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Instagram Launches New Crackdown on Fake Followers Gained via Third Party Apps

Social Media Today

Instagram has announced a new crackdown on users who purchase followers and likes via third-party apps.

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5 Must-Have Metrics on Your Social Media Scorecard for 2019

Ignite Social Media

2019 Social Media Metrics. Time flies and, believe it or not, it’s already time to start thinking about planning for next year. Every good strategy requires a good measurement plan. To help you start thinking about 2019 social media metrics, we put together a list of widely used social media objectives and the 5-must-have metrics for each one. Mixing and matching is highly encouraged depending on your business’s individual needs.

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FACE: 4 Traits To Look For When Hiring Your Social Media Community Manager

SocMed Sean

Having worked in online community management for the last 15 years, I have had the privilege of putting together some amazing teams. Whether the members of those teams were tasked with building and maintaining large corporate Intranets or running social media for Fortune 100 clients, they all required a few common traits to be successful in their efforts.

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The New Measurement: Shifting from Traditional PR to Growth PR

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest Post by Dan Beltramo. Although PR and communications have always been about telling a brand’s story and managing its reputation, the way that we create and amplify that story, in addition to how (and when) we measure our success, has shifted from creative campaigns built over weeks on best guesses and gut instinct to data-driven, real-time, iterative storytelling with metrics that tie back to provide revenue indicators and accelerate customer funnel activities that impact the bottom line.

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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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Big Changes Coming to Facebook's Messaging Platform - Here's What Admins Need to Know

Social Media Today

There’s a deadline on the horizon that affects, and requires action by, Facebook Page admins. As of January 1st, 2019, Facebook Pages will need to have successfully been approved for subscription messaging permissions - if not, they won’t be able to send the free messaging type cal.

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How To Publish Instagram Stories From Desktop

The Social Media Hat

Ever wish you could send a great graphic to Instagram from your desktop for your story? Perhaps a series of graphics? Here's how.

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Government Social Media Accounts: 3 Agencies that Inspire on Social

Meltwater

Arguably one of the most useful aspects of social media is its ability to deliver relevant content to a significantly large group of people instantaneously. Whether it's delivering crucial information during… Read More >>>.

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Facebook's Testing a New Option for Communal Video Viewing in Messenger

Social Media Today

Facebook is reportedly testing out a new option which would enable Messenger users to view the same video at the same time, and comment within private groups.

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How to Keep Your Brand’s Social Account Secure

Ignite Social Media

Last month, you may have been signed out of your personal Facebook account due to a recent privacy breach. While almost 50 million people were affected, according to Facebook there was no indication that business accounts were affected. Regardless, it’s a good reminder to put in safeguards to protect your potentially vulnerable business accounts. At Ignite Social Media, we’ve implemented several best practices to ensure our clients keep their brand’s social account secure.

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Cross-publishing Tips to Make Your Content Creation Process Easier

agora pulse

When you are creating content for multiple platforms, your content creation process can seem overwhelming. Though there are best practices that apply across all of social media, each platform is unique. If you want to really take advantage of all the platform has to offer, then it’s important that you customize your content. Don’t worry!

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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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Instagram Study: We analyzed 9 million posts and that's what we've learned

Quintly

Instagram has over 1 billion users worldwide. This is not only a huge amount of registered users but also a lot of many different use cases. Some use it to share their life with their friends, influencers make a living out of the platform and brands engage with their audience or to generate new customers.

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Facebook Releases New Report on Customer Friction Points, and How to Resolve Them

Social Media Today

Facebook has released a new report on common customer pain points in the purchase process, and how brands can address such issues and streamline the process.

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How to Use Tailwind App for better Pinterest Marketing Results [Review]

Socially Sorted

If you haven’t tried Tailwind App to get better Pinterest Marketing results then read this review. In this post we share why Tailwind for Pinterest helps you get more Pinterest reach, shares and Pinterest traffic. It’s the Ultimate Tailwind App Review. BY DONNA. // Read More. The post How to Use Tailwind App for better Pinterest Marketing Results [Review] appeared first on Socially Sorted.

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24+ Sites to Find Free Images You Would Actually Use for Your Marketing

Buffer Social

Here at Buffer, we think a lot about visual content. We’ve shared our own study on the importance of images in Twitter posts for more social sharing. We’ve explored tools that help anyone create visual content. Our social media management tool incorporates image posting because we know how important that element is to engage your followers and fans.

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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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Facebook Admits It Asked Opposition Firm Definers To Investigate George Soros

Forbes Social Media

Facebook said Wednesday evening it had asked Definers Public Affairs to look into George Soros' funding activities after the billionaire philanthropist called the social network a "menace to society" in early 2018 and Facebook called for a deeper investigation of its critics.

