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How to Run a Social Media Competitive Analysis

Social Media Strategies Summit

Social media is a cut-throat world. But it’s not all bad news because those same rivals can be a major source of inspiration for your own social media strategy, helping you identify new opportunities and close gaps in your content calendar. Read on to learn how to run an effective social media competitive analysis.

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How Buffer’s Content Team Collaborates + Our Content Calendar Template

Buffer Social

The world of social media and content marketing is a fast-moving space. Any individuals or teams working in those worlds know how essential it is to have the right tools in place to make everyday work flow more smoothly. For our Content team, in particular, we’re four people spread out across three timezones.

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The 8 best URL shorteners for engagement and tracking in 2022

Sprout Social

Since the beginning of the World Wide Web, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) have been one of the primary methods for jumping from one webpage to another. Unfortunately, URLs become long and complex as subdomains, subdirectories and tracking codes are added. As social media grew in popularity, lengthy URLs began to present a problem.

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A healthcare team’s guide to HIPAA compliance on social media

Sprout Social

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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How to Use UTM Parameters to Track Social Media Success

Hootsuite

Bonus : Download a free guide and checklist to help you convince your boss to invest more in social media. UTM parameters are just short pieces of code that you can add to links — for example, the links you share in your social posts. Head to the Google Analytics Campaign URL builder. What are UTM parameters?

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Is Your Brand Ready for Customer Service on Social Media?

Ignite Social Media

Social media is meant to be one thing and one thing only – and that’s social, right? This may not be surprising if you work in social media since this trend with needing customer service on social has been growing very quickly, especially over the past year. What should be considered for your budget?

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How companies use video content on social media

Visually SM

If you haven’t already made substantial investments in video content for social media platforms, then it’s about time to get started. Of course, you can always post the URL to any old video that you already published. Why use video for social media? Facebook is a good social media for longer videos.