September, 2023

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Where Are My Meta Pixels?

Jon Loomer

Meta made a change recently that is leaving advertisers confused. Meta pixels are disappearing from Business Settings, which will freak you out the first time you see it. There’s a simple solution and an explanation. Let’s get straight to it… “Doesn’t Have Any Pixels Yet” Advertisers manage access to their Meta pixels within Business Settings under Data Sources.

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Elon Musk Says X Users Are Posting Fewer Posts Per Day Than People Had Been Tweeting

Social Media Today

Musk says users are posting around 200 million X updates per day, which is down from Twitter's 500 million tweets per day stat.

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How TikTok Has Exposed Celebrities And Politicians’ Closest Personal Contacts

Forbes Social Media

TikTok and ByteDance staff's easy access to the friend lists of the First Family and public figures has created national security and privacy risks ahead of the election.

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Top Social Selling Examples: 7 Mistakes To Avoid

Oktopost

The B2B sales process has changed, and digitalization has rendered traditional in-person sales methods (such as door-to-door and cold calling) outdated. This digital shift has welcomed a new era in sales: social selling. If you want to compel buyers online, social selling is a new sales approach that allows you to cut through digital noise and harness buyer attention.

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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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How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

Sprout Social

With an economic downturn looming, it’s not surprising around 75% of CMOs report being asked to do more with less in a Gartner survey. Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. You’ll need a plan to address top budget concerns to provide clarity and control over every dollar spent.

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2023 Average Engagement Rates for 13 Industries [STATS]

Hootsuite

So you’ve planned and launched a social media campaign, and waited patiently for the likes, comments, and conversions to roll in. Now you’re looking at your performance report, wondering what the numbers actually mean. Is a 2% engagement rate high or low? Did your target audience love your campaign, or was it a flop? Without social media benchmarks (a.k.a. average performance stats for a social platform or industry), it’s difficult to make sense of raw data.

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YouTube Updates Monetization Guidelines on Certain Sensitive Topics

Social Media Today

YouTube will now allow ad revenue share on certain sensitive issues, while further restricting ads on eating disorder related content.

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Rumble Slams ‘Disturbing’ Request From U.K. Government Over Russell Brand’s Content

Forbes Social Media

The U.K. government is questioning social media companies about whether Russell Brand is able to monetize his content on their sites, sparking accusations of overreach.

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Lifecycle of a Lead: How to Turn Prospects into Customers Using Social Media

Oktopost

Closing deals in 2023 has been a challenge for many sales teams, but we’re uncovering little-known tips to help you keep your sales pipeline flowing. Long gone are the days when sales teams and social media are estranged – combine the two together and your results will be a powerhouse for converting leads into customers. The buyer journey has changed, making it difficult for sales teams to guide leads through the sales funnel.

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How 7 brands use customer marketing content strategies to deepen audience connection

Sprout Social

In marketing, brand awareness is a significant focus—in fact, it’s likely one of your main goals. But it’s all too easy to get so wrapped up in reaching and acquiring new customers that your current customer base gets left in the dust. This is where customer marketing comes in. Customer marketing is one of the most powerful ways you can forge and feed connections with your current audience base.

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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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#611: Top Ways My Team Uses AI To Increase Efficiency, Creativity, & Intentional Margins

Amy Porterfield

Listen on… The most effective AI strategies (& ChatGPT prompts) my team is using Curious to know how my team and I are leveraging the incredible power of […] The post #611: Top Ways My Team Uses AI To Increase Efficiency, Creativity, & Intentional Margins appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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What an Ad-Free Facebook and Instagram Subscription Could Mean to Advertising

Jon Loomer

According to a report from the New York Times , Meta is considering an ad-free subscription option for both Facebook and Instagram in the European Union. In other words: Meta may give these users the option of paying a monthly fee to not see ads. Those who don’t pay for the subscription would continue to see ads as they do now. Such a move could be enormously disruptive to Meta’s advertising business, which has been by far its biggest revenue driver to date.

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4 Important Social Media Trends of Note for 2023

Social Media Today

Based on recent polls among SMT's audience, here are some of the key trends of note in 2023.

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Viral Videos Falsely Claim New York Setting Up ‘Quarantine Camps’ For Covid-19

Forbes Social Media

Have you seen videos claiming New York is setting up quarantine camps to detain people with covid-19? It’s incredibly popular on TikTok and Facebook. But it’s not true.

