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According to Wordstream, over 50 million businesses use Facebook Business Pages with 2 million of them using Facebook for advertising in the US (2016). Instagram, on the other hand, earns $595 million in mobile ad revenue per year. These stats just show the huge potential of social media marketing and its impact on increasing sales. Most marketers just lack understanding on how to achieve positive results. Social media helps build brand awareness and engage their audience outside of their company website. Data shows that more than 56% of online adults using more than one social media platform. Thus, the competition to gain the attention of the audience is hard. According to Social Media Examiner’s 2016 Industry Report, “40% of marketers say social media marketing has gotten more difficult for them in the last 12 months.” Despite the tough competition for attention, a huge audience pool is there just waiting to be wowed. Studies suggest that 59% of Americans with social media accounts think that customer service through social media has made it easier to get questions answered and issues resolved. People will follow your brand when they “like” what you offer. These may come in the form of discounts and special promotions, entertaining content, or customer service. People will follow your brand when they “like” what you offer. Here are 7 Brand Management tips to help you along the way....
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Are you looking for the newest social media tips and techniques? Want to know how the experts are staying ahead of the social media marketing curve? We asked top social media pros to share their favorite tips for getting the most out of social media. In this article you’ll discover 25 ways to improve your marketing and save time....
The Interactive Advertising Bureau and Edison Research today are releasing new stats on how consumers listen to podcasts and respond to audio-based advertisements. The new report gives marketers a peek at sentiment about podcast advertising from a poll of roughly 1,000 listeners. More brands and media companies than ever are investing in podcasts, but they're not getting the same types of metrics about audio advertising that other types of digital ads provide—like clickthrough or view rates. While advertisers can see how many people download a podcast, they don't know how long people spend listening or whether they skip over the ads. Per the report, 65 percent of listeners said podcast ads increase purchase intent while another 45 percent said that they're likely to visit an advertiser's website after hearing an audio promo. Another 42 percent of listeners said they would consider a new product or service after hearing a plug for a brand, while 37 percent use podcast ads to help research brands. When it comes to how consumers listen to audio programs, 70 percent said that being able to listen to them on-demand is "very important," and 58 percent said they like being able to listen to exclusive content they can't get elsewhere....
Every now and then it’s worth looking at the current facts, cast our thoughts back to the past and ponder the future. Here are the latest facts that I could find about 10 of the top social media networks that as entrepreneurs. business owners and marketers we need to consider.
His credibility is zero, but by attacking political correctness he projects a true voice to his internet followers
In most ways, Donald Trump has taken poor advantage of the Net. He has not used it for organizing and spreading a movement the way the Occupy Wall Street or Arab Spring did. He has not used it to raise essential funding for his campaign, as Bernie Sanders does. He has not used it to build community among his supporters as presidential candidates since Howard Dean in 2004 have. He has not even used it as the primary vehicle for getting his message out, relying instead on the countless hours of coverage broadcast media have provided for free — although he’s obviously no slouch at social media. But despite these missed opportunities, Donald Trump has utterly excelled in one single aspect of the Net. Leveraging — and perverting — one of its key values: Authentic speech.
Speech on the Net sounds very different than the voice of old media. When I was growing up, the media’s authoritative voice had the same accent. It was professionally enunciated, often presented as neutral and stripped of personal belief, always calm, and overwhelmingly male. Then the Internet liberated our voices, training us to expect people to speak for and as themselves, with all their idiosyncrasies and imperfections.
Trump’s voice is indeed authentic in that sense. After all, he is the first major candidate for the presidency of the United States who clearly writes his own tweets. Hillary Clinton (whom I support) tweets out carefully prepared campaign points that seem obviously to have been written by her staff — especially when the tweets are dispatched while Clinton is making a point in a live debate. Donald, on the other hand, just says whatever is crossing his mind at that moment, much of which is nasty, degrading, and untrue. The lack of a filter, the weird punctuation, the very clumsiness of its expression makes Trump’s Internet speech seem much more authentic than Clinton’s....
