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The Twilight renaissance: Why retailers need social media for trend forecasting

Sprout Social

But thanks to the combined forces of Netflix and social media, teens are flocking to thrift stores to find everything you probably wore back in 2010. This is yet another trend that was born without the help of any designer or magazine. Even a vampire romance movie from 2008. How social influences fashion trends.

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How to write for social media

Biznology

This video with Paul Gillin is about the basics of writing engaging social media messages. With so many posts, tweets and chatter filling social media, it’s almost impossible to get a message through. He was a monthly columnist for BtoB magazine for seven years. You need to be distinctive. Like this post?

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The State of B2B Publishing 2024: A Conversation with ASBPE Leadership, Cory Sekine-Pettite and Davide Savenije

Trade Press Services

Q: How has B2B trade magazine publishing changed over the last 25 years? Davide Savenije: After the 2008 crisis, there were a lot of bigger publications that got either spun out, unwound, acquired, or shut down. Q: Can you tell us more about the current trend of diminishing use of search and social?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse? Focus on how to be social, not on how to do social.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Absolutely.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. However, for marketers, a social media address is insufficient to manage that channel.

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Influencer Marketing: What is it and Why Should You be Doing it?

Onalytica B2B

The rise in social media channels. Since 2006 there has been a meteoric rise in social media and digital channels. Individuals and brands can now publish content through multiple media channels, creating billions of new digital voices and an enormous rise in content creation. They buy relations stories & magic.”