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Guides & CoursesAug 21, 2024
The 12 Best Social Media Marketing Courses to Elevate Your Skills in 2025

Here are the top 12 courses to improve your social media marketing skills.

BlueskyJul 30, 2024
Buffer Now Supports Bluesky! Here’s How to Schedule, Cross-post, and More

A step-by-step guide to scheduling your posts to Bluesky, cross-posting to other platforms like X or Mastodon, and even creating threads.

FlowJul 28, 2024
Posting Like a Pro: What Should You Post on These 8 Social Media Platforms

In this article, I’ll share why you must tailor your social content to each network and give actionable advice for each platform.

AnalyticsApr 2, 2024
2024 Social Media Benchmarks You Should Use to Guide Your Strategy

This article looks into social media benchmarks for various industries and platforms.

Guides & CoursesSep 20, 2023
The Social Media Manager’s Daily, Weekly, Monthly Checklist

What should I work on next? This is a thought that pops up many times throughout the day while I’m working as the Social Media Manager at Buffer. I’ll check Twitter/X, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Threads to make sure I’m covering all my bases and spending time in the best way possible. And on the good days, I’m right in the groove where I know exactly what to do next and what are the most important tasks that need to get done. What really helps me is making a checklist for my social media activi

Guides & CoursesJul 31, 2023
10 Beginner Social Media Strategies

What are you working on today for social media management? Have you been trying to figure out your social media marketing plan and not sure where to start? One of our goals at Buffer is to always be iterating and experimenting with what we do on social networks and share different types of content. We’re up for trying all sorts of different strategies for social media! And many of these end up revealing great opportunities for growth. We’d love to help with some ideas if you’re just getting st

Guides & CoursesAug 29, 2022
Buffer in 2022: 51 Features To Help You Grow Your Audience

A complete guide to all of Buffer's features and integrations in 2022. Learn about Buffer's publishing, analytics, engagement, and landing page tools, and see what other features are coming soon.

IFundWomen's Guide to Cultivating an Inclusive and Engaged Digital Community

In this post, we give you a behind-the-scenes look at how IFundWomen, the go-to funding marketplace for women-owned businesses, integrates their marketing and community building to foster inclusive digital spaces.

Guides & CoursesNov 5, 2018
7 Invaluable Marketing Skills That Help Teams Produce Consistently Great Content

How to listen: iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloud | Stitcher | RSS In speaking with thousands of marketers and businesses over the past several years, we’ve learned that marketing has an incredible potential to impact people’s lives. In fact, the American Marketing Association defines marketing as: “The activity, set of institutions, skills, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large

FacebookOct 25, 2018
How to Use Facebook to Market Your Business

If you want your business to have a presence on social media, Facebook is probably one of the first orthefirst social media platform you think of. More than 1.4 billion people use Facebook every single day, and many multiple times a day. It’s almost certain that your potential customers are on Facebook and using it actively to connect with their family, their friends, and their favorite brands. Whether you’re running a brick and mortar store, an ecommerce site, an agency, or a software company

Guides & CoursesAug 23, 2018
5 Tried and True LinkedIn Tips to Grow your Company Page Followers 600% Faster

While much of the focus over the last few years on social media has been on Facebook and Instagram, LinkedIn has been steadily growing its user base to more than 500 million users. And we’ve seen first-hand that businesses are working hard on perfecting their LinkedIn marketing strategy so that they can tap into the world’s largest professional network. A few months ago, we asked you (our readers) to let us know which social media networks you would like to learn more about – LinkedIn (53%) ca

Guides & CoursesJul 25, 2017
The Complete Guide to Creating Effective Snap Ads with Snapchat Ad Manager

In the past, if you wanted to run Snap Ads (Snapchat ’s full-screen video ads), you would need to go through one of their ads partners. Now, though, you can create Snap Ads yourself through Snapchat’s new self-serve ads tool, Snapchat Ad Manager. Snapchat has even included a video creation tool in the Snapchat Ad Manager to make creating engaging, awesome-looking vertical videos a breeze. We’re thrilled by the possibilities that Snapchat Ad Manager has bro

Guides & CoursesJun 22, 2017
25 Days, 25 Expert Social Media Growth Strategies [New Email Course for Marketers]

What’s working for you on social media these days? One of our goals at Buffer is to always be iterating and experimenting with what we do on social media and in marketing. Whether it’s cutting our posting frequency, curating content, or creating square videos , we’re always up for trying new strategies ! Lots of times these experi

Guides & CoursesMar 16, 2017
The Complete Guide to Instagram Ads: A Step-by-Step Guide to Advertising on Instagram

Instagram offers incredible opportunities for businesses of all sizes to reach their target audiences. But as more and more brands join Instagram and the feed becomes more competitive, it can be harder to stand out. Imagine being able to reach the specific groups of Instagram users you want to connect with, engage them, and convert them into customers. Well, that’s totally possible! In late 2015, Instagram opened up Instagram ads. Using the Facebook

