Social Media Strategy
Articles Tagged social media strategy:
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How Small Businesses Are Using And Benefitting From Social Media
Our small business prospects and clients often ask us about our expertise and use of social media to drive business results. I am a firm believer that businesses should have a strong social media presence, but I’d argue that it’s more about reputation management than it is driving direct business. The reality of social media is this… very few buyers…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
5 Social Networking Steps for Sales Professionals
Met with a client today who understood the basics of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc., and I wanted to provide them some feedback on beginning to utilize social media effectively. The client was a sales professional and wanted to begin taking advantage of the medium but wasn’t quite sure how he could balance his job requirements while ramping up a social…
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Advertising Technology
SocialBee: The Small Business Social Media Platform With Concierge Services
Over the years, I’ve implemented and integrated dozens of social media platforms for clients. I still have great relationships with many and you continue to see me promoting new and existing platforms. That could confuse readers… wondering why I don’t simply recommend and push one platform for everyone. I don’t because every the needs of each company differ from one…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Social Media Marketing 101
How do I get started on social media? This is a question that I continue to get when I speak on the impact of social media on a business’s marketing efforts. First, let’s discuss why your company would want to be active on social media. Reasons Why Businesses Use Social Media Marketing Here’s a great explainer video on 7 ways…
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Analytics & Testing
Engagement Is a Lie: Why Your Marketing Metrics Are Leading You Astray
If a guy talks to his girlfriend 83% more this month than last month, is he engaged? What if he left a few comments on her social media posts? Does that make him engaged? No. The definitions of engagement are clear: (1) A formal agreement to get married.(2) An arrangement to do something or go somewhere at a fixed time.…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
30+ Instagram Story Examples and Case Studies
When Instagram introduced Stories in 2016, taking inspiration from Snapchat’s successful format, few could have predicted its transformative impact on social media marketing. The feature, which allows users to share ephemeral content that disappears after 24 hours, quickly became a powerful tool for businesses seeking to connect with their audiences more authentically and engagingly. Instagram Stories has become an essential…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Most Common Misconception Marketing And PR Grads Have About Social Media
Over the last decade, I’ve hired interns and marketing graduates for my business. As a full-service marketing consultancy, we work on multichannel marketing for our clients, so I can place graduates where they best fit rather than just throwing them into some mundane marketing work. As an interview gets rolling, I ask, “So, what would you like to do?” I repeatedly…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Social Signals, SEO, and Their Impact on One Another
Matt Cutts shared a video where he discussed the challenge that engineers might have if they had created dependencies between the Google ranking algorithms and social signals. In short, it would be far too risky to build these dependencies in the event the other social media platform either blocked search or fell in popularity. I have no doubt this is…
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Marketing Books
What Factors Make for a Successful Social Media Strategy?
The Seven Success Factors of Social Business Strategy by Charlene Li and Brian Solis is a must-read for business leaders, marketers, and strategists aiming to integrate social media into their business models. The book provides a clear, actionable framework for creating a cohesive social business strategy that delivers measurable outcomes. Li and Solis explore the intersection of social media, business…
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Marketing Infographics
12 Steps to Social Media Marketing Success
The folks at BIGEYE, a creative services agency, have put together this infographic to assist companies in developing a successful social media marketing strategy. I really love the breakout of the steps but I also empathize that many companies don’t have all the resources to accommodate the demands of a great social strategy. The return on building an audience into…