Sherrilynne Starkie

MAY 5, 2025

Should You Reply to Social Media Comments? It’s a great question—and one I hear often from marketers and solo social media managers who are juggling content calendars, ad reports, and engagement strategies with little support and even less time. Emotional bandwidth : Even positive engagement takes energy.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

JUNE 9, 2025

Vacation planning for freelancers or a one-person marketing team can feel like a fantasy—right up there with inbox zero and conquering social media algorithms. If you run a solo consultancy or you’re the lone social media manager on a small team, you know the feeling: going offline is terrifying. Don’t wing it.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Global social media marketing strategies and new tools are empowering more brands than ever before to reach a worldwide audience. Going global effectively requires investing in a carefully crafted social media marketing strategy. What is a global social media marketing strategy?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Lets be honest government social media isnt always rainbows and butterflies. But there are steps you can take to create a more healthy social presence for your agency. The more time you spend engaging with your audience, the more positive comments youll receive. As Jessie puts it, The best defense is a good offense.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 30, 2025

Social media content in B2B marketing is about starting conversations that guide, inform, and generate mutual value. If your social media channels are frustrating for users with disabilities, over 70% of them will simply click out. Many social media publishing tools offer the capability to add alt text for images.

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Sprout Social

MAY 22, 2025

Social media was born from a desire to connectacross neighborhoods, borders and causes. While much of todays content skews commercial, nonprofits have a unique opportunity to return social media to its roots: building community, inspiring action and amplifying human stories. What is nonprofit social media marketing?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 9, 2025

Social media has always been a fast-moving channel, with no guarantees that what works today will still work tomorrow. But what are the biggest opportunities in social media right now AI? In the words of Jon-Stephen: The most important thing a social media manager can read is the room. Personalization?

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

There are some many different types of social media content to create and enjoy, from carousels to GIFs to videos. To successfully manage social media content creation across networks, you need to maintain a consistent brand voice, adapt to distinct formats and meet (or exceed) audience expectations.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A social media marketing strategy is a summary of everything you plan to do and hope to achieve on social media. In this post, we’ll walk you through a nine-step plan to create a winning strategy for social media marketing. Social media is always changing! Keep it concise.

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Buffer Social

MARCH 5, 2025

Social media marketing is using social media platforms — like Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, etc. It also includes paid social media marketing, like running ads and influencer marketing. A content calendar is the place where you slot your social media posts.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 19, 2025

1 If youve ever felt like your content is stuck in a black hole of low engagement, youre not alone. Many marketers struggle with what well call Low Engagement Fatigue (LEF) a totally real (and definitely not made-up) social media syndrome that leaves you wondering, Am I shadowbanned ? We decided to test it.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

MARCH 12, 2025

Producing high-quality social media content that helps your brand stand out can feel like a never-ending job. Yes, consumers are spending increasing amounts of time on social networks. And they’re significantly increasing their marketing budgets. This may seem like a superficial way to market your solutions.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 13, 2025

In 2024, we saw social media evolve in many ways — from numerous updates to some platforms ( cough Meta) to explosive growth for others (Bluesky!). With all the changes on the horizon, it’s safe to say that social media will look a little different in 2025. We’re also watching things like the U.S.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 30, 2024

New platforms, changing algorithms, and increasing audience expectations mean social media management is now a complex, full-time job. (We’re We’re preaching to the choir here, but social media isn’t just for interns anymore. What is social media management ? Honestly, was it ever? )

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Those who see social media marketing as a key part of their customer engagement strategy and those who view it as a nice to have. The importance of social media in UK retail has only grown. In a 2022 report, it was found that 78% of consumers in the UK have upped their social media usage in the past year.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

How do you know the “right” number of engagements to expect on your social posts? The answer is, it depends — on your industry, the social networks you use, your audience demographics, and many more nuanced factors. But social media benchmarks can help you get pretty close to a more concrete answer. Measure ROI.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Wondering which of your social media tactics are working? Busy social marketers need effective social media analytics tools to focus their efforts. What are social media analytics tools? But what does all this mean for a real social media team? That’s the theory.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

When people see an Instagram post they like, they often engage with it by Liking and commenting on it. These engagement actions can tell you whether your Instagram strategy is paying off. So you need to closely monitor your Instagram engagement rate to understand your performance. But what is a good engagement rate on Instagram?

