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Today’s top influencers aren’t just content creators or media buys – they’re both. According to Invesp , influencer marketing can drive 11 times the ROI of traditional digital marketing. And with 71 percent of marketers believing ongoing influencer ambassadorships are the most effective form of influencer marketing, finding the right influencer for your brand is an incredibly important part of your digital strategy. Check out the tips below
How to subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloud | Stitcher | RSS * If you try to do everything with your marketing strategy you end up doing next to nothing. Focus is key when developing new marketing ideas and exploring opportunities. * How and when to challenge your current assumptions and best practices on everything related to marketing. * Nine effective marketing ideas that don’t include blogging such as: podcasting, video series, live events, and tons more! Join 18,000+ weekly
Whether you are a seasoned social media marketer , a marketer looking to venture into social media marketing, or a business owner looking to leverage on social media, it’s helpful to know the most popular social media sites around. This will allow you to maximize your brand reach on social media, engage with the right people , a
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
What do all of your favorite social media accounts have in common? Most likely they are consistent, and you can immediately recognize their style when they pop up in your feed. To ensure this consistency, they’re probably following a social media style guide. A social media style guide is your map to guide how your brand appears on social media. Your style guide will relate to and be part of your overall marketing brand guidelines. It should be a living document that can evolve over time. Bu
How to subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloud | Stitcher | RSS Looking to catch up on the latest social media news, but short on time? We have you covered! This week (episode #117) we’re chatting about all of this and more. * For those launching a new product or tool or even project, Product Hunt can be a serious game-changer in terms of awareness, traffic, feedback, and so much more. * Twitter is a great place to repurpose content. If you’re creating content of any form: videos, b
Instagram is rumored to be building a standalone shopping app, IG Shopping. But what would a separate shopping app mean for the future of ecommerce on the platform? Social media marketer, Thea Neal, investigates. With more than 25 million Instagram Business profiles, and more than 2 million advertisers, Instagram is constantly evolving, testing new features, and experimenting with new ways to increase the value businesses can get from its platform. For example, in June 2018, Instagram unveile
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Today, we’re excited to launch, SocialChat by Buffer, a simple, free tool that enables visitors to start social media conversations on your website. Each and every day, people visit your website to learn more about your business. The problem is a large percentage of websites don’t really support visitors in helping them to find what they want. In reality, most website visits are simply ignored — that was excusable a couple of years back, but not so much now. People in 2018 don’t want to have
How to subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloud | Stitcher | RSS Neuromarketing. Sounds fairly complicated, doesn’t it? Fortunately for marketers and small businesses, it doesn’t have to be. Neuromarketing is when the principles of psychology are applied to marketing research and strategy. Understanding why people make purchasing decisions online and how they respond to various marketing strategies and tactics is a critical component in effectively marketing your own products or serv
As the New Year approaches, many of us find ourselves in a reflective mood. And that’s exactly how JotForm founder, Aytekin Tank, felt as 2017 was drawing to a close. As he walked along the Embarcadero, one of the liveliest and most scenic areas in San Francisco, looking back on the year, he was a little zoned out to everything happening around him. Meditative. Introspective. Contemplative. He had many things to celebrate: JotForm had grown to a team of more than 130 people across the globe,
* Learn how we drive the growth of our blog here at Buffer using free, organic traffic strategies. * Understand how to amplify blog content by reverse engineering social media videos that your audience will love. * See how we generated more than 30,000 clicks to to our content using paid acquisition channels, and how we optimize ads to lower CPC while simultaneously increasing CTR. Building your website traffic in 2018 is no easy task. Today, businesses are faced with an ever-increasing amo
Facebook now has over 2.23 billion monthly active users. And as small business owners and brand managers, there’s a very good chance you’ll be able to reach and connect with your target audience through Facebook. Great! So where should you start? And is there an easy blueprint to follow? From creating our Facebook Business Page to posting several hundred times over the past few years, we’ve experimented a lot with various Facebook marketing tips
