Sat.Feb 20, 2021 - Fri.Feb 26, 2021

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How Much to Charge for Social Media Management

Social Media Strategies Summit

It’s practically impossible for a business to operate in today’s market without a social media presence. Despite this fact, many business owners and marketing teams are missing the experience or resources to internally manage their social media presence in a strategic way. More and more businesses are opting to outsource their social media management to freelancers, consultants, or agencies.

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Don’t Freak Out: How to Approach Facebook Advertising Changes Inspired by iOS 14

Jon Loomer

There’s a lot of chatter in the world of Facebook advertising right now. You’re likely more confused and frustrated about the state of advertising than you’ve been in some time. And more than likely, the primary factor behind that confusion and frustration is iOS 14. Look, I get it. We’re in a period of unknown right now. As I described it to my PHC – Elite community today, it’s as if we’ve known for months that we were going to get into a car accident,

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Facebook Responds to First Rulings from its New Oversight Board

Social Media Today

In what could be a significant turning point for social media moderation, Facebook has responded to the initial rulings from the new Oversight Board.

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Core Values Are Stupid Until They’re Not

Ignite Social Media

This article was originally published on Inc. Masters on February 8, 2021. Several years ago, my leadership team encouraged me to endorse the creation of “core values” for our organization, Ignite Social Media. At the time, we had been functioning well and growing regularly, and my prior experience with crafting such statements was not positive. I think I visibly rolled my eyes.

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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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Best Practices for Using Social Media Listening to Improve Your Marketing Strategy

Social Media Strategies Summit

Want to know why social media listening should absolutely, 100% be part of your marketing plans right now? Well, let me give you an example. Imagine you own a bookshop. One day, you overhear two customers chatting. The first says: “I love this place!”. “Me too,” says the other. “I just wish they sold food and drink too – I’d spend all my time here!”.

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These Ads Suck: Will Users in a Privacy-Altered World Like What They See?

Jon Loomer

If Facebook is right, we’re in the process of entering a very different online world. Privacy as the goal, advertising will suddenly seem very “different” to users. Will they like what they see? When the iOS 14 ATT prompt rolls out to all users in “early Spring,” they will be given two options: 1) Allow the app to track your activity across apps and websites to provide personalized advertising or 2) Don’t allow tracking.

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The Audience Behind Clubhouse & Social Audio Apps

Audiense

The hype behind social audio is just getting started. With a $1B valuation and 8M downloads to date, Clubhouse is the early leader and dominating headlines along the way.

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How to Tackle Instagram’s Biggest Marketing Challenge and Create a Winning Strategy

agora pulse

Bonus Materials: FREE Instagram Strategy Guide. What are your Instagram marketing challenges this year? Here’s a look at one of the biggest ones and ideas for overcoming it. Ali Mirza is the CEO and founder of iSocialYou , a digital marketing agency based in Dallas, Texas. In the past 10 years, Ali has developed digital marketing solutions and growth hacking strategies for several megabrands, SMBs, startups, and agencies.

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Understanding social media influence on B2B purchase decisions

Awario

Social media was originally meant for individuals to have fun and socialize, but today, it has become a key component of organizations' marketing strategy.

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Instagram, Pinterest and TikTok Add New Support Initiatives for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

Social Media Today

Instagram, Pinterest and TikTok have all announced new tools and resources to assist users as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

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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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[PODCAST] Overcoming Gender Bias in Technology

Audiense

Data Stories: Leaders at Work is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Rahul Jerome , founder of insight-intelligence.com and The Insight Network , co-organised by Audiense. The series captures personal anecdotes and career highlights from some of the most talented and brightest minds in the research and insights industry.

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Finding our common humanity

Janet Fouts

I’m hearing from clients, friends, and people I pass on the street that they’re simply exhausted. The election is over but the aftermath is still shouting at us in the news. So is the pandemic, the economy, the changes in how we work and live. Not to mention wearing masks, working from home, and curtailing most of our usual activities that used to be our stress relief!

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11 Tips for writing YouTube descriptions

Sprout Social

YouTube video covers and titles might be what grab your attention but descriptions are where the search engine shines. YouTube SEO is quite similar in concept to how you would write for a blog post or website page: titles are important but so are the details. The more you understand video SEO, the more likely your video will show up in the search results.

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Facebook Shares New Research into the Comparative Performance of Brand vs Direct Response Campaigns

Social Media Today

Facebook has published a new report which takes a look at the comparative sales performance of brand-building and direct response campaigns.

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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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How audience insights helped a publicly-traded company pivot [Case Study]

Audiense

Doing business today requires companies to be dynamic. And sometimes that means adapting your campaigns for a totally new audience.

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A Marketer’s Secret Weapon to Optimizing the Customer Journey with Michelle Huff

Oktopost

Brands are being forced to relearn their customers and user testing proves time and time again to be a powerful tool for marketers to optimize the customer experience. Listen to the Podcast Now: For more thoughtful discussion with renowned marketing leaders, subscribe to our channel B2B Marketing Now wherever you listen to podcasts or catch us on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or follow Oktopost on LinkedIn.

