Sat.Oct 14, 2023 - Fri.Oct 20, 2023

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Content Marketing and Social Media: 25 Insights and Stats from Three Research Reports

Webbiquity SMM

Nearly three-quarters of companies plan to maintain or grow their content marketing teams over the next year. Social media managers are actually (slightly) happier working in the office rather than hybrid or remote. And lead gen campaigns on Facebook and Instagram are 10X more expensive than brand awareness advertising. Those are among the findings from a trio of this year’s best research reports, from WordPress VIP , Hootsuite , and Metricool.

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Instagram Adds Polls in Comment Streams on Feed Posts and Reels

Social Media Today

Polls have proven to be a popular option for eliciting audience engagement.

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Facebook Page DM Scams

Jon Loomer

These DM scams on Facebook are a joke… Each of these DMs follows the same playbook. 1. They claim to be Meta. 2. They even use Meta logos. 3. They claim you’ve violated community standards. 4. If you don’t reply within 24 hours, your page will be locked or removed. 5. To appeal, they provide a link that you definitely should not click. It’s surely a phishing link, and if you click it, it’s likely your page will be taken over by these same scammers.

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How To Approach Marketplace & Ecosystem Development w/ Jason Lampkin

The Social Media Hat

Partnership Unpacked, Episode 43, with Jason Lampkin The post How To Approach Marketplace & Ecosystem Development w/ Jason Lampkin appeared first on The Social Media Hat.

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HR’s Blueprint for a Successful 2025

The HR industry is changing. Did you know… 1. There will be 4M more jobs than workers by 2033 ( BLS ). 2. For 84% of workers, flexibility is a top priority ( FlexJobs ). 3. 75% of employees have used AI at work ( CFO.com ). It’s time to meet the moment! Use Paycor’s guide to design a blueprint for success.

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Top AI use cases in marketing to elevate your 2024 strategy

Sprout Social

As the digital market space rapidly evolves, customers are seeking authenticity and human connection from brands like never before. To meet this rising demand, your marketing team needs to be agile, think out of the box and keep up with deadlines—all while operating within limited budgets and constrained team bandwidths. Luckily, innovative technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) offer long-term solutions to meet these challenges.

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New Report Suggests that X Usage is Declining Amid Various Changes at the App

Social Media Today

New data from Apptopia suggests that Twitter's name change to 'X' has not resonated with audiences.

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9 New Instagram Features and How to Use Them

Buffer Social

Instagram is one social media platform that is evolving at a rate of knots. Remember when all you could do on Instagram was share oversaturated images of your food? (Love you, Lo-Fi filter.) Now the social network lets you do everything from broadcasting to your followers to creating your own stickers with AI , with a host of new features only hitting the Meta-owned app in the last few months.

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Social media listening examples that will help you unearth better insights

Sprout Social

Social insights that give you a glimpse into the minds of your audience are often the hardest to access by traditional means. Insights like how audiences feel, an overall response to your brand’s events or campaign, your competitor performance—these are all critical findings that require digging deeper than surface level. And social listening can unearth these game-changing insights…if you know how to use it.

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Instagram Will Now Enable You to Create Stickers from Entities in Your Photos

Social Media Today

A handy new option to create custom stickers for your Reels and Stories.

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Ads Do the Targeting Now

Jon Loomer

Your ad does the targeting now… We’ve heard this phrase a lot lately. Here’s what it means. Facebook ads of old prioritized targeting. Advertisers separated themselves by finding the perfect combination of demographics, interests, and lookalikes. Meta ads targeting has evolved. Broad targeting and machine learning changed everything. Meta’s been expanding audiences, in some cases without an option, for more than a year now.

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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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On TikTok, White Supremacist ‘Active Club’ Recruitment Videos May Have Reached Millions

Forbes Social Media

The videos juxtapose traditional fitness and martial arts imagery with white supremacist flags, symbols, and messages. TikTok is now rushing to remove them.

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50 AI Prompts for Better Social Posts

Buffer Social

Most weeks, I stare blankly at my LinkedIn channel, wondering what on earth I should post. It's hard. Coming up with new content on a weekly or even daily basis isn’t just time-consuming, it can be infuriating. Fortunately, Buffer’s AI Assistant can help. But there’s a secret you need to know if you want to get the most out of it: adding the right prompts.

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X’s Latest Experiment Will Charge New Users $1 To Engage in App

Social Media Today

X is looking to charge all new users, as part of its expanding efforts to combat bot armies.

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Verify Your Custom Website Events

Jon Loomer

If you use custom events , you need to read this. Go to your Events Manager, and you may see this message to “Verify your custom website event(s).” The process isn’t difficult, but the question is… Why? Let’s discuss… What Are Custom Events? First, a quick explanation. Not to be confused with custom conversions , custom events are conversion events (often on your website) that fall outside of Meta’s predefined standard events.

