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Instagram Launches New Crackdown on Fake Followers Gained via Third Party Apps

Social Media Today

Instagram has announced a new crackdown on users who purchase followers and likes via third-party apps.

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5 Must-Have Metrics on Your Social Media Scorecard for 2019

Ignite Social Media

2019 Social Media Metrics. Time flies and, believe it or not, it’s already time to start thinking about planning for next year. Every good strategy requires a good measurement plan. To help you start thinking about 2019 social media metrics, we put together a list of widely used social media objectives and the 5-must-have metrics for each one. Mixing and matching is highly encouraged depending on your business’s individual needs.

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FACE: 4 Traits To Look For When Hiring Your Social Media Community Manager

SocMed Sean

Having worked in online community management for the last 15 years, I have had the privilege of putting together some amazing teams. Whether the members of those teams were tasked with building and maintaining large corporate Intranets or running social media for Fortune 100 clients, they all required a few common traits to be successful in their efforts.

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How To Publish Instagram Stories From Desktop

The Social Media Hat

Ever wish you could send a great graphic to Instagram from your desktop for your story? Perhaps a series of graphics? Here's how.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Instagram Flags Coming Profile Changes, for Both Regular and Business Users

Social Media Today

Instagram has announced that it's testing a range of new profile formats and options, both for regular users and businesses.

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The New Measurement: Shifting from Traditional PR to Growth PR

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest Post by Dan Beltramo. Although PR and communications have always been about telling a brand’s story and managing its reputation, the way that we create and amplify that story, in addition to how (and when) we measure our success, has shifted from creative campaigns built over weeks on best guesses and gut instinct to data-driven, real-time, iterative storytelling with metrics that tie back to provide revenue indicators and accelerate customer funnel activities that impact the bottom line.

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Why are more companies seeking group leadership coaching? Because it works!

Janet Fouts

As more and more executives are seeing the value of leadership coaching for themselves, they’re looking to provide coaching for their teams as well. In part to save money, but also to create an internal environment where the team learns together and collaboration happens more fluently. Executive coaching one-on-one can be powerful, no doubt. A client may have some difficult issues to work through, and prefer one-on-one coaching for personal reasons.

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3 Outdated Influencer Marketing Practices to Leave in 2018

Social Media Today

With influencer marketing on the rise, here are three common influencer strategies that its time to dump from your approach.

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How to Keep Your Brand’s Social Account Secure

Ignite Social Media

Last month, you may have been signed out of your personal Facebook account due to a recent privacy breach. While almost 50 million people were affected, according to Facebook there was no indication that business accounts were affected. Regardless, it’s a good reminder to put in safeguards to protect your potentially vulnerable business accounts. At Ignite Social Media, we’ve implemented several best practices to ensure our clients keep their brand’s social account secure.

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Government Social Media Accounts: 3 Agencies that Inspire on Social

Meltwater

Arguably one of the most useful aspects of social media is its ability to deliver relevant content to a significantly large group of people instantaneously. Whether it's delivering crucial information during… Read More >>>.

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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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Instagram Study: We analyzed 9 million posts and that's what we've learned

Quintly

Instagram has over 1 billion users worldwide. This is not only a huge amount of registered users but also a lot of many different use cases. Some use it to share their life with their friends, influencers make a living out of the platform and brands engage with their audience or to generate new customers.

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2018 Holiday Social Marketing Trends [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Animoto surveyed over 1000 consumers and 500 marketers to get some insight into how social and video are affecting purchase habits during the holidays.

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24+ Sites to Find Free Images You Would Actually Use for Your Marketing

Buffer Social

Here at Buffer, we think a lot about visual content. We’ve shared our own study on the importance of images in Twitter posts for more social sharing. We’ve explored tools that help anyone create visual content. Our social media management tool incorporates image posting because we know how important that element is to engage your followers and fans.

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How to Use Tailwind App for better Pinterest Marketing Results [Review]

Socially Sorted

If you haven’t tried Tailwind App to get better Pinterest Marketing results then read this review. In this post we share why Tailwind for Pinterest helps you get more Pinterest reach, shares and Pinterest traffic. It’s the Ultimate Tailwind App Review. BY DONNA. // Read More. The post How to Use Tailwind App for better Pinterest Marketing Results [Review] appeared first on Socially Sorted.

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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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3 Reasons Your Uncle Might Think Cold Days Disprove Global Warming

Forbes Social Media

Here is why your uncle or grandmother might think a cold week disproves climate change.

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SMT's 2018 Social Media Spending Survey - Part 1: Key Channels of Focus

Social Media Today

We recently conducted a survey of our audience to determine the key social media marketing trends and shifts of 2018. Here's part one of our report.

