Social Media
Learn the latest news and trends on the most popular social networks and how to reach and engage your audience with social media marketing best practices.
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How to Get More Engagement on Instagram [Webinar Recap]
SEJ Executive Editor Kelsey Jones joined SEJ ThinkTank on March 8th to explore how you can get more engagement on Instagram. Check out this webinar...
11 Tips to Improve Your Online Store Sales via Social Media
Learn how to use social media to spark real growth in your online sales using some personal insights of the author and a healthy dose...
Visual Search Comes to Pinterest Browser Extension
Pinterest is bringing visual search to its Chrome browser extension. The new feature lets you select objects in images to see related images from Pinterest.
Facebook Adds Disputed Alert to Fight Fake News
Facebook’s tool to combat fake news is here. The social network is adding a red warning sign whenever users share disputed content.
5 Tips For Running Effective Facebook Ads Split Testing Campaigns
The vast majority of Facebook ads fail spectacularly, but split testing changes everything. Read on to learn how to split test for successful campaigns.
How to Recover From a Big Social Media Blunder
Social media has become indispensable for reputation management as far as brands are concerned. However, when managing their accounts, it is possible for brands to...
Twitter Adds New Filters to Mute Content, Notifications
Twitter has introduced some new features that will let you filter out more notifications and content you don’t want to see. Here’s what’s new.
3 Ways Tech Can Help You Hack Social Selling
Technology can have you rock your sales pitch — especially in the social space. Here are three ways you can own your competitors.
Facebook Reactions Now More Important Than Likes
Facebook’s algorithm is now rewarding posts that get more Reactions – whether it’s Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, or Angry – with greater News Feed visibility.
YouTube Is Killing an Ad Format Everyone Hates
Unskippable 30-second video ads will fade to black for good on YouTube in 2018. YouTube has officially announced the end of this hated format.
How to Be Successful on Social Media with Content Curation
In today’s content-busy world, curation can come as a huge time-saver. However, few people actually see any results from curating content, because they do it...
Facebook Turns on Video Sound in News Feed
Facebook is changing the way you watch videos on your smartphone. Most significantly: videos in the News Feed now automatically play with sound.
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41% Put Hashtags at the End of a Post [DATA]
Everyone knows what hashtags are in 2017. They’re used constantly, particularly on the platforms Twitter and Instagram. But where should they go?
11 Reasons Your Facebook Ads Aren’t Connecting with Consumers
When executed properly, Facebook ads can be incredibly lucrative. However, if your ads don’t connect with your audience, you’ll never be successful. Discover some of...
Last Month in Social Media: January 2017
It’s a new year and with it comes various updates in the social media world.
YouTube Gives Creators Live Streaming, Super Chat
YouTube is launching mobile live streaming and a tool to earn money from those live streams – but only for creators with at least 10,000...
6 Surprising Stats from the Snapchat IPO Filing
Snap, parent company of Snapchat, is going public. Here are six statistics from Snapchat’s IPO filing that marketers will find interesting.
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Brands and Social Media Insights: Finding the “Why” Behind the “What” [PODCAST]
How does a brand find the “why” behind the “what” with social media insights? In this episode of Marketing Nerds, Caitlin Rulien is joined by...
Facebook Search Now Recognizes Objects in Photos
Facebook’s image search system can detect and segment objects, scenes, animals, places, and clothes that appear in images or videos – and understand them.
Pinterest Expands Search Ads Offering
Pinterest is making its paid search product – which includes keyword and shopping campaigns, targeting, and reporting – available to more advertisers.
6 Influencer Marketing Mistakes That Waste Your Budget
Influencer marketing is about authenticity – natural-sounding recommendations from real people to build your brand’s credibility.
Facebook Is Changing How it Ranks Stories in 2 Ways
Facebook is changing the way it ranks stories in the News Feed. The social network is adding a new ranking signal and updating real-time signals.
Facebook Has a New Way to Rank Videos in the News Feed
Attention, marketers: if you want your brand’s videos to appear in the News Feed of Facebook users, then you better have high video completion rates.
3 Changes Coming to Facebook Trending Stories
Facebook today announced three new updates that will alter the way its Trending topics section works. Here’s what Facebook is changing.
How to Make Use of Pinterest’s Shopping Features
People use Pinterest for a variety of reasons and shopping is one of them. In this post, we delve into how you can utilize Pinterest’s...
Google is Making YouTube More Advertiser-Friendly
While revealing over 50% of YouTube views now occur on mobile device, Google has announced a series of updates to improve the advertising experience.
What You Need to Know About Facebook’s Business Pages Layout
What do you need to know about Facebook’s new layout of its desktop business pages? A lot — some things are positive, some negative.
6 Major Changes Coming to LinkedIn’s Redesigned Desktop Site
LinkedIn has given its desktop site a much-needed redesign. Here’s what’s changing with LinkedIn’s navigation, messaging, content and feeds, and search.
How to Market Through A Brand Facebook Group
Stand out and reach your audience through a brand Facebook Group. This article will walk you through how to create a group and then share...
New in Instagram for Business: Insights and Ads in Stories
There’s no stopping Instagram — especially when it comes to Stories. Only five months into its launch, the ephemeral storytelling feature for photos and videos...