Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 4, 2021

My thinking around social media has evolved. As has social media. At each place, my sole focus was on Social Media. It’s crazy to think that in the span of nine years, we now have a mature Instagram and Pinterest. So what determines social media success in any organization?

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Sprout Social

APRIL 29, 2024

You need UK Instagram influencers. In this article, we’ll share how Instagram is growing in the UK, how to identify the right influencers for your campaigns and UK Instagram influencers making a mark in the industry. The impact of Instagram on the UK Instagram has taken the UK by storm and it’s not hard to see why.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 25, 2024

There are social media templates available for virtually any task you can think of—from content production to reporting to team onboarding. Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Natural language processing (NLP) is an artificial intelligence (AI) technique that helps a computer understand and interpret naturally evolved languages (no, Klingon doesn’t count) as opposed to artificial computer languages like Java or Python. What is natural language processing? How does NLP work? NLP is what powers these tools.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Now that social media has become such a key part of our lives, social media platforms (as well as purpose-built professional networking platforms like Kinetic ) may be the best places for networking. Then use platforms that focus on visual content, like Instagram, Pinterest, or TikTok. Go Where Your People Are.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 6, 2022

How your social media marketing budget stacks up to your peers and competitors? You can find the answers to those questions and many more in the just-released research report from Onalytica and Immediate Future, the 2022 State of B2B Social Media Marketing Industry. The Biggest Challenge in B2B Social Media Marketing.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 1, 2024

Instagram Threads nearly broke the internet when it debuted in early July 2023. In fact, as a Meta Business Partner, Hootsuite is one of the first social media management apps to offer this functionality — and it’s super easy to use. 1 Social Media Tool Create.

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Oktopost

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Social media has revolutionized B2B marketing. And businesses recognize the power of social media in driving tangible results. 60% of US B2B marketers named social media the most effective B2B channel for driving revenue in 2023. However, social media is also the fastest-evolving channel.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 15, 2023

User behavior is changing, and studies show that around 31% of consumers use social media channels to find answers to their queries. If you’re growing your business and footprint online, this is the best time to understand social media SEO. What is social media SEO?

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Ignite Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

No company feels like they have enough resources for what social media requires. Whether you have a large team at a large corporation or a small team at a start-up, you’ll probably find insufficient resources allocated for social media management.

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Buffer Social

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For any company, building and maintaining a social media presence is a key marketing strategy for reaching more potential customers. A company’s social media profiles also act as a space where anyone can get to know your company much better, helping to build a stronger online brand. Let's dive in! ✨ 1.

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Social Media Today

AUGUST 13, 2020

Instagram will now ask account owners to confirm their information when it detects potential bot activity in connection with their profile.

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Buffer Social

MARCH 30, 2023

Question: I’ve been noticing that many of the TikToks and Reels I watch are part of an ongoing social media series. Whether you have a specific niche as a content creator or not, you probably post about a handful of similar topics on your Instagram and TikTok that your followers want to hear about.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 27, 2024

Except, it will have a “sponsored” or”promoted” label in the viewer’s social media feed. This allows you to take advantage of the ease of creating a boost post vs ad on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn while also building specifically promotional content that might not be effective as an organic post. What’s a social ad?

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Sprout Social

MARCH 25, 2024

If you’ve opened Instagram recently, you know Reels are big on the platform. The good news is you can add Instagram hashtags to Reels the same way you add hashtags to posts to boost visibility, reach and engagement. The short-form video format has quickly become a favorite of both brands and consumers. Let’s dig in.

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Ignite Social Media

MARCH 18, 2024

million followers across major social platforms, Duke Men’s Basketball has the largest following of any college sports team – even bigger than Duke University itself. Their social media presence is truly in a league of its own. So how have they built such a commanding social media empire? With over 5.4

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Buffer Social

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Get the need-to-know highlights from the social media industry that happened the week of September 25-28. Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta AI , a new assistant that facilitates interactions across WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram DMs, and soon, Quest 3. Here's a breakdown of the key updates and what they mean for you.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 30, 2021

Social media marketing seems to get more complex by the day as platforms add more features and more ways for businesses to reach their audience. The latest craze that nearly every platform is jumping on seems to be social media stories. What are social media stories? Instagram Stories.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 9, 2024

According to The Sprout Social Index™ , consumers across age groups agree the most memorable thing a brand can do on social media is respond to customers. Evolving your social strategy to meet consumer demands requires you to listen better, scale your customer care efforts and integrate your social and customer data.

