Sprout Social

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Which social media networks should your brand focus on? And they expect your brand to meet them where they already are. In this article, we’ll explore how to prioritize social media networks so your brand shows up where it matters most. They’re built primarily for communication, connection and content sharing.

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Trade Press Services Newsletter

JANUARY 9, 2025

Create or Update Your Marketing Plan If you dont already have a marketing plan in place, now is the perfect time to create one. Encourage open communication and collaboration across departments. Additionally, leveraging varied channels creates multiple touchpoints, reinforcing brand messaging and enhancing customer engagement.

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Hubspot Marketing

JULY 12, 2024

Top 6 Types of Online Communities Disclaimer: Some communities may overlap across categories or share similarities with each other. For example, a brand community can also be a social community, and vice versa. For that reason alone, just about any type of community could be considered a brand community.

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Buffer Marketing

JULY 11, 2024

As a professional, there’s no better way to future-proof your career than building your personal brand on LinkedIn.   I’ve been focused on building a personal brand on LinkedIn since mid-2022 (that’s just about two years at the time of writing this), and the effort has already paid off — and then some.  

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Vertical Response

JULY 7, 2024

Wondering which social media platforms to use to elevate your brand in 2024? Key Takeaways Facebook remains the top choice for businesses, offering extensive advertising tools, customer engagement options, and effective community-building through groups. This makes it a vital tool for brand engagement and growth.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 27, 2025

Ive watched it evolve from a place where users poked their friends and posted #TBT photos to a connective tissue that drives international culture. Its surreal to reflect on a time when brands creating online social presences seemed radical. Its surreal to reflect on a time when brands creating online social presences seemed radical.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We unpack how your brand can use these examples to spark your own scroll-stopping ideaswhile maximizing your budget and doing more with less. In this end-of-year lineup, were sharing the best brands on social media in 2024, according to members of Team Sprout. Maybe the occasional irreverent or sexually explicit brand voice.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

We unpack how your brand can use these examples to spark your own scroll-stopping ideas—while maximizing your budget and doing more with less. If a C-suite executive says the wrong thing on social, it could snowball into a brand crisis and cost them their job. Let Salesforce give you hope. She even mentions astrology in her posts.

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Hubspot Marketing

JULY 15, 2024

So, you want to hire a community manager to help raise brand awareness for your company and better connect with your consumers. There‘s just one problem: You’re not sure how to hire a community manager. Where can you find a community manager? Why hire a community manager? Why do you even need one?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, leveraging digital tools, harnessing the power of data, and building a compelling brand identity help capture your target audience’s attention. Defining your unique selling proposition, creating a compelling brand story, and ensuring consistent visual and verbal communication establish a strong brand identity.

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Martech

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Far too many content marketing programs fail to connect the brand to customer problems before the customer starts looking for a solution. At this crucial and overlooked point in the customer journey, most brands provide content about the product and the industry, when they should address specific customer pain points. Moroney asked.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Marketing then becomes a guide, directing customers, partners, and employees into a comprehensive, unified brand experience. Integrated marketing that uses many channels and creative outlets to communicate your value proposition. CX’s purview is the overall experience a customer has with a brand. PR and earned media.

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Martech

JANUARY 10, 2025

A Gartner consumer survey of 2,001 respondents in April and May 2024 revealed that 63% acknowledge that brands are good at guessing what they might be interested in buying, indicating progress in personalization efforts. Transparency builds trust and can differentiate your brand in a crowded marketplace.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 10, 2025

And that time is now, because data storytelling isnt a fairytale: its an effective visual marketing strategy that can help you build trust, engagement, and sales for your brand. We sat down with Vancouver-based digital marketing manager Leeann Froese of Town Hall Brands for expert insight on every chapter of data storytelling.

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Martech

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For consumers, and ultimately for brands, it’s good that SMS messages are regulated. At the same time, many consumers prefer SMS as a communication channel, so the right text could be valuable to them and your brand. You need to get your brand and campaigns approved. It’s bad when customers think you are intrusive.

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Martech

AUGUST 26, 2024

These days, marketers are emboldened just as buyers are demanding to place orders through their mobile phones. They’re using chatbots for top-of-funnel conversations, digital tools for custom price quotes, marketplaces for placing orders—the list goes on and on. See my earlier article for useful stats and resources on this subject.

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Martech

OCTOBER 31, 2024

They now expect personalized messaging and want brands to understand their preferences, interests and behaviors. Brands must meet these expectations if they want to stay relevant and drive meaningful engagement. This positions your brand as a trusted resource that understands and anticipates consumer needs.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Yup, these influencers and brand ambassadors have been under your nose all along. Employee advocacy is when employees share their company’s content or values on their personal social media accounts to boost brand awareness and build trust. Fifty-six percent of millennial and Gen Z consumers trust influencers more than brands.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But at the same time, brands and influencers must be upfront about partnerships to avoid hefty penalties. In this article, we’ll break down the FTC influencer guidelines, why they matter and the branded content policies for each major social media network. You want your influencer partnerships to feel natural and engaging.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In recent years, social platforms have become the go-to places for consumers to interact with brands. messages are exchanged between people and brands on Facebook Messenger alone. Your team won’t have to dig through multiple communication channels to stay on top of inquiries. Every month, 20 billion (!)