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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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Why UTMs are Not Enough: How to Quantify Business Results on Social Media

Oktopost

As B2B businesses, we’re not posting on social media just for kicks and giggles. We’re looking to boost engagement, generate more leads, build brand awareness, close more deals, and the list of KPIs goes on. So how do you understand whether or not you’re reaching these goals? When you dive into the analytics of the native platforms, the types of metrics you see can vary based on the channel.

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The CMO’s social media marketing agenda for 2024

Sprout Social

Social media has become deeply ingrained in our daily lives, evolving from a novel tool to connect with friends into a central hub for entertainment, news, community building and discovery. Audiences are more receptive than ever to seeing businesses in their feed, but their expectations shift rapidly. The rules of audience-brand engagement are different than they were even a year ago.

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The Secret to Consistent Content Creation

Jon Loomer

Look, I hate titles that include words like “Secret.” It feels like click bait. My titles are normally boring as a result. But, since I’ve seen so many people fail at consistent content creation, I absolutely feel like I have some secret knowledge that others do not. I have experience on the topic of consistent content creation. I started this website in 2011 and wrote 600 blog posts during the first two years.

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A Guide to Meta Ads Optimization for Delivery

Jon Loomer

The Meta ads algorithm is powerful. It learns, tweaks, and optimizes in real-time to get you the most results as efficiently as possible. But it’s critical that you understand how Meta ads optimization for delivery works. If you go into this blindly, you will be misled by results. You will get results that seem too good to be true (because they are).

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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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Schedule Individual Ads for Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns

Jon Loomer

Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns have given e-commerce businesses a big boost. They combine machine learning and automation to get your ads in front of the audience most likely to buy. And now there’s a scheduling enhancement. Let’s talk more about what this update is and why it matters. Schedule Ads The typical schedule is set at the ad set level.

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A Guide to Meta Ads Placements

Jon Loomer

Meta ads placements have been a moving target over the years. What the placements are and when you should use them are constantly evolving. How we approached placements five years ago is not the same as how we should approach them now. In this post, we’ll cover the following: What the current Meta ads placements are Differences, strengths, and weaknesses When to use Advantage+ Placements When to manually select placements Viewing results by placement Some good stuff here.

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Clean Your Lens!

Jon Loomer

Here’s a quick tip to improve video quality… You keep your phone in your pocket most of the day. For the rest of the day, it’s in your hand. That means your phone is dirty. Most importantly, your camera lens is covered in oils, grease, and who knows what else. Clean your lens! It could be why your video comes out cloudy. Every time I’m going to record, I break out a lens-cleaning wipe.

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New Report Finds That Investment in Influencer Marketing Is Rising Faster Than Traditional Ads

Social Media Today

Some key trends on the growth of influencer marketing, and new opportunities for brands and creators.

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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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Meta Expands Its Paid Verification Program to Business Accounts

Social Media Today

Now, businesses will also be able to purchase a blue tick on Facebook and IG (and soon, WhatsApp too).

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TikTok Is Exploring a Partnership With Google to Drive Search Traffic

Social Media Today

The new experiment has seen some users shown Google search panels within TikTok search results.

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A Look at the Comparative MAU and DAU Stats for All the Major Social Apps

Social Media Today

Where does each social platform rank in terms of active users? Here's a look at the latest data.

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Meta Announces a Range of New AI and VR Tools, Including Celebrity-Influenced Chatbots and New Smart Glasses

Social Media Today

A range of new AI elements are coming to Facebook and IG, including new chatbots in the communications style of celebrities.

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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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YouTube Launches New Subscriber Analytics to Assist in Content Planning

Social Media Today

The more nuanced channel member analytics will give you more insight into what drives sign-ups.

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New Report Finds That Investment in Influencer Marketing is Rising Faster Than Traditional Ads

Social Media Today

Some key trends on the growth of influencer marketing, and new opportunities for brands and creators.

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4 Important Social Media Trends of Note for 2023

Social Media Today

Based on recent polls among SMT's audience, here are some of the key trends of note in 2023.

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Meta’s New AI and VR Push Includes Celebrity-Influenced Chatbots and Next-Gen Smart Glasses

Social Media Today

A range of new AI elements are coming to Facebook and IG, including new chatbots in the communications style of celebrities.

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Meta Says that Threads Engagement is Lower Than it Would Like, as it Continues to Build the App

Social Media Today

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri says that the Threads team is working to drive more engagement.