June, 2023

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Meta Campaign Objectives: Best Practices

Jon Loomer

Meta campaign objectives represent the first step advertisers need to complete when creating a campaign. They are also the first opportunity to make a mistake that will impact the remaining steps. Advertisers often overcomplicate, if not misunderstand, the importance of choosing a campaign objective. This post will help clarify the uniqueness of each objective and provide best practices for how you should address this decision.

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Research Shows that the Majority of Marketing Professionals are Using Generative AI Tools

Social Media Today

Our latest survey shows that many marketing and comms pros are already using generative AI tools every day.

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Tips for Writing Great AI Content: It’s About More than AI Prompts

Ignite Social Media

Generated by Bing and ChatGPT When a rationale marketer first sees ChatGPT or Bard crank out a blog post in 30 seconds, fear and wonder mix in equal parts. How did it do that? Am I expendable? But I saw a quote online that I think sums up the situation correctly. It was, “Marketers won’t be replaced by AI. Marketers who don’t use AI will be replaced by marketers who use AI.

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How to Create a Content Calendar for Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

The Social Media Hat

Discover how to create a content calendar for your social media marketing strategy. The post How to Create a Content Calendar for Your Social Media Marketing Strategy appeared first on The Social Media Hat.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Musk Incites Anti-Vaccine Conspiracists By Mischaracterizing Peter Hotez

Forbes Social Media

Declining a debate with an anti-vaccine crusader is understandable. It would amplify and in the eyes of many viewers legitimize Kennedy as somehow an equal adversary.

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Remaining Human in a World of AI

WebInKnow

For decades, marketers have been the experts. We marketing people use our experience and creativity to make decisions. This reality isn’t going away! In fact, I think the new world of AI makes our work even more important, because we must always recognize the limitations of machines.

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YouTube Rolls Out Changes to Studio Analytics to Reduce the Pressure of Data Comparison

Social Media Today

With some creators feeling pressured by upfront data displays, YouTube is trying to make analytics easier with recaps and gamification.

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How Search Tactics are Replacing Hashtag Strategies for Social Media Success 

Ignite Social Media

Finding it hard to compete with social algorithm changes using hashtags? Here are tips to make sure you can outsmart social media search and get in your audience’s feed. Remember when Adam Mosseri said in March of 2022 that your caption matters more than your hashtags in terms of post visibility and reach? Hootsuite did a small experiment afterwards and found that posts with good captions generated 30% more reach than posts with hashtags.

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How to analyze customer reviews for brand insights

Sprout Social

There’ll always be a competitor trying to outperform you. The only way to grow and stay ahead is a keen eye on what your customers are saying about their interests and pain points. In a world where star ratings can make or break a brand, review analysis is your north star. It gives you deep insights from customer feedback so you can uncover trends, make targeted improvements to your business and build a richer brand management strategy.

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Elon Musk And Mark Zuckerberg Vow To Fight In Cage Match (Seriously)

Forbes Social Media

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg might soon stage a physical fight, according to social media posts by both billionaires. It seems like both men are serious.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

Hootsuite

You text your partner a pic of the chocolate bar you want from the store. You mention your fave new shampoo in a WhatsApp message. You share an amazing Hootsuite blog article to your work Slack (hint!). Welcome to dark social. Don’t worry, dark social isn’t the same as the notorious “dark web” trying to lure you into evil. Dark social is the oldest social network in action: private, untraceable human-to-human communication.

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Should You Create a Tailored Leads Campaign Over the Manual Setup?

Jon Loomer

If you’ve selected the Leads objective in Meta Ads Manager recently, you may have seen an immediate prompt for a Tailored Leads Campaign. It looks like this… Meta has been testing and rolling out Tailored Leads since November of 2022, if not earlier. And if you’ve experimented with Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns , you’ve certainly spotted similarities.

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Meta Announces Coming Expansion of Meta Verified Program to All Regions

Social Media Today

Meta's expanding access to Latin America this week, ahead of full global availability in the coming months.

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#579: Must-Know Online Marketing Industry Updates & Trends For 2023

Amy Porterfield

Listen on… Is Your Business Keeping Up? The Top 7 Digital Marketing Updates & Trends To Be Aware Of The State Of The Digital Course Industry & What You Can Expect In The Next Year Holy smokes, things in the digital marketing world are moving fast. From chatbots to ChatGPT, it seems like […] The post #579: Must-Know Online Marketing Industry Updates & Trends For 2023 appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.

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How to Boost Your Content in the YouTube Algorithm

Buffer Social

YouTube is a staple in the global cultural landscape – parents use it to keep their kids occupied, students use it to learn, and millions use it for entertainment, information, and everything in between. But one thing that is often a mystery is discovery – how do people get the content they do? Why does certain content go viral seemingly overnight?

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Exclusive: TikTok Confirms Some U.S. User Data Is Stored In China

Forbes Social Media

TikTok has said under oath that Americans’ data has always been stored outside China. Now it’s saying there are big exceptions for creators.

