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3 Reasons You Need to Run Paid Social Ads (With Tips For Each Platform)

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Paid social ads can guarantee exposure, drive traffic, and encourage revenue. Organic social media is often positioned as the be-all and end-all of social media marketing. However, to really maximize your social media efforts, you need both organic posts and a paid social media strategy. Need support?

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Innovations in Search and Social [July 2023]

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TikTok parent company ByteDance wants to capitalize on the success of BookTok [:01] ByteDance has launched its own publishing company, 8 th Note Press, to capitalize on the success of BookTok, a highly engaged community on TikTok where users discuss and share books. Pretty sure Gaston isn’t the target audience here.

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B2B Marketers: 6 Skills to Bolster Your Career

DemandBase

Like other companies, the Demandbase marketing team has gone from weekly in-person meetings in Journey, our main conference room, to entirely virtual Zoom-fests. Coursera is offering a free marketing course titled Viral Marketing and How to Craft Contagious Content with Professor Jonah Berger at The University of Pennsylvania.

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How to roll out a hybrid paid & organic social media strategy

Sprout Social

Racking your brain trying to choose between an organic or paid social media strategy? ” Sure, the main appeal of social media is that it offers a totally free avenue for brands to grow and connect with customers. Social media is becoming more and more of a pay-to-play channel. The reality, though? mindfulmoments.

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Video Marketing for Business in 2021

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TikTok, the viral video platform, exploded onto the scene with more than 800 million users, viewing over 1 billion videos daily. 81% of companies implemented video in their marketing strategy, a 63% boost from 2019. One trendy format for B2B companies is animated explainer videos. That number was reached and surpassed in 2020.

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Organic vs. paid social media: A hybrid strategy that works

Sprout Social

Let’s cut to the chase: It’s not organic vs. paid social media—it’s organic and paid social media. As social becomes even more of a pay-to-play game, “organic social is dead” has become a popular catchphrase for marketing thought leaders. What are the differences between organic vs. paid social media ?

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Social PPC: 17 Tips for Successful Ads on Twitter, LinkedIn & Facebook

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Twitter and even Facebook have shown more limited success, but both can be a good fit for certain B2B companies whose target markets align well with specific interests or keywords. Ready to take the plunge into Social PPC? Note: typically, only campaigns with high engagement rates make sense for CPM bidding.