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Quick Tips About Building a Social Media Community

agora pulse

Bonus Materials: FREE Instagram Strategy Guide. Building a social media community? If you’re looking for ways to create a thriving online community, check out the following tips. We recently interviewed the co-owners and co-founders of Simply Social Media , Amy Tischler and Caitlin Jenkins, to ask them about building online communities. It’s the topic for their Social Pulse Summit: Instagram Edition session, now available on-demand for free. 1.

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Facebook Agrees to Restore Australian News Pages After Amendments to Government Code

Social Media Today

Facebook will restore Australian news publisher Pages on its platform after the Australian Government added new amendments to its proposed Media Bargaining Code.

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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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What Are the Best Ways to Build Brand Awareness?

The Realtime Report

What Are the Best Ways to Build Brand Awareness? When you picture the world’s most iconic brands – names like Coca-Cola, Apple, Google, or Disney — what comes to mind? Chances are you know what those brands are all about whether you use their services and products or not. You’d recognize their logos at a glance. You probably instantly associate those brand names with certain concepts, as well.

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Calling social marketers “gurus” is not the compliment you think it is.

Sprout Social

Anyone who’s worked in social media has been called a social media guru or wizard at some point in their career. And while on the surface those terms sound complimentary, the reality is they can be more harmful than helpful. Think of it this way. If your director of sales closes a deal, you would never chalk it up to the sales guy being a ninja. Even if a salesperson was called a wizard in passing, there is no mystery as to what someone in sales actually does or how they do their job.

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Why everybody loves M&Ms: a marketing success story of a brand mascot

Awario

In this blog post, we go through the history of the mascot, how M&M's uses it in advertising and social media strategy and how much buzz it generates online.

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TikTok Shares Latest Data on Content Removals and Enforcement Actions

Social Media Today

TikTok has released its latest Transparency Report, detailing all of its content removals and enforcement efforts in the first half of 2020.

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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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#363: How To Silence Your Inner Critic & Commit To Success With Jamie Kern Lima

Amy Porterfield

It’s time to tame your inner critic once and for all. Join me and my dear friend and special guest, Jamie Kern Lima, as we talk about inner critic struggles and how to overcome fear and self doubt. If you have big digital course dreams but struggle with: Self-doubt Fear of rejection Imposter syndrome And […]. The post #363: How To Silence Your Inner Critic & Commit To Success With Jamie Kern Lima appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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Why We’ve Added XING to the Oktopost Advocacy Board

Oktopost

Today, we have some good news for our Deutsche Freunde: we’ve added XING to the Oktopost employee advocacy platform. Now your team members that are active on this German professional social network will be able to share company content with a few easy clicks. XING is one of the largest career-oriented social networking site, primarily focused on the DACH market (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

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Study Reveals Instagram Reels Better For Brands, TikTok Better For Influencers

Forbes Social Media

Markerly, an influencer marketing agency, recently analyzed posts from 80 influencers and 10 brands on both TikTok and Instagram and found Reels is currently the best place for brands, whereas TikTok remains Queen of influencer and celebrity culture.

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New Report Looks at the Rising Influence of Online Communities

Social Media Today

Facebook has worked with researchers from The Governance Lab at NYU to provide new insights into the importance of online communities.

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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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#364: How I Do It: Boost Your Sales with These 5 Course Enhancements

Amy Porterfield

I’ve worked with thousands of online entrepreneurs who went on to create digital courses Here are the 5 strategies that I teach to increase revenue and add value to your digital course. Psst… if you listen to this entire podcast episode, there’s a good chance it’ll make you more money. After working with more digital […]. The post #364: How I Do It: Boost Your Sales with These 5 Course Enhancements appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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Clubhouse: The Great, the Bad, and the Very Worrisome

WebInKnow

Like many of you, I’ve been experimenting with the scorchingly-buzzy new social app Clubhouse. As I write this, Clubhouse is only available on the iPhone (Android is coming) and is currently invitation-only, however millions of people are on the platform. While Clubhouse has awesomeness, I’m worried about a number of aspects of the app.

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Coca-Cola's Good Deed May Have Become A PR Disaster On Social Media

Forbes Social Media

After the City of Waco reported that residents were without water after record cold resulted in frozen and then broken pipes, the beverage company stepped up and donated six trucks filled with 100 pallets of Dasani bottled water.

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Google Lifts Political Ad Ban Following Pause After Capitol Siege

Social Media Today

Google will allow political ad campaigns on its platforms once again, following a pause in the wake of last month's Capitol siege.

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4 Social Media Tweaks to Boost Your Clients’ Personal Branding

Quintly

There is no shortage of impressive personalities on social media platforms today. As a marketing agency, how do you help your clients build a strong personal brand, even in a narrow niche? To get your clients seen and heard in that crowd, here are 4 of the best social media marketing tips for personal branding, shared by an industry expert.