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How a Branded Hashtag Campaign Helped Tommy’s Superfoods to Reach More Than One Million People

Buffer Social

When Tommy Williams was growing up in Austin Texas, he probably didn’t think his love for cooking and local farmers markets would lead to starting a nationally-recognized food brand. But that’s exactly what happened. Williams began to embrace his entrepreneurial spirit after college. As a graduate, he started selling a variety of salsas and spice mixes in local retailers — and this is where his passion for promoting a healthier way of eating really came to the fore.

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How to Find Video Content Ideas When You’re Stuck

Socially Sorted

Do you find yourself stuck for video content ideas at times? In this post we break down how to find engaging video content ideas when you can’t think of anything to post. You’ll never run out of ideas for video again! We all know that video marketing is on the rise. // Read More. The post How to Find Video Content Ideas When You’re Stuck appeared first on Socially Sorted.

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Why (and How) to Switch to a New HR & Payroll Platform

Speaker: Speakers:

HR and payroll impact every aspect of your business. Choosing the right provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Before you decide, hear first-hand customer accounts in Paycor’s webinar to learn: The three most important things to look for when switching. How to begin your search. What are some of the red flags?

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Facebook Admits It Asked Opposition Firm Definers To Investigate George Soros

Forbes Social Media

Facebook said Wednesday evening it had asked Definers Public Affairs to look into George Soros' funding activities after the billionaire philanthropist called the social network a "menace to society" in early 2018 and Facebook called for a deeper investigation of its critics.

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Google Launches New Social Post Options to Promote Business Reviews and Offers

Social Media Today

Google has released a new set of templates to help businesses showcase customer reviews and promotions on social.

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Cross-publishing Tips to Make Your Content Creation Process Easier

agora pulse

When you are creating content for multiple platforms, your content creation process can seem overwhelming. Though there are best practices that apply across all of social media, each platform is unique. If you want to really take advantage of all the platform has to offer, then it’s important that you customize your content. Don’t worry!

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#238: Success Secrets to Serving the Smallest Viable Market with Seth Godin

Amy Porterfield

Find people who want to be found. Talk to them in ways they want to be talked to. Take them on a journey to where they want to go. —Seth Godin Those are just a few of the nuggets of marketing mastery from THE Seth Godin, my longtime DREAM podcast guest. Seth gave so much […]. The post #238: Success Secrets to Serving the Smallest Viable Market with Seth Godin appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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Green Housing And Technological Ecology

Forbes Social Media

What is the solution to homelessness and the ecological harm done when creating social housing through cement structures? The resolution though architectural is also a cultural one where we must shift how approach the domestic sphere.

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Big Changes Coming to Facebook's Messaging Platform - Here's What Admins Need to Know

Social Media Today

There’s a deadline on the horizon that affects, and requires action by, Facebook Page admins. As of January 1st, 2019, Facebook Pages will need to have successfully been approved for subscription messaging permissions - if not, they won’t be able to send the free messaging type cal.

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For Thanksgiving this year, play #PopcornGratitude!

Janet Fouts

We have a new idea at our Thanksgiving this year, and we call it “popcorn gratitude”. Before dinner starts, take a few moments and gather the family together. Then start a lightning round of gratitude. Not just for love, or family and friends, good food and fun. Every person shouts out things they love, popcorn style. Whoever wants to play can speak, no set order.

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The 3 PR Dashboards Your Comms Strategy Needs

Meltwater

Confession: While media monitoring software was evolving into media intelligence over the last decade, I didn’t as a user. My media monitoring routine remained fairly static since the early aughts:… Read More >>>.

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2025 Payroll Calendar Templates (Biweekly, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly)

Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!

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The Science Of Why A Modest Snowstorm Caused Havoc On The East Coast

Forbes Social Media

The science behind why a relatively modest snowstorm caused havoc in the New York area.

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Ways to Track Influencer Marketing ROI [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Ever wondered what the ROI of influencer marketing is? How much do brands invest and get in return? This infographic provides some insight.

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Audiense and Pulsar integrate: Conversation Insights + Audience Segmentation in 1 click!

Audiense

I am proud to announce a seamless 2-way integration bringing you the best in class insights-to-activation solution.

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Common Business Hazards And How To Fix Them

Socialmedia.biz

Electrical hazards are dangerous to you and your property. Knowing common electric hazards and how to fix them will keep everything safe and sound. Not Using Extension Cords Properly. An extension cord can make life easier. However, not using one properly can cause problems. Be sure to select extension cords with a UL rating. Make sure you use a cord appropriate for what you are plugging into it and where you are using it.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!