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No More Copied Content on Facebook

Socialmedia.biz

It used to be that marketers, website owners, and bloggers only had to worry about staying compliant with Google’s algorithm and its updates but now it seems that they have to stay in tune with Facebook’s ever-changing algorithms as well. That is if they still want to continue to channel traffic from the social media giant to their sites. After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has been on a rigorous crusade to clean up its image and show its users not only that their data is safe but th

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6 Tips for Planning Your 2019 Social Media Strategy

Social Media Today

As we near the year's end, social media marketers are shifting into planning mode for next year. Here are some tips for planning your 2019 social media strategy.

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Six Examples of Great Community Management

Ignite Social Media

There’s a lot that goes into community management. A community manager acts as the link between a brand and its customers- helping to build, grow, and manage their online communities. Community managers (CMs) are, in many cases, the voice of the brand. They are immersed in the community and they’re the people you communicate with when you reach out to a brand.

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Top Five: What do Facebook’s growth numbers mean?

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s Top 5 must-know news for marketing, communications and PR professionals includes new social functions for Vimeo, Facebook’s growth trends, Twitter and retweets, Pinterest users and fun emojis. 1. Now publish directly to LinkedIn with Vimeo. Vimeo has introduced a new feature that will allow videos to be published directly to LinkedIn.

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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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Is Long Form Content Dead?

The Social Media Hat

The hype about whether short form or long form content is the future is certainly alive and well. Here's the perspective you need.

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5 Ways to Use the Instagram Nametag Tool to Gain More Followers for Your Brand or Business

Social Media Today

Instagram recently launched its 'Nametag' tool, which simplifies the process of following another user to scanning a photo. But can this tool help you expand your audience?

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A cannabis guide to help Canadian marketers comply with legislation

Sherrilynne Starkie

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for a month, you’re aware that cannabis is now legal in Canada. Marketing and communications professionals are fascinated to see how the promotional aspect of a new, but highly regulated, industry rolls out. Ironically, the burgeoning industry was working with looser regulation before Pot Legalization Day on October 17 th , 2018.

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Twitter may remove the ‘Like’ option from tweets

Socialmedia.biz

Receiving Likes on social media may be on the verge of extinction, at least for one social media platform. Just like Facebook and Instagram, one of the big aspects involved with Twitter is the “Like” option. The simple tap or click on the heart icon on someone’s tweet allows a user to register their approval of the tweet. Now there is speculation going around that the social media company may be doing away with that particular aspect of their experience.

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New Report Highlights the Importance of Brand Awareness in SEO

Social Media Today

A new study has found that brand familiarity may be a bigger SEO factor than page ranking, which points to the need for a broad-based digital marketing approach.

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The Productivity Secret of Highly-Effective Entrepreneurs

Rebekah Radice

If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you spend a great part of your day with back to chair staring into a computer screen. In fact, I bet that as you’re reading this, you’re hunched over your desk, where you’ll likely spend the next several hours. But did you know that a lack of productivity is directly linked to inactivity ? Yep, all those symptoms – foggy brain, inability to focus, creative slump – stem from a sedentary work life.

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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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Happy Halloween 2018

Sherrilynne Starkie

Happy Halloween everyone! I made this e-card quickly with Snappa, an easy-to-use graphic design tool. Take your communications to a new level with unique visual content. Use this link for your free trial. The post Happy Halloween 2018 appeared first on Sherrilynne Starkie.

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How the Red Sox and Dodgers Covered the World Series on Social Media

Ignite Social Media

Covering sports on social media is unique – content turnover accelerates while turnaround time for that content is expedited. Timeliness is critical as big moments develop LIVE, and the spotlight shines even brighter for brands as millions of fans hang onto every last character of coverage. With so much at stake for the teams on the field, the teams behind the social accounts are required to bring their A-game.

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6 Tips for Creating Ultra-Shareable Blog Content for Social Media

Social Media Today

Social shares can significantly increase brand visibility and blog traffic to your company website. Here's how you can make sure your blog posts ultra-sharable.

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5 Content Curation Best Practices For B2B Marketers

Oktopost

Content curation has been a long-standing buzzword in social media marketing. While it seems to be on the radar of many marketers, not all of them invest in this tactic, as they feel it’s not worth the time and effort. However, those marketers are missing out on the benefits curated content can bring to their […].

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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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[eBook] How Social Data is transforming Public Relations

Audiense

During the last few weeks we have produced an eBook for PR professionals so they are able to master the necessary techniques to use social data in their PR strategy.

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October 2018 Social Media Updates

Ignite Social Media

Brands and content creators are in full swing developing their holiday plans ! S ocial media networks take this Q4 push to provide updates and release new products, while also provid ing tips and tricks on how to boost traffic, drive sales, and increase video views. Grab your pumpkin spice latte and catch up on the October Social Media Updates. Facebook Releases New Tools.