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Martech

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Focus on brand ownership and crafting unique customer messages and experiences as key benefits of genAI, linking AI investments to real business results. Leaders should anchor data governance for genAI in business value, emphasizing accountability for customer data and brand intellectual property.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 2, 2025

And effective brand storytelling is the secret to success on social media and beyond. Before checking in to the hospitality industry (pun very much intended), Reynolds worked for other global brands, including Disney and Toyota. And for every brand hes worked with, storytelling has been an important marketing strategy.

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Jeff Bullas

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Set up your work from home space Working from home can become distracting since it is a place where you relax and sleep. It’s important to keep a to-do list of not only your tasks but also your communications, weekly meetings, projects, goals, deadlines, etc. Nowadays, brands, especially entertainers, are leveraging social media more.

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Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2025

The first place a potential customer may hear about your brand could be from your social media, a passing ad, or even a friends recommendation. And if youre one of the lucky ones, they may even seek out your brand's landing page looking for more. Easy, right? You got them on your website, they're sure to buy now!

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

With over three billion active users, Facebook remains a big deal for brands as it’s one of the few platforms that offers such a massive and diverse audience. Facebook monitoring is the process of tracking and responding to audience interactions with your brand on the platform. Do you have a large social media marketing team?

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Which network drove the most brand awareness for our product launch? Imagine X (formerly Twitter) analytics, Instagram analytics, Facebook analytics, TikTok analytics, Pinterest analytics, YouTube analytics, and LinkedIn analytics all in one place. This can help you determine the best times for your brand to post on social media.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Imagine going to a dinner party, walking into the dining room, and looking at the place settings. When planning an event for hundreds (or thousands) of people, it might not be possible to individually write everyones name down on a place card, but you can still tailor the event experience to individual preferences to enhance engagement.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2024

There are many directions you can go, and most of them can even be fun while you build up your brand. Be it through strategic marketing, creative community engagement, or partnerships, there are ample opportunities to bring notice to your business. Platforms like LinkedIn, however, are particularly potent for marketing a business.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A combination of these and other strategies will help marketers do their best job building brands and driving growth. As communication channels explode, lines between the real and the virtual blur, influencers get overused and brands seek attention aggressively, underscoring the importance of powerful storytelling.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

JULY 25, 2024

Whitmer (Mosaicx) Research clearly illustrates the value consumers place on personalization. Now more than ever, consumers increasingly desire emotional connections from brands. Businesses and brands can meet and exceed customer expectations by leveraging data to offer tailored experiences, fostering loyalty and trust.

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Hubspot Marketing

JULY 15, 2024

In the age of social media, most brand communities exist mainly online via social media platforms like Reddit, TikTok, Facebook, or X. So, when you think of community management, you might think the person in charge of that is a social media manager. However, that may not be the case. There was just one problem.

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Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

An increasing number of smart brands are embracing the idea that engaging their ideal customers who speak other languages is an effective way to attract and convert more customers. However, the journeys consumers take to choose which brand to buy from are often more complex than it is for a typical media consumer.

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Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 26, 2024

Ali , the creative director of brand at Hootsuite , where he describes his job as “leading a team of creatives to ruffle B2B marketing feathers for an equally feather-ruffling product.” Since I last saw him, Ali’s had stints as the brand creative director for Potbelly’s and now Hootsuite. I talked to Hassan S.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Many leading brands rely on influencer marketing to raise awareness about their products, build brand recognition and increase their overall sales. Influencer outreach is the process of contacting influencers for brand collaborations, and typically involves research and communicating via direct messages or emails.

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Martech

JANUARY 2, 2025

But to make big changes in marketing, like using your tech stack more effectively, decreasing your time to market or improving campaign outcomes, a concerted effort to communicate and deliver change is necessary. Change management initiatives involve planning how the change will be rolled out, communicated and who will be impacted.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Brands in ecommerce have the wonderful advantage of having access to a broader number of consumers than their local counterparts. Consumers, no matter their identity, are looking for an answer to this fundamental question: is this brand for people like me? Signals That Tell Ecommerce Customers a Brand Is for Them 1.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

One team managed a massive list of email campaigns for two brands. In the busy season, a visual aid like this is essential not just for keeping you organized but also for communicating to your community that you are on top of things. You need a place to put in raw comments that you can synthesize at the end of the season.

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