The social media world moves incredibly fast and to help you stay up to date, we thought we’d round up some of the latest news, trends, research, and statistics that caught our attention this week. From Twitter redefining itself and some big news from Facebook to new features on Pinterest and Periscope, it’s been an exciting week.Let’s get started!...
Do you remember when everyone had a landline? I do. In fact, I remember the days when a phone number with a nine was a thorn in your side because it took longer to dial. It wasn’t that long ago. I also remember when Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook were the only social media platforms that marketers really needed to pay attention to. Today, we’re balancing Instagram, Snapchat, Blab, Periscope, and whatever makes the front page of Product Hunt tomorrow. But as the networks change, so do the best practices surrounding what you should and shouldn’t be doing. In this blog post, I’m going to share with you four social media tactics that are going away like the landline....
Whether you’re using social media to build awareness for your business, to drive leads to your sales force or anything else in between, it’s important to be familiar with all of the social media platforms at your disposal.
With that in mind, below is a list of the top 52 social media platforms. They’re broken into 3 categories — social media platforms that help you network (like LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.); social media platforms that help you promote (like YouTube, blogs, etc.); and social media platforms that help you share (like Buffer, Hootsuite, etc.).
Ready? Here goes....
What will next year bring? I don’t know, but I do have some good guesses on some of the headlines we’ll see next. Here are my top seven...
Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. jobs were “at risk” of being computerized over the next two decades. Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs, the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work. As machines increasingly perform complex tasks once thought to be safely reserved for humans, the question has become harder to shrug off: What jobs will be left for people?
A new NBER working paper suggests it’ll be those that require strong social skills — which it defines as the ability to work with others — something that has proven to be much more difficult to automate. “The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market,” shows that nearly all job growth since 1980 has been in occupations that are relatively social skill-intensive — and it argues that high-skilled, hard-to-automate jobs will increasingly demand social adeptness....
Consumers’ top purchase influencers are also their top sources of new product awareness, according to results from a recent Nielsen report [download page].
The study, based on a survey of 30,000 consumers across 60 countries, found that friends and family (56%) and TV ads (52%) are the leading sources of information about new products for consumers. These are also consumers’ top purchase influencers, according to studies by MarketingCharts and by Deloitte....
Big or small, influencer or newcomer, everyone looking to get more followers and more likes on social media—more engagement, period—seeks out strategies that work.
And what works with a platform of 11 million followers tends to work for platforms with 100, too.
Social media is a moving ocean of posts, images, tools, ideas, and content that flows at a fast pace. You can find success by building your own social media strategy and keeping it fluid by checking and rechecking what’s working.
I’ve had the chance to check and recheck dozens of different social media strategies in managing a social media platform of 11 million. How do I do everything that I do? And what do I do, specifically? Well, I’d love to share the details with you!...
Late last month, I joined more than 2,500 marketing professionals eager to share their knowledge at Social Media Marketing World 2015. The big question this year: how to tap into the best of social media—and tangibly prove measurable impact and ROI.
The buzz was not focused on new social platforms, however. Instead, the talk was about how to maximize efforts on the big seven. Facebook was particularly prominent in the conversation, followed by LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram and SlideShare.
Keynote speaker, Michael Stelzner, the CEO of Social Media Examiner and host of #SMMW15 shared a sneak peek of the soon-to-be released 2015 Social Media Marketing Report. With more than 2,000 marketers surveyed on their social media activities, here are some noteworthy stats....
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It’s clear now that social media marketing is here to stay, and its massive staying power is attributable to one key characteristic - the fact that social media keeps evolving. It responds to new tech like mobile devices, constantly exceeds users’ expectations, and competes within itself to bring us more and better features. Here’s what you should consider to make the most out of your social media marketing efforts this year: - More live-stream videos.- Increased capitalization of chat-bots. - Increased usage of ephemeral contents. - More social media platform consolidations. - Increased usage of multi-channel digital marketing strategies to address the challenges in acquiring organic social traffic. - The use of virtual reality and augmented reality in social media, especially on Facebook, as a norm. - More personalized content and ads.More traction for social media influencers....
