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4 Super Effective Strategies for Writing Copy for Social Media

Social Media Today

While social networks are increasingly visual, don't underestimate the power of copy. Check out these tips.

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Making the Most out of Your Instagram Stories

Ignite Social Media

Stories have become a major part of Instagram, receiving millions of views daily. If your brand is active on the platform it’s important to take advantage of this space, since it presents a huge opportunity to be discovered by audiences both new and old. With so many eyeballs on this content, it’s important to use Instagram best practices in this area of the platform along with the posts you add to your page.

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Embracing Your Brand On Pinterest

Socialmedia.biz

More than 250 million people visit Pinterest every month to explore new ideas and products. In fact, 84 percent of them browse the platform when they’re unsure about what to buy and almost 77 percent end up discovering a brand they like on Pinterest. In today’s competitive landscape—where companies everywhere are trying to establish a unique brand identity to connect with users, Pinterest offers a fun, and upbeat space for relaying advertising messages.

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Technology Makes Us Lazy Communicators

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest Post by Matt LaCasse. When Shonali reached out to me to ask if I’d write a guest post on technology in communication, I immediately jumped at the chance. My brain then said, “That’s like writing something about fish in the ocean, man.” Fair point. There are as many different angles to take on that topic as there are grains of sand on the beach.

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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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Here's Why TikTok May be More Than a Passing Fad

Social Media Today

Will TikTok become the next major social platform, or will be a short-lived trend? While it's impossible to say, the impetus behind the app does seem different.

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How to Spring into a New Season with Fresh Content

Ignite Social Media

As Spring approaches, it’s important to start strong and capture your audience’s attention with content that’s fresh and relevant to the season. If you work with a brand that’s ahead of the game you’ve probably already started to produce and capture spring content. No matter what stage of the process you’re in, these four tips can lead you to a content calendar full of spring social content that’s on point for the season ahead.

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Content Marketing Strategy: Top 10 Mistakes Killing Your Success

Pam Moore

Do you ever feel like you are spinning your wheels when it comes to developing and integrating your content marketing strategy and plan into your business and overall marketing initiatives, campaigns and programs to achieve your business and marketing goals? Content marketing planned and executed properly can help you ignite not only online and social media results but also true foundational business results.

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Content Marketing Strategy: Top 10 Mistakes Killing Your Success

Social Media Today

Are you struggling to implement an effective content marketing plan? In this new podcast, Pam Moore outlines some of the most common errors, and how to avoid them.

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New Features for Snapchat Location Ads

Ignite Social Media

Snapchat has stepped up its ad game in terms of trying to show brands that their platform can get people to physical locations. Snapchat location ads have been around for about a year, but they recently added additional features for brick and mortar locations. Snapchat Location Ads. Just in case you are not familiar with Snapchat locations ads , these ads are meant to help drive people to visit specific retail locations.

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6 Twitter analytics tools to amplify your Twitter strategy

Sprout Social

Twitter is an excellent platform to engage with friends and follow your favorite industry experts. But if you want to use it to promote your business or your personal brand, you have to do more than just broadcast tweets every once in a while. It’s not enough to blindly share your new blog posts and product updates either. A great Twitter strategy requires proper analytics to understand what’s working and what isn’t.

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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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#255: What’s Keeping You Safe Is What’s Keeping You Stuck

Amy Porterfield

What’s keeping you stuck? Are you in an unfulfilling 9-5 job that you’re dying to get out of? Maybe your side hustle is not progressing along fast enough. Is the business model you created just not feeling right? Or maybe you’ve been at it for a while and your revenue numbers just aren’t where you […]. The post #255: What’s Keeping You Safe Is What’s Keeping You Stuck appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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Beyond CRO: 4 Strategies to Improve Lead Quality and Boost Sales

Social Media Today

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is about improving your offer and conversion experience so that more visitors share their contact information and become leads.

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How APIs Can Transform Your Company

Forbes Social Media

With a thoughtful strategy in place—a strategy that goes beyond a technical imperative—companies can capitalize on several core benefits of APIs.

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5 social listening services you can offer your clients

Sprout Social

Social listening services have been a huge selling point for us lately. More of our clients (and brands in general) see the value and importance of customer service through social media. Because of this, we’ve found unique ways to use social listening services for these clients. Not that customer care is the only way to service your clients with social listening.

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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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What Should All Start-Ups Consider?

The Realtime Report

What Should All Start-Ups Consider? Becoming a start-up can be a hugely liberating but terrifying feeling. If you’ve been under the shelter of a stable nine-to-five, then selling your own business can feel like shaky territory. However, by getting the correct advice and putting in plenty of hard work, your sacrifice might just pay off. If you’ve got a business name, an idea, and a plan, what else should you consider?

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Instagram Launches 'Checkout on Instagram' to Facilitate In-App Shopping

Social Media Today

Instagram is taking the next big step with its on-platform shopping options by adding a new way for users to make streamlined purchases without leaving the app.

