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How to Use Social Media Listening to Enhance your Content Strategy
Content is a word that’s often thrown around in marketing circles. On social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook, you’ll find a handful of users calling themselves expert content creators or marketers. They’re so prevalent that you may think that generating content is as easy as baking a pie. However, like baking a pie, content marketing has certain “ingredients” that help enhance its effectiveness. A so-called content creator or marketer can’t just rely on their impeccable editing, design, or writing skills for effective content. Instead, marketers need to implement key tactics that allow their content to resonate with target audiences. One way to enhance your brand’s content strategy is by…
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Dove’s 2017 Real Beauty Campaign: Why It Crashed and Burned
Although it may look easy on the outside, social media campaigns can be tricky to produce and distribute. Not only do you have to focus on the copy and visual elements of your social media ads and other promotional material, but you also have to ensure that it meets the expectations of your target audience. Sometimes, it’s easy to make one wrong step in your campaign efforts, causing it to flop…hard. Unfortunately, that’s the case with many social media marketing campaigns on a regular basis. Despite being used by 83% of marketers for their content marketing efforts, most social media campaigns fail to make that necessary impact on their target…
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3 Ways to Nurture A Strong Community on Social Media
Whether you’re using Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, or Twitter, building a community is key to long-term success. There’s a reason why social media has “social” at the beginning of its title. These platforms are fertile ground for engaging with customers and fostering strong relationships with them. Therefore, it’s imperative that you, as a marketer, take great advantage of the tools and features within each respective social media platform so that your brand is able to nurture a strong brand community. By exchanging interesting topics, answering questions, and bringing your target audience together through engaging content, you’ll be able to make the most of your marketing efforts. Here are 3 effective ways…
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How To Create Engaging Facebook Ads
To say Facebook is one of the top social media platforms today is an understatement. Currently, Facebook has 2.91 million active users worldwide—and it’s still projected to grow. This presents a number of advertising opportunities for your brand. However, in order to obtain results and reach your respective objectives, you need to be clever in how you produce your Facebook Ads. Just sending out an ad and hoping something sticks won’t help in the long run. One of the key things to consider in Facebook advertising is targeting. All aspects of your Facebook ad copy and design-wise should be created with your audience in mind. Through Facebook’s advertising features, you…
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3 Online Promotion Techniques to Help Grow Your Business
Adding online promotional techniques into your digital strategy can help you achieve several key objectives, including business growth. Whether it’s email marketing, social media, or blogging, these digital techniques are the fuel behind most modern-day marketing campaigns that have allowed businesses to accomplish massive feats. Of course, you can’t just add any type of online technique and hope it sticks. To have a successful marketing campaign with business growth in mind, you need to find the right balance of different digital tools that align best with your marketing goals. That way you can reach the right target audience at the right time and place—usually when they’re reading, searching, or shopping…
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Personalization and Why It Matters in Digital Marketing
Personalization is a highly effective tool that enhances digital marketing campaigns in many ways. And there’s no secret reason why. According to Segment, as many as 71% of customers feel frustrated when their shopping experience is irrelevant or distanced. In a similar study, SmarterHQ found that 70% of millennials hate it when emails they receive from brands are impersonal or not tailored to their needs. Now, more than ever, consumers are expecting a heightened level of personalization, especially since they’re surrounded by it every single day. In fact, customers don’t just expect it—they value it and that’s reflected in many companies that use personalization in their digital marketing efforts. …
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Digital Media vs Traditional Media: What’s the Difference?
Before the advent of digital media, traditional media was the only way for companies to reach their target audiences and get their marketing messages across. Nowadays, digital media has introduced a wide variety of effective creative methods to achieve marketing objectives. From social media to blogs, digital media has expanded to provide marketers with a myriad of choices to connect with their target audience, build customer relationships, and fuel conversions. According to Statista, digital media is experiencing rapid growth in various markets, with the United States leading as the biggest market. As such, it’s obvious that digital media isn’t going away any time soon. Now, before you start strategizing, it’s…
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3 Reasons Why Likes and Comments Don’t Matter in Social Media Marketing
Social media is a powerhouse when it comes to effective marketing. From building relationships with consumers to increasing brand awareness, there are a number of good reasons why marketers have leveraged social media platforms for their campaigns. As of 2021, Statista reports that as many as 420 billion people around the world are active on social media. That’s a lot of people to connect with and show off your brand too—especially if it meets their needs or solves a problem! Unfortunately, in this fascinating digital space of vivid images and diverse influencers, it can be easy to become ensnared in the culture of “vanity metrics”. Confused? Don’t be. Vanity metrics…
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Interview with Digital Marketing Expert, Mason Crosby
I recently interviewed Mason Cosby, the Marketing Director at Mojo Media Labs and the podcast host of The Marketing Ladder about his expertise on a variety of digital marketing topics. Check out our interview on YouTube and be sure to give Mason’s LinkedIn profile a look!
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Brand Strategy Challenges and How Content Marketing Can Help Overcome it
In this day and age, content marketing is used everywhere. Whether it’s to increase brand awareness or generate engagement, content marketing has been a key factor in the success of marketing strategies and the achievement of various objectives. It’s no secret why—-content marketing is largely utilized within the digital landscape. And as you may have guessed, most consumers frequent the digital space at a rising rate. In fact, according to Pew Research, 26% of adults in the United States are constantly online on a regular basis. Taking advantage of content marketing is an intelligent tactic for marketers to implement into their brand marketing strategy. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately for opportunists),…