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
1 – Microsoft says its speech recognition is now as good as humans.
Based on a study it did, the software giant put its speech recognition technology up against professional transcriptionists. The result? Humans made more mistakes than the software. (Source: VentureBeat)...
The major digital media platforms—full of big gains, big hype and often a lack of transparency—have made the advertising universe a complicated, fragmented place. And with eMarketer predicting digital ad spending to swell to $77.4 billion in 2017, up 16 percent versus this year, it's a domain that's poised to evolve even more rapidly. We asked seven ad buyers—from three consumer brands and three agencies, plus one independent—to talk about what's right and what's wrong with a dozen platforms with which they do business.
"The definitions are different for YouTube, for Facebook, for Twitter, and that is really not user-friendly for any agency or for any brand to work across all of them for proper reporting," says Liya Sharif, Qualcomm's senior director, marketing. Adds Bruce Kiernan, practice lead for performance marketing at MEC North America: "I would say from an agency perspective, we are frustrated. Facebook and Google are not going to give up their data and open up the gates to their walled gardens anytime soon."
Meanwhile, others are more positive about the process. "[Facebook] allows you to basically upload any type of custom audience and not just create a look-alike audience, but you can scale that according to your needs and play with different sizes of audiences," notes Tim Villanueva, head of media partnerships at Fetch....
You won't believe the amazing amount of stuff people have done online in the past 10 seconds. Take a look and see for yourself. It's pretty amazing! In the time it has taken you to read this first sentence, a shit load has happened around the world via mobile devices. Let’s take a quick look… Now, granted, this is a marketing infographic based loosely on various sources of recent stats. However… in the past 10 seconds: – 48,000 tweets have been posted – 280,000 Facebook Likes given, and – 87,000 new Snapchat pictures shared...
Social media is more than just a key to driving sales, it can also be a helpful source for founders to project confidence and grace, or to stay cool during times of crisis.
That's according to a new study called "C-Suite, Social Media, and Brand Reputation" from BRANDfog, a social media consulting startup that helps Fortune 1000 executives improve their web profiles. It revealed that three-quarters of those surveyed (500 U.S. employees from different companies spanning various industries) believe that social media engagement in the C-suite makes a brand seem more honest and trustworthy.
Since 2013, there's been a 15 percent increase in the number of respondents who believe that social media engagement makes CEOs more effective leaders, it found.
"Most companies are good at utilizing social media on the brand level, but social media at the C-suite is much more strategic," said Ann Charles, founder and CEO at BRANDfog. Prior to launching the company in 2009, Charles held chief marketing positions at several tech startups, and later ghost wrote quarterly earnings scripts for executives.
What is the next big wave of social media?
Maybe it’s Peach — or another hot new social network. Maybe it’s a strategy like posting times or text faces.
It’s really hard to say!
(And yet here I am saying it…)
To ride the wave of the next big thing in social media, it often takes a lot of trial-and-error, a good deal of trendspotting, and some courage to try new things. I’ve spent some time reading up on what’s to come for social media and I’d love to get your thoughts on three new trends that might be monumental....
In 2015 F500 there are 9 corporations who do not use any of the social media platforms or tools examined in this study. These include: - A-Mark Precious Metals
- Berkshire Hathaway
- CenterPoint Energy
- Franklin Resources
- Icahn Enterprises
- Liberty Interactive
- Old Republic International
- PBF Energy
- Wynn Resorts.
Key findings of this study include: - In 2015, 103 corporations (21%) had corporate blogs, down 10% from 2014.
- Twitter is more popular than Facebook (78% vs 74%).
- Glassdoor (87%) has joined LinkedIn (93%) as a popular business tool.
