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9 E-commerce Social Media Marketing Tips for 2024

Social Media Strategies Summit

This brand is active on YouTube and uses the platform to present prospects with high-quality educational content. Check out how the founder behind Waka Coffee uses Quora to educate potential buyers about coffeemaking. This effectively shortened the sales cycle and improved its customer acquisition process. Source: instagram.com 7.

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Viral and Cultural Moments: How and When Brands Should Tap into the Conversation

Social Media Strategies Summit

But whatever a trend looks like for your specific brand and audience, one thing’s clear: you should only get involved authentically. Consumers crave authenticity. Indeed, research from Forrester shows that 71% of Americans feel they can relate to authentic brands — and therefore want to back them. Do they even care about this?

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Influencer marketing trends across industries

Sprout Social

When singer Shay Lia showed off her vivacious dance moves during Kaytrandas’ iconic Boiler Room set in 2013, she dazzled audiences and quickly became a meme. Consumers are more discerning One of the top influencer marketing trends surrounds a popular buzzword marketers hear all the time: authenticity.

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10 behind-the-scenes content ideas for your next campaign

Sprout Social

From memes to videos, behind-the-scenes (BTS) content gives a glance into the people behind our favorite products, services and social content. For example, inside looks at how a product is made from start to end are popular because these videos are both entertaining and educational.

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Instagram eCommerce: 5 Tips To Leverage Instagram To Market A New Online Store

Keyhole.co

Being a visual-first platform, it’s particularly suitable for eCommerce marketing (as opposed to B2B, software, and service-based businesses), because you have all the creative liberty to post eye-catching product photos, entertaining and/or educational videos, user-generated content, and more. Create original memes Everyone loves memes.

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7 Proven Social Media Promotion Ideas That Don’t Suck

Hootsuite

According to McKinsey, consumers — and especially Gen Z — value authenticity above all. If you have an authentic connection with your customers, they’ll enjoy seeing their photos featured on your page. By focusing on education, you add instant value. Deliver fresh, actionable content educating them about that topic.

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12 CEOs You Should Be Following on Social Media

Social Media Strategies Summit

Kimberley Bryant is the CEO of Black Girls CODE , a not-for-profit organization focused on providing technology education for African-American girls. Simply put, it looks a lot like most people’s Instagrams –– full of photos of food, memes, quotes, and pictures of herself, her friends, and family. pic.twitter.com/408m1BqHmM.