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Social Media Today

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Instagram is adding some new, automated warning prompts to deter people from posting potentially offensive remarks.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 2, 2023

Are you looking to automate DMs on social media and live the good life, never having to manually reply to an FAQ again? After reading this blog post, you’ll know what automated DMs are, all the ways they can help you, and how to do it on your favorite social platforms. Well, thank goodness you found this article.

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Hootsuite

MAY 31, 2023

Are you ready to tap into ChatGPT social media success? Social media managers have suffered too long with tedious, manual tasks. Luckily, ChatGPT, a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) tool that generates human-like content, promises to make social media success more attainable.

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Ignite Social Media

JULY 20, 2020

Facebook and Instagram Shops Overview. While the rollout is geared towards smaller accounts, shops allow businesses of any size to set up an online store for customers to access on both Facebook and Instagram. Facebook and Instagram Shops Availability. Creating a Facebook Shop Creating an Instagram Shop. Source: Facebook.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 18, 2023

🔗 Read about how to use AI for content creation to see the different ways you can apply AI tools to your creative process. These tools can help simplify the chaotic process of planning content – and save you time by scheduling your work ahead of time. Add Buffer to your content creation toolkit today.

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Social Media Today

APRIL 9, 2020

Instagram is now rolling out DM access via desktop, which could help social media managers streamline their processes.

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Ignite Social Media

MARCH 25, 2021

I’m Jim Tobin, the founder of social media agency Ignite Social Media (2007) and influencer marketing agency Carusele (2015). Ignite Social Media is known as “ the original social media agency ” because we were the first social media agency created out of whole cloth in the United States.

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Hootsuite

MAY 1, 2023

Are you looking to create a more efficient social media workflow? Social media managers have a tough gig, often juggling multiple accounts , managing complex campaigns, and collaborating with stakeholders. Let’s take a look at the top 7 tips to create an effective social media workflow.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social media advertising is a great way to quickly generate new customers and create a social media buzz around your (new) product. Social media strategy needs constant tweaking, analyzing, and learning from your or your competitors’ successes and failures.

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Social Media Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Facebook is adding Shopify Pay as a new payment option within Facebook and Instagram Shops.

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Social Media Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Instagram is adding some new tools to help track reports and appeal account suspensions as part of Safer Internet Day.

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Ignite Social Media

JUNE 17, 2021

So, you want to create successful social media content? Social isn’t the place to take your brand’s 15 second TV spot and post it on Instagram, but too often, it happens. Does that mean every piece of content that’s published on your brand’s social channels is created only for social? Not exactly.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Don’t sweat through your blazer: here’s everything you need to know for your social media manager job interview. Then, you can enjoy the fabulous life of a social media manager (77% of social marketers are happy in their jobs… and hey, the salary’s not bad, either ). How did you get into social media?

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2023

You’d be hard-pressed to find healthcare marketers that don’t understand the value of social media for healthcare , according to Jill Florence, Director of Enterprise Sales at Sprout Social. However, as Katherine Van Allen, Senior Solutions Engineer at Sprout, points out, the benefits of social outweigh the risks.

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Ignite Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2021

That said, it’s important to know which social commerce features are the most popular, which networks audiences are more likely to purchase from, and most importantly, how people are actually purchasing products. Social Shopping Features Available. As seen in the chart below, Instagram and Pinterest follow. Livestream Shopping.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Milena Farber, Social Media Marketing Manager goes Behind the Post to talk about the challenges social media managers face when transitioning into a new role. Taking over a company’s social accounts can be intimidating for new and even experienced social media managers. Episode Summary.

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Ignite Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

Are you looking to take your social media marketing strategy up a notch? Social media marketing is one of the most important aspects of a business, and it can be difficult to create and constantly refine an effective strategy. Being the first social media agency in the US , we have seen it all.

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Sprout Social

MAY 18, 2023

Social practitioners wear many hats as they balance emerging networks and formats. Yet, strong social media copywriting skills remain the foundation of bringing a social strategy to life. Social media copywriting varies greatly by industry and brand. Recycle your content Repurpose, repurpose, repurpose.

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