Guides & CoursesJan 23, 2017
48 Hours with Snapchat Spectacles: Our Full Review and 5 Tips to Create Better Snaps

Spectacles are the first hardware product from the company formally known as Snapchat. The camera-equipped glasses were announced in September 2016, at the same time as Snapchat became Snap Inc. and rebranded itself as “a camera company.” From the moment they were announced, Snap had the marketing industry, and more importantly, their key 16-24-year-old demographic, clamoring to get their hands on Spectacles. But, in what turned out to be one of the most creative marketing campaigns of 2016, Sp

Guides & CoursesOct 4, 2016
Instagram for Business: 30 Tips to Grow Your Audience and Stand Out on Instagram

Instagram is the go-to place for over 300 million people to share their photos, videos, and stories every single day. And as Instagram has grown over recent years, that’s left many business owners and marketers with one very clear and important question: How can we use Instagram for business? Well today, we’d love to dive head first into that topic and share: * How to set up a killer Instagram profile * The importance of goal setting and how to creat

Guides & CoursesSep 8, 2016
How to Curate Content: The Secret Sauce to Getting Noticed, Becoming an Influencer, and Having Fun Online

How great is the Internet! One of the most impactful, viral, influential services you can perform online is to read stuff and tell people what you like. It’s true! If you’re looking for a competitive edge, a way to establish your authority, a way to get more followers, one of the best, proven paths to online success is content curation. It’s both as simple and as difficult as finding great content and sharing it with your audience. The difficult part is that there is a lot that goes into a wo

Guides & CoursesAug 18, 2016
Event Marketing 101: How to Keep Attendees Engaged Before, During and After Your Event

Taking an event from idea to sell-out is no easy feat. And half the battle of organizing an event is marketing it. When it comes to the marketing channels that drive attendance, hype, and engagement, social media is right near the top. Best of all, social media event marketing isn’t as time-consuming as you may think. You can do it! One of the greatest feelings in the world is walking into one of your own events and seeing it jam-packed with people. Social media can help get you there. When

Guides & CoursesJul 18, 2016
Why Do Tweets Go Viral? Our 10 Most Successful Tweets and the Psychology Behind Why They Worked

If you’re anything like me, there are only a handful of things more exciting for a social media marketer than when a Tweet “goes viral.” And so I set about with the audacious goal for this post of trying to unravel the great social media mystery of virality: Figuring out the formula for Twitter’s most successful tweets. Better yet, I hoped to determine the formula for Buffer’s most successful tweets so that I could repeat the process and share what I’ve learned with marketers everywhere. Now

Guides & CoursesMar 26, 2016
The Delightfully Short Guide to Social Media ROI

If the concept of social media ROI feels rather enormous, you’re not alone. I am amazed—and sometimes astounded—at the breadth of the topic. So that’s made the exercise of writing a “delightfully short” guide to social media ROI all the more fun and challenging. I’ve given myself under 1,000 words to provide an overview of social media ROI and how to apply it to your social media marketing efforts. I’d love to hear your feedback in the comments! [Interested in listening to this post in podcas

Guides & CoursesJan 13, 2016
The Complete Beginners Guide to Peach: What It Is, How It Works and How to Build an Audience

Every so often a new app will suddenly appear on App Store and get everyone talking. The latest app to do this is Peach – a new social networking app from Dom Hofmann, co-founder of video-based social network Vine. Peach is “a fun, simple way to keep up with friends and be yourself,” and has exploded onto the scene – breaking into the top #10 Social Networking apps in the App Store already (there’s currently no Android version). We decided to drive below the surface and investigate how Peach

Guides & CoursesDec 10, 2015
The Ultimate Guide To Creating The Perfect Social Media Calendar

Social media is hard! And building an audience even harder! (We even wrote about it !) Hard does not mean impossible and it certainly doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have fun along the way nor try and make the process as painless as possible. That’s where a social media calendar comes in… I know you weren’t expecting that! ? Well ok maybe it’s not the answer to everything, but it can certainly help you get a better handle on things and remove some

Guides & CoursesNov 2, 2015
The Beginner’s Guide to URL Shorteners: How to Shorten and Track Links for Social Media

I sometimes feel like URL shorteners are some of the most understated tools in internet marketing, and there have been more than a few times that I wished I’d had someone share some advice on URL shorteners earlier in my marketing career . For instance: What do you do with really long links? What if you want to track the results? What if the link—long and unwieldy—upstages the content? So, if you’re new to the world of URL shorteners—much

Guides & CoursesOct 27, 2015
The Complete Buffer Guide to Social Media Success: A 10-Day Email Course to Boost Your Results

Anyone is capable of mastering social media marketing. You can take a huge leap forward in just 10 days. We’re grateful for the opportunity to be immersed in social media marketing here at Buffer, developing our best processes and systems for building a social media marketing machine. And we’d love to share our blueprint with you. Join us for an action-packed 10-day email course to learn exactly how we manage social media marketing here