How Video Is Transforming Social Media Marketing!
In this digitization world, most of the organizations are using social media platforms to grab the attention of visitors and experience massive growth in their business. You will be surprised to know that more than 1 billion hours are spent by people per day, especially on watching Youtube videos. Also, in the coming days, the number of people watching online videos will increase, which will have a significant impact on business productivity. Full Story: Dazeinfo
3 Tips for Building Your Personal Brand on Social Media
I started my business, Hunk-O-Mania, before the era of social media and during the early days of internet marketing. While building my company, I neglected my own personal brand — and in the last few years, I’ve aimed to make up for it by embracing social media platforms as a way to build my brand outside of my business. Full Story: Entrepreneur
Top 6 Tips to Market Your Business on Social Media
There is no denying the fact social media is one of the most powerful marketing platforms as it helps you reach your prospects and customers. In this digital age, your competitors are already interacting with their potential and present customers and so should you. You should always look for effective ways to market your business on social media. Full Story: Promotion World
The Rise and Fall of Social Media Platforms
Since its inception, the internet has played a pivotal role in connecting people across the globe, including in remote locations. While the foundational need for human connection hasn’t changed, platforms and technology continue to evolve, even today. Faster internet connections and mobile devices have made social networks a ubiquitous part of our lives, with the time spent on social media each day creeping ever upward. Full Story: Visual Capitalist
4 Benefits of Using Social Media to Grow Your Small Business
Business owners have a wide range of marketing tools at their disposal. After examining numerous studies and data from real companies, it’s evident that social media marketing is one of the most effective ways to grow your small business. Full Story: Business.com
Why Building A Strong Social Media Community Will Accelerate Your Business
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) notes that there are about 1.3 million Realtors currently active within the industry. This number spikes when considering those real estate professionals who aren’t members of NAR. It is an industry with thousands of professionals whose work touches the lives of millions of Americans. Full Story: Forbes
5 Things To Check If Someone Is Being Real On Social Media
Are you fed up of all the fake hype on social media? I promise you that 99% of it isn’t real. I often see behind the scenes and the curated perfection is just that – the best bits – the highlight reel. So if you find yourself comparing, or even believing it’s real; just remember it’s an edited selection. Full Story: Thrive Global
Globally, there are over 2.4 billion Facebook users, 1.5 billion active users on WhatsApp, 1 billion on Instagram, 250 million monthly active users on LinkedIn and a little over 320 million on Twitter. 18 million Ugandans have access to the internet; with 60 per cent being able to access Facebook daily while 12 per cent, 3 per cent and 1 per cent access Twitter, YouTube and Instagram with the same regularity. Based on these statistics, Uganda provides immense opportunities for Small and Medium Businesses. Full Story: Daily Monitor
How can social media marketing grow your business?
What does a 35 year old man in Pennsylvania, the President of the United States and a Hollywood celebrity have in common? They are all active on social media platforms. In the age of superfast communication and digital proximity, social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter are dominating the way people interact with each other. Full Story: London School of Business and Finance
Social Media Content Trends for 2020 and Beyond
Social media is always changing, with technological advances, both in terms of devices and platforms, enabling new ways for people to interact. A great example is the rise of Stories – a few years ago, Stories wasn’t even a consideration, and now more than a billion people use Stories every day across Facebook’s family of apps alone. That’s also helped boost the use of AR tools like face filters, while VR tools are also on the rise, along with home assistant devices, voice search, etc. Full Story: Social Media Today
Instagram Adds New ‘Emails from Instagram’ Security Confirmation Listing
As you can see, the new listing includes two elements – ‘Security’ emails, and ‘Other’, for official communications sent to you. Now, if you get an email prompting you to take action in relation to your Instagram account, and it seems a little fishy, you can check this listing to confirm whether or not it is, indeed, a legit notification from Instagram. Full Story: Social Media Today
Facebook and Instagram restrict ads in a bid to protect vulnerable teens
Social media sites Instagram and its parent Facebook, are tightening their content standards to restrict advertisements and posts from influencers and other users who peddle weight loss and cosmetic procedures to teenagers. Full Story: Verdict
10 Social Media Marketing Tips That Can Give Your Brand Maximum Exposure
There’s no doubt about it. Although different platforms may change over time, social media as a channel is here to stay. It has grown into a powerful marketing tool that gives you maximum exposure, giving your brand and business greater mileage. Social media has transformed itself from being just a trend to one of the most powerful advertising tools out there. Full Story: TechPluto
How to Optimize Video for Social Media Marketing
Practically every Marketing department uses Video to deliver the brand message. But are your Videos performing? Are they optimized for engagement, sharing, and conversion? It’s easy to create Video content these days. Anyone can do it with a smartphone and an editing suite like Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, or the plethora of iOS and Android video editors designed for editing on the fly. Full Story: MarTech Series
What is Social Media Marketing?
Brands use Social Media Marketing to achieve their business and branding goals. This is generally achieved by posting images, videos or any other content – paid or organic. Good use of Social platforms can be both a cost-effective and rewarding marketing method, as there are a wide number of opportunities in terms of strategies and formats available to marketeers across a range of platforms. Full Story: Coast Digital
Social media ad budgets continue to grow at ‘expense of print’, up 20% in 2019
Social media advertising will see 20% in ad spend boost in 2019 to account for 13% of all global spend. This will see social media overtake print ad spend the first time, according to Zenith Media’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts. Spend on sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram will grow by 20% in 2019 to reach $84bn, while combined newspapers and magazine expenditure will fall 6% to $69bn. Full Story: The Drum
Take Advantage of Social Media & Start an Online Business for Cheap
The days when opening up a business meant solely renting a commercial space and setting up shop are long gone. Nowadays, every up-and-coming entrepreneur buys an internet domain, gets into online marketing, goes on social media, and puts its business into the virtual world, where almost all the potential customers spend their time. Full Story: Social News Daily
The Best Social Media Publishing Tools Around for Capturing ROI and Streamlining Scheduling
It feels like just yesterday when brands began to double down on social media marketing efforts. Back then, we knew these platforms were important—but lucrative? That was way less clear. Today the value of social media efforts are, thankfully, no longer a mystery. In a study of 600 marketers shared by Forbes, nearly 60 percent note that their organic social efforts result in medium-to-high ROI. Full Story: Skyword
A Need for Community Drives Peer-to-Peer Social Media Marketing
Everyone recognizes that social media has changed our culture. Not only do we communicate in radically different ways since we learned to post, share, YouTube and Tweet, but we also have accepted new ways to gather information, buy and sell products, make travel plans, do business and more. Full Story: Inside INdiana Business
Want Your Brand to Stand Out on Social Media? Try These 8 Tips
Businesses and brands are constantly competing for attention on social media, and with all the noise and incessant messaging, how can you make your voice heard? You have to find ways to cut through the noise and stand out like a unicorn in a sea of donkeys. But how? By knowing how to standout on social media. Full Story: Small Business Trends