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Sports marketing isn’t new, but it does look different. The use of social media in sports marketing has transformed the way fans interact with their favorite athletes, teams and sporting events. No longer just spectators, consumers play an active role in the sports industry and sports marketing campaigns.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 9, 2025

100% of marketers who read these social media statistics will have the data they need to plan and optimize their social strategies in 2025. Grab a bevy and dive into the latest social media stats for ol faves Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Pinterest, plus newcomers RedNote and Bluesky.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 16, 2025

Once upon a time, you could feel confident that when you posted something on social media, a decent chunk of your audience would see it. Image source Declining reach is a big problem for government agencies and public sector teams, which rarely have the budget to spend on social media ads. Sadly, thats no longer the case.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

That’s where social media benchmarks come in. These numbers offer a clear view of what’s normal for your industry in terms of engagement and growth, helping you understand how your results compare. Posts published around 6 am on Sunday, and 8 am on Wednesday and Saturday seem to generate the highest engagement.

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Sprout Social

JULY 24, 2024

The success of your business depends on how well you engage your customers. Highly engaged customers are more likely to buy from you and stay loyal to your brand. So you should stay on top of your customer engagement metrics to improve various aspects of your performance. What are customer engagement metrics?

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Running influencer marketing campaigns that are engaging and FTC-compliant is a tricky balance. You want your influencer partnerships to feel natural and engaging. Plus, keeping up with new marketing trends and shifting guidelines across different platforms only adds to the challenge.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Who is your social media audience, really? Done right, social media audience analysis goes beyond the basics. It can give you actionable insights to drive your social strategy. Key takeaways Social media audience analysis is about more than just demographics. What is social media audience analysis?

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Which social media networks should your brand focus on? Social media management is evolving rapidly, and consumers are becoming more discerning about where they engage. In this article, we’ll explore how to prioritize social media networks so your brand shows up where it matters most.

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Oktopost

JULY 21, 2024

Let’s be radically transparent here: social media managers are exceptionally hard-working professionals. With all the different hats to wear, how can a social media manager stay productive? With all the different hats to wear, how can a social media manager stay productive? The list just goes on.

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Hootsuite

JULY 26, 2024

Social media competitor analysis tools should be a staple in every social manager’s toolbox. Unfortunately, there’s often a temptation to focus inward and get stuck micro-analyzing your own internal social media performance. Keep reading to get into the best competitor analysis tools for social media.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

If you’re using social media for marketing and communications at a bank, credit union, or other financial institution, you might find reporting on your progress tricky. That’s where social media benchmarks come in. How often should you post on social media in financial services?

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 10, 2025

For commitmentphobes, the word engagement might be a terrifying and loaded one but for social media marketers, Facebook engagement is the holy grail. Facebook engagement matters because it can help extend organic reach. Facebook engagement matters because it can help extend organic reach.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 31, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is supercharging social media marketing. Think of AI social media tools like Sprout Social as your marketing pit crew. They can fine-tune your social media engine, swap out tired tactics and keep you running at peak performancethey just cant drive the car.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s crowded social media landscape, social marketers know how challenging it can be to get their brand’s content to rise above the noise. But trying to identify relevant content for multiple social networks all the time is exhausting—and costly. What does this process look like in practice?

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The world of social media influencers has transformed significantly in recent years. What began as brands sending free products to popular social media users has now evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry, where contracted brand deals are closely aligned with targeted campaigns. What are influencer marketing KPIs?

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Ignite Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2025

Back in 2021, we shared a blog post showcasing the most popular social networks of the time, emphasizing the remarkable evolution of the social media landscape since its inception. In 2025, its clear that social medias influence has only deepened, reshaping how we connect, communicate, and consume content.

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Buffer Social

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Creating content on social media can be powerful, both for businesses and aspiring creators — but it can be tough to figure out where to begin. You’re hemming and hawing over which social media platforms you should be on, which content creation tools you should use, and building a social media content strategy.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 24, 2025

Social media is where culture thrives. As UK social media marketers, we love navigating this ever-changing landscape, but staying ahead of the curve isn’t easy. Whether you’re a social media manager for a UK brand or a global powerhouse, the coming year is going to be a wild ride.

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Buffer Social

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Picture this: Your boss is asking you about the business impact of your social media strategy. This is where a social media dashboard comes in handy. It’s a visual representation of the key metrics that prove the impact of your social media efforts. But how do you prove it?

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