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SMT's 2018 Social Media Spending Survey - Part 1: Key Channels of Focus

Social Media Today

We recently conducted a survey of our audience to determine the key social media marketing trends and shifts of 2018. Here's part one of our report.

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‘Tis the season: Retailers can expect 32% more social messages this holiday season

Sprout Social

Not only is shopping more digital than ever–it’s also more social. Mobile-first shopping grew by 20% from 2016 to 2017 and in 2018, consumers ranked social as their number one source of inspiration for purchases. To no one’s surprise, social buzz around shopping reaches its peak during the holiday season. And while Cyber Monday may have outpaced Black Friday as the largest shopping day of the year in 2017, shoppers are becoming increasingly accustomed to deals and specials that

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For Thanksgiving this year, play #PopcornGratitude!

Janet Fouts

We have a new idea at our Thanksgiving this year, and we call it “popcorn gratitude”. Before dinner starts, take a few moments and gather the family together. Then start a lightning round of gratitude. Not just for love, or family and friends, good food and fun. Every person shouts out things they love, popcorn style. Whoever wants to play can speak, no set order.

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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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How to Find Video Content Ideas When You’re Stuck

Socially Sorted

Do you find yourself stuck for video content ideas at times? In this post we break down how to find engaging video content ideas when you can’t think of anything to post. You’ll never run out of ideas for video again! We all know that video marketing is on the rise. // Read More. The post How to Find Video Content Ideas When You’re Stuck appeared first on Socially Sorted.

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6 Social Media Marketing Automation Tools (and How to Use Them Properly)

Social Media Today

Automation tools can help optimize and maximize your performance. Here are six examples of great social media marketing automation tools to consider.

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Green Housing And Technological Ecology

Forbes Social Media

What is the solution to homelessness and the ecological harm done when creating social housing through cement structures? The resolution though architectural is also a cultural one where we must shift how approach the domestic sphere.

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How a Branded Hashtag Campaign Helped Tommy’s Superfoods to Reach More Than One Million People

Buffer Social

When Tommy Williams was growing up in Austin Texas, he probably didn’t think his love for cooking and local farmers markets would lead to starting a nationally-recognized food brand. But that’s exactly what happened. Williams began to embrace his entrepreneurial spirit after college. As a graduate, he started selling a variety of salsas and spice mixes in local retailers — and this is where his passion for promoting a healthier way of eating really came to the fore.

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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 3 PR Dashboards Your Comms Strategy Needs

Meltwater

Confession: While media monitoring software was evolving into media intelligence over the last decade, I didn’t as a user. My media monitoring routine remained fairly static since the early aughts:… Read More >>>.

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Snapchat's Planning to Release Another New Version of Spectacles

Social Media Today

Snapchat is reportedly looking to release another new version of Spectacles - could it be the thing that pushes the company to the next level?

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#238: Success Secrets to Serving the Smallest Viable Market with Seth Godin

Amy Porterfield

Find people who want to be found. Talk to them in ways they want to be talked to. Take them on a journey to where they want to go. —Seth Godin Those are just a few of the nuggets of marketing mastery from THE Seth Godin, my longtime DREAM podcast guest. Seth gave so much […]. The post #238: Success Secrets to Serving the Smallest Viable Market with Seth Godin appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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Employee Advocacy for Financial Services: Webinar Takeaways, Part 1

Oktopost

It’s no secret that many financial services have embraced employee advocacy, citing the 2008 crisis as a turning point in the relationship between financial services and their customers. To see how the financial services industry can make the most of advocacy, I co-hosted a webinar with finance marketing expert Andrew Davies, Director of Digital Marketing […].

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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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Learn From The Best: 3 Brands Nailing Instagram Marketing And What You Can Learn From Them

Forbes Social Media

As a business, Instagram has a lot to offer in terms of reach and engagement. Learn from some of the best brands on Instagram how you can refine your strategy and improve your results from Instagram.

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Twitter Seeks to De-Emphasize Follower Counts with New Update

Social Media Today

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says that he wants to de-emphasize elements like follower counts to put more focus on meaningful conversations.

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Audiense and Pulsar integrate: Conversation Insights + Audience Segmentation in 1 click!

Audiense

I am proud to announce a seamless 2-way integration bringing you the best in class insights-to-activation solution.

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LLC or S-Corp? Choosing the Right Business Structure with Bobby Klinck

Amy Porterfield

Don't wait until it's too late to protect you and your business. If you’re reading this, I know that you are an entrepreneur that puts a lot of time, energy and resources into building your business. The last thing you need in your entrepreneurial journey is to run into any sort of legal trouble, but […]. The post LLC or S-Corp? Choosing the Right Business Structure with Bobby Klinck appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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3 Reasons Your Uncle Might Think Cold Days Disprove Global Warming

Forbes Social Media

Here is why your uncle or grandmother might think a cold week disproves climate change.

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