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The best thing about a landing page is that you can create one by yourself, in some cases within minutes — without coding skills or a large budget. This step-by-step guide will show you how.
Here's exactly what three hiring managers at Buffer shared about onboarding folks together or separately, along with some of the advice, conversations, and best practices we hold onto for onboarding in a remote and fully distributed team.
Newsletters are an excellent vehicle for reaching your audience, whether you have a brand or you’re trying to build one. Here's how to easily start one through Twitter.
Three young brothers launched their very own small business as a way to supplement their allowance and, more importantly, empower their community.
In this article, learn how you can start creating evergreen content as part of your content strategy.
When Rosie Mangiarotti started building her company—innovative undergarments brand, Perkies—she expected it to be hard, but she didn’t expect it to take three years to develop her signature product before selling a single unit. Here’s what she wishes more product-based business owners knew.
Emojis in marketing are effective. In a survey of global emoji users, 42% said they’re more likely to purchase products that include emojis in the advertising. And it even goes beyond purchases — emojis are a fun way to connect with your audience. On mobile devices where emoji buttons and keyboards are common, we can easily use emojis in our messages, tweets, and social media. But what if you’re working from a desktop and hoping to add an emoji or two to a message? We’ve got a few little-known
There are benefits to sharing every step of your journey to achieving a goal. This article delves into why you might want to consider transparency when working towards a goal, also known as building in public.
For these six women-owned brands, bettering the world in tangible ways is just as important as creating high-quality products.
Draft, edit, and publish social content in one smooth workflow in Buffer. Your drafts are synced across mobile and web so you can draft your content any time inspiration strikes.
We tried including every member of our Advocacy team in onboarding for new Advocates. Not only did this new approach facilitate the new team member’s integration into our close-knit team, but it brought some surprise benefits, as well.
Expert tips for how small businesses can handle replying to social media comments. Should you reply to every comment? How quickly should you reply? What about the negative comments?
With social media advocacy, you too can create an army of loyal customers who will rave about your products to family and friends and leave glowing reviews on social media.
In 2022, we’re diving back into more intentional team-building both asynchronously, synchronously, plus we’re planning the occasional in-person meetup where available. Here’s how we’re approaching all of these events and all of our current initiatives.
Having a social media content strategy for your small business will ensure that your hard-work with social media marketing is supporting your overall business goals. To get you started, here are simple steps to create your social media content strategy for your small business.
TikTok holds tremendous potential to drive sales and generate revenue for your small business. Our guide will walk you through every step of the way to create a successful TikTok for Business account that grows.
This is Buffer's 2022 pay analysis, a look at our annual progress towards closing the unadjusted gender pay gap at Buffer.
Tamara Mayne started Brooklyn Candle Studio as a side gig—and grew it to a major brand selling in stores worldwide. Here are some of the steps she took to scale as well as a few mistakes she made along the way.
Creating a TikTok account for your small business may feel overwhelming, but it's a great way to expand your brand's exposure and can help customers build a stronger connection with your company.
In this article, we cover some of the most interesting TikTok creators — and what makes their content so appealing.
Over the last year, I’ve done at least 400 values screening calls and I always turn the call over to the applicants to ask whatever questions they have for me. Here are the top ten questions I get asked and my responses.
On February 26th, our team became aware that access was obtained to a number of Buffer accounts and those accounts were used to spread support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The accounts affected did not have two factor authentication (2FA) enabled, indicating that this was likely related to reused passwords as there continues to be no indication of a breach to Buffer. In total, 1,552 accounts were accessed, and of those, 618 accounts posted unauthorized content for a total of 766 unauthoriz
A smaller marketing budget can still deliver results if you know which five strategies to focus on: blogging, email, social media, influencer marketing, and SEO. Read to learn more.
We eliminated two of our lower cost-of-living bands in our salary formula at Buffer. Here's my thinking behind this change and our approach to pay overall.