In 2013, a Facebook Page could easily reach about 12 percent of its fans with each post. Just a year later, in 2014, it would reach only about six percent of its fans. Today, in 2018, that number is very likely to be smaller than six percent. That means for every 100 fans of a Page, an organic post will reach, on average, only five or fewer people. Is it the end of organic reach on social media? I don’t think so. Yes, the (average) organic reach on social media has been falling over the yea
How to subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloud | Stitcher | RSS Looking to catch up on the latest social media news, but short on time? We have you covered! This week (episode #114) we’re chatting about all of this and more: * Instagram’s co-founders are stepping down from their positions at Facebook, sending a shock through the industry. We’re covering what this critical change means for social behemoth. * Vertical video is gaining momentum and now is the time for businesses to jum
Today, Facebook has announced that it’s rolling out Facebook Stories Ads to advertisers globally. More than 300 million people use Facebook Stories and Messenger Stories every day. Since Snapchat debuted the Stories format back in 2013, it has taken over the social media landscape. Facebook first introduced the format to one of its properties in 2016 with the launch of Instagram Stories [https://buffer.com
Facebook ads can be an incredible way to reach your target audience. In 2018 and beyond, it’s becoming more and more likely that you’ll have to pay to maximize the impact of your content on Facebook . In the past, we’ve talked about how to get up and running with all the different types of Facebook ads and shared the lessons we learned from our own paid Fa
Today we’re launching a short email series enabling anyone to understand the importance of vertical video, and how to get started with the format. The Stories format, first popularized by Snapchat, has changed the social media landscape. The format, which encourages users to share short, vertical videos and images has presented marketers, creators, and individuals with innovative, interactive storytelling experiences — and has spearheaded the vertical video revolution. More than one billion p
How to subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloud | Stitcher | RSS Looking to catch up on the latest social media news, but short on time? We have you covered! This week (episode #113) we’re chatting about all of this and more: * How two brands are using social media, particularly Instagram and Instagram Stories, to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue and why it may not be as difficult as you think. * Instagram is testing a brand new stand-alone shopping app that could
* Mercy for Animals is a global non-profit organization that uses social media to spread awareness of its cause. * Since signing up to Buffer for Business Mercy for Animals’ Twitter impressions have risen by more than 300 percent. * The organization’s primary Instagram account has grown by more than 70,000 followers in 2018. Animals are the true champions of social media. Facebook and
The last quarter of the year is always a busy one for marketers. Between October and the end of December, we have the holiday season, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and more. Each of these dates provides an opportunity for your business to connect with your audience and target customers. And though it might seem like there’s too much to keep on top of, with a bit of advance planning, it’s possible to ensure you don’t miss a beat in Q4. To help, we’ve put together this Q4 content calen
How to subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloud | Stitcher | RSS 💡Looking for an easy way to save all your best ideas? Check out Ideas from Buffer → Where and how am I going to find my next great content ideas? We’ve all asked this question at one time or another. Developing consistently great content for your social media accounts, blog posts, webinars, online courses, and workshops is a major challenge from both a creative and resource standpoint. This week on The Science of Soci
Ideal social media image size summary Looking for more details for a particular social platform? Click on one of the platforms below to jump to the relevant section: Facebook * Sharing images: 1,200 x 628 pixels * Sharing links with an image: 1,200 x 628 pixels * Sharing Stories: 1,080 x 1,920 pixels* Instagram * Sharing square images: 1,080 x 1,080 pixels * Sharing horizontal images: 1,080 x 566 pixels * Sharing vertical images: 1,080 x 1,350 pixels * Sharing Stories: 1,080 x 1,920 p
* Product design and innovation studio AJ&Smart has generated more than €2million from clients who first discovered it on social media. * Ninety percent of AJ&Smart’s new clients now come from social media referrals, replacing word-of-mouth as the #1 source of new business. * Social media has helped AJ&Smart’s client base to go global. It was a cold January morning in Berlin, Germany, and Jonathan Courtney was feeling a bit stuck. Nearly six years had passed since he founded design ag