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Brand experience: Why it matters and how to build one that works

Sprout Social

At the end of the day, we want to cut through the noise and leave a lasting impression that grabs market share. But an ever-crowded space filled with brands and creators means your relevancy is always at risk. When a brand experience is consistently good, it champions powerful brand recall, turns customers into advocates and builds credibility that ultimately increases your repeat business.

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Beneficiary and Payer Requirements for Meta Ads in the European Union

Jon Loomer

If you target any country or territory within the European Union, you are now required to provide beneficiary and payer information. Let’s clarify what this means… The Regulatory Requirement The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) requires Meta to provide information on the beneficiary and payer of ads that target anyone living within the European Union.

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.

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Meta Targets Mid-July Launch for New Twitter Challenger App

Social Media Today

And the launch could be preceded by an actual fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

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#582: The Listening Mindset: My Secret For Understanding My Audience Intimately

Amy Porterfield

Listen on… How I’ve become a better listener (& how it’s helped me take a lot of the guesswork out of business growth). I’m going to let you in on a little secret — listening to your audience can make a huge difference when it comes to your business’ bottom line. When you […] The post #582: The Listening Mindset: My Secret For Understanding My Audience Intimately appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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How Buffer’s Content Team Uses AI

Buffer Social

There’s been much ado about AI lately, especially since ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022. Since then, we’ve seen an influx of thoughts and tools around the topic and the use of AI. We like AI here at Buffer – we’ve even launched an AI Assistant to help our audience create content better and faster. However, we understand its limitations, especially when it comes to creation, better than most.

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Texas Governor Tweets Fake Article About Garth Brooks Getting Booed Off Stage

Forbes Social Media

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted an article on Sunday about Garth Brooks getting booed off stage. But the article is completely fake.

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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How to take smart risks with lo-fi social content

Sprout Social

In late 2009, Domino’s released a brutally honest commercial, publicizing customers’ overwhelmingly negative feelings about their pizza—and asking folks to give them a second chance. It was a massive risk, but one that paid off. The quarter following the campaign’s release, same-store sales were up 14%. No matter how you slice it, risk-taking has always been a hallmark of strong brand marketing.

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Advantage Campaign Budget Best Practices

Jon Loomer

Advantage Campaign Budget (formerly Campaign Budget Optimization or CBO) is an option when you create a Meta ads campaign. Should you turn it on? In this post, we’ll explore: How Advantage Campaign Budget works Eligibility requirements How to set it up Ad set spend limits Best practices When you should use it There’s lots to cover here. Let’s go… How it Works The standard campaign setup utilizes individual ad set budgets.

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Meta’s Twitter Alternative is Coming Soon, According to a New Internal Briefing on the App

Social Media Today

Instagram's reps are in talks with various celebrities about joining the app - including Oprah and the Dalai Lama.

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#578: What To Do When You’re Maxed Out & Ready To Quit With Rebecca Blackburn

Amy Porterfield

Listen on… A 3-step process for living more, working less, and lightening your mental load with Rebecca Blackburn We’ve all been there before…. Maybe you’ve got what feels like a hundred plates spinning in the air, and one of them is about to come crashing down. Or maybe your business is going really […] The post #578: What To Do When You’re Maxed Out & Ready To Quit With Rebecca Blackburn appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.

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87 Best TikTok Username Ideas [Free Username Generator]

Hootsuite

Ever seen a trendy TikTok username that you wished was yours? Coming up with creative and catchy TikTok username ideas can be a brain-breaker. You want to be funny, cute, witty, smart, daring, cool, and edgy all at the same time. Lucky for you, our new TikTok username generator is here to help you conjure the perfect username for your TikTok account.

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Viral Video Hypes Fear Of ‘Military Movements’ In California For Absolutely No Reason

Forbes Social Media

Have you seen video going viral about “military movements” in California, trying to suggest that a war against everyday Americans is about to take place? It's nonsense.

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How marketing automation empowers your team, and whole org

Sprout Social

For today’s marketing teams, it’s nearly impossible to do your work and stay agile without marketing automation. In fact, teams that don’t adopt automation and AI-powered software throughout their tech stack risk falling behind. There has never been more customer, competitor or industry data available to marketing teams. And yet, with shrinking bandwidths, having the time to uncover insights from that vast sea of data is becoming less realistic.

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LinkedIn Branding: Leverage LinkedIn to Build Your Brand

Quintly

You can't sleep on LinkedIn if you've made ambitious plans to market your business. It's the ultimate destination for B2B brands and individual contributors to engage with their target audience, deliver impactful content, and create a stellar brand that attracts leads.

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Twitter Loses Two Executives in Charge of Trust and Safety as Elon Continues to Change the Rules

Social Media Today

A disagreement over a controversial documentary has once again highlighted Twitter's internal challenges.

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