There are a few highly important things that separate big brand social media marketing from everyone else, and that is the human component. Big brands are able to focus their social media marketing on their brand, branding and advertising components that are centered around the company's image and other major media advertising components. There is … Continue reading 9 Characteristics Of Human, NOT Automated Social Media Marketing
One thing that has become obvious about the social media industry is change. Buzzwords, new trends and even big surveys that measure the next thing big business is focusing on in social are a never-ending stream of change. Content, influence marketing, analytics, engagement, branding, ROI and lead generation are just a few of the described "priorities" … Continue reading Social Media Marketing – Data And Results Matter
One of the biggest mistakes made in social media marketing is building the wrong communities. What we mean by that is that many brands and marketers build followings of their peers, competitors or incorrect prospects, rather than their target audience. Subsequently, the time spent on social networks engaging, creating and posting content doesn't achieve the … Continue reading Identifying And Growing Your Target Social Media Audience
Interest and discussions surrounding the 76 million millennials and their impact on social media, marketing and social commerce are seemingly increasing every week. Brands and marketers are seeking data to bolster their digital marketing efforts around this group, their interests and online patterns and rightly so. Millennials are unique in that they are not influenced by traditional … Continue reading Millennials and Social Commerce By The Data [Infographic]
More than ever, Business to Business (B2B) marketing requires one-on-one relationships. Making real, human connections with your business prospects to forge relationships that open doors to social selling. Being effective within social media to achieve this all important task is paramount to short and long-term success. One of the key social networks for effectively forging B2B relationships … Continue reading An Effective Way To Add High-Level B2B Connections On LinkedIn For #SocialSelling
This last week we had a BundlePost user state that they wanted their social media marketing on "autopilot" and thought that's what we did or advocated. Nothing could be further from the truth. Marketing automation and the term autopilot have no relation to one another in social media marketing. One is a carefully thought out … Continue reading The Significant Difference Between Autopilot and Marketing Automation
Over the last week, I have had live conversations with a few brands, individuals and marketers on the topic of social media content strategy. After receiving multiple questions from the various parties on these calls, I thought a new analogy to explain social marketing was needed. Here are some of the questions that were being asked: … Continue reading Social Fishing – Give The Fish What THEY Want, Not What You’re Hungry For
There are several things to be said about effective social media marketing. One of them is that social media is not static. If you're being effective with a social media program it is often because you are doing many things right, not the least of which is continually making adjustments. The famous quote from Albert Einstein … Continue reading Adjusting Social Media Inputs To Realize Desired Output
Let start off with a question: Why would you share the most popular content from high traffic content sites that most people are already reading and sharing? Recently we found a new study released by eMarketer that details the curation sharing from top content sites across the social graph. In one example, Nearly all Upworthy articles go on … Continue reading Why You Should Stop Curating From Top Content Sites
After many years in the industry, first as a social media agency, and now as a social media marketing software application, we have observed many cycles. As with most industries, there are cycles and flows that appear over time and social media is no different. Though not all social media accounts, brands or industry niches will experience the … Continue reading The Social Media Connection Cycle Explained [Infographic]
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