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Preparing The Human Workforce For The Machine Workforce

Forbes Social Media

As artificial intelligence-driven automation changes the nature of work and workplaces in unpredictable ways, how are nations shifting the way they think about the workforce?

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How do brands celebrate Holi on social media?

Unmetric

The festival of colors, an event of pure joy and celebration is one of the most popular festivals in India. To connect with their audience and improve brand visibility, brands have come up with some inspirational colorful Holi-related campaigns. With Holi 2019 looming just around the corner, we came up with a list of Top 10 Holi social media posts to inspire your campaigns for this year.

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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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March Madness And Sports Gambling In The Workplace

The Realtime Report

March Madness and Sports Gambling in the Workplace. The start of the first March Madness season since a landmark 2018 Supreme Court ruling gave states leeway to allow and regulate sports gambling. Many state legislatures are already jumping at what they consider an untapped revenue opportunity. For their part, business owners and workplace compliance professionals are not all exactly jumping for joy – as they see a newly increased risk of overzealous participants and gamblers disrupting th

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LinkedIn Launches its 'Marketing Buzzwords Bracket' Ahead of March Madness

Social Media Today

To get into the spirit of 'March Madness', LinkedIn has released its inaugural 'Buzzword Beaters' bracket, pitting the most cringe-inducing buzz terms up against each other.

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#FacebookDown Or Not, Why Your Nonprofit Should Be On Twitter

Forbes Social Media

Twitter is a divisive topic for many nonprofits -- but success on Twitter can come in many different forms. Here's how your nonprofit can benefit from using Twitter, even with a very limited time investment.

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The Art of Copywriting: How to Write Better Captions that Get Engagement

Buffer Social

What you’re trying to do, when you tell a story, is to write about an event in your life that made you feel some particular way. And what you’re trying to do, when you tell a story, is to get the audience to have that same feeling. – Pete Docter. While we don’t typically associate the art of copywriting with social media captions , the two are deeply intertwined.

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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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Would Consumers Care if Your Brand Disappeared Tomorrow?

Pixlee

A recent survey report conducted by Havas Media revealed that consumers would not care if 77% of 1,800 brands from 31 markets and 22 industries disappeared. Even more, the study revealed that 58% of brand content is not meaningful. These staggering statistics suggest that most brands are going to need to try a lot harder to reach their audience. What makes a brand meaningful?

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In 2020, Native Advertising will be More Programmatic and Mobile - but Less Social

Social Media Today

While content marketing has exploded, paid promotion of such has not caught on in the same way. Contributor Chad Pollitt says that this is about to change.

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Facebook Privacy Update: Mark Zuckerberg's Response To Cambridge Analytica Scandal One Year On

Forbes Social Media

It is now a year ago that the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which saw Facebook user data hoovered up for use in political campaigns, broke into the headlines. The legal and business repercussions continue to this day, but has Mark Zuckerberg actually learned his lesson?

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Here’s what you need to know

WebInKnow

Over the past decade, clickbait headlines have proliferated on all sorts of Web content. They have shown up on blogs with increasing frequency “The 5 social media marketing secrets to drive your business now” and they appear on sponsored content on media sites all the time “7 heart-warming photos of babies that you won’t believe”. Now I’m seeing clickbait headlines on the websites of mainstream media sites including the Washington Post and New York Times , frequently including a phrase similar t

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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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From Best to Worst: Content Intelligence Tools You Need to Know About

Cortex

Its 2019, and things are changing. We need to learn to make informed decisions quickly. In the next thousand words or so, you'll be introduced to several different content intelligence tools that are available to start using today. Don't hop on board once it's too late; make use of what big data and Artificial Intelligence have to offer your business!

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Twitter's Updating its Limits on Third-Party Usage, Which Could Impact Social Management Platforms

Social Media Today

Twitter has announced a new review of its third-party data usage processes, which could impact some third-party Twitter management tools.

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5 Apps To Make Business Life Easier

Forbes Social Media

I love to discover new and clever ways to get things done, I think most of us do. There are a ton of apps out there that are designed to make life a bit easier, but these are the top 5 that I use consistently to make my day run a bit smoother.

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Top 5 learnings from our Social | Media Day 2019

Quintly

Last week, quintly hosted an exciting new event we called Social | Media Day – bridging the gap between social media marketing and the work of some pretty incredible news and media companies we partner with. At our HQ in the heart of Cologne, we welcomed 50 customers, partners and other industry heads from a ton of news outlets for a full day of great talks, learning and sharing knowledge.

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The Ins and Outs of Deep Learning

Cortex

Deep learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that offers innovative applications in many areas of technology. Algorithms driven by deep learning are being used to recognize speech, predict earthquakes, identify images, detect cancer, and make predictions. Deep learning trains computers to learn on their own.