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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 reach younger consumers: 9 legacy brands adapting for new audiences

Sprout Social

Even the most well-known legacy brands need to adapt to attract audiences over the years. For any business to be successful long-term, they need to be able to evolve to meet the needs and expectations of the next generation. A strategy that made a brand successful years ago may be obsolete in the future, that’s why building brand awareness remains critical for established and upcoming businesses alike.

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How To Create Content Pillars For Social Media (Using My Content Pillar Ideation Template)

Buffer Social

Thanks to ever-changing social media algorithms and the ever-growing list of platforms that make them, it’s easier than ever to become a creator. However, because anyone can become a creator, there’s also more noise than ever for your potential audience to cut through. So, while it’s great (and ideal) to build a platform off your personality, it’s not the most realistic method.

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TikTok Announces All Videos Will Have Default Auto Captions

Social Media Today

A positive move for accessibility in the app.

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The Future of Targeting

Jon Loomer

This is my prediction for the future of Meta ads targeting. If you’ve paid attention the past few years , none of this will be shocking… Advantage Detailed Targeting, Advantage Lookalike, and Advantage Custom Audience will all be eliminated. They just won’t be necessary anymore. Advantage+ Audience will become a fixed default in most situations.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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X's Misinformation Problem Is Getting Worse

Forbes Social Media

Instead of providing unfiltered or unedited updates, we're now seeing an increase in misinformation and even disinformation.

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Bootstrapping a $30 Million Dollar Company: The Strategies Behind Our Decade of Growth

Buffer Social

Starting my company, I felt confident about two things. The first was that I had a winning idea: An Uber for lawn care. I had spent the previous 15 years running my own local lawn care company, and I knew from experience both how difficult it was for a homeowner to get a reliable lawn mowing service and how challenging it was to make a living mowing yards.

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Meta Expands Broadcast Channels to Facebook and Messenger

Social Media Today

Broadcast channels have already proven popular with younger users on Instagram.

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Value for Advantage+ Shopping

Jon Loomer

We have an update to Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns … When you create an Advantage+ Shopping Campaign, you may see a drop-down menu for the performance goal. If you don’t have the drop-down, you don’t have this change yet. By default, the performance goal is “Maximize number of conversions.” Click that drop-down and you’ll see another option: “Maximize value of conversions.

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Why (and How) to Switch to a New HR & Payroll Platform

Speaker: Speakers:

HR and payroll impact every aspect of your business. Choosing the right provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Before you decide, hear first-hand customer accounts in Paycor’s webinar to learn: The three most important things to look for when switching. How to begin your search. What are some of the red flags?

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Will A Subscription Stop Bots On X? That’s The $1 Question

Forbes Social Media

The annual subscription, which was announced on Tuesday evening, is part of a program that the company has dubbed "Not A Bot"

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Online reputation monitoring: What it is and why it’s important for business

Sprout Social

It’s no stretch to say that reputation management is more important than ever for brands today. Because modern buyers aren’t shy about unfiltered criticism, praise and feedback. But if you only factor direct mentions and reviews into your monitoring, you’re missing out. There are countless places for consumers to sound off. From shout-outs to call-outs, brands need a pulse on many channels to keep a clean reputation.

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Threads Posts Could Be Shown to Facebook and Instagram Connections

Social Media Today

Meta's promotions for Threads include re-shared posts as highlights in its other apps.

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The Platform Owes You Nothing

Jon Loomer

Consider this a warning if you’re an online creator who relies on your content and the audiences you built with it to drive revenue. DO NOT take it for granted. DO NOT assume that what works today will work tomorrow. News feed algorithms change. Platforms implode. Ad costs, competition, and effectiveness change. User consumption evolves from one format to another.

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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Why 'Monk Mode' And Social Media Don't Mix

Forbes Social Media

Instead of discussing on social media how to best embrace monk mode, it would be better to simply avoid using the platforms.

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How to use social listening marketing for customer advocacy

Audiense

As brands explore social listening marketing, customer advocacy becomes integral to their success. Building a customer base that actively promotes your brand through word-of-mouth, physically or digitally, can significantly increase brand awareness and improve your bottom line.

Marketing 114
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Elon Musk Outlines Coming X Premium Subscription Packages, Including a Higher Priced Ad Free Option

Social Media Today

But will they help to increase subscriber intake?

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What is Reservation Buying Type?

Jon Loomer

Check out the Reservation buying type … If you create a campaign in Ads Manager, you may see this (rolling out in October): “Introducing reservation buying type. Reservation, formerly called reach and frequency, allows you to plan and buy your campaigns with a set cost and forecast your campaign’s lifetime results for reach and frequency.” Reservation is the alternative to Auction and has two objective options: Awareness and Engagement.

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2025 Payroll Calendar Templates (Biweekly, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly)

Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!