- The use of Instagram has increased by 13% pointing to more interest in visually rich platforms.
Thanks to online video, there are more ways than ever for fans to indulge their passion for football before, during, and after the big game. While TV is the place to catch the action live, YouTube is the place to catch it in the days, months, and years after. In fact, consumers choose YouTube as their preferred online destination for game day ads.2 Why? It's the place to go deeper—to catch commentator analyses, to go behind the scenes, listen to interviews, watch highlight reels, and more. In fact, if you totaled up all the minutes of football content on YouTube, it would take more than 2,000 years to watch it all.
But football fans don't just turn to YouTube for sports content. YouTube is the fan favorite for finding everything football-related, from the highlights of last week's game to a hilariously bad lip reading of sideline comments.
To examine how fans consume online video during the millions of I-want-to-know, I want-to-do, I-want-to-buy, and I-want-to-watch-what-I'm-into moments that occur throughout the season, we analyzed YouTube viewing behaviors. Here are three key insights to help you reach and engage football fans....
“A hotel should be on Instagram, but a bank doesn’t necessarily need to be. How should a company decide which social media sites it can benefit from, and which are a waste of time?
Figuring out which social media networks deserve your brand's time and energy can be tough, especially since it seems like a new network arrives every month. There are many options, and social media accounts are often started without much forethought to who will run them or what a brand wants to say. Most importantly, you need to ensure you're reaching the best audience for your brand and using resources wisely.”
Here's an infographic from Salesforce delineating which social media sites should your business be on....
Which social media analytics tools are most used and liked by marketers?To find out, G2 Crowd recently examined more than 200 evaluations of social analytics tools on its software review platform by business, marketing, and analytics professionals.
Social analytics tools were defined in the report as platforms used for tracking, measuring, and reporting on social media account performance. The researchers ranked the tools based on customer satisfaction scores and the size of their market presence.
Some 82% of all reviewers say the social analytics tool they currently use meets their requirements, and 83% say they would be likely to recommend the platform they use....
Dive Brief:Retailers’ social media activity is far better than their websites or search engines at getting shoppers to convert or try new things, according to a report from digital marketing vendor Epsilon Data Management LLC.
For its “Digital Shopping Tool Impact Study 2015,” Epsilon looked at what prompted shoppers to try new brands and products, and the top influencers were: - retailers’ social media usage (29%) - brands’ social media usage (28%) - printable coupons (23%), - daily deal sites (22%), and friends’ social media posts (21%).
While consumers may use a retailer’s site more often, social media, apps, and even coupons are more likely to influence their shopping and decision-making in 10 areas of the shopping process, including what store they visit and their amount of unplanned purchases. The top five digital tools, according the report, are retailers’ social network posts and pages (35%), price comparison sites (35%), shopping apps (34%), brands’ social network posts and pages (33%), product reviews (33%), printable coupons (32%). ...
The biggest trend over the last 12 months has been the move from earned marketing attention (sometimes called free) to “pay to play”. Another is the impact of social messaging platforms such as Snapchat and Whatsapp that have become “quasi social networks” in their own right.
It’s a social web shift that is driven by a connected generation. If your Mom joins Facebook, then maybe it’s time to play somewhere else. Teenagers don’t want to be dancing with their parents. Right!
In fact the the instant services and chat apps now account for 3 of the top 5 global social platforms....
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I selected this article from Curatti written by Farid Gasim because it provides information on how to build more brand awareness on social media.
The more likable you are by your audience the better chance you will increase visibility.
Win Favor With Your Social Media Community
Despite a lot of competition there is an audience in your niche just waiting to be "wowed" by your brand. I agree that adding value to their lives can help bring in more loyal followers.
Gasim goes over how to achieve favorable influence with your target market on social media.
Here's what caught my attention:
Selected by Jan Gordon for Curatti covering Curation, Social Business and Beyond
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Good post on what makes a brand shareable on social media