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10 Qualities of a 'Unicorn Marketer'

Social Media Today

Modern marketers need a range of skills, which can make them tough to find. Here are Larry Kim's tips for finding your own 'unicorn' marketing team members.

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How To Balance Social Media With Real Life

Socialmedia.biz

Are you clicking on Facebook and Instagram multiple times a day, usually without thinking about it? If so, you might be more addicted to social media than you realize. While social media can certainly be useful for connecting with friends, it’s overtaken many people’s lives. When we spend so much time on social media, we start to lose sight of what reality actually is.

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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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Four Steps to Make Your Business Intelligence Teams More Relevant 

The Realtime Report

Four Steps to Make Your Business Intelligence Teams More Relevant. By Andrew Wells and Kathy Chiang. The world of analytics is changing. Self-Service Analytical tools like Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI are enabling business users to perform reporting and analytics on their own with little to no support from the IT organization. This trend has evolved due to several factors including: Organizations are flooded with data and IT organizations are not able to keep up.

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How Taylor Swift, Snapchat, And Millennial Marketers Are Changing The Political Game

Forbes Social Media

Taylor Swift, Snapchat, and millennial marketing tactics have helped to increase voter registration and turnout. Learn why voter registration is at an all-time high by tapping into influencers, ephemeral content, and personalized communications.

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How to Create a Winning Social Listening Strategy for 2019

Social Media Today

Social listening can provide amazing insight and benefits when done right. Here are some tips on how to optimize your social listening approach.

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Tips and tricks on how to optimize your Instagram profile

Blog2Social

Instagram is one of the most popular social media networks and its power seems to have been growing constantly since its launch date, less than a decade ago. In fact, its growth was exponential during the past five years and, as we can see from the following graph posted by Statista, it has reached a […] Der Beitrag Tips and tricks on how to optimize your Instagram profile erschien zuerst auf Blog2Social Blog – Tips for social media marketing, sharing, scheduling, cross-posting.

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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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How To Protect The Privacy of One’s Mobile Device

The Realtime Report

How to Protect the Privacy of One’s Mobile Device. According to a Q4 report by We Are Social of 2018 Global Digital Trends, there are almost 4.2 billion people using the internet and 3.4 billion active social media users. Millions of new users, especially across Africa and South Asia, have started using the internet for the first time in the past few months.

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How to Find Influencers That Are a Fit With Your Business

Buffer Social

Today’s top influencers aren’t just content creators or media buys – they’re both. According to Invesp , influencer marketing can drive 11 times the ROI of traditional digital marketing. And with 71 percent of marketers believing ongoing influencer ambassadorships are the most effective form of influencer marketing, finding the right influencer for your brand is an incredibly important part of your digital strategy.

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Facebook Publishes New Report on the Brand Potential of Stories

Social Media Today

With Facebook looking to further align itself with Stories, the platform has released a new report which examines how Stories can benefit businesses.

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Companies Are Using Social Media Data to Improve Customer Service

Socialmedia.biz

The last time you called a corporate hotline with a complaint, did the agent seem like someone you’d like to have a beer with? Companies are now using social media data – from sites like LinkedIn and Facebook – to match you to a call center agent that you’re likely to find enchanting. The Wall Street Journal reports that businesses like the casino company Caesars and wireless giant Sprint are using new matchmaker technology to deliver an improved customer service experience.

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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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#235: How To Identify Your Ideal Customer Avatar

Amy Porterfield

Intimately understanding your ideal customer is the key to your success and impact Have you ever sat down to write a blog post, create an outline for your podcast or video show, and you just froze? Not because of fear or imposter syndrome, because those are 100% real, too. Instead, you froze because you just didn’t […]. The post #235: How To Identify Your Ideal Customer Avatar appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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Should Small Businesses be on IGTV? (and 3 Quick Ways to Test It Out)

Buffer Social

Repurposing your content across channels is a great way to get the most from your social media strategy. However, sometimes, certain channels will perform better than others. When GQ posted a video about Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott on its YouTube channel (with 2.5 million subscribers), it was watched almost 30 million times. The same video on their Facebook Page (2.8 million fans) was watched 4.7 million times.

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Facebook Updates Pixel Data Sharing Process, Announces Advanced Instagram Analytics Beta

Social Media Today

Facebook has announced two analytics updates, both designed to provide more transparency into how your online efforts impact offline results.

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October Lab Review

agora pulse

It’s been a busy few months since we published a Social Media Lab review here on the main blog! We have pulled back to publishing every other week so there haven’t been as many experiments. But the ones we have published are ground breaking IMHO. Lots of interesting factoids to digest. So get ready!! 30 Hashtags on Instagram Posts: Yes or No?

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Inspirational Nonprofit #GivingTuesday Fundraising Campaigns

Meltwater

3 Inspirational #GivingTuesday CampaignsWe're approaching one of the busiest (and most exciting) times of the year where nonprofit organizations gear up to end their fundraising efforts on a high note. While… Read More >>>.