the traits that Millennials have aren’t limited to that age group.

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